Lovely to meet you chrysalis.

 

I'm off out for Sunday lunch then I'll try & get my head straight to write a report. Will was on top form & this gig was just that little bit extra special being my home one. :wub:

 

Would love to see more of your pics Kara. :D

Have to add another moment that's come back to me. I loved the way Will introduced all the band members and all the dancers individually - and the way they all took a bow together. :cheer:

Had a quick read through soem of your reviews here - preparing for my visit to Wembley :)

Glad to hear you are all enjoying it so much :D

Wonderful report, chrysalis. Brought it all back to me ........ :yahoo:

 

Here are the rest of my pics - this first lot were taken from the big screen as there were often too many heads bobbing back and forward in front of me to get a decent 'live pic. :D

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO4.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO15.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO9.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO10.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO12.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO13.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO16.jpg

 

:wub: B) :wub:

Great pics Kara. Wish I'd thought of taking pics from the screen - at least I would have had reasonably decent ones, instead of a lot of heads. :rolleyes:

Thanks chrysalis. :D I know exactly what you mean - the vast majority of mine were exactly the same! :( These are the best of my 'live' pics ..........

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO2.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO3.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO5.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO6.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO7.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO11.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO8.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/KaraJ/KO%20Tour%20Glasgow/KO14.jpg

 

That's all, folks! :P

Thanks Kara - and this is one of mine :lol: .......... just everybody but everybody seemed to be taller than me, but at least it'll give a feel of the place. Will is the dot between two heads. :lol: I delete it now :lol: :-

 

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a379/dafyd/100_0773.jpg

Edited September 24, 200618 yr by chrysalis

Fantastic report chrysalis :cheer: and Kara your pics are lovely, I've been away catching up on all the pics and reports and this comment in Lunagirl's report brought a tear to my eye.

His voice of course is the most important. I was standing near a young girl with her father, her face was a picture of sheer bliss and then I realised that she was blind and all she had was Will's voice and the music.

I had a lump in my throat looking at her because I knew she loved him only because of that voice, without even seeing him as we do!

:cry:

 

Read that too suggy :cry:

 

Chrysalis that is why I was upset at Brum on the 16th when those four girls stood for the whole of the two hours in front of us in the tiers where they had a fabulous view and selfishly spoiled it for everyone around them. I don't often get tickets for the floor seats for the same reason as you I'm so short and just can't see anything.

 

Hoping for a better time on Monday and also we are now going to the last night on the 2nd. Can't wait. :yahoo:

Edited September 24, 200618 yr by munchkin

Read that too suggy :cry:

 

Chrysalis that is why I was upset at Brum on the 16th when those four girls stood for the whole of the two hours in front of us in the tiers where they had a fabulous view and selfishly spoiled it for everyone around them. I don't often get tickets for the floor seats for the same reason as you I'm so short and just can't see anything.

 

Hoping for a better time on Monday and also we are now going to the last night on the 2nd. Can't wait. :yahoo:

 

 

That's great - have a fantastic time both on Monday and the 2nd. :yahoo: If I'm able to go to more gigs in the future I think I'll try straight-off for really close seats or tiered seats - at least I may be able to see (standing girls excepted of course). :o I had difficulty in getting even this seat - I had to advertise on D - and I was very grateful to the devotee who replied. But I was prepared to pay again to see if I could get a closer one but nothing came up.

 

The piece about the blind girl really made me feel how lucky I was that I could see Will as well as hear him. I do hope the girl enjoyed the gig - it sounds as if she did. :D

 

Incidentally as I was going out and walking up the hill, I heard the words "brilliant", "spectacular", "fantastic" etc all around - even a chap saying to his girlfriend - "I just love Switch It On" - then proceeded to try and whistle it!! :lol:

Fantastic report chrysalis :cheer: and Kara your pics are lovely, I've been away catching up on all the pics and reports and this comment in Lunagirl's report brought a tear to my eye. :cry:

 

aaahhh thanks suggy that is so sweet :wub:

 

Let's have a few pics shall we? :heart:

 

A few from Rosie,

 

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/Rosiecharlie/Rosiefloor.jpg

 

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/Rosiecharlie/Tour%20-%20Cardiff/Cardiffnew2.jpg

 

and some stonkers from Sweetest Feeling, who got her camera confiscated but managed to get these beauties.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Lisa33/Official/Cardiff1Sweetest-Feeling.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Lisa33/Official/Cardiff6Sweetest-Feeling.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Lisa33/Official/Cardiff16Sweetest-Feeling.jpg

Edited September 24, 200618 yr by suggy

Thanks suggy

 

 

Great pics love the first one :lol:

Thanks suggy. We really have to have a DVD because this only makes sense when seen from above:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Lisa33/Official/Cardiff1Sweetest-Feeling.jpg

 

Some peeps were moaning about folks in the first row standing at the barrier. But one of the girls pointed out that all they could see sitting down from there was a big black wall(the thrust) and only a part of the stage.

