Month: April 2024

Woah! What a blast it was last night!

“Stones shine with a new energy on opening night of Hackney Diamonds tour” (mojo4music.com) | “Rolling Stones Kick-Start ‘Hackney Diamonds’ Tour With Thrilling Houston Concert” (rollingstone.com) | “The Rolling Stones kick off Hackney Diamonds Tour with exhilarating Houston show at NRG Stadium” (houstonchronicle.com) | “Start me up: The Stones kick off North America tour in Houston” (reuters.com) | “The Rolling Stones show no signs of slowing down as they begin their latest tour with Texas show” (apnews.com) | “No one rocks like The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger, band thrill on Hackney Diamonds Tour” (eu.usatoday.com) | “The Rolling Stones At NRG Stadium Was One Great Party Last Night” (houstonpress.com) | “Rolling Stones Dazzle at ’24 Hackney Diamonds Tour Kickoff” (ultimateclassicrock.com) |

And here’s the setlist with videos:

Full concert in 1 go:

1 – Start Me UP

2 – Get Off Of My Cloud

3 – Rocks Off

4 – Out Of Time

5 – Angry

6 – Beast Of Burden (vote song)

7 – Mess It Up

8 – Tumblin’ Dice

9 – You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Introductions

10 – Little T&A

11 – Sympathy For The Devil

12 – Gimme Shelter

13 – Honky Tonk Women

14 – Miss You

15 – Paint It Black

16 – Jumping Jack Flash

encores

17 – Sweet Sounds Of Heaven

18 – Satisfaction

HAPPY Birthday, Chuck!

The Rolling Stones will start their 2024 Hackney Diamonds tour of the US today!

Yeehaaw! So have a blast, everbody! We will try to get as much pictures, streams and news as possible from tonight’s show!

UPDATES:

Hector: GCJunior (Fb) // Benjy Jones: GaryClarke Junior playing // lhtxbyleighkhajovsky: GCJunior playing (Insta)

LIVESTREAMS:

Nina Ryan – good sound – still running!
Julian Fava just stopped  running strong! 
JAM Magazine (Fb 2, 3 songs into – now has run out of batteries…)

Green Lady (Fb)  // 0:39 Angry (good sound!)

Hector once more: 7:19 of Gary Clarke Junior (bit muddy sound, but, hey!!)

SETLIST:

1. 1. Start Me Up
      
   2. Get Off Of My Cloud
   3. Rocks Off
   4. Out Of Time
   5. Angry
   6. Beast Of Burden (vote song)
   7. Mess It Up
   8. Tumblin’ Dice
   9. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
      Introductions
   10. Little T&A
   11. Sympathy For The Devil
   12. Gimme Shelter
   13. Honky Tonk Women
   14. Miss You
   15. Paint It Black
   16. Jumping Jack Flash
       encores
   17. Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
   18. Satisfaction
       

Pics from stage and gigs:

Greetings from Keith:

Mick and Ronnie leaving the hotel (Fb)

Backstage – dinner’s ready:

 

 

 

 

 

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Mick, for one, was all around town and obviously had a great time!

Then also, HAPPY 72 BIRTHDAY to Chuck Leavell!!

Unbelievable. It’s just … a gas, gas, gas!

Just hours from now, we finally face the first notes of the first gig of this tour!

I don’t know how the connections are at Houston, but I really hope that some folks will stream from the NRG for all of us way back in the back (hehehe).

So today, Saturday: day off, Sunday: another rehearsal at NRG (setlist will be interesting!), Sunday night: well, you know the place to be right then.
PLEASE: send a note if and where you plan to stream from the show!!

UPDATE: 34 seconds of Rocks Off (rolling-stones.disciplemedia.com – free membership)

UPDATE – Picture from yesterdays dress rehearsal by MarieFrance Remillard:

UPDATE – The merch truck:

Here’s 2:49 of report from KHOU 11:

This surfaced on Facebook – I made some screenshots…

The video comes from Doug O’Brian – so we can call it official 😉

“The Rolling Stones are in Houston. The crew is setting up the stage at NRG right now. Here’s a sneak peek. More to come…Doug O’Brien“

The pics below are shot by atsu-y Hot Stuff aka @royaldragon1969 – thanks to her!!

And here’s some last infos from the venue:

Just came in: Mick’s visit to NASA!

Besides rehearsals, business meetings, fitness trainings and all kinds of other duties, our Mick has had time to visit NASA… great job, Mick!

Onto the starts, fellows, and beyond! 😉

New album, new tour, 1st gig coming up – why not chill for some seconds?

Just got that somewhat strolling by and I love it…

Losin’ My Touch (Remastered 2023) – The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks – official lyric video

Just released: the official tour merch for the Hackney Diamonds tour 2024

Find all the shirts, city exclusives – “Show love for your city with these city exclusive Hackney Diamonds Tour tees, posters, and Oxford Pennants” – and accessories at therollingstonesshop.com

Yeehaww! Cast your vote for Sunday’s gig!

Choose from among these:

• Beast Of Burden
• Fool To Cry
• Dead Flowers
• She’s A Rainbow

Click & Vote!

It’s a wonder to experience this again after all these years!

We lucky fans are looking forward to another US tour of The Rolling Stones, and again we will follow each and every show of the band with all the help the net and we ourselfs can provide.

For me, I don’t have tickets for any of the shows – I’ll stay in good ol’ Europe but will never miss a show, even if I have to stay up late or get up at 2 or 3 AM in order to catch the lates news, pics and streams on the net as the band plays the show.

So in case you have tickets for one or more of the upcoming gigs and have to share something with us (pics, reports, streams!) – don’t hesitate and tell us about it – write some comment, or send some mail. In case you plan to send some stream from show – please tell me 2, 3 days before the show about it!

Ok, back to the news: finally, we have a list of all the support bands / opening acts of the all 19 shows, except for the May 02 gig at the Nola Jazz Fest:

Then, we hear that since yesterday at least, the band rehearses on the NRG Stadium stage. Of course – all the technics of lights and sound need to be thoroughly put to the test. That includes fixed dramaturgy of many of the songs – the Stones are known for state-of-the-art productions, after all.

Long time Stones fan atsu-y Hot Stuff is already at the right place to be!

… some bad, really bad sound mixed with traffic …

… then you can hear some of the stuff, those lucky folks hear these days down on the street near the rehearsal place!

Ok, you have been warned, hehehe, but here they are, the fuckin’ Rehearsing Stones:

UPDATE 04-23:

Here’s SFTD:

Sweet Sounds …

04-22: