Pretoria, South Africa, 16/17 Feb

February 22, 2008 at 03:04 PM

ABM - wow, what a power house, no I did not expect it.... nothing to proove anymore uh?

SOL - sounded wonderful and more rocky in its live arrengements... however the backing vocals was a bit lame for this one... It felt like Céline was in a karaoke club.

And I still miss Surprise, Surprise, it is the most well written track on Taking Chances...

/fred

February 22, 2008 at 03:14 PM

I said I wasn't going to look at or listen to anything and I've just watched FA. Dear Jesus. It was brilliant- I agree with Seb- she makes it seem so easy. This is why I fell in love with Celine. She is the best singer on the planet- she's the most professional, brilliant and technically capable pop singer in the world. And I also just clicked the immediately above link and saw the tourbook pictures. MY GOD. Get this link to Perez immediately.

Thank you Jane again and welcome and thank you to Newbie deuterium

February 22, 2008 at 03:27 PM

looking at those vids i'm sure the central stage would be a lot better for the whole concert...

it looks soooo small with the dancers, the musicans and everything...

cant wait

February 22, 2008 at 04:41 PM

All of these clips for the show are simply amazing and, if I haven't said it before, thanks so much to the people who took them and have posted them. It's so great to see/hear. One frustrating thing for me is that Shadow of Love was cut. I wonder why? Just so that the show isn't too long? It frustrates me that the old songs are cut, but I understand why; they are old songs that she has to sing or people (such as myself) will be cranky but you don't want to spend too much time on them so that we can have as many new songs as possible. But when the NEW songs are cut as well... :angry2: Unless I'm mistaken but that Shadow of Love clip seemed to be the first verse and then a cut right to the bridge. And Fade Away had one of those final choruses cut - although that one doesn't really bug me as much because she sounded so freaking amazing on it, I will forgive just about anything!! :kicking:

And as for All By Myself, I was worried that she would lipsynch that but that note was clearly live and still unf&*(%$ingbelieveable!!!!! So I have to ask myself why sing that live but lipsynch the high notes for Power of Love and Taking Chances (and I know some of you don't think she does and I respect that and don't mean to rile you - this is for the people who, like me, believe that those note weren't live - any thoughts?) I truly, truly hope that she's still doing All By Myself when she's in America. The first time I saw her in concert (Let's Talk About Love tour in Chicago, September 1998) she was still singing it and it was one of the highlights of the concert. By the time I saw the tour again in Indianapolis (March 1999), she had cut that song and added The Power of Love and I'm Your Angel. If I can hear her do that song again live I will be one happy camper.

February 22, 2008 at 05:47 PM

Firstly, a huge thanks to everyone who kept us all posted, gave us updates, captured video, audio and pics. You are awesome!

Gotta say, I'm really disappointed with SOL. I agree...I don't understand why it was cut short. They cut out the climaxes of the song.....the second "I can run but I can't HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE" and the "loooove loove love love yeah" part. And the staging is dull as well! Its such an amazing song, yet they cut out the best parts and all she does is stand there with her back up singers. I'm still thrilled that they added it to this tour because I honestly didn't think it would be included. And I'm hoping that the staging will look better once they move to the round stage. But talk about not realizing a song to its full potential!

February 22, 2008 at 06:02 PM

All by myself With Intro & End of the song (LIVE)

February 22, 2008 at 06:13 PM

Fade Away & All By Myself ... wow I'm just at a total loss for words. :wub:

Just perfect and all live. She should've rocked the CBS special like this.

February 22, 2008 at 06:15 PM

jane did ur battery die or is that the version she now performs, without that incredible note??

