| 24 June 2003 - Wolverhampton, UK Concert Review |
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A Most Triumphant Night!
What a great night it was. I'm a big Bon Jovi fan and have been for a fair while now but this was the first time I had ever been to see them live. What a great time I picked to see them first time - not only that I did it in style with a VIP on-stage pass. Richie was in most excellent form, Tico's drums were like "Thunder", Hugh went "down to the roots" on his bass and David was just a cool dude. And as far as the man himself goes, he put on a great performance, great at aising the crowd and keeping that going throughout alot of the show. The only thing I was disappointed with was the fact they never played Always/ Bed Of Roses and to a certain extent the fact that the crowd perhaps could have been a little more lively during some of the songs - otherwise, a great show. The highlights of the night for me were..
1. Being on stage for The Distance/ It's My Life
2. The amazing electricity flowing around the ground during Raise Your Hands/ Bad Medicine(Shout) in particular was awesome.
3. Simply the fact that they played my favourite song - In These Arms very well.
4. The support band LIVE were better than anticipated - not by any means amazing but still provided us with a good performance.
5. Very pleased that they played The Distance for us - I wasnt expecting them to - and it is my favourite song off the Bounce album.
For those interested the setlist was...
Bounce
You Give Love A Bad Name
Runaway
Everyday
Livin' On A Prayer
Undivided
Keep The Faith
Wanted Dead Or Alive
The Distance
Its my life
Misunderstood
Saturday Night
Just Older
I'll Be There For You (sang by Richie)
In These Arms
Born To Be My Baby
I'll Sleep When I'm dead (+Rockin All Over The World medley)
Raise Your Hands
ENCORE
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I Got The Girl
Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
Bad Medicine (+Shout Medley)
All I can say now is - roll on Thursday night!!!
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