I don't think this has been posted, I looked back 4 pages, but, if it was, feel free to delete. It's a so-so review, not much detail, but they came out impressed
www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/general/kelly-clarkson-melbourne-concert.htm
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Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson
By Clint Morris
Kelly Clarkson has an surprisingly
powerful voice, able to belt out
some brilliantly controlled tunes
Wednesday 9th November, 2005 - I'm gonna pay eighty dollars to see an American Idol contestant in concert?! For once, sadly, no complimentary passes were available to reviewers. What's with that?
Yeah right - and I'm gonna come through on my promise to wash the car this weekend too...
80 bucks later, I'm booked in to a huge arena in Melbourne, Australia to see the most successful talent-show winner ever, accompanied by an tens of thousands of screaming teenaged girls with their photo capturing devices on their cellular ready and raring.
Local dance act 'Rogue Traders' kicked off the night, playing four or five songs from their latest album (read: since Natalie Bassingthwaighte, of "Neighbours" fame, came onboard to see them to chart victory).
You know what? Delta Schmelta, Imbruglia Magoolia, Holly Folly Natalie has the best pair of lungs of the Pinoak Crt bunch.
Live is always the real test for a lot of these artists, and Natalie proves she's got what it takes to get a dome full of girls (and what boys there were there - one, funnily enough, was her TV co-star Alan Fletcher, who spent most of the night posing for photographs with young girlies) into a sweat.
By the time she let loose with their smash-hit 'Voodoo Child' - she had seduced the room. Prediction: Rogue Traders will be the headline act for a concert this size (or close to) in our lifetime.
After a long wait (probably wanted to work the crowd into a stomping lather), Ms Clarkson entered the stage about ten minutes past nine (following a rather superfluous but effective airing of AC/DC's 'You Shook Me All Night Long' played loud), going straight into one of her lesser-known ballads.
She then proceeded to say "Hi" to Melbourne. Of course, "we're the best crowd she's ever had!!"
Over the course of the next eighty minutes or so, Ms Clarkson and her bare midriff - she's definitely not skinny, but it's actually refreshing to see - belted out her hits ('Behind these Hazel Eyes,' 'Since You've Been Gone,' 'Breakaway,' 'Miss Independent') and some other oddities (Annie Lennox's 'Why' - which none of the young girlies in the audience had heard of, and suddenly, together, they all reclaimed their seats quite amusingly), and rather admirably if I do say.
This girl can sing! So much so that it's actually got me interested in watching this American Idol show - yep, that's right; I've never seen it.
For someone who was about as interested in seeing Kelly Clarkson in concert as they were climbing all over the Grand Canyon last year (I sat it out from afar), I've gotta say - the gal rocks. Money well spent, well kinda.
But even if my Editor says pretty please, I'm not paying to see Guy Sebastian take to the stage - no darn way.
www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/general/kelly-clarkson-melbourne-concert.htm
^^ webwombat
Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson
By Clint Morris
Kelly Clarkson has an surprisingly
powerful voice, able to belt out
some brilliantly controlled tunes
Wednesday 9th November, 2005 - I'm gonna pay eighty dollars to see an American Idol contestant in concert?! For once, sadly, no complimentary passes were available to reviewers. What's with that?
Yeah right - and I'm gonna come through on my promise to wash the car this weekend too...
80 bucks later, I'm booked in to a huge arena in Melbourne, Australia to see the most successful talent-show winner ever, accompanied by an tens of thousands of screaming teenaged girls with their photo capturing devices on their cellular ready and raring.
Local dance act 'Rogue Traders' kicked off the night, playing four or five songs from their latest album (read: since Natalie Bassingthwaighte, of "Neighbours" fame, came onboard to see them to chart victory).
You know what? Delta Schmelta, Imbruglia Magoolia, Holly Folly Natalie has the best pair of lungs of the Pinoak Crt bunch.
Live is always the real test for a lot of these artists, and Natalie proves she's got what it takes to get a dome full of girls (and what boys there were there - one, funnily enough, was her TV co-star Alan Fletcher, who spent most of the night posing for photographs with young girlies) into a sweat.
By the time she let loose with their smash-hit 'Voodoo Child' - she had seduced the room. Prediction: Rogue Traders will be the headline act for a concert this size (or close to) in our lifetime.
After a long wait (probably wanted to work the crowd into a stomping lather), Ms Clarkson entered the stage about ten minutes past nine (following a rather superfluous but effective airing of AC/DC's 'You Shook Me All Night Long' played loud), going straight into one of her lesser-known ballads.
She then proceeded to say "Hi" to Melbourne. Of course, "we're the best crowd she's ever had!!"
Over the course of the next eighty minutes or so, Ms Clarkson and her bare midriff - she's definitely not skinny, but it's actually refreshing to see - belted out her hits ('Behind these Hazel Eyes,' 'Since You've Been Gone,' 'Breakaway,' 'Miss Independent') and some other oddities (Annie Lennox's 'Why' - which none of the young girlies in the audience had heard of, and suddenly, together, they all reclaimed their seats quite amusingly), and rather admirably if I do say.
This girl can sing! So much so that it's actually got me interested in watching this American Idol show - yep, that's right; I've never seen it.
For someone who was about as interested in seeing Kelly Clarkson in concert as they were climbing all over the Grand Canyon last year (I sat it out from afar), I've gotta say - the gal rocks. Money well spent, well kinda.
But even if my Editor says pretty please, I'm not paying to see Guy Sebastian take to the stage - no darn way.


