Let it Go Tour - 2008
Set-list
Very Kind
Are You Happy
Love Is A Matter Of Distance
Love
Won't Give Up
Who Am I
You And I
Show Some Emotion (Joan Armatrading cover)
You Don't Know
Let It Go
Friday's Child
Changes
Free
Your Game
Grace
I've Seen That Face Before (Grace Jones cover)Leave Right Now
dailymusicguide - Source
Bounding onto the stage and opening with 'Very Kind' in an intentionally too-short blue and white chequered shirt, tight black trousers and purple shoes, Will Young hungrily let it go and kicked off his UK tour in Newcastle.
Will performed eighteen songs selected from his current and three previous albums. The 2002 Pop Idol winner was accompanied by a band consisting of acoustic and electric guitars, drums, two keyboards and two backing singers, who all gave exemplary performances.
He bounced around like an over-excited child with too many toys to play with; this excitement included introducing everyone to a picture of a parrot that he's taking with him throughout the tour for, it seems, no apparent reason.
Despite all of Will's energy, this wasn't a particularly lively affair. After the first couple of slow-paced songs at the beginning of his set, including the relatively dull 'Love Is A Matter Of Distance', a hint of restlessness pervaded the crowd. Fortunately, the set list evened itself out enough to provide a better combination of slow and fast tracks, with everyone encouraged to clap along.
In the all too easy auto-tune world that the music industry has become accustomed too, Will's live vocals were a gleaming reminder that there are at least some people still around who can actually sing, as he effortlessly hit every note with no noticeable errors.
Between tracks, fans responded well to Young's meandering, cheeky and occasionally self-analytical ramblings, generating a lot of laughs. He successfully personalised with the audience from the start and built up a good rapport.
A funny song that had been made up and aimed at promoting the merchandise on sale also provoked amusement from the crowd, although the real humour was just watching how much fun Will and his team were having doing it.
Particular live highlights of his easy listening pop songs were 'Friday's Child', the ever popular 'Changes', upcoming single 'Grace' and appropriate and somewhat predictable set closer 'Leave Right Now'.
This wasn't a big-budget spectacle, nor was it an inexpensive and intimate gig. This was somewhere in between and it seems that's exactly where he and his fans prefer to be. This gig was a fault–free performance that left everyone satisfied and proves Will still has the public support that brought him into the music scene all those years ago.
Rating: 4/5
Female First - Source
Will Young's Let it Go tour kicked off last night at Newcastle's City Hall and FemaleFirst popped in to see how it went.
In the grand tradition of gigs a support act has to be sat through before you get to what you came for. Luckily for Will fans his support act comes in the form of Honey Ryder.
After an interval and a quick trip to the bar (well what else in an interval for) the lights go down once again and the main man himself hits the stage. Bouncing on the stage, rocking skinny jeans and a blue and white checked T-Shirt, he launched into, You're Very Kind.
The set may have be simplistic, just Will and his band, no costume changes, no themes, no dancers; but if anything this heightened the performance rather than hinder it. The songs and Will's genius comedic stylings were the focus of everyone's attention and both were good enough to impress.
The song choices in the show were a mix of tracks from his new album, Let it Go, and a lot of older tracks, especially tracks from his hit album, Friday's Child. The mixture had enough to keep everyone interested and offer those who hadn't yet purchased the new album a taste of what they can expect.
Highlights of the show were latest single, Grace which sounds at its best live with the vocals of Will's fantastic backing singers. Friday's Child, is another treat which sees Young playing his new drum simulator machine along with the track.
His ability as a show man shines through as he regales the audience with tales of the picture of a parrot he has brought on tour with him, the Angel of North's appearance on the Antiques Roadshow and finding a Michael Ball coaster on stage. All of which shouldn't be humorous or at all interesting but had the audience not only roaring with laughter but also going, awh could he be any more adorable?
The soon to be legendary, Merchandise Song, sees his band launches into a jaunty tune as Will sings about the various items on sale in the foyer, including the usual T-Shirts and CDs and well as the Will Young tea cup. He also jokes that on his next tour the merchandise will include an ironing board with himself on where the clothes fall off.
After a fake exit, Will and his band return for a few more songs, ending with, undoubtedly his greatest song, Leave Right Now. By this point the entire audience, from 15 years old, to fans in their 60s were up on their feet, singing their approval.
