27/01/05 - PALAU SANT JORDI, BARCELONA

Review by 'El Periodico' - TRANSLATED:
Bryan Adams revives his success in BCN
Bryan Adams last night celebrated a welcome return to Barcelona in the Palau Sant Jordi, before more than 11,000 people. The singer and Canadian guitarist stopped in some songs of his latest disc, Room service, but all the Adams hits of the 80's and 90's were in there as well. Accompanied by a compact band that knows its job, Adams is one of the artists of rock with a more popular repertoire. The author of hits like Heaven, It's only love, Somebody and Summer of 69 paid itself in his more glorious past throughout an energetic concert that she had to the guitar like central instrument. There was, nevertheless, diverse incursions in acoustic sonoridades and the prescribed quota of ballads that encouraged the lighters to come out. The Palau Sant Jordi, the room that has been welcoming to him for more than one decade in its regular visits in Barcelona, applauded each song of a repertoire filled with radio hits from the past 20 years.. Bryan Adams opened in Barcelona a tour of seven performances in Spain and Portugal, prelude of an European expedition that will make the next spring. Tonight he plays in Madrid.

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Review by Vern Bueno (EFE) - TRANSLATED:
Bryan Adams extasy with two hours of nostalgia to its Barcelonian public
Bryan Adams opened up his latest tour on Thursday in the Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona. He delivered everything what it was expected of him and more, a collection of hits with which reigned many years in highest of the charts, he played to fans for over 2 hours.

The Palau gave a lively welcoming to the tour of his latest Album, 'Room Service', a situation that doesn't really reveal the current status of the album, since it has not obtained a high chart position or had the sales his past albums have had.

In spite of it, it's a great disc with Adams doing what he does best: songs rock of all the life with an alive rate, mixed with sweet ballads. A formula that ensured the success to him, but that now it does not finish materializing. Between half of the 80's and most of the 90's, Adams was one of the great kings of the pop world. Albums such as ' Reckless' and ' Waking Up The Neighbours' obtained multi-million sales, and their songs for sound tracks got him 3 nominations of an Oscar to him. Altogether, the Canadian takes more than 60 million sold discs anywhere in the world. But the faucet of the successes was cut, they lowered the sales and they began the problems with the record companies and the distribution that always affect all the old glories that no longer render like before. The things no longer have gone to him so well and good proof of it is that it has taken six years in publishing a new album, taking refuge in the concerts, where always it can rescue his old subjects. Its putting him in the scene.

Adams went precise and with force to the scene. Shining its habitual black t-shirt and jeans (look that always has characterized to him and that moves away of the eccentric customs of other stars del to him rock), attacked the opening song with conviction...'Room Service' and 'Open Road', singles of advance of its last album, received well by the public. After giving credit of which the subjects of 'Room Service' hold the type, Adams caused the delirium of the spectators with 'Let's Make to Night To Remember', one of the great ballads.

The public wanted to become surfeited itself with the innocent ballads of love of the Canadian, to dance his great hymns rock, to ignite his burners to the wind and, really, to remember better times. In this sense, Adams did not defraud. Armed with his guitar, he shelled all his great successes perfectly, knowing, after 25 years doing of musician, which loves its public. 'Kids Wanna Rock', 'Back To You', 'Cuts Like to Knife', ' Everything I Do', 'Summer of '69' and many hits, was more falling the one after another one. The stage scene was simple, with a simple game of white lights, the black scene without decoration some and three great screens that offered images of the concert to the public. A sobriety that also transmitted the support band, formed only by four members (guitar, bass, drums and keyboards) whose sound was crude and direct, something that the rasposa voice and the aesthetic something grunge of Adams are thankful. After two hours of performance, Bryan Adams closed with four songs interpreted in hearing aid foreseeable although correct concert, that it demonstrated the experience of Adams.

As it says in one of his better songs, 'Summer of 69', "When I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever, and if I had the choice, yeah I'd always wanna be there". Although Adams composed this oda to nostalgia makes a few lustrums already, could well assign itself to the present of the moved away musician of their years of successes. After this concert in Barcelona, the tour of Bryan Adams continues by Spain with four appointments: Friday in the Vistalegre pavilion of Madrid, the 3 of February in the Palace of the Crossbeams of Vigo, day 4 in Multipurpose of Vigo and finally day 5 in the Bizkaia Sand of Bilbao.

Setlist:
Room Service
Open Road
18 Til I Die
Let's Make A Night To Remember
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Kids Wanna Rock
Back To You
Summer Of '69
Everything I Do
Cuts Like A Knife
When You're Gone
Not Romeo Not Juliet
Heaven
Lonely Nights
It's Only Love
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
Cloud #9
Run To You
The Best Of Me
Flying
All For Love
Straight From The Heart
Room Service (acoustic)

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Thanks to Chris Ashby for the photos and thanks to Enric Pallarolas for the setlist and pictures. Other photos by Bernat Armangue and EFE.

The Palau Sant Jordi on the day BA came to town

Bryan kicks off the party in Barcelona

Bryan strumming his guitar

Bryan with the 2 WYGG's. The blonde one was from Manchester in England but lived in Spain and the brunette was a Spanish girl

Keith ripping into a solo on a new black Gibson