A big surprise is an announcement today that Bigpond Music (A Telstra owned service) has from today started offering tracks in MP3 format. This is a move away from the DRM windows media format that all their songs were sold as. When Bigpond started offering music sales a few years ago I was an early adopter and purchased music from their offerings. However it soon became obvious that the windows media DRM was a difficult beast to deal with.

I have a short video I took of the Somewhere in Time Tour. It’s from the Powerslave guitar solo as played in Sydney. If you were at either of the events this should bring back some good memories! For a review of the evening in Melbourne, synultima has a [blow by blow review over @{.tweet-username} last.fm]4 On a side note, some bloke taped a bootleg copy of the 9th Feb show – you can get it while you can, but I can’t condone that.

These ones where taken with a better camera, so they came out pretty decent for being 5 meters from the stage! The setlist was great, and it was well worth getting Gold floor tickets. As for Acer Arena, they banned all bags and drinks being bought in (including water!) unlike Melbourne. That was annoying as I had to run back to the cloakroom to get my earplugs (33dB reduction!).

A short entry today. I went to the Concert in Melbourne on Wednesday, and it was awesome. You can check out my (blurry cameraphone) photos from the floor over at flickr. Bad quality videos upload live from the event are at youtube. Either way, I will be at the Sydney event on 9th Feb as well, so look out for some better pics.`