Tonight we celebrated our Paper Anniversary. A little late, but definitely worth the wait. Matt surprised me with tickets to Eric Clapton's Far East Tour 2007Playing to a packed crowd at the Asia-Expo Convention Centre, Eric Clapton and his hand-picked band were simply brilliant.
The crowd was as diverse as anything: young, old, older, locals, expats, businessmen (i doubt Clapton has ever seen so many suits and ties at one of his concerts!), students, housewives, so on.
Besides the classics like Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Running On Faith, and a brilliant Electric Blues solo, they performed one of my favourites, Wonderful Tonight, played with such emotion i could not help but weep.
At first they were playing to a pretty stiff and rigid crowd (only 2 people were up and dancing from the get-go), but there was a lot of toe-tapping and head-nodding and when the band broke out with a rockin' Layla, the whole arena was up on their feet - too bad it was the last song!
And just when you thought it was all over, they leapt back onstage for a 10+ minute encore of Cocaine and Crossroads. Excellent night in all.
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