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Logged in to post almost exactly the same thing as yourself. I try and avoid 3Arena gigs, so wasn’t sure if the level of drinking and constant in-and-out of the crowd was typical of gigs there these days, or was it just an issue of people just there to hear the White Ladder songs and everything else can shove it.

Was surprised of how many albums didn’t get a slot on the playlist - Seemed he only played a few from Dear Life then it was just Century Ends, White Ladder (everything except We’re Not Right), New Day at Midnight, Life in Slow Motion, plus the covers. Haven’t checked if this is the standard for the tour, or bespoke for a predicted ‘Play The Hits’ Irish audience?

Anyway, agree that DG himself was superb!

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Made me laugh

Yes, didn’t take long either. Embarrassing stuff. I’d say he’s dreading the next gig in May, think that’s a Friday night so maybe won’t be quite as rowdy

I think after the White Ladder anniversary tour, David Gray should have done a small venue tour and made it clear it was just stuff from his recent albums. For big venues do a greatest hits type, that should sort the retirement fund :)

Ryan Adams in Vicar Street. Ryan was in rambling, story telling mood tonight. Sometimes very funny, sometimes painfully honest. Most importantly the song performances were great whether on acoustic guitar or piano. He even plugged in with a bass player and drummer for a couple of scuzzy rockers. Nice to see a full house appreciate him.

Was at gig Ryan Adams ,, people generally respected phone thing , but always a few clowns.

What a mad experience whole thing , more like a Samuel Beckett play, from brilliant to ridiculous.

Funny , painful and pure mad.

Whilst he is Funny and entertaining,, he literally forgot to do music at times. He ultimately ran out of time.

A very talented dude , but outrageously self indulgent and you can see he is a nightmare to work with.

To add to all that , he tried to make out that the #me too thing , was fake and then in almost same speeches trying to organise an after party for hot tall women at hotel.

He clearly is very troubled, did not know how ill he was.

I'm glad I seen him , waiting a good 10 years. But,

Was absolutely chaos, but a great voice and deepness to his play. Growing up in America sounds terrible...broken families in **** towns...

Ryan Adams ADHD-fest last night was a hoot. Vocally he's still peerless.

Sending love to members of the first few tables who had to deal with the balloon-wielding goose for the first half. Did security run out of patience at the interval? He could have fhcked the whole night up.

Some lad in the 3rd row (who I thought was high on something but people after said was autistic) waving a balloon, chatting to Ryan like it was a 1-on-1 show, saying how he missed his dead brother, moshing in his chair like he was a metal gig (during slow acoustic tunes) etc.

Was warned by security in the first half and then moved/thrown out for the 2nd half. Added to the, err, uniqueness of the evening.

I don’t think any one there tonight was disappointed. That was great.

Makeshift’s guitarist has moved to strings a plenty and the sound is getting even better.

Chalk, right from the off. Belters!

I did indeed. Thought they were quieter than the gig at Borderline but i put that down to the size of the room. Again, they've got potential but whether they can hold my interest is another matter.

How long ago was Borderline. Two months? See how they’ve progressed.

They’re doing it, then reviewing it and changing it. My kind of band.

Swastika Eyes was a bit tame and I would have liked to hear more tracks from Vanishing Point or XTRMNTR but I get that they need to play the hits, particularly when they are devoting so much of the set to the new record. Maybe don't play Loaded and "I'm Losing…" in the same set.

I enjoyed the new songs. Deep Dark Waters is probably the highlight of the record for me and it sounded good last night.

Good gig.