Birmingham Town Hall, 20th December 2007

[dazza]

Hi Everyone,

I attended the concert in Birmingham last night and had a very enjoyable evening, it was a fantastic show.

First of all, here is the set list…

Sound of Silence
Barcarolle
Sull' Aria
The Angel Gabriel
In Paradisum
Infant Lowly
Steal Away
Singing You Through

INTERVAL

Flower Duet
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Nothing Compares 2 U
Pie Jesu
Songbird
Silent Night

ENCORE
White Christmas

The girls were accompanied by a superb string quartet, I think consisting of 3 violinists and a cellist as well as a pianist. They performed a few musical pieces of there own including White Christmas and Sleigh Ride and a couple of others which I unfortunately couldn’t recognise.

The girls sung a mixture of songs from the two albums as well as quite a few Christmas songs, they were simply fantastic. There was a few funny moments during the Flower Duet where the audience started applauding during pauses in the song which had the girls laughing too.

The song that really did it for me again though was ‘Singing You Through’, it was just absolutely wonderful, such a beautiful song that they perform so well live. I think that both the live versions I have heard of the song are even better than on the album.

Another song worth mentioning was the encore of ‘White Christmas’, it was different, but still very much in the All Angels style, you could see that the girls had a lot of fun performing it, it was superb.

After the show the girls did a signing so we got to meet them, I spoke to them a little more than I did in London but I still wish I wasn’t so shy, after they had signed my CD I think it was Laura or Daisy who first recognized who I was from AAI, then they all knew who I was through seeing some of my posts on there, which was just the icing on the cake really to cap off a wonderful evening.

I forgot to take along the first album with me to get signed, so I brought another there which I got signed and I also managed to get a few pictures too.

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A fantastic concert, it was also very nice to meet Steve, I can’t wait for Huddersfield on Saturday now.

Dazza

[Mark]

Hi Dazza

Thanks so much for your report and photo's - sounds like you had a fantastic evening and the girls had a lot of fun too. Singing you through is without doubt my favourite AA song, I could listen to it over & over and not get tired of it

I'm not sure if I'm right, but the gentleman in black standing behind the girls in one of your photo's looks very like Ray, Hayleys road manager

Thanks again Dazza for your report. Look forward to seeing you again at a concert sometime soon.

Best regards
Mark

[grant]

Hi Dazza

Thanks for your review of last nights concert. Sure sounds like you and everyone else (including the girls) had a great time.

Incidentally, if you copy the 'IMG Code' in photobuckets (it's the bottom one) and then paste that link, your photo's will actually appear in the post. Don't forget to resize them first though!

Best wishes
Grant

[grant]

tinky3344 said:

the gentleman in black standing behind the girls in one of your photo's looks very like Ray, Hayleys road manager

Hi Mark

Other than to confirm that it is indeed Ray in one of Dazza's pictures, I'm saying nothing!

Best wishes
Grant

[dazza]

Hi Mark and Grant,

I didn't know who Ray was but I did notice that Steve spoke to him quite a few times and assumed that he knew who he was.

Grant, thanks for the tip about the image tags, I was planning on doing that anyway, I just didn't have time this morning and I also like people to see the full size versions too.

I have edited them so that I can post them on the forum though. I have also scanned in the CD that I had signed.











Dazza

[Steve H]

Hi Folks,

I have posted loads of photographs taken during and after the concert on Thursday on the AAI forum, you can see them all here:-

allangels.proboards66.com/index.cgi?board=concert&action=display&thread=1185210861&page=1#1198278047

But to whet your appetite here is a very small selection:-



Daisy



Charlotte



Laura



Melanie



Melanie Charlotte Daisy and Laura



Daisy and Laura

Steve H

[Stuart H]

Hi everyone

Great pictures and reviews guys - I am sooooooooooooooo sorry I missed this concert but I had an event at the school that I couldnt get out of. Hope to see the Angels soon in the new year

Stuart