Bryan Adams 14 & 15th Jan @ The Olympia

OutlawPete · 14-01-2010 05:16PM #1

Anyone going to one the two nights?

I'm going tonight, not sure what to expect as I heard it's more or less an unplugged gig.

Last time I seen him was back in '93 at the RDS.

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 09:42AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Anyone going to one the two nights?

I'm going tonight, not sure what to expect as I heard it's more or less an unplugged gig.

Last time I seen him was back in '93 at the RDS.

Yeah, I went .. was class.

So did you like the whole acoustic thing?

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 09:44AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Yeah, I went .. was class.

So did you like the whole acoustic thing?

Loved it.

The songs stripped down like that was awesome.

Cuts Like A Knife was the song of the night for me.

Nice to be a fellow Boardsie like yourself now afraid to admit they like Bryan Adams.

Could have done with less of the screaming girls though.

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 09:46AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Cuts Like A Knife was the song of the night for me.

Yeah, classic.

OutlawPete wrote: »

Nice to be a fellow Boardsie like yourself now afraid to admit they like Bryan Adams.

It sure is mate.

Have you noticed that none of our posts have been 'thanked' though

Take care man, see you at Pearl Jam.

15-01-2010 09:48AM

God I used to love Bryan Adams, saw him probaby in '97.

Would love to go tonight but alas, tá mé broke

Screaming girls? At Bryan Adams? tell me that was just a joke that I completely missed?

thorbarry · 15-01-2010 09:50AM

lol this thread is great, good job OutlawPete

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 09:53AM

Deleted User wrote: »

God I used to love Bryan Adams, saw him probaby in '97.

Would love to go tonight but alas, tá mé broke

Screaming girls? At Bryan Adams? tell me that was just a joke that I completely missed?

Wish it was.

They wouldn't stfu roaring stuff like 'Come back to my place Bryan' and 'Robin Hood' .. *cringe*.

The atmosphere was great though. Played near two hours. His voice sounds waaay better with just an acoustic guitar and piano.

15-01-2010 09:55AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

They wouldn't stfu roaring stuff like 'Come back to my place Bryan' and 'Robin Hood' .. *cringe*.

Mega cringe.

Jesus I thought the women who like him would be all grown up by now!

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 10:00AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Mega cringe. Jesus I thought the women who like him would be all grown up by now!

The were a good few gangs of blokes having the craic and couples too but the gangs of girls were sooooo annoying, They would be up and down to toilets every minute in twos and threes and the rows of people all having to move etc.

There was like mini mexican waves non stop.

We got there late so missed the first two songs and we waited at the back of the Circle for the song to end before nipping down and taking our seats.Why can people not sit the f**k down at gigs till there's at least a break in songs?

The O2 is as bad.

Anyway, would go tonight again if I could.

kippy · 15-01-2010 10:12AM

Bryan Adams in fairness to him is great live.
He was in Pearse stadium a couple of years ago, twas a great gig.
Would love to have seen an "unplugged" session.

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 10:18AM

kippy wrote: »

Bryan Adams in fairness to him is great live.
He was in Pearse stadium a couple of years ago, twas a great gig.
Would love to have seen an "unplugged" session.

Tickets on Ebay for tonight but they are €80 each.

He's playing Derry, Belfast, Killarney and Castlebar also.

I'd like to see him in Vicar St with the seats out. Love gigs at Vicar St like that.

The seats in The Olympia are tiny. It's like sitting in a chair for primary school kids.

kippy · 15-01-2010 11:08AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Tickets on Ebay for tonight but they are €80 each.

He's playing Derry, Belfast, Killarney and Castlebar also.

I'd like to see him in Vicar St with the seats out. Love gigs at Vicar St like that.

The seats in The Olympia are tiny. It's like sitting in a chair for primary school kids.

Castlebar was the only realistic place I could see him and I missed out on those tickets.
Ah well, am sure he will be back, he seems to like coming here.

NIBBS · 15-01-2010 11:38AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Wish it was.

They wouldn't stfu roaring stuff like 'Come back to my place Bryan' and 'Robin Hood' .. *cringe*.

The atmosphere was great though. Played near two hours. His voice sounds waaay better with just an acoustic guitar and piano.

Yeah it was getting annoying after a while wasn't it.......

to be honest I thought he was excellent, would love if he dropped the Robin Hood track - but that ain't gonna happen, glad he had the piano there to break things up a little, nearly two hours of just acoustic guitar and him might not have worked as well......
as you said great atmosphere and in my opinion he's sounding much better than he did years ago......wouldn't mind going tonight again, just to see if he switches anything up......

odd to be out of a gig and home not long after 10:30 though.....

NIBBS · 15-01-2010 11:40AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Tickets on Ebay for tonight but they are €80 each.

He's playing Derry, Belfast, Killarney and Castlebar also.

I'd like to see him in Vicar St with the seats out. Love gigs at Vicar St like that.

