Ryan Adams (BBC4 3rd Aug)

Thanks Steve

cheers Steve!

He's also on tour in the UK in november

Can get tickets at www.seetickets.com

All the best

Ryan

London is sold out

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/44328-interview-ryan-adams

Possibly of interest: an interview with RA

Jeff A

Rasher if you fancy at trip oop north i'm sure accommodation could be arranged

Ryan

Thanks for that steve

Cheers Ryan. I saw him in do his soundcheck in Chicago in January, so I'll get over it. Shame though.

A friend just saw him in Seattle on saturday, said it was an amazing show.

3 August? That would be tonight then. Should be worth setting the timer on the recording machine.

Peter

And at 9.30 it's Bruce in Dublin

What was with all of that booing? Poor Bruce. Maybe somebody should have slipped a word in his shell-like and told him that you just can't patronise people in Ireland same as you do in the USA. Embarrassing to watch.

Quite enjoyed Ryan Adams even though it seemed he's very much trying to look like Ian Mcculloch (from Echo and the Bunnymen) A very "civilised" performance nonetheless.

Eh, I think you'll find the booing was the audience on this side of the pond shouting "Bruce" in a way which kinda sounds like a boo. Isn't that the way we're meant to show our appreciation of him? Maybe there has been a huge misunderstanding and he feels insulted??!!!

Ryan seemed to have a time and a half struggling to come to terms with his sunglasses...

Peter

I didn't realise Bruce is Irish.
He isn't? Sure sounded like he was trying to be.
Matt.

Matt

Where did you think the roots of that musical genre originated? Kinda full circle in a sense. Not sure what the pure traditionalists in Dublin would have made of it though!

Peter

So he tries very hard to put an 'oirish-lilt' in his voice & employ a fiddler to pay homage to the roots of American country/folk music?
Or,
he cynically 'Irish-is' himself up to milk it. Not too much artistic integrity, me-thinks.
Boooorn in the IRA, I was Boooorn in the IRA, yeah.
Matt.

Sorry, but didn't like either show, but if you don't watch then you never know - all a bit too laid back for me.

The Ryan Adams BBC show was more like an MTV Unplugged compared to the live set he normally does.

Afraid that I found the Ryan Adams session profoundly depressing in the sense that we had new songs that confirmed I was right to not get Easy Tiger (or indeed anything since Demolition) and old songs performed in a style that blended with the current style but didn't really show them off at their best.

Having really enjoyed Nick Lowe the other week this was a real contrast and a let down. Oh well. At best I guess you could say that the band were competent and the songs were nice but then... is that it? Poor old Ryan appears to have nothing to say at all within his songs; the lyrical insights have gone and nowadays it all seems to be about getting the quantity out there with little real thought about the quality. I'm glad he's through his problems and I still enjoy, Heartbreaker, Gold and Demolition but for me... he's going to have to deliver something really special to ever see me spend the hard earned on him once again.

Mike

I think Easy Tiger is a good album, but that show really wasn't a good representation of those songs at all. It wasn't great, was it. It seemed all a bit...uncomfortable.

I'm not familiar with his music but Ryan Adams is playing in about 7 hours time about a kilometre from where I'm sitting right now.

So - should I go and why?

Ta
Jim

YES!!! Definitely. Go..Now!!

Jim A.......well? Did you go? What was it like? And if you didn't.....shame on you!!!!

All the best

Ryan

His UK tour Nov/Dec is pretty much sold out too.

Nah... couldn't be fagged... already seen The Cure this week, and Bob Dylan last Sat. All musicked out.

Jim