Editing Van Morrison (section)

==Live performances==
===1970s===
[[File:VanMorrison smiling.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Morrison performing at the Marin Civic Center, 2007.]]
By 1972, after being a performer for nearly ten years, Morrison began experiencing [[stage fright]] when performing for audiences of thousands, as opposed to the hundreds he had experienced in his early career. He became anxious on stage and had difficulty establishing eye contact with the audience. He once said in an interview about performing on stage, "I dig singing the songs but there are times when it's pretty agonising for me to be out there." After a brief break from music, he started appearing in clubs, regaining his ability to perform live, albeit with smaller audiences.<ref name="Rolling Stone Interview" />

The 1974 live double album ''[[It's Too Late to Stop Now]]'' has been called one of the greatest recordings of a live concert<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f4588d98-4299-11e1-97b1-00144feab49a.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f4588d98-4299-11e1-97b1-00144feab49a.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=It's too late to stop now|last=Aspden|first=Peter|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|date=20 January 2012|access-date=20 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2008/05/van-morrison-its-too-late-to-stop-now-tupelo-honey-wavelength-back-on-top-a-sense-of-wonder-avalon-sunset/|title=VAN MORRISON > It's Too Late to Stop Now, Tupelo Honey, Wavelength, Back on Top, A Sense of Wonder, Avalon Sunset|magazine=[[American Songwriter]]|last=Horowitz|first=Hal|date=1 May 2008|access-date=20 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222063513/http://www.americansongwriter.com/2008/05/van-morrison-its-too-late-to-stop-now-tupelo-honey-wavelength-back-on-top-a-sense-of-wonder-avalon-sunset/|archive-date=22 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockhall.com/inductees/van-morrison/bio/|title=Van Morrison Biography|publisher=[[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]|access-date=20 August 2012}}</ref> and has appeared on lists of greatest live albums of all time.<ref name="MOJO Top 50 LIve Albums">{{cite web|url=http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/MojoBestLiveAlbums.htm|title=MOJO Top 50 Live Albums|publisher=Muziek|access-date=31 March 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/vox.html#live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060407004019/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/vox.html#live|url-status=usurped|archive-date=7 April 2006|title=VOX The Greatest live albums ever|website=Rocklistmusic.co.uk|access-date=21 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/stylus-magazines-top-50-live-albums-of-all-time.htm|title=Top 50 Live Albums|publisher=Stylus|access-date=31 March 2007|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183929/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/stylus-magazines-top-50-live-albums-of-all-time.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/j9hj/|title=BBC Review of the remastered CD reissue|publisher=BBC|author=Jones, Chris|date=24 January 2008|access-date=21 May 2010}}</ref> Biographer [[Johnny Rogan]] wrote, "Morrison was in the midst of what was arguably his greatest phase as a performer."<ref>Rogan (2006), p. 282</ref> Performances on the album were from tapes made during a three-month tour of the US and Europe in 1973 with the backing group [[the Caledonia Soul Orchestra]]. Soon after recording the album, Morrison restructured the Caledonia Soul Orchestra into a smaller unit, the Caledonia Soul Express.<ref name="HeylinPage284">Heylin (2003), page 284.</ref>

[[File:The Last Waltz.jpg|left|thumbnail|Morrison performs in 1976 at [[the Band]]'s final concert filmed for ''[[The Last Waltz]]''.]]
On [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving Day]] 1976, Morrison performed at the farewell concert for [[the Band]]. It was his first live performance in several years, and he considered skipping his appearance until the last minute, even refusing to go on stage when they announced his name. His manager, [[Harvey Goldsmith]], said he "literally kicked him out there."<ref name="HeylinPage313">Heylin (2003), page 313.</ref><ref name="vice">{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/summertime-in-england-a-monologue-on-van-morrison/|title=Summertime in England: A Monologue on Van Morrison|last=Burnett|first=Adam R.|website=Vice.com|date=31 August 2012|access-date=17 July 2020}}</ref> Morrison was on good terms with the members of the Band as near-neighbours in [[Woodstock, New York|Woodstock]], and they had the shared experience of stage fright. At the concert, he performed two songs. His first was a rendition of the classic Irish song "[[Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RxTEOn_Y0| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723215701/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1RxTEOn_Y0| archive-date=23 July 2013|title=YouTube|via=YouTube}}</ref> His second song was "[[Caravan (Van Morrison song)|Caravan]]", from his 1970 album ''Moondance''. [[Greil Marcus]], in attendance at the concert, wrote: "Van Morrison turned the show around ... singing to the rafters and ... burning holes in the floor. It was a triumph, and as the song ended Van began to kick his leg into the air out of sheer exuberance and he kicked his way right offstage like a [[The Rockettes|Rockette]]. The crowd had given him a fine welcome and they cheered wildly when he left."<ref name="marcus">''Rolling Stone'': "That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore." Greil Marcus. 30 December 1976</ref> The filmed concert served as the basis for [[Martin Scorsese]]'s 1978 film, ''[[The Last Waltz]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/dvd_reviews/the_last_waltz|title=The Last Waltz|website=Totalfilm.com|access-date=17 September 2007}}</ref>