The seats in The Olympia are tiny. It's like sitting in a chair for primary school kids.

well despite them saying last night was sold out there were tickets available on Ticketmaster yesterday afternoon.....

damienom · 15-01-2010 12:38PM

Two tickets fell into my lap at the end of last week, have been in two minds over going, would have bought and loved his MTV album but wouldn't only know his hits, is that generally what he plays?

What time was he on stage at?

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 12:54PM

damienom wrote: »

Two tickets fell into my lap at the end of last week, have been in two minds over going, would have bought and loved his MTV album but wouldn't only know his hits, is that generally what he plays?

What time was he on stage at?

He was on at 8.15 ish. Very early for the main act at the Olympia, so pop along early.

He plays it all. Lots of rare tracks. He played a song he wrote for Ray Charles which was class.

I really liked his early stuff from Into The Fire and he played a few from that.

Some energy for a Vegan. In this excellent performance of Summer of '69 he runs to the stage??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgpcwYooLO0

Slane gig clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrFrNnxuIYc

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 01:15PM

NIBBS wrote: »

well despite them saying last night was sold out there were tickets available on Ticketmaster yesterday afternoon.....

Tickets sold out the first two days for the Olympia.

Those tickets were put out to stop touts and can never be trusted to be issued.

I don't mind TM doing that but they should tell people the time and amount so that fans can queue.

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 01:32PM

kippy wrote: »

Castlebar was the only realistic place I could see him and I missed out on those tickets.
Ah well, am sure he will be back, he seems to like coming here.

One ticket for Casltebar going cheap here:

Ebay Auction

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 01:39PM

NIBBS wrote: »

to be honest I thought he was excellent, would love if he dropped the Robin Hood track -

I didn't word my post too well.

I didn't mean to imply that he shouldn't sing 'Everything I do' it was that women were roaring 'Robin Hood' from the back ages after he had already played the song.

Might be going again tonight.

I thought it was sound that he played Never Let Go for the guy who asked him from the Balcony as it's not a song he plays live. Doing the country and western voice was class too

ManofMunster · 15-01-2010 03:07PM

there were still tickets available for castlebar on ticketmaster yesterday. and some lad on gumtree is trying to get rid of tickets for tonight at face value. last week, found tickets for last night's gig last week on toutless.com (great site - none of those greedy ebay gits).

BA was class. Got the tickets as a surprise present for my girlfriend (who's a big fan) but by end of gig, i was converted. His voice was superb - the acoustic bit really worked.

At the end, he beckoned us out of our seats and come and stand near the stage. so while a gang of us are crowded in the corridor near the stage, the steward comes along and asks us to leave a gap down the middle (of the middle). brainless.

great gig though. bryan adams has a new fan (shamed to admit).

bonoman66 · 15-01-2010 03:39PM

damienom wrote: »

Two tickets fell into my lap at the end of last week, have been in two minds over going, would have bought and loved his MTV album but wouldn't only know his hits, is that generally what he plays?

What time was he on stage at?

I'm no hardcore BA Fan, I'd know his maintream hits & generally go to between 5 to 10 gigs a year at home & abroad (if funds permit!).

I cannot recommend strongly enough that you take the time to come along tonight. I was there last night & got tickets again for tonight.

He came on stage approx 8:10/15pm & belted out songs, virtually non stop for about 1hr 45 Mins. Loved the 'free form' nature of the gig - he had a huge amount of banter & interaction with the crowd. He took requests from the crowd & because of the stripped down nature of the gig, it gave him the ability to virtually decide on a whim what he wanted to play rather than be rigidly tied to a setlist (as often happens with more sophiticated sound / lighting productions used by bands).

I was a bit like VH1-Story Tellers in that the Olympia is a relatively intimate / small venue for a capital city, it was just Bryan & a fellow musician on Piano (who came & went throught the set - he wasn't there all the time). He made it feel like a really special night.

Its not often you get to see such a well known artist in such an intimate scenario / acoustic setting & if you even just like music in general (& are not a BA fan necessarily), you won't regret taking the time to come along to the gig. He got great feedback from the crowd last night - plenty of laughs to go with the music. He really nailed all the songs - super performance.

Highly recommended.

EpiphoneSpecial · 15-01-2010 05:35PM

the country version he sang mid way through the song was very good.

funny seeing someone having a laugh at/with his own songs

plus:
Any setlists floating about?

OutlawPete · 15-01-2010 11:50PM

A few of us went again tonight and it was at least 50% better.

Fantastic show, hope somebody recorded some of it. I tried to capture a little but the stewards were on me like a flash. The Olympia is a nightmare for that.

ManofMunster wrote: »

the steward

He did the same tonight.

I was in the Circle and everyone downstairs was on their feet giving it socks and all you could see was his bald head telling everyone to sit down :rolleyes:

Adams kept saying to the people to come up the front though.

Could have done without 'Have you ever really loved a woman' though - hate that song with a passion.

