Nov 16, 2010 Lyon FR Halle Tony Garnier

Nov 17, 2010 Zurich CH Hallenstadion

Nov 19, 2010 Madrid ES Palacio de Deportes

Nov 21, 2010 Lisbon ES Pavilao Atlantico

Nov 23, 2010 Bilbao ES BEC Arena

Nov 24, 2010 Barcelona ES Palau Sant Jordi

Nov 26, 2010 Montpellier FR Montpellier Arena

Nov 27, 2010 Turin IT Palaolimpico

Nov 29, 2010 Geneva CH Arena Geneva

Dec 01, 2010 Rotterdam NL Ahoyhalle

Dec 03, 2010 Munich DE Olympiahalle

Dec 05, 2010 Amneville FR Galaxie

Dec 06, 2010 Paris FR Bercy

Dec 08, 2010 Frankfurt DE Festhalle

Dec 09, 2010 Berlin DE O2 Arena

Dec 11, 2010 Cologne DE Lanxess Arena

Dec 12, 2010 Antwerp BE Sportpalais

Dec 14, 2010 Manchester, Eng. GB Manchester Evening News Arena

Dec 16, 2010 Dublin IE O2 Arena

Dec 17, 2010 Belfast IE Odyssey Arena

Dec 19, 2010 Glasgow, Scot. GB Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre

Dec 20, 2010 London GB O2 Arena

 

Shaki has announced a European tour - sooooo happy :w00t: I have bolded the UK and Ireland shows cos that's where most of us are from (I think). Fingers crossed the O2 on the 20 Dec will be my first Shakira concert ever. So who's going, and who's seen her before? Would love to know what to expect - apart from amazingness obviously :kink: Does she do many spanish songs?

Really glad she's doing a full UK tour. Manchester was way overdue. I guess I'll be seeing her there.

 

I saw her in London and it was pretty good, but I also went to see her in Barcelona right at the start of the tour and she was absolutely amazing, but probably because she's more at home performing her Spanish songs, although even in the UK, the setlist was Spanish weighted. The difference was that she swapped Antologia for Illegal which IMO is criminal.

 

I think this tour is going to be way better than the last. Her performances at the recent festivals have been amazing and as long as she does a lot of new material (MEN IN THIS TOWN), she can't go wrong. I can't wait to see She Wolf live, the performance at Glasto and the World Cup were perfect.

Was at her Wembley (London) Oral Fixation show a few years back. Brilliant. quite a lot of spanish songs in the set but then I think the audience was at least half spanish speaking too !! Recommend the DVD to you, give you a good idea of her stage presence and performance on a full set-list.

Would loved to have seen ToTM too but have to make do with the DVD :(

 

Well im sure the irish fans are delighted she is finally coming to Ireland,i can really see the tour boosting her album sales no end here.

Hopefully she'll have another album out by the time she's touring. She said it'd be out in September so that probably means November.

I'm not going to be able to go to this :snif: I'll be working all that week and I'd have to stay the night in London (seeing as I'll be living in Wales in December) and on xmas week, that's out of the question.

 

Although Manchester's only an hour drive from where I'll be living so maybe I'll try that one when they go on sale :unsure:

I don't think I'll be going either, largely cos it's so FUCKING expensive. GaGa was cheaper. But I'll check out the DVDs :)

I don't think I'll be going either, largely cos it's so FUCKING expensive. GaGa was cheaper. But I'll check out the DVDs :)

 

Yeah, over £100 all in for two tickets isn't really something I can afford, especially bearing in mind travel and probably hotel costs :( 5 days before xmas isn't ideal either, I have no idea when I'll be working that week/if I'm even allowed time off (doubt it) etc...

Ditto. And yeah, any money i've got left will be going on Christmas presents. Maybe if there are still some on sale next payday...

I'm pretty sure this won't sell out too quick. The Manchester tickets go on sale 9th July so plenty of time to save up again for Xmas prezzies.

I got an ynexpected bonus in my last pay, so I bought tickets today :cheer:

The tour kicks off today. Shame I can't go, Manchester's only about 90 minutes away from me!

 

I was considering getting tickets last minute but I've got a 1500 word essay due in tomorrow and have barely started it :/ Plus I wouldn't be back until about 1am and I need to be up at 6am tomorrow. Gutted! Hope she comes back at some point!

I know a few people who had tickets and I was SO jealous it's unreal. I hate not being able to afford things!

A couple of reviews from the london concert:

 

The all-pervasive snow even fell on Shakira’s concert last night, albeit in paper form. The rest of the time, the Colombian superstar delivered a sweltering performance that could have thawed Heathrow.

