First off, a few months ago, my friend booked tickets to go and see "the truth about love tour" by the singer P!NK.
I'd already seen her "I'm not dead tour" in person, that was amazing by itself. I wasn't able to go and see the funhouse tour, although i think by far that's been my fave show she's done to date.
Over the coming weeks and months, the pair of us looked up youtube footage of the tour, to see for ourselves what we were in for, of course, coming across the opening night of the tour video footage, which shows that in the first song, the computer system for the band went down, leaving pink and her backing singers with nothing but a drumb beat to try and carry on with... which they did!
Our time was to be a little different....
You see, with most artists on the road, they will from time to time change their set-list, maybe drop a song, add a song etc... not pink, she can and will literally change a whole show apart from a few key performances, but is still able to leave the crowed amazed at what happens....
So my day?
Well, we went to see the tour as it rolled into Manchester on the 2nd night (15/4/13). In the afternoon, my friend Sian arrived at mine, so i finished getting ready and off we went, with the plan of, try and get something to eat, maybe a drink or two, then onto the show and train home... only we should know by now that our plans never go as we want them for one reason or another....
We got into manchester and headed over to pizza hut, on the way though, we decided we'd try somewhere new... well, not new as such, but somewhere we've never been before. It's at this point i should probably not admit to it, but i am so i'll tell you... i'm dribbling at just the thought of what i'm about to tell you.
So we go to... The Hard Rock Cafe. Yup, known world over and their Manchester CC site didn't fail. Ok, maybe the wait time of just over an hour was abit of a bumer, but during busy times, it's kind of got to be accepted that you'll wait a little bit. We eventually got seated and orderd our food... I orderd the grilled beef wraps... they just sounded nice.... THEY WERE AMAZING AND I WANT THEM NOW!!!!
We both finished our meals and headed over to the arena. We found our way over to our seats and to say that we were high up.... if you stood upright, you'd have poked your head through the roof... yeah, THOSE seats. Don't get me wrong, there was an extra screen on the side of the stage for us and an extra rack of speakers, but when you work out you're paying the same as others who are facing directly to the stage, and you're almost sat behind it, it does make you wonder how desperate these promotion companies are to make money.
Anyway, we sat down and within a few minutes the lights went down and the support act came on. The support act for us was... new moon? walk the moon? ... something to do with the moon, Great for if you're into indie kind of music, but i wasn't really feeling them, infact if anything, i was begining to lose any sort of feeling towards the show. Me and my friend literally sat there, watching and thinking "oh".
They finished their set and me and Sian both looked at each other pretty bumed out... how to sort that? DRINKS!!!
Sian went off to the bar and i stayed in the rafters looking after the seats and bags etc, only while sian was gone... and alot of others were gone, would i see the start of pinks show....
The arena lights all stayed on, but the screens around the stage turned onto one of the camera's that was pointed at this walk way, some of the spot lights then focused on this man, who i knew was a part of the show... but only because i'd seen the youtube video's.
He made us laugh for a little bit, then went off.... then literally 2 minutes later showed up on the other side of the arena doing the same sort of stuff.... then went off... then again, 2 mins later, he shows up in the walk way which is almost next to the stage... and he makes his way down to the stage.
After a few minutes and some more of that music they play, to "keep you in the mood" or something, eventually the screens begin to play a music video, which is 3 people, played by this man we've all just seen going through the crowed. He makes his way onto the stage and begins to talk to the crowed, only this is where the first difference was.... you see, in past shows that i'd seen on youtube, pink appears on the screens and talks to him, which is the start to the show... only tonight, pink didn't appear on the screens, infact, even what this man was saying, wasn't what i'd seen before.
He hyped us all up, by asking if one of us wanted to be picked to come and learn about love on the stage, of course, that sent us crazy and by looking at the screens, you'd think that the camera was filming the audience... only it wasn't... no camera was. It's actually abit of VT, that part way through shows pink, of course he picks her out of the crowed and you then hear the arena's roof being blown off, followed by the start of "Raise your glass" the show's opening number. While i won't say what happens... i will say, it's amazing.
You wanna see it now don't you?
*Sigh*
Ok then....
Amazing right?
The show then carries on to some of her new album tracks, mixed with with what can now only be refferd to as "classic pink", along with the usual comments from pink about how we're loud and she's in a good mood.... yey us!
If this is a show you're going to see in the future (there's billions of more dates coming up for the tour all over the world) then this is probably some of pink's best live show work to date. Wether it's the breath taking version of "try" or the dizzying "sober", you really are in for a show and a half.
My only regret is being where we were in the arena, we couldn't see most of what was happening on the stage and yeah, it did make it abit rubbish, but still... amazing show to be seen.
I can't wait for the DVD to come out!!!
So, until the next posting, i shall be dreaming of them beef wraps... oh god they were so good...
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