Santa Clause is coming to town

Step into Christmas

Jingle bell rock

Dream a little dream of me - with family

2 become 1- Will Young

Let it snow

Sleighnride

Free Me/Take My Breath Away/What Took You So Long/What I Am

Rockin around the Christmas tree

Merry Christmas everyone

 

Viva Forever/Mama/SYBT/SUYL

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Santa Baby

Rockin Robin

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Merry Christmas Everybody - Will Young

Stop

Maybe

 

Coming Home for Christmas

I wish it could be Christmas everyday (though she didn’t sing, the music just played)

 

:mansoncheer:

 

Maybe I've been naïve thinking that she would have done a lot more solo and Spice tracks rather than sticking the majority of them into two medleys... I was hoping for I'll Be There and Goodbye...

Edited December 13, 20222 yr by Mr.X

 

She sounds incredible on Viva Forever and Simon did a nice job on the production and backing music.

Edited December 13, 20222 yr by sammy01

Well Simon using the ROTSG backing tracks for all Spice Girls songs and not using a live band makes it all look a bit cheap. Glad they not asked Simon back for Spiceworld 2019

Yep, low budget affair. Reclying of music production from old tours, singing to a backing track, no band, and the set looks straight out of poundland.

 

What a shame for what is technically Emma's first solo tour. Doesn't really set a good standard, does it?...

Using a live band takes lots of rehearsal.

Emma would never!

When his involvement was announced I did have a feeling that old music would be recycled, because he did that with the S Club 7 show. I suppose a tour of this nature was always going to have a tight budget though.

 

 

I still don't understand Emma not recording and releasing a Christmas album to support this tour! Based on the set list, this is what an Emma Christmas album could have been. I've put it in the order of the set list, I'm feeling too lazy to come up with an imaginary track list order. :kink:

 

1. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

2. Step into Christmas

3. Jingle Bell Rock

4. Let It Snow

5. Sleigh Ride

6. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

7. Merry Christmas Everyone

8. It's Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas

9. Santa Baby

10. Rockin' Robin

11. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

12. Merry Xmas Everybody

13. Coming Home for Christmas

The Brighton Dome just released more tickets for tonight, it looks like she didnt even sell a third of the tickets, sadly.

 

It's going to be a quiet night tonight, I hope she will be ok! I am going to it, though I almost pulled out after seeing that she doesnt have a band and it is recycled music, and my friend pulled out due to the strikes.

 

Bracing myself. I really wish this wouldnt have been the cheap thrown together affair it is but alas...

She has ignored xmas wrapping twice.

Yep, low budget affair. Reclying of music production from old tours, singing to a backing track, no band, and the set looks straight out of poundland.

 

What a shame for what is technically Emma's first solo tour. Doesn't really set a good standard, does it?...

 

She has two live backing singers not backing track for most of it.

Someone on Facebook has posted questioning why no Christmas album as she is supposedly miming to the tracks tonight... eek.

 

Mr X can you confirm?

Someone on Facebook has posted questioning why no Christmas album as she is supposedly miming to the tracks tonight... eek.

 

Mr X can you confirm?

 

Just got back and yes she mimed quite a few Christmas tracks and also Maybe sounded mostly mimed. On most of them she couldnt remember the lyrics in the verses and would just smile/giggle through it lol bless her :teresa:

 

Songs that were definitely mimed:

 

Santa Clause is coming to town

Step into Christmas

Let it snow

Rockin around the Christmas tree

Merry Christmas everyone

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Rockin Robin (this was actually great and you could tell she would have done this a great single!!)

Maybe (at least half of it)

 

Coming Home for Christmas (she started talking as it was ending and her mic was clearly off here)

 

She was clearly with a sour throat though, cos her speaking voice sounded rough. In her solo and Spice songs you could tell that they brough the backing vocals quite high to back her up as she was struggling.

 

The show is fine, very camp but it is a very low budget affair and it shows, sadly. It's a shame cos when she was 'on' she was really amazing. Her version of Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas was STUNNING and sounded mostly live. Rocking Robyn was cute but all mimed.

 

I would say the biggest let down was Merry Christmas Everyboy, as it sounded like unrehearsed karaoke. It was fun, but clearly bad lol So bad it was fun I guess...

 

The Spice tracks are the same arrangements as the TROTSG tour, it is baffling. Even the Run DMC sample in the beginning of Stop was copy and pasted LOL

 

The biggest surprise, and problably my favourite moment was at the end of 2 Become 1, Will Young did a riff in the outro that was quite beautiful whilst Emma was dancing around the stage. And her version of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" was great though and should have been a single, as it suits her so well!

 

The solo medley was great. What I Am was particularly cute and got everyone dancing. The Spice medley was cute too, and clearly EVERYONE was there for the Spice songs and the solo songs. Mama was a bit flat in this one, for me. Say You'll Be There was great, and Viva Forever should have had the arrangement from Albert Hall at least. Doing an exact copy and paste of the TROTSG tour was a bit tooooo on the nose! Even the choreography of the dancers was the same. It was a bit too much!

 

Jade Jones and Will Young are incredibly handsome men, sex on legs the both of them and it is clear how close they all are. The song with her family was... well... it happened LOL I think they were aiming for a cute moment but it was a bit flat...

 

She really should do a theatre tour of her own songs only with some Spice stuff thrown in.

 

The venue was like half full but it didnt feel empty at all, so that was a bonus! It was clearly pappered as my friend got given a free ticket cos she works for the NHS. Good for her to do that though, as it made the venue look more packed than it actually sold tickets.

 

For me, this is the end of the current Bunton support. I will be there first row if she does a solo tour of her own music. But I am not interested in this mummy-does-Christmas vibe she has got on. If it works for her, then great for her, but this isn't my thing at all, so if it becomes a regular thing, I most probably will miss it next time.

I defo don't think she could do this yearly. I cant see people rushing to get tickets next year, though I get why she has done it this after the Albert Hall gig gave people a taste of it or FOMO with it being only 1 show.

 

It does set her up nicely for an xmas album next year though. Promoting it as the songs she loved to sing on her xmas tour ect.

Yeah after this, I do think she will do a Christmas album and do another Christmas tour. Much to my dissapointment, it does sound like that would be a clear next step.

 

If she did a Christmas EP even, it would be good for her imagine. She DEFINITELY should record and release Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, as it really suits her and she sounds BEAUTIFUL in it.

 

I think she could have quite a lot of success with that one, personally! Suits her better than Santa Baby or even Coming Home For Christmas.

 

A Christmas EP for her wouldnt be bad, specially if she includes her already released Christmas songs, plus Rockin Robyn and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, and maybe a couple of others too.

Come on Emma, give us that Christmas album :D

Geri was at Emma's show!

 

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Geri was beaming while watching the performance of 2 Become 1 :wub:

Thank you for the videos.

 

I'd rather have a live band than some dodgy-looking dancing homosexuals, but that's just me.

I'd rather have a live band than some dodgy-looking dancing homosexuals, but that's just me.

 

I wanted to have BOTH! But surely she could have had like two dancers and get a f***ing band too! She didnt need 6 dancers thats for sure!!