Counting Crows - The Completes Sweets! Tour

Counting Crows bring The Completes Sweets Tour to Transbordeur

From the stage of Transbordeur in Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Counting Crows for The Completes Sweets Tour, an evening built on the band’s singular mix of poetic storytelling and expansive, soul-stirring rock. Our venue is primed for the band’s mercurial live energy, the kind that transforms familiar songs into living, breathing narratives. Expect the richly textured interplay of Adam Duritz’s voice with guitars, piano, accordion, and organ, as the group shifts from hushed confessionals to roaring crescendos. The set will sweep across decades of songwriting while embracing the band’s most recent chapter, with selections such as Elevator Boots, The Tall Grass, Angel of 14th Street, and Bobby and the Rat-Kings sitting alongside beloved staples that have defined their concerts worldwide. At Transbordeur, we take particular care with the warmth of the midrange and the clarity of vocals, so the delicate phrasing and spontaneous asides that make a Counting Crows show so personal will carry to every corner of the room.

Hosting Counting Crows at this moment in their journey feels especially resonant. The group’s recent creative streak—spotlighted by the narrative arc and cinematic flow of Butter Miracle, Suite One—has reinvigorated their concerts with fresh momentum, as they weave new material into the broader tapestry of their catalogue. On stage, they often let the newer songs unfurl as a connected suite, allowing the audience to immerse in the recurring motifs and lyrical echoes that bind the music together. It’s a storytelling sensibility that recalls the band’s earliest club shows and continues to evolve with each tour. Fans who have followed them across years will recognize how the band reimagines arrangements night to night—letting a piano figure introduce a song that once began with guitar, or stretching an outro into a communal singalong—while newcomers will be struck by the sense that anything could happen at any moment. Pieces like Palisades Park have become modern set highlights, bridging the immediacy of their latest work with the panoramic ambition that has always driven them. From our vantage point, we relish building a soundscape that honors those shifts in tone and scale: bringing intimacy to whispered lines, headroom to swelling finales, and detail to each instrumental color—from the shimmer of cymbals to the rumble of the bass drum. This is the kind of concert where a room’s dynamics shape the narrative, and we are determined to make every breath and guitar bend count.

Transbordeur, tuned for a night of stories in sound

Transbordeur was designed for nights exactly like this: a space where storytelling thrives and musicians can take risks, supported by sightlines that keep the band close and acoustics that reward nuance. For The Completes Sweets Tour, our team has prepared a flexible lighting plot that can slip from moonlit balladry to vibrant, full-band catharsis, complementing the ebb and flow of the set. The band’s hallmark spontaneity—Adam Duritz’s conversational links between songs, the rhythmic push-and-pull steered by Jim Bogios, the melodic counterlines from Charlie Gillingham and the guitar weave of Dan Vickrey and David Immerglück—benefits from a stage layout that preserves clarity while inviting interaction. We have tuned the room to highlight the melodic contours and dynamic contrasts that define recent favorites like Elevator Boots and The Tall Grass, while still giving ample space to the grandeur of their anthems and the intimate hush of their ballads. Lyon’s audience brings remarkable attentiveness and enthusiasm, qualities that make each swell of harmony feel communal. As hosts, we are committed to shaping an environment where the arc of the evening can bloom—where the quiet hits as powerfully as the roar, and where every chorus lands with that unmistakable Counting Crows ache of memory and hope.