Nottingham Evening Post - November 4, 2002

by Ann Rowell

transcription by Dave Doohan


Arena forgets wet, wet, wet

 
It may have been a wet and miserable night outside the Nottingham Arena
but when Chris de Burgh came on stage the weather was soon forgotten.
We all became transfixed by this superb singer who began his performance
with Guilty Secret, a track from his new album Timing Is Everything.
But among the new he did not forget all the old favourites.
To the opening strains of Missing You he was given gifts by some of his
admirers and he used them as props to start I've got the Roses, I've got
the Wine.  Of course, it would not be possible for him to leave out Lady
In Red - and it didn't go unnoticed that many of his female fans were
wearing red.
My own favourite, and, yes, it's creeping up, was the Christmas Melody,
A Spaceman Came Travelling.  Other golden oldies included Borderline,
Don't Pay The Ferryman, Spanish Train and Ship To Shore.  The audience
could have been bigger, but that didn't stop him giving us well over two
and a half hours of magical entertainment.  He got the audience up
dancing and came back for two encores. This fan has become a bigger fan.