Bruce Springsteen Live in Dublin

You can't see the most racially complex and gender-blended band of Bruce's career on this set from Dublin barn The Point (recorded over three November nights last year). But you certainly can hear it - and also how much they had increased in fluidity and sense of purpose from their debut performance in New Orleans earlier that April.

That show had added emotional edge, given the distinctive Crescent City thread Bruce brought to proceedings, in the post Katrina protest climate. Here, though, The Boss’s mastery of several traditions in American music simply teems with glee and finery. On "Old Dan Tucker", second song in, bright country fiddle, weird but rapturous brass and massed harmonies make the overcooked "Atlantic City" seem an odd opener.

Swing out with Bruce this Saturday evening on The Gig.

Dream Theater: Playing on The GIG this Saturday ..

11th August, The GIG on Zee Cafe

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band comprised of James LaBrie, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy, John Myung, and Jordan Rudess.

Dream Theater is one of the leading “Progressive Metal” bands in the world. Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock.

“Score” is a live album, recorded on April 1, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This was the final concert of their 20th Anniversary Tour, labeled "A Very Special Evening with Dream Theater". Though the show had minimal promotion, the show was sold out days after tickets were made available.

History on Zee Cafe this Saturday

This Saturday on The GIG: Paul McCartney in Red Square.
Saturday, 5-7 PM

Back when McCartney was a Beatle, his music was considered very dangerous in the former Soviet Union.

The Beatles, it seems, were seen as the epitome of
Western debauchery, proof positive that too much capitalism and freedom leads to a meltdown in values.

Things were different in 2003.

Thousands of Russians packed Red Square to see the rock legend Sir Paul McCartney perform his first-ever concert in the former Soviet republic. McCartney told the audience, "We have come here tonight to rock Red Square", before kicking off the show with the Beatles' classic All My Loving.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who earlier gave Sir Paul a personally-guided tour of the Kremlin, was among the audience.

The BBC's Nikolai Gorshkov in Moscow says people in the audience wept and hugged each other and many called their less lucky friends on mobile phones to let them hear the concert.

McCartney, he says, mastered some Russian to tell the audience how great it
was and how happy it made him.

Fans felt the same.

Don't miss this concert for the world. Only on Zee Cafe.

Clapton - The Unplugged Concert

Zee Cafe is featuring one of Clapton's best performances on The GIG this Saturday (June 23rd).

For viewers who want to know a few facts before they sit down to watch the legend perform, here are a few interesting ones.

Unplugged is an album by Eric Clapton released in 1992. It was recorded live at Bray Studios in London for the the 'Unplugged' series.

The album includes an acoustic version of the hit single "Tears in Heaven" and a heavily reworked acoustic version of "Layla". Clapton earned two Grammy Awards for the album: Album of the Year and Rock Male Vocal.

Clapton performed the show in front of a small audience on January 16, 1992 at Bray Film Studios in Windsor, England.

Clapton was both critically praised and criticized for reworking many of his famous songs into an acoustic context. Critics contended that some of the tracks were almost unrecognizable, most notably with his version of "Layla" (before he performed it, he commented "see if you can spot this one").

In 2000 Q magazine placed Clapton's Unplugged at number 71 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.