During his association with the Band, Morrison acquired the nicknames "Belfast Cowboy" and "Van the Man".<ref name="the republican">{{cite news|url=http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/republican/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/125688694981090.xml&coll=1|title=Singer Van Morrison continues to fascinate|newspaper=The Republican|date=30 October 2009|access-date=18 May 2010|last=O'Hare|first=Kevin|archive-date=21 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121060134/http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/republican/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/125688694981090.xml&coll=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> On the Band's album ''[[Cahoots (album)|Cahoots]]'', as part of the duet "4% Pantomime" that Morrison sings with [[Richard Manuel]] (and that he co-wrote with [[Robbie Robertson]]), Manuel addresses him, "Oh, Belfast Cowboy". When he leaves the stage after performing "Caravan" on ''The Last Waltz'', Robertson calls out "Van the Man!"<ref name="Timepieces ITM" />

===1990s===
On 21 July 1990, Morrison joined many other guests for [[Roger Waters]]' massive performance of ''[[The Wall – Live in Berlin]]''. He sang "[[Comfortably Numb]]" with Roger Waters and several members from The Band: [[Levon Helm]], [[Garth Hudson]] and [[Rick Danko]]. At the concert's end, he and the other performers sang "[[The Tide Is Turning]]". The live audience was estimated at between three hundred thousand and half a million people, and it was broadcast live on television as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerwaters.org/about_berlin.html|title=The Wall Live in Berlin|website=Rogerwaters.org|access-date=7 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221234129/http://www.rogerwaters.org/about_berlin.html|archive-date=21 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Morrison performed before an estimated audience of sixty to eighty thousand people when US President [[Bill Clinton]] visited Belfast, Northern Ireland on 30 November 1995. His song "[[Days Like This (Van Morrison song)|Days Like This]]" had become the official [[anthem]] for the [[Northern Ireland peace process|Northern Irish peace movement]].<ref name="RoganPage437">Rogan (2006), page 437.</ref>

===2000s and live albums===
Van Morrison continued performing concerts throughout the year, rather than touring.<ref name="concerts" /> Playing few of his best-known songs in concert, he has firmly resisted relegation to a nostalgia act.<ref name="LA Weekly snags a rare one-on-one">{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2008-11-06/music/van-morrison-and-astal-weeks-la-weekly-snags-a-rare-one-on-one-interview-with-the-elusive-singer/1|title=Van Morrison and Astral Weeks: LA Weekly snags a rare one-on-one interview with the elusive singer|website=Laweekly.com|author=Foundas, Scott|date=5 November 2008|access-date=8 February 2009|archive-date=10 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210172505/http://www.laweekly.com/2008-11-06/music/van-morrison-and-astal-weeks-la-weekly-snags-a-rare-one-on-one-interview-with-the-elusive-singer/1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2377/listening_to_old_voices_van_morrison |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231804/http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2377/listening_to_old_voices_van_morrison |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007|title=Van Morrison: The Lion in Winter|magazine=Paste Magazine|date=14 November 2005|author=Whitman, Andy|access-date=15 May 2009}}</ref> During a 2006 interview, he told Paul Sexton:

{{blockquote|I don't really tour. This is another misconception. I stopped touring in the true sense of the word in the late 1970s, early 1980s, possibly. I just do gigs now. I average two gigs a week. Only in America do I do more, because you can't really do a couple of gigs there, so I do more, 10 gigs or something there.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/van-morrison-seeking-the-man-inside-473055.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401063439/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/van-morrison-seeking-the-man-inside-473055.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 1 April 2010|author=Sexton, Paul|date=7 April 2006|title=Van Morrison: seeking the man inside|work=The Independent|access-date=25 January 2008|location=London}}</ref>}}

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On 7 and 8 November 2008, at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in Los Angeles, California, Morrison performed the entire ''Astral Weeks'' album live for the first time. The ''Astral Weeks'' band featured guitarist [[Jay Berliner]], who had played on the album that was released forty years previously in November 1968. Also featured on piano was [[Roger Kellaway]]. A live album entitled ''[[Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl]]'' resulted from these two performances.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-morrison1-2008nov01,0,3773763.story?track=ntothtml|title=Van Morrison discusses Astral Weeks which he performs at the Hollywood Bowl|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Lewis, Randy|date=1 November 2008|access-date=3 November 2008}}</ref> The new live album on CD was released on 24 February 2009,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123543248786353835|title=Van Morrison revisits 'Astral Weeks'|date=24 February 2009|work=The Wall Street Journal|author=Fusilli, Jim|access-date=24 February 2009}}</ref> followed by a DVD from the performances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/849/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090221212852/http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/849/|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 February 2009|website=Blurt-online.com|date=18 February 2009|author=Rosen, Steven|title=Van Morrison: Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl|access-date=24 February 2009}}</ref> The DVD, ''[[Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film]]'' was released via Amazon Exclusive on 19 May 2009.

