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6 amazing moments from Adele's Australian tour so far.

“Did you cry? I wanted to cry,” one man, who had just come from an Adele concert in Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, asked a stranger while we waiting in line at a bar on Friday night. No one thought the question odd. The stranger had also been to see Adele and he nodded in agreement. “She was incredible.”

Just like that, the strangers weren’t strangers anymore.

The magic of these moments, these small, in-between moments, is what Australia is left with as the 28-year-old songstress sweeps through the country.

Certainly, her artistry and voice and musicianship is spectacular. But it’s the connections Adele forms with her crowd – making strangers no longer strangers – that have given her tour its undeniable buzz.

Here are a few of our favourites:

When she fired t-shirts into the crowd.

“No fighting. If a kid’s there, the kid gets it. That’s the rule,” Adele was using a “tee-shirt gun” to send merchandise out into the crowd.

Each tee-shirt came with a $20 note attached, for people to “buy a drink on me.”

She was trying to see who caught the tee-shirt, in a crowd of almost 100,000 people.

“Turn that bloody spotlight down, I can’t see a thing,” she laughed.

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She then asked a seven-year-old girl Katie, from Perth, if she had to go to school tomorrow.

Katie was all of us when she had no idea what to say in response. There’s life, after meeting Adele?

When she admitted to only having one dress for the whole tour.

“The weight is going to fall of me during this tour… My thighs’ they’re dripping,” she told the crowd. Adele was walking around the 360º stage. A unique set up designed to create intimacy with the whole arena.

“Also I’ve only got one of these dresses so it’s going to stink in two shows,” she continued.

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When she became… the queen.

Screaming fans were waving a handmade crown in Adele’s direction.

What did she do? She bent down and thanked them for the crown. Placed it upon her head and waved to the crowd like royalty.

#slayed is right.

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When she called us out on our BS.

“This is my first time to Australia, I know lots of Australians who live over in London. And they are all absolute pissheads,” she told the crowd.

“I assumed that when I came over to Australia, you’d all be off your faces the whole time.”

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When she stopped the show to help a woman who was having a heart attack.

Adele stopped her show in Sydney’s ANZ Stadium when she saw a woman who was “really ill”. She told the crowd, “I’m so sorry but someone got hurt and I have to check they’re okay”. She made sure the woman received proper medical attention.

Later, a spokesperson told Nine News that a 47-year-old woman had suffered a cardiac arrest.

Adele stopped her show the following night at the same time, to dedicate a song to the woman. “I’m not sure if she’s okay, but i have to find out,” she told the crowd.

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When she thought our mosquitoes were trying to kill her.

“THERE’S A BUG ON ME. THERE’S A BUG ON ME. SH*T. FU*K. WHAT SHOULD I DO?”

Adele stole our hearts when she freaked out over a couple of mosquitoes “sucking her blood” and “trying to kill her” during her second sold-out show in Brisbane in Brisbane last Sunday.

“I’m not Australian, I don’t like bugs,” she said.

Please Adele. Please come back soon.