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BY GARY GALBRAITH

(With Gerardo Liedo)

2003 LICKS TOUR – Australian Tour

Superdome Sydney, Australia – February 20, 2003 © Peter Carrette

On this tour, the Stones played 3 types of setlists according to the type of venue, sometimes with all three in the same city. The setlists are therefore colour coded thus:

Arena shows (hite) :

Stadium shows (red) :

Theatre / club shows (yellow) :

Songs performed on a b-stage at the arena and stadium shows are asterisked (‘*’)

2003 Australian & Asian ‘Licks’ tour overview

With barely a few days off, the Stones flew on to Sydney to kick off a two-month long tour leg which took in 18 shows in Australia, Japan, Singapore and (for the first time) India. There were no shows in New Zealand this time and the 8-date Australian leg consisted of one theatre and two stadium shows in Sydney plus arena shows in Melbourne and Brisbane. The opening night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre was a humdinger, with the Stones opening with ‘Midnight Rambler’ for the only time ever and being joined onstage by Angus and Malcolm Young on what would be the first of their six guest appearances on three continents that year. The Japan leg consisted of a mix of arena and indoor dome shows before the Stones returned to Singapore for the first time since 1965 for two shows and then closed the tour leg with a pair of stadium shows in India. In between, the Stones were again thwarted in their long-held ambition to play China – on this occasion not by bureaucratic issues but by the outbreak of the SARS pandemic, which resulted in the four planned concerts there all having to be cancelled. Another planned show in Bangkok had to be cancelled for logistical problems. Unfortunately for the band’s fervent fanbase in Latin America, there would be no shows in that region on the Licks tour, primarily due to unstable economic conditions.

Nothing from this tour leg has been released officially. However, most of the show in Bangalore on April 4^th was broadcast on TV in India and circulates on video. The Stones manage to put on a pretty decent performance despite having to play in almost monsoon-like conditions. The bootleg DVD isn’t called ‘Dripping Away in Bangalore’ without good reason.

Number of shows – 18

Number in circulation – 15 (missing are Mumbai and both Singapore shows)

Recommended shows – Sydney (Enmore Theatre), Tokyo (Budokan Arena), Yokohama.

Personnel – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood with Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer (backing vocals & percussion), Blondie Chaplin (backing vocals, percussion & occasional guitar), Bobby Keys (tenor sax) and The New West Horns – Tim Ries (sax , Michael Davis (trombone) and Kent Smith (trumpet).

Concert Listing (this part)

No.	Date	City	State / Province / Country	Venue
15	18-Feb	Sydney	Australia	Enmore Theatre
16	20-Feb	Sydney	Australia	Super Dome
17	22-Feb	Sydney	Australia	Super Dome
18	25-Feb	Melbourne	Australia	Rod Laver Arena
19	27-Feb	Melbourne	Australia	Rod Laver Arena
20	1-Mar	Melbourne	Australia	Rod Laver Arena
21	4-Mar	Brisbane	Australia	Entertainment Centre
22	5-Mar	Brisbane	Australia	Entertainment Centre

Setlists

	18-Feb	20-Feb	22-Feb	25-Feb
	Sydney, Australia (Enmore Theatre)	Sydney, Australia (SuperDome)	Sydney, Australia (SuperDome)	Melbourne, Australia

1	Midnight Rambler	Start Me Up	Street Fighting Man	Start Me Up	1
2	Tumbling Dice	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Start Me Up	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	2
3	Live With Me	If You Can’t Rock Me	If You Can’t Rock Me	If You Can’t Rock Me	3
4	Dead Flowers	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	4
5	No Expectations	You Got Me Rocking	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Rocks Off	5
6	Neighbours	Let It Bleed	Sweet Virginia	Wild Horses	6
7	I Can’t Turn You Loose	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	All Down The Line	Dead Flowers	7
8	Everybody Needs Somebody To Love	Bitch	Tumbling Dice	Bitch	8
9	That’s How Strong My Love Is	Tumbling Dice	The Worst	Gimme Shelter	9
10	Goin’ To A Go-Go	Thru and Thru	Happy	Tumbling Dice	10
11	Slipping Away	Before They Make Me Run	Sympathy For The Devil	Slipping Away	11
12	Happy	Sympathy For The Devil	Midnight Rambler	Before They Make Me Run	12
13	Start Me Up	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Sympathy For The Devil	13
14	Rock Me Baby	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	14
15	Honky Tonk Women	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	Satisfaction	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	15
16	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Satisfaction	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll *	Satisfaction	16
17	Brown Sugar	When The Whip Comes Down *	Like A Rolling Stone *	When The Whip Comes Down *	17
18	Satisfaction	Like A Rolling Stone *	Brown Sugar *	Like A Rolling Stone *	18
19		Brown Sugar *	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Brown Sugar *	19
20		Jumpin’ Jack Flash		Jumpin’ Jack Flash	20

	With special guests Angus and
	Malcolm Young (guitars) on song 14.
	First time ever opening with ‘Midnight
	Rambler’ and probably the first public
	Stones show to not include ‘Jumpin’
	Jack Flash’ since its release in 1968.
	Songs 1 & 10 (both incomplete)
	released on 'Rolling Stones Exclusive
	Fan Club DVD’ (Aug 2005)
	Song 14 released on rollingstones.com
	(Feb 2003)

	27-Feb	1-Mar	4-Mar	5-Mar
	Melbourne, Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Brisbane, Australia	Brisbane, Australia

1	Street Fighting Man	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Street Fighting Man	Start Me Up	1
2	Start Me Up	Street Fighting Man	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	If You Can’t Rock Me	2
3	You Got Me Rocking	You Got Me Rocking	If You Can’t Rock Me	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	3
4	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	4
5	Monkey Man	Live With Me	Start Me Up	Ruby Tuesday	5
6	Ruby Tuesday	Angie	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	6
7	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Sweet Virginia	Bitch	Monkey Man	7
8	Midnight Rambler	All Down The Line	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	Midnight Rambler	8
9	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	9
10	Thru and Thru	The Worst	Slipping Away	Thru and Thru	10
11	Happy	Before They Make Me Run	Before They Make Me Run	Happy	11
12	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	12
13	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	13
14	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	14
15	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Satisfaction	15
16	Mannish Boy *	Start Me Up	You Got Me Rocking *	Mannish Boy *	16
17	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll *	Midnight Rambler *	Like A Rolling Stone *	Like A Rolling Stone *	17
18	Brown Sugar *	Like A Rolling Stone *	Brown Sugar *	Brown Sugar *	18
19	Satisfaction	Brown Sugar *	Satisfaction	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	19
20		Satisfaction			20

				'You Got Me Rocking’ was on the
				setlist as the second song but after
				Keith started playing ‘If You Cant Rock
				Me’ by mistake, they improvised and
				played that song instead.