I went to a Elton John concert last night and it was FANTASTIC. I saw him at the M.E.N. in Manchester and it was a fantastic night!!
His opening act was a band called The Storys who were pretty amazing and I will be buying their album after seeing them, their lead singer happens to look like a younger Richie Sambora ;O)
Before Sir Elt came on Peter Kaye came on, before we even saw Pater Kaye we knew it was him as he was stood at the side of the stage saying “one-two, one-two” for ages on the mic and everyone recognised his voice and started to cheer. He was on for about 10 minutes, he was only their for the concert but Sir Elt asked him to come on. He was very funny!
The elt came on and rocked, the funny thing is he started off with Bernie and the Jets and that is my dads least favourite song so he wasn’t best pleased lol.

It was great, he played loads of brilliant songs that I knew and enjoyed a lot. It was great and we had good seats and I could see the stage well and was really impressed by it all. My camera played up and I have never used it before so got annoyed with it and gave up taking pictures after about 5 songs. I have had a look and they are really blurred so I am going to try and sort it before I go and see Bon Jovi on Sunday because I won’t be impressed if I can’t take any pictures of Bon Jovi.

There was a funny bit in the concert when he sang a song about a sex change (can’t remember the name of the song) this massive guy came running along the aisles and tried to get on the stage but he was too big and the stage was only 4 foot high as well. There wasn’t much security around either so he could of got on there if he really tried. Eventually 3 security and 3 staff jumped on him and pinned him to the floor and had to carry him off because he refused to walk lol – what a way to get backstage ;O)
Elton didn’t even get phased by that and carried on with the concert without stopping.

There were a couple of times in the concert where he and his band went off on one and just jammed and a couple of those times it got a little boring because they went on too long with them but there were one or two that where really good.
Rocket Man last three hours ;O) Well it felt like it because he did it and then when it should of finished they started a instrumental and then went off on one and then the band faded out and he went off on one with his piano and a bit of singing for ages and then went back into the song and the band came back in again and then they went off on one for ages and they faded out and he carried on and then finished or so we thought, we cheered and clapped etc and he started the song again. OMG! It went on for at least 15 minutes and I was glad when that finished lol.

He did all his hits and there was only two songs I didn’t know from his new album. For some of his latest songs like I want love he had the videos of them playing in the background so you could see them which was really cool :O)

There was a point in it where the sound went to pot. He was saying goodnight like they do before they go and come back on and went to sing his last song (which wasn’t really) and it was Sacrifice. He started to song and the sound guy must of switched stuff off for some reason because the piano wasn’t on and the percussion was up too loud so that’s all we could hear at the front, I don’t know about the back of house sound, and Elton realised the piano wasn’t on and was trying to hint to the sound guy it wasn’t on but he didn’t get the hint until half way through the song when the piano finally came back on. Then his mic got turned up too high and the drums went off lol.

He came back on and did four songs which happened to be the best of the night. He did I’m still standing which got everyone on their feet clapping and singing along and then he did The bitch is back which is brilliant and then he did Saturdays alright for fighting and finished with Your Song which everyone sang along to.

All in all he did 2 1/2 hours and was fantastic and it was worth the money I paid for the tickets. I actually bought the tickets last November for my dad for ones of his Christmas presents and am so glad that he took me.

I got a cool t-shirt and not the program as I am saving as much money as I can for the Bon Jovi concert as I will want a lot of stuff there :O)