“If I look proud Slicky, it’s because the RS critics have voted this tour #2 best tour of 2003!”
Blue Jean can send me…
I said in advance of DB’s final Chicago date last night: “I imagine it wouldn’t be too reckless to expect a few surprises in tomorrow’s setlist”. Well, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to work that one out, but, for those of you that attended all three dates, David certainly didn’t disappoint.
Apart from the reintroduction of Sound And Vision, Slip Away, A New Career In A New Town, Breaking Glass and Bring Me The Disco King, (first US performances of all of these songs so far on this tour) last night was also witness to the first performance on the A Reality World Tour of the world-wide 1984 hit, Blue Jean.
Sounds like I missed yet another great night. Oh well, here’s the 31-song setlist:
Chicago January 16th 2004
01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Let’s Dance
04 Reality
05 Hang On To Yourself
06 Fame
07 Cactus
08 Sound And Vision
09 All The Young Dudes
10 China Girl
11 Fantastic Voyage
12 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
13 Days
14 The Man Who Sold The World
15 Hallo Spaceboy
16 Sunday
17 Under Pressure
18 Life On Mars?
19 Slip Away
20 A New Career In A New Town
21 Breaking Glass
22 Panic In Detroit
23 Ashes To Ashes
24 White Light, White Heat
25 I’m Afraid Of Americans
26 “Heroes”
(Encore)
27 Bring Me The Disco King
28 Blue Jean
29 Five Years
30 Suffragette City
31 Ziggy Stardust
As a follow up to the review round-up in yesterday’s news, in the new issue of RS magazine (February 5th), the Rolling Stone critics have voted A Reality Tour at #2 in the best tours of 2003. Radiohead got the top spot, but I’m pretty sure DB won’t mind coming second to a show that he rated among the best of the year himself anyway. Well done sir… that’s pretty impressive, and well-deserved.
The tour continues in Denver on Monday.