May 2-3, 2008 - Manchester, United Kingdom (MEN Arena)

[jacwar58]

I've added a link to some more photos

 

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q222/ja...mview=slideshow

Edited May 4, 2008 at 09:15 PM by jacwar58

[Dionesque]

Each time I hear "Think Twice", it's a orgasmic experience!!! And so was this time too!!! I just watched the bootkleg (the first 4 vids) and I diiieeedddd!!! :wub: :wub:

Words can't describe my feelings...

 

The other videos are great too!! Can't wait to hear the mp3 bootlegs where the songs won't be corrupted!!

 

Thank you soooo much guys for recording all this stuff and for sharing it with us!! :D

[Bruno Dion]

hey Thank´s to much!

[celinevegas]

Thanks Thomas and Guys for the pics!!

[binsk]

how come they didn't dance during TAKING CHANCES?

[Kristinaz]

Thanks for the pics! Edited May 4, 2008 at 11:56 PM by Kristinaz

[Koolan]

Added HQ DVD of Eyes On Me & Alone from May 2.

[σνєяєχιѕтιиg ιи ℓιмвσ]

it was definately live. on the video i recorded of it, it is very clear that it is live. besides, about 40 seconds in she says 'here we go'

 

and on the end of a couple of words, she exaggerates it ever so slightly, taking it to a higher key

[Kristinaz]

^What song are you talking about? Are you referring to my question about RDMH which I edited? The here we go part she's always done . But if the key change was alittle different then that's a good sign that it is live. The thing with Celine is she's so good it's hard to tell what's live and what's not .

 

I still can't tell whether Eyes on Me and RDMH are live. I'm continously watching bootlegs and comparing. BTW I don't want to start anything I know we don't like bringing up the subject but I've just been wondering.

 

 

Added HQ DVD of Eyes On Me & Alone from May 2.

 

Yay! thanks for letting us know

Edited May 5, 2008 at 12:20 AM by Kristinaz

[VintageCeline]

Thankyou for all the pictures and videos!

 

I am really looking forward to tuesday!

 

x

[A New Day Has Come]

Thank you so much for the Pictures and the videos guys.

[aicee]

Wow! those pictures we're so close.

[rodrigo_alka]

what happened with the other big note in ABM

 

" DOOOOOOOOOOOON'T WANNA LIVEE OHH NO "

 

 

she avoided it ..

[roubaix]

Wow, thanks!

[dirrtydavid]

The more i see you guys amazing pics the more excited yet annoyed i get. It looks sensational in the round, shouldn't be performed any other way....

[CSCfan]

Celine Dion

 

http://image.guardian.co.uk/stars/guardian3.gif MEN Arena, Manchester

 

Dave Simpson

Monday May 5, 2008

The Guardian

 

It has been a bad week for MOR dinosaurs. Phil Collins announced his retirement and Celine Dion is locked inside a metal cage. However, perhaps to her critics' frustration, the iron contraption ascends and transforms into a set of giant plasma screens. Beneath them, a 40-year old woman in a tiny pink outfit teeters on killer heels and sports a waistline so miniscule that if it were owned by Posh Spice she might consider dashing to the chip shop.

 

It is quite a turnaround for the singer usually known for stuffy costumes, interminable caterwauling and slush fund-friendly slushy ballads. However, in her nine-year break from touring (apart from a residency in Vegas), Dion has clearly been abducted by aliens and replaced by CelineBarbie, a dancing sex goddess who makes raunchy smiles at the camera, dances with musclemen, performs rockers penned by Pink's songwriter Linda Perry and, bizarrely, turns Roy Orbison songs into gay disco. The makeover includes sliding floors, computerised flames and at least one billowing white outfit which looks like the sort of thing you drape over the armchairs to do the decorating.

There are still some cringeworthy moments. Dion is under the impression that England is just Buckingham Palace, tea and golf, and an unlikely Queen tribute fails in its promise to rock us. But if we must have hilariously overwrought power ballads, then let them be sung at tinnitus-inducing decibels with lungs the size of China. Her version of Alone makes Heart's original sound like a Domino Records lo-fi obscurity, while River Deep Mountain High threatens to reduce Phil Spector's wall of sound to rubble. My Love - which references her husband's successful battle with cancer - is a quieter moment, and CelineBarbie receives a standing ovation when she produces real-life tiny tears.

 

· At the O2 Arena, London on Tuesday and Thursday. Box office: 0844 856 0202. Then touring.

 

Celine Dion: coltish Celine opens her heart

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 05/05/2008

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2008/05/05/bmceline105.jpg

Celine Dion in Manchester, at the start of her first UK tour for nearly a decade

 

Bernadette McNulty reviews Celine Dion at Men Arena, Manchester

 

It is just over 20 years to the day since Québec-born Celine Dion won the Eurovision song contest - oddly, representing Switzerland. Since then she has sold nearly 200 million records, duetted with everyone from Frank Sinatra to R-Kelly and captured a global audience.

