Country music isn’t huge in the UK, but with so few top artists playing here it’s not surprising that two nights at the Shepherds Bush Empire were sell outs for Brad Paisley.
By the time I found out he was playing here the tickets were almost gone. That’s why the photograph makes it look as though we were a long way from the stage… we were. But, we had to go. The Brad Paisley song, She’s Everything, was our first dance when we got married and the tickets came up around the date of our first anniversary.
The concert was superb. You don’t get many rock acts that will play for two hours straight. There’s no doubt about Paisley’s talent either, his ability to play guitar while also being mauled by the audience was quite remarkable.
Of course, I’d love to embed a whole host of YouTube videos here for you to see what I mean about the music, but thanks to some deal with his record company they don’t appear to be available in the UK. Which is silly if they have designs on him breaking the UK and getting to play to more than two packed nights in London. So you’ll have to follow the link to one track here – Welcome to the Future.