 

Having performed her first public belly dance at the age of four, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll offered a masterclass in hip-waggling, twisting and weaving her superlative torso like a Bonfire Night sparkler.

 

Gimmicks were minimal — a closing confetti shower, a giant plastic face and two under-used dancers who hopefully weren’t getting paid by the song. The big screens preferred lingering on the star to broadcasting computer graphics, and rightly so.

 

The way she moved, all 4ft 11in of her, was a magnificent special effect in itself. The singer first emerged floating through the rear of the crowd in an elaborate pink gown; that was soon ripped off to reveal a minuscule netted top and spray-on trousers — all the better for writhing in.

 

There was little musical compromise from the woman who had sold millions of records before she ever recorded in English. A large proportion of the set was drawn from her Spanish-language albums.

 

While those waving Colombian flags in the audience will have been especially thrilled, the rest of us couldn’t fail to have noticed that she didn’t save all her best tunes for the English world. Te Dejo Madrid boasted a mighty riff resembling The Kinks while the exuberant chorus of Ciega, Sordomuda was well worth a (failed) attempt to sing along.

 

She blew capably into a harmonica, played a guitar almost as big as her on Inevitable, and sneaked a cover of Metallica into a wide-ranging set. Shakira’s singing voice is a cataclysmic yodel, probably the one thing preventing her becoming even more popular, but here its drama was well suited to the frantic pace of Loca (“I’m crazy but you like it”) and the howling electro-pop of She Wolf. The children who appeared for the final song, her World Cup anthem Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), were a belated reminder of her other talents. She has her own charity, building schools, is a Unicef goodwill ambassador and addressed the Oxford Union last December on education. Those who don’t care for her music might try her recently published children’s book, Dora the Explorer’s World School Day Adventure. Tonight, though, was simply for dancing. Shakira may have been the best mover, but she was far from alone.

Shakira, O2 Arena, London

 

By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

 

Published: December 21 2010 18:20 | Last updated: December 21 2010 18:20

 

Shakira’s “The Sun Comes Out” tour arrived in snowy London on Monday. It cast the Colombian star as a hip-wiggling emissary from the South, bringing musical serotonin to the land of the fake tan and the 300ml wineglass. (Wine is bottled sunshine: that’s why sun-starved Britons drink it in such desperate quantities.)

 

As she showed at Glastonbury this year, Shakira is a supremely entertaining crossover performer. Yet the 33-year-old’s career is stuttering. Her last Anglophone album She Wolf sold modestly in the US and her new album, the Spanish-language Sale el Sol, has had its release date delayed in the UK until next year. Evidently her record company fears British fans aren’t so in need of sun they’ll put up with a whole album of Shakira singing in her native tongue.

 

Her O2 Arena show began with her walking through the audience in the world’s pinkest dress, smiling beatifically as she sang the romantic ballad “Pienso en Ti”. As soon as she reached the stage she switched to caliente mode, ripping off the pink dress to reveal a skimpy chain-mail top and black leggings and launching into “Why Wait”, a stomping number from She Wolf.

 

A Mohican-ed guitarist played riffs as the singer sang force-10 choruses and ran through her repertoire of hip thrusts and pelvic gyrations. During “Whenever, Wherever”, the 2001 hit in which she memorably sang “Lucky that my breasts are small and humble/So you don’t confuse them with mountains”, she invited four female fans to join her on stage to be instructed in the art of hip-shimmying. Her sisters in the North gamely joined in.

 

Shakira gave a characteristically vibrant performance

A gypsy-themed suite of songs abruptly slowed the tempo down. Shakira’s powerful vocals rang out. Her dance moves were both limber and eccentric: at one point she thrust her humble breasts in the face of her drummer, who somehow didn’t miss a beat. Then another tempo change saw her head into a succession of Latin hip-hop and dance-pop numbers.

 

It was a characteristically vibrant performance; yet the set felt disjointed. The lack of clarity was summed by the encore, which opened with Shakira singing a ballad from Sale el Sol under an ersatz shower of snow – so much for the “sun comes out” theme – before reverting to warmer climes with her African tribute “Waka Waka”. The thermometer went up, but not to boiling point. (3 star rating)

Gah I wish I was there so muchhh

It was an AMAZING show. I definitely agree with the first review more than the second cos she was SCORCHING :wub: :wub: :wub:

I wish I could've gone! The pics and the videos look amazing. I'm going to try and catch the show next year...I think she'll be back in Europe in the Summer - it would be nice to see her somewhere like Spain.