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24/07/99 - ALTON TOWERS, STAFFORDSHIRE Review by Steven
Stanley: Anyway we headed off for the venue in the early morning with my friend Mike and his parents who were taking us there. It was an amazingly hot sunny day and we eventually got there (very hard to find!). When we did get there loads of people were already queuing and it was only just dinnertime. We heard 'Space' the support band doing their soundcheck and got talking to a few fans. I turned out that if you were in the actual theme park you got inside the gig first...not fair! We didn't rush inside anyway when we got in because everybody was made to sit down before the gig. As soon as everyone got up though I managed to get my first ever front row position :) It was well to the right of the stage but I didn't care! Space were soon on singing and they weren't bad actually...then we waited for Bryan and the band. Suddenly I was looking to the right
of the stage and I saw in the distance 3 people walking down to
the stage all dressed in white. I had been looking at the recent
setlists on the internet and I was expecting him to start with 'Summer
Of '69' but then the background music to 'How Do Ya Feel Tonight'
started really loud! The 3 people turned out to be Bryan, Keith
and Mickey and as they got closer to the stage they were surrounded
by the security guards. Then Bryan's voice was played..."IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?"...for all the rest of the crowd who weren't sure what was happening before that confirmed it for them....they all answered with a resounding 'YEEESS!!!' Then Bryan ran past everyone to the stage "IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?"....Alton Towers errupted and Bryan played a very raw loud version of the song...sounded much more powerful with the trio than I expected! Then straight after they played 'Back To You'...a song that to this day is my favourite live...well after '69 of course maybe. Everybody was bouncing up and down. I was taping the show at the same time. Later on he played the first verse and chorus of 'On A Day Like Today' because the sun setting across the park inspired him to do so! Some woman threw some underwear at
him and he said "I can tell you right now those aren't mine!"
He kept askin why we weren't on the rides as well! The new song
'Cloud #9' was also a big highlight and it was amazing live...Bryan
ended the show with 'Kids Wanna Rock'...which is how everyshow should
be ended! Straight after the last song and after the bows, BA jumped off the stage and down onto the front row towards me! We was shaking all the crowd hands down to the right hand side of the stage where I was stood! He came over to me and shook my hand ...i SAID "see ya in Sheffield Bry"....he replied"sure will!"...... UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Overall a gig that rocked in a nice venue, I would definately go to see him there again. There were absolutely thousands of people there...I don't think there was enough room really, people were standing on top of burger vans and everything...people were even watchin all the way back at the turnstiles in the end because they couldn't get close. People that kept going over head in the cable cars though would have been disapointed becuse when BA came on they stopped running haha cheapskates! Setlist: ********************************************** REVIEW OF SOUND EQUIPMENT FOR THE GIG Pop sensation, Bryan Adams, appeared for one day
on July 24th at the Alton Towers arena in Staffordshire. Providing
the Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker system for the concert
event was Canegreen of London who supplied 3 MSL-6s, 5 DS-2Ps and
10 MSL-4s on either side of the stage, with 8 650-Ps situated under
each of the flown systems. Designing the PA for the one-day concert event was Andrew Frengley of Canegreen and Tony Zabo, sound technician for the Bryan Adams tour. ********************************************* |
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