Expecting Rain

The Italian promoter has just announced six shows in Italy next April:

APRIL 3,4,5 ROME
APRIL 7 FLORENCE
APRIL 8 MANTUA
APRIL 9 MILAN

Tickets on sale this Friday:
http://www.ticketone.it/bob-dylan-bigli ... uid=458384

let the drip-feed begin, by Easter Sunday (two days before the first Rome concert) we should have all the dates for another European spring tour as it seems [normally these start in Scandinavia, and do not occur in consecutive years, so these news are rather surprising]

Apparently ticket prices for the shows in Rome will range from 60 to 105 euros + fees.

Oooh... Florence in April sounds tempting...

They'll Rome you.

I hope Bob has plans to come to Amsterdam.
And Lisbon would be great too.. although it seems unlikely for Lisbon.

Europe in spring? Twice in a row? Rather surprising, I'd say

Europe in spring? Twice in a row? Rather surprising, I'd say

looking at a map it seems not too unlikely that the tour will start in Rome (or somewhere in the South) and head straight north –to end in Bochum (haha)

Wow! Im guessing it will be central and southern europe this time around... Starting a tour in Italy - when did that last happen? 84?

Exactly, 6 concerts at Zeche.

right – for Bochum is twice a important as Rome. Don't all ways lead for Bochum?

He probably has some people to meet or paintings to show again.

What has been the earliest date for a tour start in Scandinavia? How are temperatures and daylight duration in, say, mid March?

It would be good to see a freshening up of the setlist by the time Europe comes around. The days of different every night are not likely to be seen again but maybe three or four numbers he hasn't revisited in a decade or so would be good.

Great News!

Nice venues for Roma and Milano, hopefully that's a trend.

Very tempting, I can fly to Pisa from nearby!

The new arrangements are so successful that I have temporarily stopped being bored by the set lists.

Great stuff.

Or a new album of originals to be released before April and the new songs start trickling in.

Not sure how reliable this rumor might be, but it's possible there'll be a show in Lisbon too. On the other hand, the venue mentioned in the rumor (MEO Arena) might not be the best for Bob's show.

Either way, it's not likely I'll make it...

Got myself tickets for the shows in Rome. The site was crap as usual, had to make three orders, one of which wasn't successful but they charged my PayPal anyway. Now I need to get my money back.

not the most pleasent ticket sale – the best ticktes I could get are in row 8 (Rome I + II), row 5, but on the side (Rome III) and row 4 (Florence) and I was online at 11 a.m. sharp. I also missed the "chose your own seat" option

btw: watch out: the small seat numbers seem to be in the middle while the higher numbers seem to be on the sides. They star counting in the middle – odd numbers are on one side, even numbers are on the other side (thus seat 25 is NOT next to seat 26!)

Those Romans are crzay…

no problems here, got Milan and Mantova easily