Take That

I don't want to give the impression that we spend our whole life going to concerts but on Thursday we went to see Take That at N.E.C Birmingham. A completely different experience to Tuesdays gig. It was pure theatre and dare I say a little Las Vegas. I'm not being derogatory.... this was an awesome event. Sharing the stage with the lads at various stages of the evening were a string quartet,lap dancers,fire,ticker tape and a huge black man - who looked like he had just wandered in from the James Bond film "live and let die"....voodoo scene. The lighting was fantastic, the green laser and dry ice show that accompanied "Rule The World" was truly breathtaking. Other highlights were the boys strolling down a virtual moving road to "Never Forget" and the Busby Berkley style encore "Shine". Also brilliant was the reworked "Re-light my fire"- the Lulu part was replaced with Gnarls Barclays "Crazy" sung by the extremely talented (previously mentioned) huge black man. Does anyone know his name? Another unforgettable highlight was when Jason sang "Wooden Boat". It was the first time he had sung it to a live audience and he got very emotional....ahhhh bless! Its hard to describe the character of the crowd but if you watch the new Boots advert "here come the girls", it will give you the general idea.">