The rest was sheer class. Astonishing to be able to rock the place like that with just an acoustic Guitar and Harmonica. Great gig.

Maybe he is recording these gigs and will release a Bare Bones CD of the best of the tour.

Heat Of The Night was the standout tune tonight I thought.

Summer Of '69 the crowd just went nuts and sang ever lyric.

Been to a lot of gigs lately (Simple Minds, Madness etc) and these two shows have been head and shoulders above all others.

I am in half a mind to drive to Derry tomorrow night or Killarney for Monday.

NIBBS · 16-01-2010 12:12AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

A few of us went again tonight and it was at least 50% better.

Fantastic show, hope somebody recorded some of it. I tried to capture a little but the stewards were on me like a flash. The Olympia is a nightmare for that.

He did the same tonight.

I was in the Circle and everyone downstairs was on their feet giving it socks and all you could see was his bald head telling everyone to sit down :rolleyes:

Adams kept saying to the people to come up the front though.

Could have done without 'Have you ever really loved a woman' though - hate that song with a passion.

The rest was sheer class. Astonishing to be able to rock the place like that with just an acoustic Guitar and Harmonica. Great gig.

Maybe he is recording these gigs and will release a Bare Bones CD of the best of the tour.

Heat Of The Night was the standout tune tonight I thought.

Summer Of '69 the crowd just went nuts and sang ever lyric.

Been to a lot of gigs lately (Simple Minds, Madness etc) and these two shows have been head and shoulders above all others.

I am in half a mind to drive to Derry tomorrow night or Killarney for Monday.

glad Mr.Adams was rockin it again tonight.....would loved to have gone....

with regards to the stewards - I'm half and half....
it's not always the venues decision, some artists request that the use of cameras be prohibited, and they could be recording the event for resale - where they definitely don't want it to be on YouTube......
and at the end of the day the stewards are only doing their job...

but at the same time spending the night disturbing other peoples views trying to stop a few people talking photos is such a waste of time and very annoying......it's pretty senseless......they can no longer stop it with decent quality cameras on mobiles, so I don't see the point....

ManofMunster · 16-01-2010 11:32AM

i can see the point in not having flashes going off every millisecond - especially during the slower numbers; could ruin the ambience. and sometimes i'm at gigs and i feel like people can't really be enjoying it if they spend the whole gig with a camera held above head height trying to keep it focussed on the artist - annoying everyone behind them (especially seated gigs where your options to move are limited. they might have been better off declaring a 'photozone' - a few minutes or a particular song or two where people could snap to their hearts' content. as it was, felt like being back in school. everyone waiting for the teacher to be on the far side of the room before misbehaving (in this case - taking a pic). that clown with the torch zipping around like some hapless father ted character ("down with that kind of thing") was a bit distracting for everyone else.

don't want this to take away from the gig though. was brilliant. just a bit more common sense in how to approach policeing the unpoliceable wouldn't have gone astray.

fluke · 16-01-2010 11:55AM

Did he play Back To You?

OutlawPete · 16-01-2010 12:02PM

fluke wrote: »

Did he play Back To You?

Yup, I recorded some poor quality wavs. If I have it, I'll post it.

fluke · 16-01-2010 02:46PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Yup, I recorded some poor quality wavs. If I have it, I'll post it.

Sound out lad, sound out

larry1 · 16-01-2010 03:41PM

My 6th time to see BA live & he has got better with age. His performance was truly amazing on Thursday night. Gig of the year so far

robo · 16-01-2010 04:48PM

Am going to see him on Monday night in Castlebar, looking forward to it I think after reading the reviews on here. It is a present for a friend, not my first choice of artist, but I am now looking forward to the gig. Thanks guys.

NIBBS · 16-01-2010 05:21PM

ManofMunster wrote: »

i can see the point in not having flashes going off every millisecond - especially during the slower numbers; could ruin the ambience. and sometimes i'm at gigs and i feel like people can't really be enjoying it if they spend the whole gig with a camera held above head height trying to keep it focussed on the artist - annoying everyone behind them (especially seated gigs where your options to move are limited. they might have been better off declaring a 'photozone' - a few minutes or a particular song or two where people could snap to their hearts' content. as it was, felt like being back in school. everyone waiting for the teacher to be on the far side of the room before misbehaving (in this case - taking a pic). that clown with the torch zipping around like some hapless father ted character ("down with that kind of thing") was a bit distracting for everyone else.

don't want this to take away from the gig though. was brilliant. just a bit more common sense in how to approach policeing the unpoliceable wouldn't have gone astray.

Have to agree with you.......
and to be honest I really don't know why people persist to use Flashes.....the best photos I've taken at gigs have been with the flash off....
but some common sense needs to be used, people are still taking pictures either way.........so yeah either just let it happen - or search on the way in and restrict the type of camera etc.......

hope Mr.Adams decides to come back soon with the full band......:)

Bryan Adams 14 & 15th Jan @ The Olympia

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