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CrowsOnAWire wrote:I’m going to the O2 Arena show tonight, what time have Alter Bridge been taking the stage on their UK tour?

21:30-23:00. Have a great time tonight.

CrowsOnAWire wrote:I’m going to the O2 Arena show tonight, what time have Alter Bridge been taking the stage on their UK tour?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AlterBridgeGroup/

This is what I received from O2

Cheers all! First AB show tonight, looking forward to it.

Noticed they’ve dropped Brand New Start from their setlist. Always a good one live so shame they aren’t playing it. Would be good if they added Fortress too.

Filmed a bit of Godspeed in Cardiff last night

Those visuals!

abw1987 wrote:Those visuals!

They've really upped it this year, TT was right to expect something different! The smoke cannons were really cool in some of the songs too. I thought the arena stage show struck a good balance this tour, adding some interest without distracting from the music.

MrsPog wrote:

abw1987 wrote:Those visuals!

They've really upped it this year, TT was right to expect something different! The smoke cannons were really cool in some of the songs too. I thought the arena stage show struck a good balance this tour, adding some interest without distracting from the music.

Managed to get a cool shot of the smoke cannons.

Some other shots that turned out okay.

Using this forum on my phone is proving to be tricky tonight. Heh. Apologies if you can see half a dozen duplicate posts from me

Dan Dando wrote:

MrsPog wrote:

abw1987 wrote:Those visuals!

They've really upped it this year, TT was right to expect something different! The smoke cannons were really cool in some of the songs too. I thought the arena stage show struck a good balance this tour, adding some interest without distracting from the music.

Managed to get a cool shot of the smoke cannons.

I liked that to accommodate the bigger arena stages for these UK shows, they added the screens on the ceiling. Don't think that's going to happen for the US shows, but the screens on the background would be a nice added bonus for me. It's nice to see that their production values are the best its ever been. Maybe the Wind-Up buyout loan really did affect them in that sense and now that its been close to being paid off, they finally can take more risks in that sense.

Alter Bridge performing at O2 Arena

Great shots of the guys!

Looks like they played both In Loving Memory and Watch Over You at their last show, was hoping to see Words pop up again in the encore but it didn't show, maybe on the US run it will have a return... I'm getting quite excited for the show in February.

Great shots. Would love to see them in that environment.

First AB show last night at the O2, and they were on fire! Great show.

Wasn’t a complete sellout so they curtained off the back section of the top tier, but out of approx 20,000 capacity they must have sold about 15,000-17,000 tickets.

Setlist:


One Life
Wouldn't You Rather
Isolation
Come to Life
Pay No Mind
Ghost of Days Gone By
White Knuckles
Native Son
Rise Today
Cry of Achilles
Waters Rising
In Loving Memory (Myles and Mark)
Watch Over You (with full band from halfway through )
Blackbird
Open Your Eyes
Metalingus
(featuring John Connolly from Sevendust)
Encore:
Godspeed
Addicted to Pain

Would have been nice to have Forever Falling and Dying Light though.

Blackbirddd wrote:Only 17 songs? That’s a shame

They played 12 for us in the states.

abw1987 wrote:Shinedown's music is so boring compared to AB's. Their first two albums were great; after that they've done nothing interesting.

Interesting. Their 3rd album, Sound of Madness, to Shinedown fans is the equivalent of Blackbird to AB fans. They're my two fav bands and I place Sound of Madness, top to bottom, on par with Blackbird. IMO, hands down the top two modern hard rock albums.

rscotta831 wrote:

Blackbirddd wrote:Only 17 songs? That’s a shame

They played 12 for us in the states.

To be fair it was a co-headlining set in the USA and a proper headlining set in Europe