Thursday, September 11, 2014

Bryan Adams - Wednesday 10th September - Brighton Centre

No shows in August means it's been a while since the last updates. This was the first of 3 anticipated trips to see Mr Adams this year - this one an acoustic outing as part of his long-standing "Bare Bones" tour. I'd found out earlier in the week that some friends of ours were going too, so we met in a pub in the Laines. Unbelievably, it turned out that they had 2 row G tickets right next to our 2. Bizarre coincidence!

The show was good. the only downside was the number of ballads played - but I guess that's always likely with an acoustic show. The up-tempo numbers were better received - Run To You, Summer of '69, When You're Gone etc together with the new song "She Knows Me". There were some amusing anecdotes between tunes too. It was a good evening, but I predict the full band shows coming up will be better!

Setlist *
Run to You
It's Only Love
I Thought I'd Seen Everything
Here I Am
When You Love Someone
This Time
I Finally Found Someone
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
If Ya Wanna Be Bad Ya Gotta Be Good
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Cuts Like a Knife
Flying
Summer of '69
She Knows Me
Heaven
All for Love
When You're Gone
18 til I Die
Cloud Number Nine
One Night Love Affair
The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
You've Been a Friend to Me
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Somebody
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
I Still Miss You... A Little Bit
Straight From the Heart

* I'm not 100% sure this is exactly the set, but it's pretty close. If anything is missing or wrong then please comment.