Yes it did - sorry

Thanks Frank for the rest of it
Oh my goodness!! What contraversy

Thanks Max and Fab for the MP3s

No controversy my dear Jane. Only ungrateful people showing their true colours... :nono: We cannot thank you enough for taking time to do all of this for us! :flowers:

February 22, 2008 at 06:19 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills) :giggle:

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

:wink:

February 22, 2008 at 06:24 PM

they show will definitely be different for the round stage

we will see soon enough

no sense in keep talking about it until we can see for sure how it is

February 22, 2008 at 06:48 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills)

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

I agree. The stage and the staging are a little lacklustre but, if I were at the concert, I'd be one of those people who didn't care - just seeing her would be enough for me. But, having said that, I'm also really glad that I'm going to see it once it's in the round!!!! :clap:

Also, I've been thinking about Think Twice. As much as I love that song, it was not a hit here in the US. I've been trying to think of what song would replace but can't come up with anything as she's already doing her big songs. The only thing I can think of is A New Day Has Come because that was one of her biggest Adult Contemporary Hits (I think it was #1 for like 12 weeks or something like that). Any other US people have suggestions on what will replace that here?

February 22, 2008 at 06:59 PM

Maybe I missed it because there is so much info, but is That's just the woman in me already online, somewhere??? I am SO ANXIOUS to hear and see this song live! :kicking:

February 22, 2008 at 07:34 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills)

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

I think the round stage production would be better. But don't forget you may only see her back(or screen) only for 75% of the while concert. I'm still glad for my front row of the end stage.

February 22, 2008 at 07:40 PM

Ok, since Kevin is dropping a bomb I wanna do it too:

Her wardrobe for this tour is worse than ever - horrible.

/fred

February 22, 2008 at 07:43 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills)

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

I agree. The stage and the staging are a little lacklustre but, if I were at the concert, I'd be one of those people who didn't care - just seeing her would be enough for me. But, having said that, I'm also really glad that I'm going to see it once it's in the round!!!!

Also, I've been thinking about Think Twice. As much as I love that song, it was not a hit here in the US. I've been trying to think of what song would replace but can't come up with anything as she's already doing her big songs. The only thing I can think of is A New Day Has Come because that was one of her biggest Adult Contemporary Hits (I think it was #1 for like 12 weeks or something like that). Any other US people have suggestions on what will replace that here?

Thats an interesting thought, i wonder if they will replace it for the US part of the tour. Well another thing - with the extensive list of songs and length of the show, i do think the tickets are reasonably priced. Celine must be really enjoying the experience of being back on the road it must be a totally different buzz for her in comaprison to vegas and the freedom she now has on stage. Are there any other songs in her setlist which anyone thinks are subject to change because they wernt hits in certain contries like Think Twice?

Well it's gonna be amazing to see what Jamie King has done for her! :kicking:

February 22, 2008 at 07:48 PM

Ok, since Kevin is dropping a bomb I wanna do it too:

Her wardrobe for this tour is worse than ever - horrible.

/fred

lol :sofunny:

yeh and it took me a while and several re-writes before i plucked up the courage to press the 'add reply' button.

i think there's room for improvement with the wardrobe but i do really like the red and white outfit. That outfit looks like a 'stage' outfit.

February 22, 2008 at 08:09 PM

i agree worst ever she have to pick things like what she wears in the video shown on screen

February 22, 2008 at 08:29 PM

I agree that she should wear the outfits that she's wearing on these videos, but the dresses are not as horrible as FIY tour

February 22, 2008 at 08:49 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills)

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

I think the round stage production would be better. But don't forget you may only see her back(or screen) only for 75% of the while concert. I'm still glad for my front row of the end stage.

Actually, I saw the Let's Talk About Love tour twice and the millenium concert, all three of which were in the round, and I have to say that Celine does an AMAZING job of making you feel as if she is performing directly to your side for most of the concert. I remember being incredibly impressed by her for that.

February 22, 2008 at 09:11 PM

sol, was ok, celine was great but either the music or the backup singers didnt sound right..

February 22, 2008 at 09:16 PM

omfg!!!!!!! i just listened to the whole clip of abm, its so f**king amazing!!!!!!!!! :w00t:

i cant wait to see experience this live

February 22, 2008 at 09:41 PM

thank you for SHADOW OF LOVE

god bless u!

February 22, 2008 at 09:44 PM

I wanted to comment without causing an uproar about the stage...it really doesn't look that great does it?

