One Direction plays to screaming Brisbane fans A gaggle of squealing fans swamped One Direction's Harry Styles as he ducked through Melbourne Airport. iPhone vision: Angus Thompson. Harry Styles on stage in Brisbane. Pic: Adam Smith Source: News Limited ONE Direction could come out and sing the phone book and their fans would scream themselves hoarse. And they may have actually done that to open their show because I defy anyone to be able to identify what Harry, Niall, Liam, Zayne and Louis were singing when they walked on to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre stage. Such was the volume and enthusiasm of 5,000 teenage girls screaming, whatever the boys were doing was inaudible and irrelevant. 1D 'trapped inside hotels during Australian tour' PHOTOS: One Direction Brisbane 2012 tour Smashed together on the UK version of The X-Factor and thrust into the international limelight One Direction could have been forgiven for the slightly slapped together nature of their last tour. This year they have added LED screens, lasers, some fancy Perspex stairs, and a cool alternative to crowd surfing. Their performance, however, hasn't evolved one iota. Boy bands of the 90s at least had some schtick and threw in a bit of choreography; One Direction just wander around the stage - most of the time aimlessly. The best choreography you can hope for is that they will change direction on a key change. It's boring to watch for anyone who isn't a rabid One Direction fan, and clearly I was in the minority at the Entertainment Centre Saturday night. The music this band sings is written to that formula that strikes the right chord with teenage girls. The songwriting isn't all that bad actually, I mean Ed Sheeran penned one of their more memorable tracks, and to the boy's credit they deliver the songs well. The show is themed along the lines of being the best party in the world and the night is peppered with video montages that carry that theme and allow the boys to change costumes. Which means changing T-shirts. Fans watch One Direction on stage at Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Then it's back to more wandering around the stage, more key change direction changes and more girls screaming. One Direction aren't going to win awards for their incredible concerts; no one is going to remember anything about this show apart from the fact they were here. But what they did win was the love and devotion of their fans. Whether they are the best performers, best singers or actually have the best song ever is completely redundant when, for 90 minutes, they made 5,000 fans' dreams come true. If that is One Direction's currency then they have a license to print money. Boy band mania is at fever pitch in Adelaide with just hours before One Direction takes the stage for its first concert on a nation-wide tour