George in Norwich

Well, it was certainly good to come to the realisation that Sophie Ellis-Bextor does nothing for me whatsoever. Also, standing for x hours isn’t fantastic good fun either. What I’d like to ask someone, George for instance, is this: Remind me again why the f— you would make someone ‘warm up’ the crowd for 40 minutes, then leave them cold for another HOUR before getting on the stage? Even the most faithful nutters were getting pissed off about listening to random crap songs from someone’s iPod that was probably just on random backstage.

Just having a minor rant about this now, in addition to thanking National Rail for making their last train run from Norwich at 22:10, cause I missed half the show. Yeah, so because George insisted on not getting his neat butt on the stage at 8 (which would have left 20 minutes to get everything ready between Sophie and himself) – but at quarter to NINE – I had to leave in the break to catch the ‘late train’. It was either that or get on the 11:10 to the middle of nowhere, wait there until 5:30am(!) and then take the last hour home on the train. I don’t love anyone that much, sorry.

I’d also like to send kudos to the cheeky cunts that came eeling their way through the crowd five minutes before George came on the stage. It was probably a dozen of’em, holding hands, traipsing through the crowd that had been standing there for hours to get a good view. The crowd wasn’t having it and people started objecting rather loudly. So half of’em retracted and went back to the back of the bus where they belonged.

THEN George came on the stage. Well, first he wasn’t on the stage, singing “Song to…” and came on singing “Fast Love” and the rest as usual up till after “Everything She Wants” where he – behold – did ‘a new song’. “Another Star” by Stevie Wonder. I do indeed have it recorded, so will make some kinda video thingy and add the audio to it so y’all can hear it. He said he was going to do another song (aka: “As”) by ‘this artist’ (aka: Stevie Wonder) but didn’t make any sense when the lady he did it with wasn’t there (aka Mary J Blige).

For the ballads he seemed, for whatever reason, a mix between distant and highly emotional, forgetting half the lyrics on some songs (I’ll do what he does and not mention any ‘names’) and getting pissed off with his earpiece that kept falling out. Probably making it hard for him to focus. Especially on “Father Figure” he didn’t seem to be in Norwich mentally at all. But it has to be said, the crowd was great, he grinned more than I saw at Wembley for two days, and when he was running around and being his usual self, he was adorable. Being relatively close to the stage I got a good look AT him and by George, does he look fucking insanely fit and hot right now…!

So there. Good vocals, great atmosphere, amazing looks and a pissed off me for missing the 2nd half – but happy as well for not missing “Another Star.”

So I guess that’s the end of George touring – for now.