During the performance the pop star asks, Why do you come see me? I'm such a loser, and it is clear to everyone that his audience aren't in agreement on this one. Back in 2005 when album Keep On failed to reach the high sales of its predecessor, Friday's Child music critics everywhere predicted the end for the original Pop Idol. Tonight proved them wrong in the most spectacular fashion.
To echo his own words, This is only the first night but it feels like the best tour I've ever done. Indeed it is William, and for those heading to dates on the rest of the tour he certainly won't disappoint.
Birmingham Evening Mail - Source
WILL YOUNG braved sub-zero temperatures in Birmingham last night – and gave his fans a cheeky flash of his bum.
The former Pop Idol was in high spirits at Symphony Hall and demonstrated his naked ambition during the unscheduled costume rearrangement. After singing the Brit award-winning single Your Game, flirty Will asked the audience: “Do you want to see the tattoo on my bum?” To roars of “Yes!”, the star turned his back to the crowd, pulled down his skin-tight black jeans and pink pants and pointed to the tattoo at the top of his left buttock. Laughing, he said: “That is the first time I have done that … since I’ve been famous.” So, why do we love Will Young?
He’s not cool, by his own admission he’s a ropey dancer and he’s definitely not “street”. And yet Young is impossibly likeable, a guilty pleasure. It helps, of course, that he is responsible for some of pop’s best moments in recent years.
He bounds on stage like an excited puppy for the first of his two-night shows at Symphony Hall and didn’t let the energy levels, or his innate sense of theatricality, drop for a second.
Young’s adoring fans – and they really are extremely adoring – were treated to a run of his biggest hits, including a wonderful slow funk version of Friday’s Child. Make no mistake, the guy’s got a tremendous voice and knows when to lay it down or ease it back.
The hugely accomplished hour-and-a-half set demonstrated why he is the latest standard bearer for unashamedly commercial white, blue-eyed soul, combining upbeat dance numbers with the sort of ballads that leave grown men crying into their pale ale, mulling over the one that got away.
His new album, Let It Go, draws heavily on the George Michael template – big arrangements, infectious hooks, strings, jazzy interludes, breathy, overlaid vocals and “look at what a pig’s ear I’ve made of my life” honesty.
I Won’t Give Up is a veritable Freedom ’90 while Are You Happy and Grace – all performed faultlessly last night – hark back to the ex-Wham! boy’s lush tales of fractured love, bitterness and scorn.
For an encore, Young whipped on a Santa’s hat and pulled off the sultry tango of the Grace Jones’ classic I’ve Seen That Face Before. The night ended fittingly with the luscious Leave Right Now.
The Guardian - Source
I'm not going to kiss him," a girl is telling her friend in a decided tone as they show their tickets. She may not be talking about Will Young, but if she is, she is probably the only person at the Dome, male or female, who wouldn't leap at the chance. Young's return after three years with the album Let It Go has occasioned much excitement in Brighton, where he now lives ("We're having an aftershow party at the flat - vol-au-vents from Iceland," he says, to ripples of delight). The venue is full, the merchandise stall is doing a decent trade in £15 teacups with Young's face at the bottom, and when he makes his entrance, shimmying in from stage left, the audience jump to their feet as one.
Given their enthusiasm, just breathing the same air as Young would have been enough for many; the fact that he sings, fluidly and well, for nearly 90 minutes must be the icing on the cake. He is a confident, polished figure these days, having mastered the art of interweaving slightly camp chat ("I had a dream the other night that Dolly Parton was my fairy godmother") and supple, heartfelt singing. As he glides through most of Let It Go, Pop Idol seems a distant nightmare.
Having dispensed with trimmings such as backing dancers (though for reasons unexplained, there is a Lord Kitchener poster tacked to the drum riser), Young has guaranteed that the show is about his voice, and nothing but. It's relaxed and lightly soulful during the familiar likes of Friday's Child, but there are rents in the smoothness during some of Let It Go's more personal numbers. An acoustic, quivering You Don't Know is especially striking. With George Michael semi-retired, Young is the obvious successor to his job - who would have thought it in 2002?
Liverpool Echo - Source
HE’S the antidote to scary youths, weeping weather and economic gloom.
With his polite charm, self-deprecating humour and melty-smooth voice, Will Young’s concert at the Phil was as comforting and innocently pleasurable as a bar of Galaxy in bed.
Will bounded onto a set bathed in yellow light, clad in skinny jeans and a blue checked T-shirt, opening with Very Kind and then straight into Love The One You’re With.
