Thread: NOTTINGHAM - 4th May ("Opening Night")

Freak Out is a cover or Le freak as it is proberbly called, i just guessed Freak Out.

Nicola did a lot of talking to the crowd

Originally Posted by chancie

Here is a review of last nights concert by BBC Nottingham
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham

Well, they seem partly nice and partly not.

I'll comment on what they got wrong - it's NicolA not NicolE. And the start was in no way delayed - every show I've been to started at around 9. Idiots!

And they say it was "low budget," well it is a theatre tour people....not UK Arena Tour. Tut!

GIRLS A-WOWED
The Mirror

IT'S the concert their fans have all been waiting for, and Girls Aloud didn't disappoint last night.

They kicked off their British tour with an electrifying gig in Nottingham. The band, Cheryl Tweedy, Sarah Harding, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts got the audience jumping from the start with their hit The Show.

And they wowed the crowd with four costume changes, from schoolgirl look to evening dresses. The girls said some of their sexier songs would "make the dads happy". They weren't wrong.

OMG! last nite was F*cking amazing

Review from DenDen:

"OH. MY. GOD! Girls Aloud....you officially rock!

just gotten back from the concert and thought i'd rush online to tell you all about it!

first off, the support acts were ****e....Cookie and two scallies called Kute (they REALLY weren't)

the girls opened with the show....they didn't have deck chairs- they were big posh leather chairs...very good opener!

the first set piece was the sparkley tops, they did the show, no good advice, wake me up, grafitti my soul in this section.

then they went on to the school girl outfits- which was classic!

they didn't really do a cover version of another brick on the wall- it was played as the dancers were dancing as the girls went off and changed. then they came back, sang the chorus and then carried on with the concert.

in the school girl section they did the cover version of teenage dirtbag, but suprisingly funny! they changed the lyrics to "his name was noel!" which i pissed myself to!
- and they changed the lyrics in the second verse from "her boyfriend's a d!ck, and he brings a gun to school and he'd simply kick my ass if he knew the truth" to "his girlfriend's a b!tch, and she's got an attitude, and she'd simply kick, my ass if she knew the truth"

unsuprisingly, the "loser" or teenage dirtbag was Nicola! can't think why

then came the ballad section- life got cold, deadlines and diets, which was amazing- and i'll stand by you, which was great live

other than the singles, the only Sound of the Underground song they sang was Girls Allowed, which they mixed with that "Le Freak, C'est Chic" song, which was fab! this was in the disco section.

they closed to jump, and the audience went mad for it, and then they came back for the inevitable Sound Of The Underground!

they seemed really, really pleased be be performing for a live audience, and everyone seemed to have a really good time!

on the whole it was a fab concert, the only way to describe it is "fun"! just pure unadulterated fun!

i've forgotten to write things i know, so if you've got any questions, just ask away!"


Then later.......

"i forgot to mention the two highlights....

Love Machine- obviously, one of my fave songs ever- i danced like a biatch to this one!

Real Life was the second best moment! was absolutely fantastic, they began singing it really bluesy like a ballad, and then they burst into the album version, and then had a salsa break down and a big salsa dance routine in it, and then the dancing was all 1920s, it totally ruled!"


Then Even Later...

"i forgot to mention, when we went to the box office about 5.30 to pick up our tickets, we could hear the girls doing their sound check....they were singing Girls Allowed and they were all laughing and joking and like "come on nadine, get with it" and winding each other up....they really sounded like fantastic mates and really good together!"

Awwwwwwwww!

Originally Posted by Andy

"i forgot to mention, when we went to the box office about 5.30 to pick up our tickets, we could hear the girls doing their sound check....they were singing Girls Allowed and they were all laughing and joking and like "come on nadine, get with it" and winding each other up....they really sounded like fantastic mates and really good together!"

Awwwwwwwww!

awww cute

Did you take pics or were security still at the front?

i took loads of pics well chuffed gunna put them on the comp 2moro

Gdgd I took some but i was on the top tier so thier not close lol.

ooooo i was on the front row hee hee
did u see ashley cole?

No where was he???
Were you with the loads of girls at in the middle of the front row.
It got a bit boring waiting didn't it and when the videos came up and everyone cheared when GA came on

lmao! yeh i was with all them! lmaooo! (oooh the shame)
yeh ashley was there i saw him and shouted him n he waved i wa slike omggg...

I saw you all and thought i wunder if it is lol
Were abouts was Ashley

he was on the stage at one point! but at the side if ya get me?
he's so gorgous

Here is another review of the Nottingham gig in the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/revie...476940,00.html

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EDIT: News Added

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GIRLS ALOUD AT NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CENTRE
Show Rating: 4/5
"Shambolic and very British ... Girls Aloud."

Last year, Girls Aloud's Cheryl Tweedy opined that the quintet would go down in history "as the band that changed everything". A remark like that from a manufactured pop star propelled into the charts by a reality TV show should have provoked a national outbreak of thigh-slapping hysteria.
But Tweedy incurred no scornful laughter, which suggests she might have a point: it is hard to think of another manufactured pop act so universally loved. In addition to commercial success, there is critical acclaim. The witty, futuristic, high-concept singles conjured up by producer Xenomania are discussed in tones of high seriousness by rock critics and deconstructed on web blogs. Julie Burchill loves them so much she invented a genre to describe their fizzy melding of electronica and guitar rock: "panty liner punk".

But even their most vocal supporter might feel apprehensive when faced with the first night of their debut UK tour. Claims to revolutionary immortality aside, their interviews can send a shiver down your spine. There is much talk of wanting to "prove ourselves musically". When a manufactured star starts talking about proving themselves musically, it usually means they are keen to show off their vocal prowess by doing that relentless up-and-down-the-scale yodel popularised by Mariah Carey.
Away from the studio and Xenomania's influence you can start to fear the worst. The venue looks as if it has been double-booked for a child's birthday party and a hen night, with ear-splitting results.

The fears turn out to be groundless. A brief and dispiriting interlude involving the sort of flowing gowns worn by 1970s Miss World contestants and a dreary cover of the Pretenders' I'll Stand By You aside, Girls Aloud play strictly to their strengths, tearing through Love Machine and The Show.

There is something shambolic and very British about Girls Aloud live, a whiff of Seaside Special adds to their idiosyncratic charm. The synchronised dance routines are not always as synchronised as the choreographer might have hoped.

There is a bewildering interval during which a quintet of muscular men perform pelvic thrusts and there is Nicola Roberts, a thrillingly unspun misery guts in a world of mediatrained blandness.

But you can't avoid the conclusion that Girls Aloud are a unique and delightful phenomenon.

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So to sum up, they are unique because they dont follow a trend of being super-happy-media-puppets and all that. Mucho love for their normalness

- Andy

im happy that you all enjoyed yourself but gutted that i couldn't go.
Sounds like a blast.

hi
do girls aloud do a signing a the tour during the interval cos someone said cookie did and they went up to them
thanx thomas1700

ookie did but there wan't an interval during the GA set

wot do u mean
cookie did a signing but girls aloud didnt and was there a interval