Gary Barlow / Brad Kella – Songbook Tour 2025 live gallery & review from 3Olympia Dublin 25.04.2025

Dam that was like watching Beatlemania, never before have i seen ladies of a certain age loosing their minds LOL over an artist, ok yes teenagers lots of times at shows, but grown women, who mainly made up the audience last night at Dublin’s 3Olympia for Gary Barlow’s first sold out night of two, it only fell short of knickers being thrown lol. From the time that Gary hit the stage the venue erupted and never let up for a second.
They were dancing and screaming everywhere.

It happens to be 2013 since Gary was last in Dublin so maybe that had a little to do with it and maybe that fact that the man puts on a blinding show of cabaret proportions, theres brass/ theres backing singers all it was short of was dancers! But Gary made up for that with his Barlow moves throughout songs, there was even confetti cannons twice during his set.

I did get the set list which contained eighteen songs, but unfortanatly Gary and the band didn’t play the set in order as written out on the set-list, but what i can say is that it contained a vast amount of Take That tunes to the delight of the screaming crowd.

Opening the night was pianist Brad Kella from Liverpool who played tunes that he himself has written. One being ‘Eve & Frank’ a heartfelt tribute to the foster parents who raised him and another ‘Phoebe’s Melody’, named after my daughters to name two. And of-course not forgetting ‘Home To me’ a special tribute to Liverpool FC, You’ll Never Walk Alone and Anfield.

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Photos & words – Ian Mc Donnell @mcgigmusic