In February and March 2009, Morrison returned to the US for ''Astral Weeks Live'' concerts, interviews and TV appearances with concerts at [[Madison Square Garden]] and at the [[Beacon Theatre (New York City)|Beacon Theatre]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=8580|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110727082914/http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=8580|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 July 2011|website=Timeoutny.com|author=Shteamer, Hank|date=7 January 2009|title=Van Morrison brings Astral Weeks to NYC 28 and 29&nbsp;February|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wnew.radio.com/2009/02/06/am-nuggets-van-morrison-twofer-at-beacon-theater-playing-astral-weeks-in-entirety/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816133823/http://wnew.radio.com/2009/02/06/am-nuggets-van-morrison-twofer-at-beacon-theater-playing-astral-weeks-in-entirety/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 August 2011|website=Wnew.com|title=A.M. Nuggets: Van Morrison Two-fer at Beacon Theater, Playing Astral Weeks in Entirety|author=Simpson, Matt|access-date=6 February 2009}}</ref> He was interviewed by [[Don Imus]] on his ''[[Imus in the Morning]]'' radio show and put in guest appearances on ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]'' and ''[[Live with Regis and Kelly]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imus.com/guestbook/2009/10/26/the-imus-morrison-love-affair-part-ii.html|website=Imus.com|title=The Imus-Morrison Love Affair, Part 11|last=Kanfer|first=Julie|date=26 October 2009|access-date=23 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/03/jimmy_fallon_van_morrison_just.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306062237/http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/03/jimmy_fallon_van_morrison_just.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2009|website=The Baltimore Sun|title=Z on TV: Fallon stumbles in debut even with DeNiro, Morrison|author=Zurawick, David|date=3 March 2009|access-date=10 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.locatetv.com/tv/live-with-regis-and-kelly/6126710|website=Locatetv.com|title=Live with Regis and Kelly:Episode 93|access-date=24 February 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304031156/http://www.locatetv.com/tv/live-with-regis-and-kelly/6126710|archive-date=4 March 2009}}</ref> Morrison continued with the ''Astral Weeks'' performances with two concerts at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London in April<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article6128843.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425142339/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article6128843.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 April 2009|work=[[The Times]]|title=Van Morrison at the Royal Albert Hall|author=Paphides, Pete|date=20 April 2009|access-date=25 April 2009|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/helenbrown/5186265/Van-Morrison-performing-Astral-Weeks-live-at-the-Albert-Hall-review.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422010049/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/helenbrown/5186265/Van-Morrison-performing-Astral-Weeks-live-at-the-Albert-Hall-review.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2009|author=Brown, Helen|date=20 April 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=Van Morrison performing Astral Weeks live at the Albert Hall, review|access-date=26 April 2009|location=London}}</ref> and then returned to California in May 2009 performing the ''Astral Weeks'' songs at the [[Hearst Greek Theatre]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], the [[Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles, California)|Orpheum Theatre]] in Los Angeles, California and appeared on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=32421 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707113447/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=32421 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 July 2011|website=Allaboutjazz.com|title=Van Morrison will bring 'Astral Weeks' shows back to California|date=24 March 2009|access-date=24 March 2009}}</ref> Morrison filmed the concerts at the Orpheum Theatre so they could be viewed by [[Farrah Fawcett]], confined to bed with cancer and thus unable to attend the concerts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/morrison-films-la-shows-for-farrah_1103538|website=Contactmusic.com|title=Morrison films LA show for Fawcett|access-date=25 October 2009|date=15 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b124066_farrah_fawcett_gets_comfort_from_fave.html|publisher=E!|title=Farrah Fawcett gets comfort from fave musician|author=Malkin, Marc|date=14 May 2009|access-date=16 May 2009}}</ref>

In addition to ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'' and ''Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl'', Morrison has released three other live albums: ''[[Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast]]'' in 1984; ''[[A Night in San Francisco]]'' in 1994 that ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine felt stood out as: "the culmination of a career's worth of soul searching that finds Morrison's eyes turned toward heaven and his feet planted firmly on the ground";<ref name="ANISF" /> and ''[[The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998]]'' recorded with [[Lonnie Donegan]] and [[Chris Barber]] and released in 2000.

