I am over the moon to hear Andre will be in Australia next year! I will be the first in the queue for tickets, and I will be ordering my whole family to come and see him with me!! I just adore his music and so far have five of his dvd's - now I'll just run out and purchase another one! Whoopee!!!!

I unfortunately missed the radio interviews but I'm listening as I type. (news page) He's such a gentleman, and I love him!!!

Ok, my husband has just come home from the shops with three more dvd's! I'm getting excited here in Melbourne!

After the above excitement, Andre plans to visit the Eastland Mall.  Below is a story of my visit with Andre.

I saw Andre this afternoon at Eastland, it was just fantastic, the crowds were singing some of his songs whilst they waited (some for hours). We've estimated there were between 1500 to 3000 people there, and there just wasn't room for any more. He went straight past me when he entered the shopping centre from a side door, and I could have touched him excepting for the big burly bodyguards and security around him.

All eyes had been focused on the door, and when he emerged people were clapping and cheering. Then the crowd surged around to the side of the stage to follow him but of course it was packed with people already, so there was a bit of a crush then.

No-one could move in the shopping centre, the security guards were everywhere trying to get people to keep the walkways clear. In the larger area of the mall to the side of the stage on the lower level people were perhaps 20 or 30 deep in one area, basically right down the mall walkways. Andre played "My Way" and then a couple of verses of "Waltzing Matilda". The cheering was deafening. Then he began signing autographs.

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It was pretty much bedlam everywhere, and from what I could see up above it was quite a few people thick all the way around. Even the music shops sold out of Andre's videos within an hour.

Those are my hands clapping at the front of the photo (blonde hair on the edge) - my daughter was taking the pics. So you can see how close I was to the man himself!!! *swoon* Andre had quite a few bodyguards around him, four I think. And I was approximately in the middle of the crowd in the another picture, so hence my guess of 20 or more deep. The man is popular!

I'm happy, I've seen him live and in the flesh! What a wonderful day.