Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Gwen Stefani in Concert


7 of us were all geared up yesterday for an amazing night of Gwen Stefani's brand of bubblegum pop at her very first concert in this country, but it ended up rather disappointing.

The stage was plain, double tiered with the usual projection screen behind it, and a "live" screen on each side of the performance area. There were quite a few costume changes, all which she carried off very well but I felt that the breaks between songs for costume changes broke the rhythmn of the concert. Maybe I was expecting more "fun"? Maybe I had expected too much?

There were marked high points in the performance, namely when she ran straight into the middle of the audience, then running farther into the midst of the seats and stopped twice to sing her song. Those were truly great moments. A friend almost touched her as she raced up the stands.

Despite the countdown of our favorite Gwen hits, the whole evening left me unsatisfied, and not in a good way. I really felt that we had paid too much for our tickets.

Thank you anyway Gwen Stefani. :-)

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