Episode 208: Newcastle, AUS - 11/19/2006

Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast · Nov 16, 2022 · 1h 34m

In this episode we're talking about one of the wildest sets in Pearl Jam's catalog coming out of Newcastle, Australia in 2006. This is a one and done city at the point of this release, they'd never played Newcastle before then and haven't played there since. There are two key factors as to why they played there in the first place. For one, world champion surfer Mark Richards made a push for them to play, as well as a fan made petition featuring 2,277 signatures of the locals. Since this was such a unique situation, the band gave Richards the important duty to put pen to paper on this set, and…