Hi Gops, as promised, my personal view of the Wembley (London) concert....
The music was superb!
First song was Fanna and the last Vande Matram with lots others in between. Humma Humma was like an anthem, as was chaiya chaiya, ghanan ghanan, Yeh jo des hai tera, and Vande Matram. All the other songs from Roja, Bombay, Yuva, Meenaxi, Kisna, Mangal Pandey, Sathiya and some tamil songs (sorry don't know Tamil) were very enjoyable too.
Shivamani performed solo on his percussions half way through the concert and he was simply amazing!
Male Singers were Kailash Kher, Hariharan, Naresh Iyer (?) Shanker Mahadevan, Blaze and Daler Mendi. I think I spotted Kunal Ganjawala (or may be he was a look alike). Female singers: Alka, Sadhna, Madhushree, Reena Bhardwaj, Sapna Awasthy (?) and a couple others whose names I could not hear.
All singers were excellent but Daler was very funny as was Blaze. Of the female singers, Sadhna Sargam was outstanding! Sapna Awasthy was a surprise and she was absolute fun to have on stage.
Background dances were very artisitc and added a lot of elegance to the entire concert.
The one thing that spoilt a little bit of enjoyment were people who came very late into the hall so obstructed the view and also the plastic seats (not very comfortable) plus a floor that moved when people got up and danced and clapped to the songs. But the music was so great that these became very minor points of consideration.
So if I was to describe the concert in just two words then I would say:
Awesome and Exquisite
So if you are still thinking of going to the Birmingham concert or have missed the one in London (Wembley), you still have a chance tomorrow (provided you are in the UK) to see and enjoy the show in Birmingham. I wish I could be there tomorrow as well but ......
Neena.
Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and write back to us with your experience ASAP!
Thanks,
Gopal.
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