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Micheal Franti
Manning Bar Sydney Uni 21st Feb 2005

Michael Franti has got to be one of the best live acts I have ever seen. With his personal presence (the man is 6foot 6!), powerful lyrics and amazing music he creates a giant "love in" complete with hand clapping, singing and pants shaking!

Along with crowd favourites such as Everyone Deserves Music, Bomb the World, Sometimes, Ganga Babe and an interesting country version of Fall from Grace he performed a lot of new songs. He also plugged a new movie he recently made in Iraq. Since the last time I saw him he had also learnt to play guitar - an achievement he is clearly proud of, hardly putting the thing down for the over 3 hour long gig. Made for a different night without his normal jumping around.

Although this gig did not reach the dizzy heights of the Metro gig two years ago, this was still a fantastic night. Looking foward to the new album.