A countdown ticks across the enormous screen at Afterpay Arena as insects crawl through the visuals and roadies get busy building a house onstage. It has a porch and front door and looks as though a piece of rural Vermont has somehow landed in the middle of Sydney. A circular catwalk reaches halfway into the arena, wrapping around a pocket of very lucky fans who are going to have Kahan and his band playing almost on top of them for much of the night. Noah Kahan arrives and launches into American Cars, followed by Doors and All My Love, and the singing starts immediately.