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Today we have a gig review all the way from New York. Sean James reports…

11 DEC 2009

GRAMERCY THEATER, NEW YORK, NY

My night begins at 6.30pm, catching the subway down to Broadway. It’s minus five degrees Celsius outside the Gramercy Theatre in New York and the line is extended right around the corner onto Lexington Ave. Twenty minutes we wait as the line grows and grows. By my count it extends about twenty meters in front of me, and about another thirty behind me. Seizing the opportunity to get some business, the pizza parlor across the street sends over a waitress and goes up and down the line taking orders. For the record, New York pizza is the best in the world. It just tastes so fantastic.

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As the line outside Mt Eden’s Powerstation in Auckland grew, you could sense the anticipation growing with every minute. Anberlin, the Florida based Christian rockers, hadn’t been in New Zealand shores since they graced the main stage at the 2006 Parachute festival. Three and a half years had been far too long to wait. As the doors opened, The Powerstation slowly but surely started to grow in volume, with every new patron adding more to the already thick atmosphere of anticipation and excitement.

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