[[File:Moondance.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|Morrison performing at the [[Edmonton Folk Music Festival]] in 2010.]]
Morrison was scheduled to perform at the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]'s 25th anniversary concert on 30 October 2009, but cancelled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/leonard_cohen_a_2.html|title=Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison at MSG this weekend but Van will not be back for Rock Hall of Fame|website=Brooklynvegan.com|access-date=30 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028132710/http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/10/leonard_cohen_a_2.html|archive-date=28 October 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> In an interview on 26 October, Morrison told his host, [[Don Imus]], he had planned to play "a couple of songs" with [[Eric Clapton]] (who had cancelled on 22 October due to [[gallstone]] surgery),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ericclapton.com/eric-clapton-news/eric-clapton-cancels-rock-roll-hall-fame-concert|title=Eric Clapton cancels Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert|website=Ericclapton.com|access-date=30 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710195449/http://www.ericclapton.com/eric-clapton-news/eric-clapton-cancels-rock-roll-hall-fame-concert|archive-date=10 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and they would do something else together at "some other stage of the game".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/imus-in-the-morning/show/17256/episode.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205044239/http://www.tv.com/imus-in-the-morning/show/17256/episode.html |url-status=dead |archive-date= 5 February 2008|title=Imus in the morning Season 13 Episode Guidel|website=Imus.com|access-date=13 December 2009}}</ref>

===2010s to present===
Morrison performed for the [[Edmonton Folk Music Festival]] in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 4 August 2010 as the headline act for the fundraiser and was scheduled as second-day headliner at the Feis 2011 Festival in London's [[Finsbury Park]] on 19 June 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/pluggedin/archive/2010/05/31/morrison-is-a-go.aspx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708125216/http://communities.canada.com/edmontonjournal/blogs/pluggedin/archive/2010/05/31/morrison-is-a-go.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 July 2012|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|last=Sperounes|first=Sandra|date=31 May 2010|title=Morrison is a go! – Plugged In|access-date=3 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Morrison_Van/ConcertReviews/2010/08/05/14928946.html|title=Concert Review: Van Morrison|date=5 August 2010|author=Ross, Mike|website=Canoe.ca|access-date=5 August 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709200737/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Morrison_Van/ConcertReviews/2010/08/05/14928946.html|archive-date=9 July 2012|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/topstories/8918744.Irish_music_festival_extended_for_second_day/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928120240/http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/topstories/8918744.Irish_music_festival_extended_for_second_day/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 September 2011|newspaper=Haringey Independent|last=Kirk|first=Tristan|date=18 March 2011|title=Van Morrison to headline second day of London Feis festival|access-date=18 June 2011}}</ref> He appeared in concert at [[Odyssey Arena]] in [[Belfast]] on 3 February and at [[The O2 (Dublin)|the O2]] in Dublin on 4 February 2012. He appeared at the 46th [[Montreux Jazz Festival]] as a headliner on 7 July 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-montreuxbre83i1ll-20120419,0,901506.story | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119094735/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-montreuxbre83i1ll-20120419,0,901506.story | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 January 2013 | title=Dylan, van Morrison headline Montreux jazz fest – Chicago Tribune | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | access-date=20 April 2012 }}</ref>

In 2014, Morrison's former high school [[Orangefield High School]], formerly known as Orangefield Boys' Secondary School closed its doors permanently. To mark the school's closure Morrison performed in the school assembly hall for three nights of concerts from 22 to 24 August. The performance on 22 August was exclusively for former teachers and pupils and the two remaining concerts were for members of the public<ref>{{cite web|last=Williamson|first=Claire|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/van-morrisons-night-of-nostalgia-in-orangefield-30529930.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141014104026/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/van-morrisons-night-of-nostalgia-in-orangefield-30529930.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 October 2014|title=Van Morrison's night of nostalgia in Orangefield|website=The Belfast Telegraph|date=23 August 2014|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref> The first night of the Nocturne Live<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nocturnelive.com/concerts|title=bookings|website=Nocturnelive.com|access-date=19 August 2015|archive-date=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317062757/http://www.nocturnelive.com/concerts|url-status=dead}}</ref> concerts at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK on 25 June 2015, featured Morrison and Grammy Award-winning American Jazz vocalist and songwriter [[Gregory Porter]].

In June 2021, ''[[The Times]]'' noted that "fittingly for someone who has been so vocally opposed to the lockdown" resulting from the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic, "Van Morrison played one of the first big-scale concerts in London since events, albeit tentatively, started up again." [[Will Hodgkinson]] wrote that the show "was as good an argument for the return of live music as you could wish for."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/van-morrisons-your-man-for-unlocking-the-hits-3nkj87nxd?t=ie |title=Van Morrison review — Van's your man for unlocking the hits |work=[[The Times]] |last=Hodgkinson |first=Will |date=7 June 2021 |access-date=20 July 2021 }}</ref>