Next up, disco track Love, from new album Let It Go, sounded and appeared all wrong, and saw Will awkwardly throwing out some 70s moves. Overall, though, he’s become less self-conscious on stage.
After his singing-only start I thought he would be one to let his songs do all the talking, but he kept up a constant flow of chitchat. He talked about tea cups, Harry Potter, jumpers, Blankety Blank, and being caught in his dressing room wearing his “big, baggy, pants” by the resourceful mum of a young Liverpool fan.
Despite, or maybe because of, his gentle line in chat, women just could not get enough of him. They roared with laughter at the tiniest suggestion of a joke.
But he fanned the flames of female ardour by admitting to a strange crush on Cheryl Cole, who winked at him on X-Factor “I think it’s about the lipstick,” he mused.
This is Nottingham - Source
Having plied his trade on the arena circuit for the past few years, Will Young has returned to theatres and concert halls for his current tour.
For his fans, it's a chance to see him in a relatively more intimate setting. For Will, it's an opportunity to showcase his skills as a singer, rather than coast on his status as a pop star.
If last night's show was any fair measure, then there's still some work to be done.
An unsympathetic sound mix tended to bury his voice in the arrangements on the more uptempo numbers – most of which were stacked up in the first half of the show.
This did his delicate, reedy voice no favours, leaving him sounding somewhat lacking in presence and authority.
The breakthrough came with the ballad You Don't Know, performed to the accompaniment of a single guitar. At this point, Will seemed to find his focus, giving a sincere performance which carried emotional depth and weight.
This stripped down mood was carried through to Let It Go: the title track from Will's fourth album, and one of the strongest songs on there. Following the poor chart performance of current single Grace, it has the potential to restore his hit-making status.
From this point onwards, Will was on safe ground. Bounding around the stage in a loose, scooped neck T-shirt and a pair of impossibly tight trousers that looked more like leggings – he looked dressed for a dance class rather than a concert performance.
But this casual attire suited his relaxed, informal manner. The banter flowed, as cheeky calls from the audience were answered with witty ripostes and off-the-cuff anecdotes. This wasn't an evening for considered artistry and solemn song craft, but a light-hearted coming together of a much-loved personality and his adoring fanbase.
The evening's most bizarre moment came with the encore, which saw Will in fluorescent gloves, making "jazz hands" and throwing all manner of unlikely shapes, for a tango-flavoured Grace Jones cover (I've Seen That Face Before).
Sanity was restored for the inevitable closer Leave Right Now: the only one of his four chart-topping singles to be performed (All Time Love being the other major omission), and still his most enduring classic.
Express & Echo - Source
Plymouth
WOMEN of all ages were gushing with excitement last night as pop idol Will Young returned to the city to perform a sell-out concert.
The singing sensation who shot to fame after winning Pop Idol in 2002, bought his 'Let it Go 2008' tour to Plymouth Pavilions, based on his latest album of the same name which reached number two in the charts.
People from as far as Camborne and Barnstaple came to see his performance supported by Honey Ryder, which showcased recent smash hit single Changes, and current single, Grace, meddling soul, disco and pop.
Mother, Janet Boorman, age 63, and her daughter Amanda Richman, age 42, came from Barnstaple to see the show. Amanda, said: "We just love him – he's worth it coming all this way. This is the third time we've seen him – he always puts on a good show." Janet, added: "I love him too and just want to mother him."
Clair Douglas, 29 from Eggbuckland, brought her mother as a surprise treat after hiding tickets in her birthday card. She said: "We've watched him since he won Pop Idol – I've seen him live once before and he's got an amazing voice. Her mother, Sue Evans, age 59, said: "It's my first time and I'm excited. He's got more confident these days but I love his older numbers."
The tour, his first trip to Plymouth since 2004, is centred on material from his current album but is also full of numbers off his back catalogue, to please all his fans' wishes. Jess Brookes, age 14, from Eggbuckland, said: "I saw him when he last played in Plymouth as my Mum queued early in the morning to get the tickets. I really enjoyed it – he's so different and his voice is absolutely amazing.
Christine Baird, 61 from Cullompton, said: "I'm a big fan and this is the fourth time I've seen him. I think he has the most fantastic voice and when you see him live he really connects with the audience. He's quite a showman."
Marie Flint, 19 from Torquay, had almost fainted with excitement. She said: "I've been to six of his concerts – I've been so excited I can hardly breathe. I love his music, I think he's great, talented, good looking and I would like him to be my husband."
