One, two, three......fourteen!
Yup, there I was calling SISTIC up at 10am the second ticket sales opened for The Piano Guys' concert....and wonder of wonders....I got through with absolutely no problems!
The nice lady on the line was able to get me two rows of seven at BE and BF, seats 1 to 7.
After that, it was countdown time to 2 September and closer to the date, I came up with the idea that we ought to do something for the Guys to show our love and appreciation more concretely....and suggested making big cards to hold up from where we would be seated so that they could see us more clearly. After some brainstorming via WhatsApp (yes, everyone's on WhatsApp nowadays!), we finally came up with WE*heart*TPG!
Now...I am absolutely clueless about art and craft so it was left to ST and K to do the necessary. Eventually, ST redid the cards and we had these, complete with ST's lovely quilling patterns!
Note that the cards are SIGNED!!!!
Yup, a little bird told me that the Guys would be at Raffles Hotel and I instigated ST to stalk them down on the morning of the concert, as the rest of us were all at work. She somehow decided to take a cab down to the hotel straightaway, managed to charm her way into the lobby and....spotted the Guys!!!
Without further ado, she proceeded to approach them and found them to be the nicest and sweetest fellas EVER. And they obligingly autographed our cards individually!
Omg...when ST WhatsApped us the images, we could not believe our eyes!
But truly, it was mission accomplished in two hours and which also set us up for an even more epic experience in the evening. :)
Part Two
It was with much excitement that we gathered for dinner at Star Vista and headed to the Star Theatre on time to settle down in our seats. I met many friends there and it was a lot of "Hey! You like The Piano Guys too?? They're awesome, right??" and one "You will LOVE these Guys!" to a friend who was accompanying her daughter but apparently had no idea what TPG were about. ;)
We saw Jon looking at the audience from the darkness of the stage and waved madly to him...and he waved back! :)
Pretty soon, it was time for the concert to start and ....voila!
Jon and Steven walked onto the stage, sat down at their respective instruments and it was all systems go!
The strains of Adele's Rolling In The Deep came on....and the Guys rolled on into all the familiar and beautiful tunes which most of us already knew from their MVs but it was absolutely awesome watching them LIVE and sharing in their witty banter and crazy antics.
Steven's facial expressions and actions with his cello were a blast (many have likened him to Mr Bean) but Jon was not to be upstaged.
His upside-down piano-playing was mindboggling and as for THAT dance during Rochelbel's Canon....well, it was hilarious and no, the audience did not walk out on him. :)
Upside-down piano-playing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf9FLDZiK0Y&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ&index=7
Pachelbel/Rochelbel's Canon, where Steven demonstrates the wonders of Bruce Lee, his cool-to-the-max electric cello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNZpvlJ-UTg&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ&index=6
There was also a nice collaboration with young violinists from UWC for the performance of One Republic/Beethoven mashup and one song which brought on the screams and cheers was A Thousand Years (from the Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn). Yes, my friends and I are also mad Twi-Hearts and this was THE song which we were dying to hear.
A Thousand Years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqE5HqaKBag&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ&index=1
U2 Meets Pachelbel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtY1b3c8u2I&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
Dvorak meets Phillip Phillip's Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbm5BuSKh0A&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
Michael Meets Mozart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppN5RubWhM&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
Charlie Brown medley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAwzxCPzyY&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
When Al and Paul came on for the 'last' song, What Makes You Beautiful, the entire theatre were on such a high that it was inevitable that there would be an encore or two....and we were not disappointed!
What Makes You Beautiful...bloody awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBACBeEoKa8&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
First encore...Bring Him Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVMgI_Wow24&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
Second encore...Can't Help Falling In Love, complete with audience singalong brought the concert to a rousing end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YIQE2LY5cs&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ4G2TcQjOz7GE3wH7PqxcAZ
And the appreciative audience gave them a standing ovation!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YebtSzzm-iM
And there we were!
I just love these audience-behind-the-artistes shots! They always look freaking impressive!
More pics:
Part Three:
Thanks to our intrepid ST, our group got to meet the Guys after the concert before they headed to the rest of their adoring fans for an autograph session! It was another mindblowing experience as the Guys were really friendly! There was lots of photo-taking and chit chat but all good things come to an end and we had to bid them goodbye and all the best....but we skipped the madding crowd who were lining up patiently in the foyer....omg, there must have been more than a thousand people waiting!
Wow! Just. WOW!!!!
I think most of us (the girls, at least) were walking on air after that fantastic evening for the next few days. :)
Please come back soon, Guys!
Many of my friends were keen to attend but either found out too late or could not make it on a Monday evening.
A Saturday night would be perfect and a bigger venue or two nights would also be great.
Yes, I would go for both!
NB:
Two reviews from the local papers:
http://news.asiaone.com/news/showbiz/concert-review-piano-guys-live-singapore
http://stcommunities.straitstimes.com/show/2013/09/04/piano-guys-musical-prowess-and-witty-banter
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