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Entry tags:	arena, bublé, jb, night out, photos, video

The Bublé
Was AMAZING. I wondered if it would be as good as the last time, or if I'd remembered it as better than it was, but he is most definitely the best person I've seen in concert ever. His shows have a great vibe about them - more like a party atmosphere or something, and he is really comfortable with the talky bits in between songs which helps.

Last time his support act was a comedian, which was fairly random, but this time it was a group called Naturally 7. There was a voiceover along the lines of 'what you are about to hear is solely using the human voice' and 7 chaps in baseball caps came out doing a beatboxy rap style thing and I was all. Oh. Srsly? Rap? At a Swing concert? :( But they turned out to actually be really good (and not rap). JB was all *yeah but the beat isn't a human voice* and I was all *yeah that's a backing track* and *wondering why they'd claimed it was all vocal* but after a couple of songs they did a demonstration and it actually was all them and no instruments at all. They got a bit of a standing ovation at the end, which isn't something I've seen for a support act before. (Mind you they murdered Amazing Grace. They were all riffing all over the place and they're clever and very talented and stuff, but dude. That's just noise.) I found this on You Tube today and this is one of the ones they did last night, but with some extra bits.



In the break after the Naturally 7, some people came past us to sit on our row with fancy looking drinks and next thing I know, Mum is giggling away and getting along like a house on fire with the woman from the group who then gave her a fancy drink (it turned out to be a Pimms thing with mint and cucumber and things in it that they'd been given free at the bar for some corporate thingy), which Mum proceeded to get squiffy on and had to surrender the car keys to JB to drive us home at the end.

When Teh Bublé came on stage I thought he looked dreadful tbh and I didn't think he'd make it through the first song. He looked proper ill, but after he'd got through the first one he perked up quite a lot and got into it. I noticed when he sang 'You Were Always On My Mind' they switched the screens off so there were no close ups and he seemed quite emotional during it and when the screens came back on he looked as if he'd been crying, or on the verge of. It's the first show he's done since he and his girlfriend split up after allegedly being a Very Silly Boy (see story here) and I wondered if the lyrics were a little near the knuckle or something.

OH and when JB and I had been hanging around looking at the Stuff To Buy, two chaps wearing security tags walked past us to the bar. One was v. tall and the other was quite...big...and I was all *ooh do you think they are security for the band?*. When the curtain went up they were totally sitting at the back playing trumpets. One of them was Justin Raaaaaaaaaaaaay baby. I can't BELIEVE I didn't recognise him.

I thought Naturally 7 would be perfect to replace the bits on 'Comin' Home Baby' that Boys II Men sang, so when at the end he said he was bringing them back on to sing with them I was all *YAYAYAYAYAY* but then it was 'That's Life', which is cool an stuff, but it's not 'Comin Home Baby' :(

I have photos:

And some video. The clips are really short because I didn't know how much of my memory card they were taking up so I didn't take much. I'm glad I got the bit at the end where he sings without a mic.



All in all, the best night I've had for a long long time, and only the second time I've been to see something where I didn't want it to end. (The previous one also being Michael Bublé) I never hang around to get autographs etc at these things anyway, but as we were walking past the back of the arena a big black car with tinted windows came out and past us so I'm guessing he didn't hang around last night anyway.

JB really enjoyed it so I'm pleased and he said thanks for introducing him to Bubbly so YAY. (I swear he's a bigger fan than me, and I heard him singing along most of the way through it :) )

I'm full of YAY today.