They're wearing helmets at tonight's gig...

[Sydneyfan]

crazy but true apparently.


http://www.ryanadams.org/Thread.aspx?ID=1565444

Pitchfork will go into meltdown over this :lol

[foggy]

Astronauts, eh? I'm sure Pitchfork is on the case as we speak.

[Nix]

Yep balaclava's and helmets tis true. But why?

[Sydneyfan]

Setlist from JOhn C.



A Kiss Before I Go
Please Do Not Let Me Go
Magnolia Mountain
The End
To Be Young
Tears Of Gold
**the ninja moment**
Games
What Sin
Dear John
Cold Roses->
Egyptology->
Bartering Lines->
Egyptology->
Goodnight Rose->
Beautiful Sorta->
Party Clown
DJ Reggie Rap"Shakespeare Rumble In Da Bronx"
Blue Hotel
Easy Plateau
Not So Peaceful Valley
Dear Chicago
Shakedown->
Expressway To Yr.Skull->
Caribean Queen->
Egyptology->
Pyramid->
I See Monsters

on 9.15 off 11.05

what a rocking show
great crowd great venue band as tight as
Games was vvvvvvvvvvvvs

[Sydneyfan]

Yep balaclava's and helmets tis true. But why?


Ryan Adams mystery No. 1,231.

[blueone]

ARRGHH, the setlists just get more awesome and awesome!

[Sydneyfan]

Did anyone manage to get an pix from this show - particularly of the helmets? If so, :wave

[sicottem]

yea id love to see them

[foggy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/strangeways/DSC00054.jpg

(originally posted on the .org - by topdollar I believe)

[sicottem]

haha wow

[Sydneyfan]

Ha, I bet they didn't wear them too long - it must have been unbelievably hot under there. Thanks P.

[Quincy]

Ha, I bet they didn't wear them too long - it must have been unbelievably hot under there. Thanks P.

Only 1 and a half songs. It was all Ryan's idea, naturally, he just came to soundchec with a bag of helmets, balaclavas, etc and had this "great idea" Neal wasn't too thrilled about it and kept looking at Ryan to see when he go take it off. Poor Chris couldn't take his off until the song was finished, it was a two-handed job.

[Sydneyfan]

Only 1 and a half songs. It was all Ryan's idea, naturally, he just came to soundchec with a bag of helmets, balaclavas, etc and had this "great idea" Neal wasn't too thrilled about it and kept looking at Ryan to see when he go take it off. Poor Chris couldn't take his off until the song was finished, it was a two-handed job.

:lol Those guys must shudder whenever Ryan anounces he's "got a great idea".

I wonder whether it was just a dig at Pitchfork or just a totally random thing.

[Sydneyfan]

review of this show from the Evening Standard.



With his combative approach to audiences and critics, a Ryan Adams gig should involve some drama. But the pin-up boy of alt-country was curiously subdued for the end of his UK tour at Shepherds Bush.

Playing with his band The Cardinals, it all got a bit honky-tonk from the off with their opening song A Kiss Before I Go. It's from Jacksonville City Nights, one of three albums released in 2005 by the prolific Adams, but the retro country sound lacked the power and urgency of his earlier work.

Adams found fame as a New York-based singer; one song named after the city had a video featuring the Twin Towers that was filmed four days before they were destroyed. But judging by his latest country tunes, it seems he's now looking to his home of North Carolina for inspiration.

Adams was better when he turned to the Cold Roses album from last year and the song Magnolia Mountain. Immediately, the occasion became more intimate thanks to his plaintive vocal and the woozy sound of a pedal steel guitar (an instrument that's played on a stand like a keyboard).

It still lacked the sense of fun and manic energy you associate with Adams, though, and the audience tried to provoke an outburst with some shouted remarks. But he appeared lost in his guitar solos for much of the evening, although the acoustic Dear John did sound fantastic - even without Norah Jones who duetted on the album version.

However, there was no airing for his cover of Oasis's Wonderwall or even the bizarre rap tune he's posted on his website. Perhaps the biggest disappointment was that Adams ignored 29, his most personal album from 2005.

Admittedly, there were some typically strange touches, such as the band donning balaclavas and his laudatory speech about British biscuits. Towards the end, he also told one noisy Scot in the audience to shut up, bawling: "I'm f***ing talking!"

With that loss of self-restraint, Adams seemed to relax for the few remaining songs. But despite ending with the wonderfully sprawling I See Monsters, this was still a rather joyless performance.

[Quincy]

There's so much in the review that would make me angry if I didn't try not to care. I think the description of the pedal steel was the worst. But it have every journalist tick-box ticked for a Ryan review.


And that guy even called Ryan "Joyless" if you look at the review on the website, that's just a fucking insult and untrue.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-415878-details/Ryan+Adams+%26+The+Cardinals/gigReview.do?reviewId=23369317

[sicottem]

[QUOTE=Quincy;180632]There's so much in the review that would make me angry if I didn't try not to care. I think the description of the pedal steel was the worst. But it have every journalist tick-box ticked for a Ryan review.
[QUOTE]
The pedal steel comment had me laughing