![]() Tickets for The SSE Arena on 29 th May and 3Arena on 30 th May go on sale at 9am on Friday 15th October. Platinum selling and Grammy Award winning musician Bryan Adams has announced live arena shows for Belfast and Dublin in summer 2022 with a headline tour. 2 days ago Gig Review : Kenny Wayne Shepherd “Trouble Is… 25” Anniversary World Tour 2023 Parr Hall, Warrington. ![]() 2 days ago Album Review : Electric Mob : 2 Make U Cry & Dance.2 days ago DIETH – David Ellefson, Guilherme Miranda, Michał Łysejko stream new single.2 days ago Single Review : Foo Fighters- ‘Rescued’.2 days ago THE NEW ROSES: German Rockers Extend Contract with Napalm Records + Announce the Return of Guitarist Norman Bites!.2 days ago SLEEP TOKEN RELEASE NEW SINGLE “DYWTYLM” + ALL HEADLINE SHOWS WW SOLD-OUT.2 days ago Pink Floyd celebrate The Dark Side of The Moon with a unique listening event in Australia.2 days ago Gig Review : Sabaton – The Tour To End All Tours Special guests Babymetal and Lordi Cardiff International Arena.21 hours ago NITROVILLE REVEAL NEW SINGLE & VIDEO! Pit Lane Fire.20 hours ago BLEEDING THROUGH – release blistering new single ‘War Time’.17 hours ago Download Festival reveals more artists for 2023 line-up. ![]() 16 hours ago Iron Maiden – The Future Past Tour, more shows added.Adams and band launched into “Kick Ass,” the first of their 28 songs Saturday night.Īdams’ “So Happy It Hurts” tour now sends him to Europe until mid-December, followed by a six-concert residency at the Wynn casino in Las Vegas, starting Jan. there was no sign of the Welsh band on stage, and by around 8:25 p.m. “That was the summer of 1978 when everything changed, and the only good thing that came out of my piano playing was this song, and so I have to dedicate it to my ma, Jane, tonight.”Īt Rogers, it’s not clear what happened to Feeder, billed as concert-openers. My mother was working two jobs, and she is one of the best there is.”Įventually the Adams family moved to a house in Kits Point. “We were broke, there was nothing – nothing in the fridge. ![]() “Then we moved to Burnaby – I’m just telling you this because this is our history,” Adams continued. “It was a long road and I remember when we first came here, people said, ‘Oh, you’re going to B.C., make sure you stay in Haney.’ We lived in Haney and it was like, ‘Nah, let’s keep going.’ Then we got to Surrey and we lived in Surrey for a little bit, 104th in Guildford, and after getting the shit kicked outta me a couple of times I said, ‘Ma, we gotta move out of here,’ and so we moved over to North Van. “And so in the summer of 1978 I spent time driving my family crazy figuring out how to play this, and that’s why I’m playing guitar tonight,” Adams said as the crowd roared some more. He convinced her to take $1,000 saved for his university education and spend it on music gear. “My mother’s here tonight, she’s 94,” Adams told the roaring crowd during a five-minute speech. CKUmRoq41sĪmong them is “Straight From the Heart,” performed solo on acoustic guitar at Rogers Arena during Saturday’s encore.īefore he launched into the ballad, Adams talked about the path he travelled from Ontario to Vancouver, with younger brother Bruce and mother Jane (while father Conrad was posted abroad as a foreign service diplomat, according to Wikipedia). I play the guy’s music in band so I know the songs (especially all those 80s hits). Anyhow, Adams turned his back on the camera-carrying media that night, so the shots were probably lousy.įast-forward 27 years and I’m the bass player in Reckless, a Bryan Adams tribute band, so I know the man’s music pretty well (especially all those ’80s hits).įlashback: my media pass to the very first concert held at General Motors Place (now returns on his “So Happy it Hurts” tour, and I’ll be there. I photographed that landmark concert, but can’t find the negatives. 12) in Vancouver, Bryan Adams capped his Canada-wide “So Happy It Hurts” concert tour with a crowd-pleasing mix of new and old songs spanning his four-plus decades in music.Īt Rogers Arena it was a celebratory homecoming for the North Van-raised rocker, who was the very first rock star to perform at the arena, then known at General Motors Place, back in September 1995. ![]()
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