Pearl Jam play Temple of the Dog and Springsteen in concert

Last night, November 23rd, at the Engie Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Pearl Jam they closed out their 2024 tour in support of their latest album, “Dark matter” (here is our review). During the last stop of the tour, Eddie Vedder’s band has proposed some covers liveincluding rereadings of songs with which they did not compete for decades.

On the stage of the Australian stadium, among other things, Pearl Jam proposed for the first time in ten years a revision of “Hunger Strike” by Temple of the Dog. The last time the group performed the song liveoriginally released in 1991 on the eponymous album by the supergroup formed by Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder together with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron, it was in October 2014 at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit. Following the tragic death in 2017 of Cornell, with whom Pearl Jam performed the song ten years ago, the band no longer performed the song live.

Furthermore, during last night’s Pearl Jam concert in Sydney, Eddie Vedder also proposed an acoustic version of Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender”.. According to setlist.fm statistics, the last time the cover found space in the group’s set list was in June 2006.

Here is the setlist from Pearl Jam’s concert last night, November 23, at the Engie Stadium in Sydney:

Garden
Why Go
Brain of J.
In Hiding
Even Flow
Tremor Christ
React, Respond
Dark Matter
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Wreckage
Save You
Dissident
Given to Fly
Hunger Strike – Temple of the Dog cover

Immortality
Rearviewmirror

BIS

No Surrender – Bruce Springsteen cover

Spin the Black Circle
Better Man
Something Special
Black
Halo
Porch
Alive
Baba O’Riley – Who cover

Yellow Ledbetter
LittleWing

– Cover of The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Spread a Little Happiness (registered) – by Sting