What will get me on a plane
flying from Houston to London you ask.
Only a Brad Paisley concert!
So, despite my jet lag here’s
my review of the night:
Bang on 9pm Brad and his
band appeared on stage accompanied by huge cheers and the lower floor taking to
their feet. The set began with Southern Comfort Zone.
One of today’s biggest
country music stars Brad gave a master class in stage presence; quick wit,
humour, high energy, quality vocals and some awesome guitar playing underlying
everything. Every new song sees a guitar change - Brad has quite a few - and
you can expect to see every colour of the rainbow.
Brad asked who was in love
and confessed to being in love with our beautiful city (London), with our
beautiful faces and funny little accents. If you haven’t heard Brad’s British
accent, you have missed out; its strangely very good.
In this gig, he gave away 2
signed guitars, both to young boys with the request that they exchange numbers.
He reckoned that with practice he could be opening for them in a decade’s time
and they might be the next Beatles.
We were even treated to a
Director’s cut and heard some of the lyrics that didn’t make it on the
recording of She’s Everything; I can
agree that the lines “she’s passive aggressive” and “she snores like a train”
wouldn’t have had the same effect.
The concert had been opened
by Chris Lane, a fellow American from North Carolina who return to the stage to
perform A Country Boy Can Survive / I’m
Still a Guy with Brad. This song
ended with Brad taking a selfie of the two of them on a fan’s phone, but it
wouldn’t be Brad if he didn’t have a quick look through her Instagram account
and make a comment! Be warned.
Brad threw in a couple of
covers to demonstrate the range of his talent and to get the audience singing
along:
·
Last
Time For Everything w/ Purple Rain (Prince)
·
Chattahoochee
(Alan Jackson)
Old
Alabama saw Brad take to the small stage at the back of the
room, in memory of his concert days.
Brad praised how big country
had become in the UK, to the extend that we have started to grow our own
talent. This was the introduction to welcome Ward Thomas to the stage to
accompany him singing Whiskey Lullaby.
A Kiss Cam and even an
On-Stage proposal were included in the set before the biggest surprise of the
night – Keith Urban came to Jam to The
Mona-Lisa, Workin’ Man Blues and the finale Alcohol accompanied by Ward Thomas and Chris Lane.
The 2 hours flew by, this
was a party not to be missed even if those of us higher up couldn’t join in the
Mona-Lisa conga.
I was totally
entertained and cannot wait to see the white Stetson wearing showman again.
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