Bryan Adams Concert @ Bangalore - A Superb Performance by the Legend

I was planning for our Valentine’s Day celebrations, it was then I came to know about Bryan’s show at Palace grounds Bangalore. Bryan Adams was coming back to Bangalore after a gap of 4 years. Honestly I was not a great fan of Bryan but he is one of Shweta’s all time favorite singer, so I thought the Bryan’s live performance will be the best way to start Valentine’s day as the show was on Feb 13th night.

The tickets were quiet expensive, the silver class was 1500 per ticket and Gold class was 3500 INR and VIP Lounge was 8000 bugs. I managed to get two tickets in Silver class. The show was supposed to start at 7PM. I and Shweta were in the Palace grounds at 3.30 PM itself, so that we can stand at the front row of silver class; but to our surprise almost 500 people were already present in the waiting line to get into the venue. It was too hot there was nothing much available other than water near the waiting line. The gates were opened at 5 PM, so we had to stand almost for 1 hour 30 minutes before entering the venue on a hot sunny day, and the worst thing was gals and boys were supposed to stand in separate queue. The best part is we managed to get second row in silver class after 90 minutes wait.

DJ Akbar played some music for next one and half hour, the music was not very good or great it was just average. Slowly people had started accumulating behind us, by 7 PM almost 5000 people were behind us, it was jam packed and there was no chances anyone going to drink water or even to rest room. Shiamak Davar and his troop gave 3-4 dance performances for may be 15-20 minutes, these performances were very boring. We had to wait for another 30 minutes before Bryan arrived.

Around 7.45PM Bryan arrived and from that moment to 11PM it was just awesome. Bryan stared with There will never be another tonight and played almost 20 plus songs. Three solo songs at the end were played by him using mouth organ and guitar. Bryan was singing nonstop almost taking no breaks in between. He belted out superb songs like Summer of 69, Run to you, There will never be another tonight, everyone needs somebody, let’s make this night to remember, Everything I do I do it for you, Back to U, Fastest Fingers, Please forgive me and The only thing that looks good on me is U. It was very nice of Bryan that he asked one of the gals from the audience to accompany him for one song. I and Shweta were dancing non-stop to all his songs, those 3 hours with Bryan were just superb and I felt the four hours of wait was worth it. I am now a huge fan of his husky yet mellow voice and I felt the lyrics of his songs are just incredible.

To summarize it was a very memorable and very enjoyable performance by Bryan Adams.