Bryan Adams’ stage setup is fairly simply, just a big screen and some lights. Actually, a shout out to the crew handling the non-musical end of things. This looked absolutely beautiful on the screen at the back of the stage as we saw it from Adams’ perspective. The band pulled the same trick with a short burst of the song later in the show with the same result. “Shine A Light” was a subtle call for the lights to go down and the phone torches to pop on, glowing like a field of stars. If you like what we do, consider joining us on Patreon for as little as £1 per month! And, in honesty, pretty much every song throughout the 2-hour show. Following with two classics is safer territory, especially when the crowd goes wild with recognition at the opening chord as they did with “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”. Opening with a new track can sometimes be a risk, but not when it’s as good as this one. OK, KISS having the stage lit up by a hovering helicopter at Monsters of Rock maybe pips it. Adding Cleese’s dramatic, but tongue in cheek dialogue to a belting set of stage lights and you have a stage entrance that is up there amongst the best I’ve ever seen. Who else can say they’ve opened a show with narration from John Cleese? Lifted directly from So Happy It Hurts “Kick Ass”, the intro was perfection itself. The main event kicked off a little after 8pm so there was definitely time for someone to play an hour’s warmup… but then they’d have been instantly forgotten by what followed. It’s not often you get a concert with no support act, and I have a feeling with a doors opening time of 6:30 that perhaps there was one planned but for some reason the decision was made to make this a one-act tour.
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