 

She's the musical inspiration behind the X Factor oeuvre and has just completed a record five-year, five-nights-a-week residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Of all the "VH1 divas" of the 1990s, Dion is the most loved and loathed.

 

Yet outside of her career-defining hit from the film Titanic, My Heart Will Go On, the majority of non-Celine Dion fans would be hard pressed to name a song by her.

 

It as if there are two planets, one on which Dion is revered as a deity who has the voice of an angel, and the other on which she is scornfully perceived as the cheesy, clenched woman who wails like a foghorn.

 

Manchester may have felt cheated when it lost out on the super-casino, but for her first UK tour in nearly a decade, planet Dion brought to the city a bizarre yet intoxicating mix of Vegas showmanship and Euro-schmaltz.

 

The high-tech stage was placed up close in the round and Dion bounded in to greet the roaring audience in a strapless pink mini-dress and silver high heels, belting out a high-energy update of Cyndi Lauper's I Drove All Night.

 

Physically, she is all angles and bones, coltish in the same way as Sarah Jessica Parker - and not, as a journalist once observed, in the manner of a Brazilian transvestite.

 

It looks as though Nancy Dell'Olio is styling her, but Dion's fashion tics (the backwards tuxedo at the 1999 Oscars being the pinnacle) have been ironed out along with the hair, and her umpteen costumes were impressively accessorised by vertiginous spiked heels.

 

All the things that wind people up about Dion were very much present, but somehow in the context of an arena full of adoring middle-aged couples, mothers and daughters and gay men, they seemed endearingly camp and entertaining.

 

She doesn't dance so much as wildly point while scrunching her face in an expression somewhere between anguish and anger. Her phrasing is odd and she has only two volume controls: trembling melodrama and nuclear bombast.

 

Yet her connection with her audience is intense and she kept running out on extended platforms, as if she couldn't get close enough to them. For every tearful ballad, the best of which was Think Twice, there was some up-tempo number, such as a tribute to Freddie Mercury, and one to James Brown and Tina Turner.

 

For the finale, My Heart Will Go On, the arena was bathed in candlelight, but with all the sentimentality there was an admirable lack of ego in Dion's desire to please her audience more than silence her critics.

 

For tour dates visit www.celinedion.com

[Allie]

However, in her nine-year break from touring (apart from a residency in Vegas), Dion has clearly been abducted by aliens and replaced by CelineBarbie, a dancing sex goddess who makes raunchy smiles at the camera, dances with musclemen, performs rockers penned by Pink's songwriter Linda Perry and, bizarrely, turns Roy Orbison songs into gay disco.

 

It may be my lack of sleep, but I found that hysterically funny.

[mazceline]

well i thought out of all the times i have seen her this was the best the energy the lights who cares if she avoided a not the ones she hit she hit and she was very into the audience fantastic i loved how she walked into the crowd at the end nice touch

 

 

wow

[Jacqui]

Interesting articles lol...it seems the UK press is harsher on her than most other countries...maybe it's just me? I dunno. My Love isn't about Rene having cancer though, is it?

[Thomas]

Awesome reviews, Mathias! Probably the best on the tour so far, aside from the one that said she pulled out a gun and started pistol whipping her crew. lol

[Prince Whiskers]

When it comes to hysterics:

 

UK press>>>>Celine's voice

 

[Cheerfuljane]

for all the videos, HQ pics and reviews everyone !!!!

 

Yeah - UK press are harsh

But you gotta take it with a pinch of salt

[VintageCeline]

Oo the reviews arn't so bad actually, Thankyou for posting!

 

I am really really REALLY excited for London tomorow x

[jacwar58]

I've added Think Twice here

 

 

I was quite close so it's ok.

[René 2]

the UK press isn't tender with her..

 

This sentence is quite odious : "an arena full of adoring middle-aged couples, mothers and daughters and gay men".

[im_a_tidyman]

me and my dad dont fit none of that critirier. im taking him for xmas bcos he loves her, yeah i'd rather goi with the mrs, but it was too expensive.

[René 2]

me and my dad dont fit none of that critirier. im taking him for xmas bcos he loves her, yeah i'd rather goi with the mrs, but it was too expensive.

 

Of course you don't because that crtirier is absurd and odious.

[Nikosn17]

the UK press isn't tender with her..

 

This sentence is quite odious : "an arena full of adoring middle-aged couples, mothers and daughters and gay men".

 

I have the feeling that UK press hates everybody. Especially Celine and Mariah... I don't know if anyone remember this but a few months ago they included them both in a list of the world's worst voices ever. WTF is that ?!

+ the content of the arena they listed is almost every type of people that exists but the way they put it is quite offensive.

Edited May 5, 2008 at 10:51 AM by Nikosn17

[celinefanonline]

well they really can't find anything bad so they said that kind of things!! lol!!!

[Snowhite]

Thank you guys for all the photos and videos you have uploaded!!!! Celine looks glamourous! And at last she changed her outfits!These are gorgeous!