Managed to pick up a ticket to see the Counting Crows in the Ambassador last night hours before the show. Got the ticket on the ticketmaster website even though the gig was listed as sold out. Goes to show you should keep checking the day of the gig.
I was so excited and told a friend to was informed Counting Crows were a rubbish band for girls. Thankfully I didn’t believe him about the rubbish part. I don’t care about the girls bit. Adam and the band came out at 9pm and launched into the weirdest song to open a gig ever. A slow song off the new album (When I dream of Michelangelo). They played from the new album for most of the night. I haven’t warmed to the new album as easily as I have to others. They played (i think) in no particular order
Hanging Tree
Los Angeles
Sundays
Insignificant
Cowboys
Washington Square (big cheers at the ireland references!)
When I dream of Michelangelo
Anyone but you
Come Around
Mr Jones
Goodnight LA
Round Here
A long december
Catapult
Children in Bloom
Hard Candy
Good Time
Black And Blue
Colorblind
High Life
Hanginaround
Big Yellow Taxi
On a Tuesday in amsterdam Long Ago (more big cheers at the ireland references!)
Holiday in Spain
It was a good mix of old and new. Adam said at the start he wasn’t going to talk much that he was going to cram as many songs in as possible. They played for over 2 hours. I was over the moon they played Colorblind and Children in Bloom and the very last song was Holiday in Spain :D. They couldn’t have picked a better song to end it on. They’re playing the festivals for the summer but promised they’d be back in Dublin before the end of the year. I’d love to get a photo pass to this. I’m going to have to put my thinking cap on.