Bob Dylan performed the smallest show on his current Australian tour in Brisbane last night at the 1500 capacity Tivoli.
Like the recent Europeans festival shows, Dylan fans were treated to a customised setlist in intimate mode with Bob pulling out classics such as ‘Girl From The North Country’ and ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ for the first time on the Aussie tour as well as a showcase cluster from the award winning ‘Love & Theft’ album of 2001.
Fans started to line-up before sunrise yesterday morning for the best spot in the theatre when doors opens at 7pm.
Dylan’s current Australian tour has been a showcase of his creative period from 1997 to 2012 and the five albums from the Grammy Award winning ‘Time Out Of Mind’ through to the recent ‘Tempest’.
True Dylan fans do not expect a greatest hits set, they want Bob Dylan, Poet of a Generation. Dylan fans go to hear what he has to say now, not what he once said then.
Bob Dylan, Brisbane, August 28, 2014
Things Have Changed (from The Essential Bob Dylan, 1999)
She Belongs To Me (from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Working Man’s Blues #2 (from Modern Times, 2006)
Waiting For You (from The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack, 2002)
Duquesne Whistle (from Tempest, 2012)
Pay In Blood (from Tempest, 2012)
Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On The Tracks, 1974)
Love Sick (from Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
High Water (For Charley Patton) (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Girl From The North Country (From The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)
Cry A While (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Lonesome Day Blues (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Trying To Get To Heaven (from Time Out of Mind, 1997)
Thunder On The Mountain (from Modern Times, 2006)
Ballad Of A Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
All Along The Watchtower (from John Wesley Harding, 1968)
Blowin’ In The Wind (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1962)
Remaining Bob Dylan dates
August 29, Canberra, Royal Theatre
August 31, Adelaide, Entertainment Centre
September 3, 4, 5 Sydney, State Theatre
September 7, 8, Sydney, Opera House
New Zealand:
September 10, Christchurch, Canterbury Arena
Bob Dylan will tour Australia for Chugg Entertainment.