This is prob going to cause friction with some - i hope it doesn't.

At the same time her vocals are absolutely amazing, she looks great and her outfits are fabulous! I think perfomance wise I'm most looking forward to Think Twice and All By Myself when I go see the show (and Celine on the treadmills)

So carrying on ref the stage - I personally think the show looks slightly uncomfortable. I don't know if anyone else is with me on this - I'm not being picky or trying to diss or be negative...just having an open minded opinion. Some will prob say that just to see Celine live is enough etc which is not my point at all. So. taking out the technical aspects for whatever the reason the stage is at one end of a venue during parts of the tour..is it quite what you expected to see... ?

At this stage in the tour and how things are now, personnal I'm really glad im going to get the opportunity to see the show in central stage (or in the round i think people call it) - The centre stage looks brilliant!! will be interesting to see how the show evolves and gets on its feet. Maybe my criticism does somewhat reflect on whats to come, making the comparison to the wacky stage..treadmills and lifts.

Kevin.

hey kevin!!

February 22, 2008 at 09:48 PM

are you guys kidding!? she's never looked or dressed better in her life! finally no more blazers and shiny camel toe jumpsuits! her outfits show off her amazing legs, are glitzy but classy and kind of rock and roll way with all of the black, red and grey. best tour outfits by far!

February 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Duchess_Nicol/Scan10015.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Duchess_Nicol/Scan10016.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Duchess_Nicol/Scan10017.jpg

sorry i can't turn the pics around.

You're an Angel! Thanks a lot!

February 22, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Céline's Anymore on ABM is PERFECT!! She did it like in the past!! :in_love:

February 22, 2008 at 11:55 PM

Her wardrobe for this tour is worse than ever - horrible.
/fred

You think? Its :sick:

her cameltoe red thing is ugly... it's in the spanish, arabic segment but i dont see any of it... maybe the colour

the dress she wears for SOL, FA... it looks like an african dress... its terrible...

and that yellow dress? owh god...

her RDMH dress is okay, but her hair is sooo much... soo thick and soo combed... she has to do more wavy, curl, not to much...

and when you see her in the fashion victim video you think: O M G is that celine dion? she looks sooo hot, her hair is just like heaven, the colour, the way it is styled, her clothing, the earrings... sooo much fashion and style...

and there she is on stage with a thing on were you dont see any of her sexy body....

i soo dont get it... and we have only 1 video like that...

I SOOO want to see all those pictures, and videos from that shoot... include on dvd

Jamie king should be her next video director... :wub:

February 23, 2008 at 01:08 AM

That note at the end of ABM was AMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZIIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGG. Probably in the top 3 of that song, it was just flawless! Incredible that she can still hit that!

February 23, 2008 at 01:11 AM

After promising myself I would not read any reviews or news about the tour until I see my first show in May, I finally cracked and have just read this whole thread as well as the first show review.

I still refuse to watch any video or listen to any audio. We will see if I can demonstrate self-control for more than another week!

I am extremely happy with the setlist and so glad Think Twice has been included. However... I think it would be in everybody's best interests if they would just REMOVE and destroy Love Can Move Mountains!

The wardrobe does not seem as great as recent TV appearances but I do like the Matador costume and the pictures from the tourbook are just breathtaking! Celine looks so good it actually hurts!

Pleased to see that 95% of the reviews are extremely positive.

Enormous thank you to Jane et al. Really generous and thoughtful of you to go to so much trouble for us all... (though I'm still deeply jealous that I couldn't be there in person!)

Thanks again

February 23, 2008 at 01:29 AM

i know i raised this a while ago and was shot down by a person who belives he's above it all...

but yeah this sucks in reality... we know there is this fantastic stage out there and when u think that we in Asia and Aust wont get a chance to see it in all its glory makes me feel rather disappointed...

but its great that she's doing it LIVE (most of them)... at least there will be smthg to be awed about... cos imagine if it were playback with a stage like that.... and dancers that just look superfluous...

S

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