![]() ![]() I was so happy to have someone like Emeli Sande as the special guest at the show I attended. At the beginning she mentioned a ‘special surprise’ that we’d get later, which I’m sure everyone assumed to be a special guest seeing as she’d had one for her previous UK shows and all her shows Stateside. Taylor interacted with the audience during certain parts of the show. When she had finished there, she got onto a small pod-type zipwire and went back to the main stage. ![]() Not afraid to change things up she sang a song sat on a stall on a slowly-rising platform (which actually went quite high). Taylor performed a few songs there, much to my delight. When coming on to perform ’22’, she was carried past the crowd by her dancers and popped up on the mini stage for a dance party. Obviously there was the main stage, but there was also a little stage very near to where I was sat. I’m guessing this was just a time issue, just a little disappointing seeing as she sang some of the lesser-known songs (IMO). Someone actually had a ‘Starlight’ light-up banner. Missing from the set ‘Starlight’ and ‘Begin Again’ were the biggest surprises for me. However, I was a little disappointed and quite surprised she didn’t sing some of her more upbeat, perhaps even better known songs from the album. This was good because I’m sure many others in attendance, all enjoyed her music prior to the Red era. For example, when performing ‘Love Story’ she was wearing a ball-like gown and all her dancers were dressed accordingly.ĭespite being called the ‘Red’ tour, T-Swift actually performed a fair few ‘older’ songs such as Fearless, You Belong To Me and Mean. Taylor has many different outfit changes through the night, these were all quite closely themed to the song(s) she was singing about. I was pleasantly surprised that she was in fact as good live (if not better) as she is on her records. Opening the set with ‘State of Grace’, I could see from the start that Taylor Swift is definitely a natural performer. Swift and seemed very grateful for being the opportunity. Overall, they were a great opening act for Ms. They were really sweet, sang extremely well and interacted with the audience (one of them actually fell off the stage – he was fine though). The four-piece band performed a 30 minute set consisting of ‘Can We Dance’, ‘Wild Heart’, a cover of ‘Mr Brightside’ and a song called ‘Cecilia’. I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t too hyped for them performing prior to the event, but have to say they proved me wrong. Once we looked round and took it all in – the amount of seats, the general size of the arena and the atmosphere, it was time for the (fairly new to the business), support act, The Vamps. The Vamps were due on at 7.30pm, so we had a little time to waste. There was lots of merchandise on sale, I mean lots T-shirts, Glow-sticks, Posters, Badges, Wristbands, Bags, Guitar Picks, all you could ask for.īy the time we located our very impressive seats it was 6.45pm. Being the penultimate concert of hers in London, I expected nothing less than a great performance from her. Last Monday ( 10th February), I had the pleasure of seeing Taylor Swift on tour at the O2 Arena, London. ![]()
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