Ryan was silent during the first 5 songs. Then he joked about how messy he was right now, that this show was going to be a career ender and that he had already dreamed he played this show ...

Then he announced he was going to play the new record, that this was his plan : "get drunk and play the new record".

But after 3 songs, Witch Hunt, Shadowlands and I See Monsters, he left the stage mumbling, breaking his glass, punching down the mic and kicking down the guitar amp.

There was no encore ...

 

Deubs

Ryan's set  was close to a disaster. He should not have been on stage. He is a brilliant and talented artist but still human. What we saw was someone completely exhausted from too much touring going through the motions. I checked out the 2002 dates on this site. Who do we blame for such a crazy schedule - management?

 

The songs are so good that Ryan almost pulled it out of the bag a couple of times. In the end after lots of self-effacing put downs, broken glasses and knocked over microphones, he gave up and left. The lights stayed down for fifteen minutes while we diehards clapped and waited. No Ryan. Lets hope he had a good nights sleep and comes back sometime to show Brussels what he is really capable of.  David Sweeney