Very Kind
Are You Happy
Love Is A Matter Of Distance
Love
Won't Give Up
Who Am I
You And I
Show Some Emotion (Joan Armatrading cover)
You Don't Know
Let It Go
Friday's Child
Changes
Free
Your Game
Grace
I've Seen That Face Before (Grace Jones cover)Leave Right Now
dailymusicguide - Source
Bounding onto the stage and opening with 'Very Kind' in an intentionally too-short blue and white chequered shirt, tight black trousers and purple shoes, Will Young hungrily let it go and kicked off his UK tour in Newcastle.
Will performed eighteen songs selected from his current and three previous albums. The 2002 Pop Idol winner was accompanied by a band consisting of acoustic and electric guitars, drums, two keyboards and two backing singers, who all gave exemplary performances.
He bounced around like an over-excited child with too many toys to play with; this excitement included introducing everyone to a picture of a parrot that he's taking with him throughout the tour for, it seems, no apparent reason.
Despite all of Will's energy, this wasn't a particularly lively affair. After the first couple of slow-paced songs at the beginning of his set, including the relatively dull 'Love Is A Matter Of Distance', a hint of restlessness pervaded the crowd. Fortunately, the set list evened itself out enough to provide a better combination of slow and fast tracks, with everyone encouraged to clap along.
In the all too easy auto-tune world that the music industry has become accustomed too, Will's live vocals were a gleaming reminder that there are at least some people still around who can actually sing, as he effortlessly hit every note with no noticeable errors.
Between tracks, fans responded well to Young's meandering, cheeky and occasionally self-analytical ramblings, generating a lot of laughs. He successfully personalised with the audience from the start and built up a good rapport.
A funny song that had been made up and aimed at promoting the merchandise on sale also provoked amusement from the crowd, although the real humour was just watching how much fun Will and his team were having doing it.
Particular live highlights of his easy listening pop songs were 'Friday's Child', the ever popular 'Changes', upcoming single 'Grace' and appropriate and somewhat predictable set closer 'Leave Right Now'.
This wasn't a big-budget spectacle, nor was it an inexpensive and intimate gig. This was somewhere in between and it seems that's exactly where he and his fans prefer to be. This gig was a fault–free performance that left everyone satisfied and proves Will still has the public support that brought him into the music scene all those years ago.
Rating: 4/5
Female First - Source
Will Young's Let it Go tour kicked off last night at Newcastle's City Hall and FemaleFirst popped in to see how it went.
In the grand tradition of gigs a support act has to be sat through before you get to what you came for. Luckily for Will fans his support act comes in the form of Honey Ryder.
After an interval and a quick trip to the bar (well what else in an interval for) the lights go down once again and the main man himself hits the stage. Bouncing on the stage, rocking skinny jeans and a blue and white checked T-Shirt, he launched into, You're Very Kind.
The set may have be simplistic, just Will and his band, no costume changes, no themes, no dancers; but if anything this heightened the performance rather than hinder it. The songs and Will's genius comedic stylings were the focus of everyone's attention and both were good enough to impress.
The song choices in the show were a mix of tracks from his new album, Let it Go, and a lot of older tracks, especially tracks from his hit album, Friday's Child. The mixture had enough to keep everyone interested and offer those who hadn't yet purchased the new album a taste of what they can expect.
Highlights of the show were latest single, Grace which sounds at its best live with the vocals of Will's fantastic backing singers. Friday's Child, is another treat which sees Young playing his new drum simulator machine along with the track.
His ability as a show man shines through as he regales the audience with tales of the picture of a parrot he has brought on tour with him, the Angel of North's appearance on the Antiques Roadshow and finding a Michael Ball coaster on stage. All of which shouldn't be humorous or at all interesting but had the audience not only roaring with laughter but also going, awh could he be any more adorable?
The soon to be legendary, Merchandise Song, sees his band launches into a jaunty tune as Will sings about the various items on sale in the foyer, including the usual T-Shirts and CDs and well as the Will Young tea cup. He also jokes that on his next tour the merchandise will include an ironing board with himself on where the clothes fall off.
After a fake exit, Will and his band return for a few more songs, ending with, undoubtedly his greatest song, Leave Right Now. By this point the entire audience, from 15 years old, to fans in their 60s were up on their feet, singing their approval.
