So…. Following on from This gal is off to a Gig, I am sure you have all been waiting with great antisipation to hear my update of The O2. I honestly don’t know what I can say, I was absolutely blown away.
We weren’t in any ‘special’ seating, we were in ZZ and oh my, that may sound terrible, but it was actually brilliant.
We walked in to the arena and our seats were on that very level on the left, no stairs, no panic over how the hell I was going to walk down amongst crowds of people. All we had to do was shuffle along in front of people who had already taken their seats and we were there.
I was far too nervous to need the loo! Even with the Vente Starbucks and the best part of 2 bottles of rosé…. I just wanted to watch it. (I know I mostly listened, but the term ‘watching’ is part of my vocabulary. Just like ‘I’ll see you later’ even though it will be a very long time if ever that I actually SEE them!)
….. I hate those people who go to a gig and then watch it through the tiny screen on their phones, but tonight that was me! Not for the whole gig, but definitely for the beginning, for the ‘pre show’ sitting down bit.
I wasn’t recording it, I was able to take the odd snap and look at it, the set up was amazing though.
As my photos show, we were high up, but with the big screen (and the use of my iPhone) where we sat was irrelevant.
Going to the gig was more about the atmosphere, the unexpected and the ‘live-ness’ of it all.
Adele probably has one of the most powerful voices of this age, she knows how to sing… She also knows how to talk to the crowd, in a way that makes you feel that you are at an intimate location, not sat in the O2 with 20,000 plus other people. I guess being from London herself, she felt more relaxed in her surroundings. She didn’t just sing though, she performed to the crowd. Those sat close enough got involved, including two little girls who were 7 and 8.
There were two parts to her ‘stage’ She initially came up out of a box on the centre of the arena before moving to the large stage. She then moved back to be centre stage, to me a small dot of lights was all that enable me to see this, until she was encased in a curtain…. That was when I got to see her, properly see her.
As the photo shows, she is projected up onto each of the four sides, she joked that she shouldn’t spin around, before doing just that…. Because it would make the audience dizzy and feel sick!
The whole event was amazing, the atmosphere was brilliant and when I began to get nervous about leaving, the staff were quickly on hand to help (while also checking out that my cane wasn’t some sort of weapon!)
I am even more excited now about returning next month to see Muse! This time with Mizz Fizz who will be escorted out of the arena after I have been seated to spend her evening with the management team….. In an ‘almost’ sound proof office!
