Bob Dylan: Vicar St, Dublin *****
Sean O'Hagan, Guardian, The, 16 September 2000
THE 800 TICKETS for this suddenly announced "intimate" show supposedly sold out in 15 seconds. For the select multitude, then, this was a night of almost impossibly high expectation, but Bob Dylan, for a long time now the most erratic of live performers, did not disappoint.
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