During the performance the pop star asks, Why do you come see me? I'm such a loser, and it is clear to everyone that his audience aren't in agreement on this one. Back in 2005 when album Keep On failed to reach the high sales of its predecessor, Friday's Child music critics everywhere predicted the end for the original Pop Idol. Tonight proved them wrong in the most spectacular fashion.
To echo his own words, This is only the first night but it feels like the best tour I've ever done. Indeed it is William, and for those heading to dates on the rest of the tour he certainly won't disappoint.
Birmingham Evening Mail - Source
WILL YOUNG braved sub-zero temperatures in Birmingham last night – and gave his fans a cheeky flash of his bum.
The former Pop Idol was in high spirits at Symphony Hall and demonstrated his naked ambition during the unscheduled costume rearrangement. After singing the Brit award-winning single Your Game, flirty Will asked the audience: “Do you want to see the tattoo on my bum?” To roars of “Yes!”, the star turned his back to the crowd, pulled down his skin-tight black jeans and pink pants and pointed to the tattoo at the top of his left buttock. Laughing, he said: “That is the first time I have done that … since I’ve been famous.” So, why do we love Will Young?
He’s not cool, by his own admission he’s a ropey dancer and he’s definitely not “street”. And yet Young is impossibly likeable, a guilty pleasure. It helps, of course, that he is responsible for some of pop’s best moments in recent years.
He bounds on stage like an excited puppy for the first of his two-night shows at Symphony Hall and didn’t let the energy levels, or his innate sense of theatricality, drop for a second.
Young’s adoring fans – and they really are extremely adoring – were treated to a run of his biggest hits, including a wonderful slow funk version of Friday’s Child. Make no mistake, the guy’s got a tremendous voice and knows when to lay it down or ease it back.
The hugely accomplished hour-and-a-half set demonstrated why he is the latest standard bearer for unashamedly commercial white, blue-eyed soul, combining upbeat dance numbers with the sort of ballads that leave grown men crying into their pale ale, mulling over the one that got away.
His new album, Let It Go, draws heavily on the George Michael template – big arrangements, infectious hooks, strings, jazzy interludes, breathy, overlaid vocals and “look at what a pig’s ear I’ve made of my life” honesty.
I Won’t Give Up is a veritable Freedom ’90 while Are You Happy and Grace – all performed faultlessly last night – hark back to the ex-Wham! boy’s lush tales of fractured love, bitterness and scorn.
For an encore, Young whipped on a Santa’s hat and pulled off the sultry tango of the Grace Jones’ classic I’ve Seen That Face Before. The night ended fittingly with the luscious Leave Right Now.
The Guardian - Source
I'm not going to kiss him," a girl is telling her friend in a decided tone as they show their tickets. She may not be talking about Will Young, but if she is, she is probably the only person at the Dome, male or female, who wouldn't leap at the chance. Young's return after three years with the album Let It Go has occasioned much excitement in Brighton, where he now lives ("We're having an aftershow party at the flat - vol-au-vents from Iceland," he says, to ripples of delight). The venue is full, the merchandise stall is doing a decent trade in £15 teacups with Young's face at the bottom, and when he makes his entrance, shimmying in from stage left, the audience jump to their feet as one.
Given their enthusiasm, just breathing the same air as Young would have been enough for many; the fact that he sings, fluidly and well, for nearly 90 minutes must be the icing on the cake. He is a confident, polished figure these days, having mastered the art of interweaving slightly camp chat ("I had a dream the other night that Dolly Parton was my fairy godmother") and supple, heartfelt singing. As he glides through most of Let It Go, Pop Idol seems a distant nightmare.
Having dispensed with trimmings such as backing dancers (though for reasons unexplained, there is a Lord Kitchener poster tacked to the drum riser), Young has guaranteed that the show is about his voice, and nothing but. It's relaxed and lightly soulful during the familiar likes of Friday's Child, but there are rents in the smoothness during some of Let It Go's more personal numbers. An acoustic, quivering You Don't Know is especially striking. With George Michael semi-retired, Young is the obvious successor to his job - who would have thought it in 2002?
Liverpool Echo - Source
HE’S the antidote to scary youths, weeping weather and economic gloom.
With his polite charm, self-deprecating humour and melty-smooth voice, Will Young’s concert at the Phil was as comforting and innocently pleasurable as a bar of Galaxy in bed.
Will bounded onto a set bathed in yellow light, clad in skinny jeans and a blue checked T-shirt, opening with Very Kind and then straight into Love The One You’re With.