 

Not such good seats after all :o

Not much I can add to chrysalis' fantastic review. Newcastle were well up for it & Will was in his element. This show is so him & it's lovely to witness the joy on his face when he performs. He was just born to be on that stage. :wub:

 

Had great seats 2nd row although the seats weren't sloped so I had to keep turning round to see Will on the thrust. However I was able to take in more of the total show. There was a young couple behind me who danced from start to finish & a boy around 9 who waved his glowstick & sang every word. :D

 

Although I only live 12 miles from Newcastle decided to make a night of it booked into the Travel Lodge. Had a great time back there after the show, catching up with lots of Will fans, chatting about the concert & looking at everyone's pics. Didn't get to bed till around 3.

 

All in All a BRILLIANT night & I can't wait to do it all over again in Wembley. :dance:

 

Oh I nearly forgot thanks to the lovely Eve on Devoted I'm now the proud owner of a Will pen. :yahoo:

Edited September 24, 200618 yr by truly talented

Thanks TT judging by all the reports Newcastle was well up for it - generated such a lot of heat you made him sweat buckets :P

He's bloody priceless

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

Also when he picked the pants up from the stage and walked them gingerly to the back of the stage to put them away and said how ladies pants always made him giggly and how he doesn't see them often and the audience roared with laughter!!

 

He loved the "I love Willy" banner that he spotted at the back and wanted them to pick it up on the screens but decided they couldn't and said "I do too, amen sister"

 

Thanks everyone for the reports Sounds like the place was a-rockin :bounce: :party2:

 

 

Ding Dong! :wub: :o :wub: :o

 

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/Rosiecharlie/Tour%20-%20Cardiff/Cardiffnew2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/Rosiecharlie/Rosiefloor.jpg

Another great review from Glasgow. Thanks to Melle on Devoted.

 

Shame they got WAI & ATL mixed up.

 

Will Young, SECC, Glasgow

 

ABIGAIL WILD September 25 2006

 

Since Will Young is known to be a nice, tea-and-biscuits kind of chap, it is all the more effective when he starts looking and acting like an enigmatic popstar. In shades, and wearing his Top Gun/Frank Abagnale garb, he struts and robotic-dances his way on to the stage, making it clear from the off he can do showmanship just as well as he can do the cosy woolly tank-top thing.

The size of a tour is more often than not in inverse proportion to audience enjoyment but, the star being a thoughtful young man, his set is packed with quirks and special touches that, cumulatively, make this much more than your average pop concert. A dance troupe in show-jumping gear do flamenco/court dancing, and a ceiling camera treats us to synchronised swimming-style formations. Young and two ladies in tutus emerge from giant music-boxes, slowly spinning their way through the lovely Who Am I. A pre-recorded spoof Seventies game-show (Young as tacky host, obviously) accompanies one track and it seems only fitting that those who have contributed to the tour get an acknowledgment in its end credits.

Each routine looks more expensive and knackering than the last, and there's not a second of it that doesn't capitalise on Young's sense of humour and fun.

He clearly relishes the dressing up and the excess but, in the end, tempers it all with self-deprecation. There are few popstars who would be unself-conscious enough to read out song lyrics like a poem (Frank Sinatra's That's All) and even fewer who would be applauded for doing so.

That's the refreshing difference between him and other egotists, such as the all but chewed-up Robbie Williams, whose dismissive, ironic schtick is losing its appeal.

Edited September 25, 200618 yr by truly talented

Thanks to Val on Devoted. Review from the Newcastle Journal.

 

Appeal transcends age and gender

 

Will Youngs appeal seems to transcend age and gender. Children with their mums and grans came to see him perform on Saturday along with young couples and lads in their 20s who will blatantly deny they were ever there. But you can be sure, despite the diversity of the audience that everyone got what they came for.

 

The concert was a brilliant spectacle , true to Will Young's style of bizarre yet truly entertaining performances. It began with the title track of his latest album Keep On, with Will and his dancers scantily clad in flight attendant uniforms. Performances went on to include a horse-riding theme with Will sporting a pair of jodhpurs and a game show set with his backing singers as contestants.

 

My favourite was the row of three music boxes and Will with two female dancers acting as the soldier and ballerinas twirling inside them to the song All Time Love.

 

The only part of the show I was not impressed with was when he sang Who Am I. Its a moving song, but does not really have that effect when there's a gigantic red wheel spinning on the screen behind the performance. I think the idea was a Wheel of Fortun-esque metaphor that life is a game of luck, but all it did was make me feel dizzy and slightly ill.

 

Most of the songs were from his latest album and its predecessor,

Friday's Child. When he sang his old hit, Light My Fire, the audience excitedly sang along, clearly impressed that there was something for the long-haul fans.

 

One thing is for sure: Will Young is a far cry from the carbon copies you would expect to be churned out by TV talent shows. One reason he has done so well is because he is a genuinely nice person, something you pick up from his stage demeanour. He made a point of introducing all his dancers, backing musicians, making it clear the show was a joint effort.

 

After the first song someone threw a pair of pants on to the stage, which he picked up and said cheekily that "ladies' pants make me giggle. . . I don't see them very often."

 

He showed off some of his dance moves, but left most of it to his dancers. Will knows what he's doing on stage and he was awarded with rapturous applause.

Hannah Webster

 

At last the truth about the make up of his audiences.