It's Sunday night and I have had a relaxing evening. Which is nice after the long night I had last night.
Talking of last night There are a couple of people I would quite like to mention. Thanks to the Tall Smoking girl who pushed her way just in front of us just before it the show started and obscured our view. And then thanks for blowing cigarette smoke in our faces. We really appreciated you! And thanks to the girl behind who phoned her friend every song to give an account of what was happening- was it really necessary??????

Thankfully Doctor Who recorded last night; I really didn’t want to miss it. it was a strange one- a similar look to the episode The Idiots Lantern. but the preview for the final episodes looked good. Aaaargh. They are gonna Kill Rose off! NOOOO!!!! When my OH saw the end with the Olympic torch she said "This has more cheese than a four cheese pizza" Maybe she was right

And England are through to the Quarter finals after a 1-0 win over Ecuador. And what a goal! From a Beckham free kick- it was a fine bender which went straight into the corner of the net! The rest of the game was crap though! And next we play Portugal. Gadzooks Kiki!

And at the moment we are watching Most Haunted live. I wonder what mysterious object they have locked in the safe. We are supposed to use our psychic powers to guess deduct what it is. Using my powers I think the object is a Sponge Bob doll. I wonder if I'm right? Should I call in and tell them? And they are 'linking' with a maid who was pregnant by the master of the house. Why do these shows never have normal maids? All the maids they 'link' with have been made pregnant by the Master of the house and then ends up dead after mysterious circumstances!

I must go now, I am receiving a psychic image of a producer making lots of money from text callers. Hmmm, I wonder what that means.

OKAY. I am useless at photoshop or putting images together, so this was the best I could do

And now to the show itself...
We got into the Bowl at about 6pm, which was when Beverly Knight came on. We were still forcing our way through the crowds, and by this time the place was packed with tens of thousands of people, to find a good spot. Beverly was very good, really got the crowds pumping with some great songs.
At about 7:30pm the Sugababes came on and they were fantastic. I didn't really know much aobut the 'babes stuff but I recognised most of them. There were some great renditions of suff like 'Round Round' and 'I bet you look good on the dance floor' which drove the crowds wild and their finally was the hypnotic 'Push the Button' I may even now get a sugababes album.

and at 8:45 the Boys came on, and here's what they did....
After a cleverly animated intr the boys appeared on stage and m first thought was 'my go they look old now' and they started with Once you've tasted love and the crows were happy to clap along. It amaxes me that there were a good few twentyish people there who would only have been about ten when TT were around before. But there were a LOT of thirty somethings too, all enjoying the revival.
Then the boys sang Pray which got the crowd frantic. The backdrop on the stage was three huge stained glass windows and the boys danced the original routine- yes they remembered it- and they could still do it! A girl behind me was on the phone to her friend "You should be here, they've still got it".

Next was Today I lost you which I didnt know because it was a new track on their hits album last year, but I didnt buy it 'cos I already had their hits album from 1995! But during the song they had circus performers on stage . This was followed by why can't I wake up with you
Then came the first big set piece of the night and it was HUGE!. It started off with asoem slutty woman in red dancing to a latino beat. You ended up wondering what song it was gonna be. After some cool dancing, Gary started singing.. "Whats an hournof a day, we throw at least one a away" at which point the crowd went crazy as they realised what song was coming up. It was a remarkable version of It only takes a minute with some wonderful latin dancing. It was wild! Then Marky sang Babe pretty much on his own, and dedicated it to the crowd. Then came an acoustic version of Everything Changes with some great audience participation followed by the balled A Million Love Songs which Gary did on the piano, and even had Marky flirting with him!
After a short costume change the boy performed their popular Beatles Medlay on a catwalk out in the crowd. I have a bit of video of this which I may upload if I can. Then followed an acoustic version of How deep is your love which also had everyone singing along. After some thanks from the band they ended the Acoustic session with Love aint here anymoe which ended up with some great audience participation.
Then came some final set pieces. Starting with Apache. This began with the electrnic woice of the MANAGER who was creating a boy band and was explaining the rules. The boys came on dressed in jumpsuits a la cloning. And they performed likepuppets to the voice of the manager. The routine ended with Jason rapping. Then dozens of dancers came on with blank face masks and the boys performed Sure to a very bass heavy dance beat. There was a backing tune that I kind of recognised but couldn't name. It reminded me of when Kylie did 'I can't get you out of my head' to the Blue Monday beat!
After the satge was clear, a dancer dressed as a devil appeard and started the 'Fire' monologue. This is the prologue to the song relight my fire which was performed with great energy. The crowd once again were wild with fire fever and were singing along with gusto. The boys, dressed in outrageous devil costumes, were performing there hearts out and I remember thinking 'If only Lulu were here'. And then one of the biggest shocks of the night... Lulu appeared in a very sexy corset and joined in. Yes LULU was there! It was frantic and energetic and climazed in some great fire effects, with a huge curtain of flames burstin up on the stage and fireworks also! After that song, the dnacers came on and rain started to shower down on stage. This led into Back For Good which they sang under the rain. (They had umbrellas). When they had finished the song, the rain continued to fall and then the next big shock of the night occurred; a huge hologram of Robbie Williams appeared on stage and sung the intro to Could it be magic It was fantastic! Then they boys came on and sung and danced in the rain and puddles of water... the crowd were still in a frenzied state.

And then came the finale, and what else could it be but Never Forget It was brilliant! It was someething seeing thousands of people waving their hands and singing along to the chorus. And as the crowd were enthralled there was a huge firework dispay off the top of the stage. It was the most amazing spectacle and it showed that the boys have still got it!

WEll that was a day and night I will Never Forget
but before I describe the actual concert I whall talk about the worst part of the day (and night). And that was the journey.
The plan was this
Leave at 11. Get to MK at about 2pm, havea a saunter into town for something to eat and saunter back to the Bowl. Enjoy the concert and allowing for traffic we should be home by 2am.

Now the reality.....
We left at about 11:20 due to sudden toilet emergencies. And what followed was one of the solwest journeys ever! The M25 hardly got about 30mph as as the M1 and there was road works on the M1 which are due to go on till 2008! So to get off the Motorway we joined th A5 which was just as bad. We arrived in Milton Keynes at about 4pm and then there were no signs at all to the National Bowl. The only reason we got there at all was of the map the Sminchin (Thanks by the way) had linked to me in a previous post. I got us to where we assumed the National Bowl was- we had seen crowds of people heading that way so we kinda knew we were going the right way.

We then had to join a queue of traffic which was trying to park. But when we got to the car park it was full and there were no signs to direct us to another car park. SO we drove around and ended up joining the back of the queue again. When we got to the front of the queue the second time we were guided to a parking place. WE parked up at a quarter to five. Our average MPH according to the car stats was 28MPH. I have never driven so slowly before.

Return Journey
The show finished at 10:45 and then it was time to leave.
We headed for the gate that led to our car park but so were thousands of other people. The gate got so congested that there was no movement at all and we were forced to leave by another gate, which took ages. When we eventually got to the car, the car parks were also congested so it took ages. We were out of the car park at midnight! Then came the slow and tedious drive to the M1. The roads were all bunged up so it take ages to get anywhere, and as soon as we got to the roundabout that should take us to the M1, the police had blocked it off because of an accident- so we ad to take a detour. We finally managed to join the M1 at 2am. And our average MPH had dropped to 19.8MPH. After that the joureny was straight-forward and we finally made it home at 4:20am.
God we were Knakcered.