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Ed Kowalczyk To Perform Live Throwing Copper In Australia

by Paul Cashmere on September 25, 2013

in Live,News

Former Live frontman Ed Kowalczyk is heading to Australia to perform the classic ‘Throwing Copper’ album in its entirety. Kowalcyzk wrote the songs on the album.

‘Throwing Copper’ was a number one album in Australia in 1994. The album featured the hits ‘I Alone’, ‘Lightning Crashes’ and ‘Selling The Drama’.

“I had no idea that songs like ‘I Alone’ and ‘Lightning Crashes’ would endure on radio and in the hearts of my fans for so many years after I wrote them,” Ed said in a statement.

The setlist for the show will be:

Throwing Copper:
The Dam At Otter Creek
Selling The Drama
I Alone
Iris
Lightning Crashes
Top
All Over You
Shit Towne
T.B.D.
Stage
Waitress
Pillar of Davidson
White Discussion
Horse

Followed by a 30-minute encore featuring ‘The Dolphins Cry’, ‘Heaven’, ‘Pain Lies On The Riverside’, ‘Grace’ and more.

Ed Kowalczyk dates for Live Nation are:

February 5, Perth, Metro City
February 7, Adelaide, Her Majestys Theatre
February 8, Melbourne, The Forum
February 11, Sydney, Enmore Theatre
February 12, Brisbane, The Tivoli

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