Concert Reviews

Shontelle from Barbados, whose song "T-Shirt" is currently at nr.77 in the UK charts, together with an excellent DJ warmed up the crowd for the New Kids ... Her voice was really good and her set was lively although a little long for my own taste. Both Shontelle and NKOTB mentioned the thrill of having a new president and the Dublin crowd cheered along. Barack Obama indeed could be the bringer of hope. NKOTB was supported by live musicians and a good looking stage production. They were certainly entertaining and good at what they were doing but I couldn't help but notice that the vocal ranges of the band has changed in the last 15 years since their break up back then and some songs just didn't sound good or fitted their current look as grown men. The dance routines were geared towards their mostly female audience and quite well executed. Songs from their new album "The Block" were more to my taste than their old stuff. All in all it wasn't as bad as I ha...

A new group called "Konzertberichte" has been found by concert-reviews.blogspot.com host Thomas Janak on the German social nerworking page WKW

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I just gave concert tickets for New Kids On The Block in Dublin to my girlfriend and the review will come in due course. They're playing the o2 in Dublin on January 21st 2009.

We have secured tickets for Depeche Mode in Duesseldorf/Germany (June 09) and Ultravox in Glasgow/Scotland in April 2009 - so cool!!

OMD kicked off last years' "Morality & Architecture" show here in Dublin and made a phenomenal return when they played the Ambassador Venue on September 28th 2008. The backdrops weren't anything short of fantastic and the band was in good spirit and really kicked ass. This years' show was even better than their 2007 gig. The set included songs from the mentioned album as well as the much loved hits "Tesla Girls" and "Sailing on the seven seas" from the 1991 "Sugartax" album. In the midst of their set a mixing desk blew and the front-of-house PA went dead, what resulted in a forced 20 minutes break. When OMD returned to the stage Andy said: "I hope you've all done your Christmas shopping because we're not going before we've played the entire set" - as the crowd cheered on OMD picked up speed straight away and they delivered beautifully. Brilliant *** Support Act "Cowboy X", consisting of three blokes...

Some of the pictures of YAZOO live in Brighton are now up on their official website.

Meg Murphy officially launched the 2008 "Aisling Alann arts festival" on June 16th 2008 @ Whitechurch Library. The festival was first launched in 2007. Its aim is to offer high-quality performance art as affordable rates and to create performance opportunities for emerging artists and to proactively develop a culture of community arts in the Greater Ballyboden area. Scene from "Art Attack" as performed by the Drama Queens Simon Toel playing Jack Kairo in the one-man-play/comedy with the same name Barbara Demsey performing "Gabby" @ Whitechurch Library A Gala Concert concluded the arts festival week. The picture shows a scene from a performance of G.F. Haendel's "Sonnata a lagrimar"

This was by far the best of all three YAZOO gigs that we decided to go to. With a new song on the setlist, new background for "Goodbye 70's", a crowd that was just brilliant and no other than "Erasure" Andy Bell in the audience - this evening was destined to be brilliant. As if she needed to prove to Andy that she is all she could be, Alison "rocked". Her voice was brilliant and her interaction with both Vince and the audience were simply amazing. She publically thanked Andy Bell for lending her Vince for a short while and sang her heart out that night - absolutely brilliant. Alison gave her best performance ever (in my opinion) in Brighton Yazoo in Brighton - June 15th 2008 Andy Bell at the Yazoo gig in Brighton on June 15th 2008 - what a night, brilliant!! Support act Merz couldn't gain any ground that night and, as said before, he just isn't the right choice of support for an electronic evening. Merz * Yazoo ***

Our Yazoo pics from Dublin ended up on Yazoo's official website !!