One of Deb’s friends happened to be in New York at the same time as us, and posted that he was going to see Billy Joel at Madison Square Gardens. We thought this would be a great post-script to our visit to New York, and we managed to score some cheap last minute tickets.

MSG is a great venue, very similar in size and layout to Rod Laver arena, and our seats turned out to be very good.

Not much to say about the show that hasn’t been said about Billy Joel before. As he said himself, he hasn’t had a new album in 22 years, so he was just playing the “same old shit” which clearly suited everyone perfectly.

He went through all the classics and crowd-pleasers, and put on a great show. Favourites were Piano Man (of course), Scenes from an Italian Restaurant and Always a Woman.