Review: Bryan Adams - The Reckless Tour

Posted on: 16 Nov 2014
Category: Music

Bryan Adams is a rock legend who can do no wrong.

I've loved his music for as long as I can remember, but never had the opportunity to go and see him live. By chance, I found that he was touring the UK for the 30th anniversary of his Reckless albumn, and booked tickets to go see him at the Liverpool gig. I was excited to go see my musical hero live for the first time, but I was also worried that his performance would turn out flat and dull, as is the case with most live performances.

How wrong was I when I finally saw him up on stage.

Bryan completely dominated the stage, belting out all of the hits from his Reckless albumn (Including a couple of unreleased songs, Reckless and Let Me Down Easy), before moving on to do some of his greatest hits, including a brilliant accoustic version of When You're Gone, and finally ending with an encore of not one, not two, but FOUR songs on his accoustic. Bryan's voice is fantastic, having shown no signs of ageing even after 30 years of performing, and the energy he delivered throughout the night was electrifying and unending. Almost no-one in the arena wanted the show to end.

One of my favorite moments of the tour was when Keith Scott rugby tackled Bryan to the floor during the performance of Summer of '69. Another standout moment was that he got a member of the audience to dance to If Ya Wanna Be Bad. And finally, when the audience waved their camera phones around during his encore performance of All for Love, I couldn't have asked to have been in a better place there and then.

People often criticize Bryan for being too backwards and old school for a rock singer in the 21st century. I would praise him for just that. Bryan has such talent and charisma that very few singers this day and age could match, and is living proof that even after 30 years, classic rock is still relevant today as it was back in it's hayday. In short, Bryan Adams is an amazingly talented artist, and his live shows just have to be experienced at least once in a lifetime.

And I don't care how pretentious I sound right now, because last night's show was INCREDIBLE.

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