Project 289 - Day 164 (Friday 28 August 2009) : Seeing Life Thru P!NK Coloured Glasses

What an amazing performance!

I went to her last concert in 2007 and found her to be a warm, engaging, real performer who laid on a spectacularly entertaining show that kept you engaged from the moment she walked off stage till the end of the inevitable encores. She was much the same this time around at ACER arena.... and then some! She is one of those performers who manages to make a massive arena feel like a small room, and who fully engages with her audience, even those of us in the 'nose bleed' section (thankfully row A so the bleeding was minimal!).

This time around, her outfits were sensational (including the shoes - I had a tip they'd be fab, and they were!) , the choreography brilliant (didn't hurt that the two male dancers in the troupe were handsome and well-built!), and her voice pure and powerful. She made very impressive use of video screens behind her, that showed all sorts of quirky funhouse, carnival images (in keeping with the Funhouse Tour theme), and like last time, took the ropes above the stages for the sorts of acrobatic stunts that must make her parents worry! Her dad and stepmom were in the audience - yes I know I used the Amercian shortening for mother but that's the word she uses so I figure it culturally appropriate!) - and her tribute to the longevity and love in their marriage provided one of the lovelier moments of the concert, as did the accoustic set she performed at the end of the runway attached to the stage.

But did the fun end when she walked off stage? No sirree bob! Why we reached the roof of the car park to find that everyone in the concert was leaving at once - what happened to stopping for a coffee or drink post concert? LOL We couldn't because we had to rush back to pick up my friend Kerry from my friend Fahmi's (she'd arrived on a flight from Briz Vegas while we were at the concert) - and it took us 25 minutes to inch half way out of our parking spot! We naturally, being the good hosts we are, kept Kerry and Fahmi updated every time we moved and at one point when it looked like we'd be spending the night on the roof, I gave in to hysterical laughter and Kerry etc followed suit. I wouldn't say it was fun being in post-concert gridlock (do I look masochistic? OK let me rephrase that!), but we certainly tried to make it entertaining, even taking some very goofy photos of the line up of cars, and our reactions to being entombed at ACER Arena's carpark.

Thankfully we were released eventually and made it to Kerry at 12.45 a.m. before driving home and sleeping in till 10 a.m. the next morning!