Bryan Adams At M.E.N. Arena
AH, the perils of audience participation. No doubt Bryan Adams meant well picking an eager fan out to sing the Mel C half of hit duet When You’re Gone.
How was he to know she was a scouser - and that she’d shout “Athens here we come” to an arena brimming with Man United supporters still cursing their Champions League exit?
“We’d better get on with this before you get booed off,” grins a rather nervous looking star as the room erupts in deafening jeers. Still, at least the United contingent had the last laugh as she sang out of tune.
Happily for Bryan, his enthusiastic followers loved every other minute of his hit-packed set. And he loved them - returning for three lengthy encores.
The last calling for yet more girls from the audience to shimmy with him on stage. Turns out the Canadian rocker has a thing for northern belles.
“Last time I was in Manchester it was freezing,” he quips. “And - even in Canada I haven’t seen this - girls were walking round in mini skirts and it was 10 below.
“I was thinking of moving here straight away.”
Ladies
You want to check out Newcastle, Bryan. Anyway, if he loves the ladies - it’s not as much as they love him.
But he is the king of the soft rock ballad. The man behind the song that spawned a million marriage proposals - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
No doubt there were a few more in Manchester as couples cuddled away. All credit to him, though, if he’s as sick of singing it as others are of hearing it after its 16 weeks at number one, he doesn’t let on.
Quite the opposite, he proves a tenacious terrier of a performer - dashing around the stage all night to make sure everyone got a good look at him. And rasping out those vocals as though his life depended on every last “yay” and “baby”.
Come on, who couldn’t at least tap their feet to Summer of 69 or Run To You? Soft rock maybe, but he works darn hard at it, producing a sensational show that would surely melt the heart of even the most ardent anti-Adams campaigner.
Source: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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May 10th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
i was there at the M.E.N in Manchester and when the Liverpool girl got up you just knew it was kindof a bad idea, the boos were really really bad and her voice wasnt the best but never mine. Being from Manchester, I do believe that she had gutts to carry on. How, out of all them people there, most from Manchester, how the hell did Bryan manage to pick out a girl from Liverpool. WHen pepole started booing i think Bryan got kindof nervous. Oh Never Mind. The Show was still brillant!.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:21 am
hey people where you at!