“It's that weird band”

There's two other videos on this channel as well that may be of interest. The first one is this: 'Essentially stealing': Sparks frontman has no time for AI in creative industries.

"At a certain point you just start frowning, but in a good way" - Ron Mael

sparks brisbane concert (aka best day of my life) was 4 weeks ago today. I genuinely have thought in-depth about it everyday since and I can’t help but get second hand embarrassment by how dead our crowd collectively was. Russell was earnestly trying to get everyone to stand up but at one point he just did a giving up emote because it wasn’t happening.

Aww oh no! I am sure it was okay, seated venues can be complicated for getting people up, certainly when it's a place they've not played very often yet. I don't think they give up on places so easily and I bet the love was there all the same! (Just read a pretty glowing review, that did also mention the audience "felt a little staid", but from what they wrote it seems things got better later in the show?)

@8vb-girl it was indeed part of the merch! For some reason I didn't take a photo of the merch stand on which it's visible (and also thought it would be available in the store at some point?? which it doesn't seem to be). I've got some photos of it that a friend forwarded to me but I don't have a source for those photos. There's this image though (also no idea where this one came from but it's something I gather is fine to share around):