I GOT TO GO!! I GOT TO GO!!
My sister got tickets for Christmas and she invited ME!! Wheee!!!
Concert was excellent. It was at the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul, on a beautiful spring evening. All 13,000 people must have thought the same thing as there was almost NO place to eat in the Seven Corners area. We're talking lines of 30+ people at every single restaurant and longer at Cosettas. We tried walking down to the Glockenspeil, but that proved farther than we anticipated and as we had already paid an obnoxious amount to park, we weren't driving. We ended up at some sports bar, staking out a place in the door way and glaring at anyone who tried to cut in front of us. Luckily, an hour before the concert a table opened up, we got our food in 20 minutes and still had lots of time to walk to the Excel.
Naturally 7 was the opening act. Wow. These guys were amazing. High energy, great sound, interacted with the audience. They performed for about 45 minutes - which was perfect for an opening act. Any longer and I would have gotten antsy.
Buble's entry was reminiscent of the Sorcerers Apprentice - orchestra, director bigger than life, and kapow! Waaayy cool. He did a nice mix of slow and fast songs, talked to the audience, at one point was IN the audience doing a song with Naturally 7. The backdrop to the stage was uber cool - a moving 5 panel plasma TV or some such that would move apart and show separate images or come together and show one large image. Very intriguing.
Buble did one encore which I very much appreciated. Can't stand groups that do two or three. When the encore was done (the curtain had fallen) it was just Buble on stage and he sang without the mike! In an arena of 13,000 people! We were in the back, to the left of center and we could hear him! Amazing. I hope he doesn't blow out his vocal cords doing that.
If Michael Buble ever does a show in Vegas, I am SO there!
2 comments:
Glad you enjoyed the concert.
A friend of mine went to his concert here in Orlando. She loved the singing but said his monologue was very foul.
Then he started talking about the Canadians winning the gold medal for hockey. When a fan booed, he gave them the finger.
Needless to say, she was less than impressed with him --- loved his singing, him??? Not so much.
Wow. I guess that answers my question if Buble gushed about how much he loved *insert city* the same at each venue.
He brought up hockey here as well, and how the Canadians won the gold, but it all seemed to be fun and lighthearted. There was some booing, but he made a joke of it and I didn't see any crass behaviour anywhere.
Interesting.
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