Bob Dylan, Dublin, review: Shane MacGowan among an appreciative crowd at 3Arena

The hits may have been largely absent from Bob Dylan's gig at 3Arena, Dublin, but the plaintive performance did include a marvellous harmonica solo among its highpoints 

A file picture of Bob Dylan, who played 3Arena, Dublin, on Monday night.  (Picture:  PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

★★★★☆

Bob Dylan was bathed in burnished orange back-lighting as he and his band took to the stage for a long-awaited return to Dublin. It was the colour of the sun going down, which was likewise the feeling evoked as the 81-year-old delivered a set full of melancholy and – was this truly Bob Dylan? – wistfulness.