SETLIST
THE backstory to tonight’s show began when Chrissie Hynde listened in lockdown to Bob Dylan’s just-released “Murder Most Foul” and was inspired to record her own versions of some of her favourite Dylan songs. They first appeared online, nine of them, as The Dylan Lockdown Series. An album followed, Standing In The Doorway, released to coincide with Dylan’s 80th birthday in May and now showcased over three nights at the decorous Opera House.
1 In The Summertime
The curtain goes up on a stage bathed in blue, a chandelier hung low over an upright piano. There are two chairs, acoustic guitars, an upright bass. Nine lighting rigs that look like aluminium stepladders and a steel-framed fence that turns out to be an underused video screen give the set a vaguely penitentiary feel.