For many bands, going on a national tour is already a massive task, to play an album in full is that little bit more complicated – as they have to re-learn songs that they may not have played in a while, if at all.

The Living End, one of Australia’s most loved and hardest working rock bands, decided…’fuck it, let’s go out and play every single one of our studio albums’ in full, night after night, across every major Australian capital city.

All the way from their highly acclaimed self-titled debut album to their most recent effort (2010’s The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating), the trio have rocked their way to Brisbane’s Zoo for a whole seven nights in a row to pummel fans with all the music that they fell in love with all those years ago.

On this particular night, last Sunday, it was their second LP, 2000’s Roll On, that was getting the live treatment.

The Zoo is no large venue, especially for a band like this, so to see undoubtedly one of the best live bands out there up close and personal is quite a special and rare occasion.

It’s no wonder that this and many of the other nights on this tour are sold out and approaching the venue you can see the line of lucky punters stretched all the way down the main street of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.

As the attendees entered the small and already sweltering confines of The Zoo they were greeted by the DJ set of one Mr Hamish Rosser (previous drummer of The Vines and current sticksman of Wolfmother).

The beautiful thing about a rocker pumping out the tunes is that you are greeted with such things as Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols.

After half an hour of getting people’s taste buds salivating, Rosser steps away and the first support band of the night, The Medics, take to the stage.

Getting off to an interesting start with their long haired and bearded drummer wailing away into his mic like Tarzan, The Medics immediately captivate the audience with an extended intro version of “Golden Bear”.

The melodic indie pop tunes of the Queensland quartet keep the audience enthralled for the entire half hour set that sees them play such songs as “Rust”.

The echoing vocals and soft yet sweet guitar riffs are no match for the show being put on by drummer Jhindu Lawrie, who at one point is hanging off the amp cases bashing away on the poles and yelling at the crowd as the band absolutely kill it in their finale of “Joseph”.

After just a short interval the good people of Brisbane suddenly become ecstatic at the sight of a countdown beginning on the screen behind the stage.

As they finish counting down with the screen, a video launches with a quick history of The Living End, along with the album being celebrated tonight.

Eventually the Victorian rockers hit the stage and immediately get the room pumping with the title track, “Roll On”.

Playing their way through the album, which includes hits like “Pictures In The Mirror” and “Carry Me Home”, the latter of which sends everybody wild, the three members plus an extra touring guitarist by the name of Adrian Lombardi show us why they have been labelled one of the best touring bands in an electrifying performance.

“If you’re not sweating then you’re not rocking” states master guitarist Chris Cheney to the rather toasty room.

The banter with the crowd keeps coming from the frontman along with bassist Scott Owen and drummer Andy Strachan, who look like they are having a genuinely good time playing their music and even isolating the one and only schoolie in the room.

Ending the night with a plea for the audience to participate on the final track sees a group of strangers in a hot sweaty room yelling the lyrics of “Uncle Harry” at each other and having a blast.

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