Next up, disco track Love, from new album Let It Go, sounded and appeared all wrong, and saw Will awkwardly throwing out some 70s moves. Overall, though, he’s become less self-conscious on stage.
After his singing-only start I thought he would be one to let his songs do all the talking, but he kept up a constant flow of chitchat. He talked about tea cups, Harry Potter, jumpers, Blankety Blank, and being caught in his dressing room wearing his “big, baggy, pants” by the resourceful mum of a young Liverpool fan.
Despite, or maybe because of, his gentle line in chat, women just could not get enough of him. They roared with laughter at the tiniest suggestion of a joke.
But he fanned the flames of female ardour by admitting to a strange crush on Cheryl Cole, who winked at him on X-Factor “I think it’s about the lipstick,” he mused.
This is Nottingham - Source
Having plied his trade on the arena circuit for the past few years, Will Young has returned to theatres and concert halls for his current tour.
For his fans, it's a chance to see him in a relatively more intimate setting. For Will, it's an opportunity to showcase his skills as a singer, rather than coast on his status as a pop star.
If last night's show was any fair measure, then there's still some work to be done.
An unsympathetic sound mix tended to bury his voice in the arrangements on the more uptempo numbers – most of which were stacked up in the first half of the show.
This did his delicate, reedy voice no favours, leaving him sounding somewhat lacking in presence and authority.
The breakthrough came with the ballad You Don't Know, performed to the accompaniment of a single guitar. At this point, Will seemed to find his focus, giving a sincere performance which carried emotional depth and weight.
This stripped down mood was carried through to Let It Go: the title track from Will's fourth album, and one of the strongest songs on there. Following the poor chart performance of current single Grace, it has the potential to restore his hit-making status.
From this point onwards, Will was on safe ground. Bounding around the stage in a loose, scooped neck T-shirt and a pair of impossibly tight trousers that looked more like leggings – he looked dressed for a dance class rather than a concert performance.
But this casual attire suited his relaxed, informal manner. The banter flowed, as cheeky calls from the audience were answered with witty ripostes and off-the-cuff anecdotes. This wasn't an evening for considered artistry and solemn song craft, but a light-hearted coming together of a much-loved personality and his adoring fanbase.
The evening's most bizarre moment came with the encore, which saw Will in fluorescent gloves, making "jazz hands" and throwing all manner of unlikely shapes, for a tango-flavoured Grace Jones cover (I've Seen That Face Before).
Sanity was restored for the inevitable closer Leave Right Now: the only one of his four chart-topping singles to be performed (All Time Love being the other major omission), and still his most enduring classic.
Express & Echo - Source
Plymouth
WOMEN of all ages were gushing with excitement last night as pop idol Will Young returned to the city to perform a sell-out concert.
The singing sensation who shot to fame after winning Pop Idol in 2002, bought his 'Let it Go 2008' tour to Plymouth Pavilions, based on his latest album of the same name which reached number two in the charts.
People from as far as Camborne and Barnstaple came to see his performance supported by Honey Ryder, which showcased recent smash hit single Changes, and current single, Grace, meddling soul, disco and pop.
Mother, Janet Boorman, age 63, and her daughter Amanda Richman, age 42, came from Barnstaple to see the show. Amanda, said: "We just love him – he's worth it coming all this way. This is the third time we've seen him – he always puts on a good show." Janet, added: "I love him too and just want to mother him."
Clair Douglas, 29 from Eggbuckland, brought her mother as a surprise treat after hiding tickets in her birthday card. She said: "We've watched him since he won Pop Idol – I've seen him live once before and he's got an amazing voice. Her mother, Sue Evans, age 59, said: "It's my first time and I'm excited. He's got more confident these days but I love his older numbers."
The tour, his first trip to Plymouth since 2004, is centred on material from his current album but is also full of numbers off his back catalogue, to please all his fans' wishes. Jess Brookes, age 14, from Eggbuckland, said: "I saw him when he last played in Plymouth as my Mum queued early in the morning to get the tickets. I really enjoyed it – he's so different and his voice is absolutely amazing.
Christine Baird, 61 from Cullompton, said: "I'm a big fan and this is the fourth time I've seen him. I think he has the most fantastic voice and when you see him live he really connects with the audience. He's quite a showman."
Marie Flint, 19 from Torquay, had almost fainted with excitement. She said: "I've been to six of his concerts – I've been so excited I can hardly breathe. I love his music, I think he's great, talented, good looking and I would like him to be my husband."