A concert starting at eight o’clock? It was one of the comments heard over the crowd that came in yesterday late afternoon, in step rushed to the Atlantic Pavilion. Eight minutes after the scheduled time already heard the unmistakable voice of Adele, who was until quite late … “My two year old son woke up at 5 am, so I also woke up at 5 am … if I fall to the side, do not take this the wrong way, “said the 18 000 spectators who yesterday attended the first British concert in Portugal, one of the many dialogues that was keeping with the public, as if you were sitting with a group of friends to a coffee table.
the truth is that it fell to the side and kept an energy and a contagious cheerfulness over two hours of spectacle. And if there were failures to point, it would be only one: when, while singing Million Years Ago changed the lyrics. He laughed and one of his countless “shiiiit …” (Swearing almost looks like a brand image a), apologized and returned the song.
The voice, that, was always impeccable. Adele can indeed sound better live than in the studio, and sings with disarming naturalness. Everything about her seems natural, simple, without artifice. And this is one of the memories, of course, more will endure among those who yesterday exhausted the Atlantic Pavilion (there are now new covenant for the other 18 thousand Portuguese who managed to buy one of the tickets on sale on 4 December, and sold out same day).
Adele began the concert with the mega-uber-hit Hello , the first single from the album 25 , released last November, four years after 21 , the disc that catapulted him to worldwide success and six years after his debut with 19 . Before singing Skyfall , the music he composed for the film 007 in 2012, which earned him an Oscar, played with his superstition with the numbers and told us that, after has already refused the invitation for once ( “was afraid to make a song m ****”), finally agreed when reminded him that this was the 23rd James Bond film and she was then just 23 years. .. also toyed with the many men who were seen in the audience ( “were all swept away, no?”), I wondered how many would have received the ticket as a Christmas gift or birthday and went to get two children to the public (Peter and Catarina). When he realized that the girl had done years the day before put the whole hall singing congratulate you.
He was several minutes posing for selfies with fans, accepted the gifts that they gave him (a flag of Portugal, a teddy, a bunch of flowers) and told a little of what has been doing for Lisbon town visiting for the first time. Arrived on Thursday and was dining at a Portuguese restaurant ( “love your food and the restaurant owner will be here … Hello?”), It went to the beach and the zoo with his son, and even jumped the Rock in Rio to see the concert of Bruce Springsteen. But, he confessed, he was not expecting much wind. “Imagine that stupid, I skirt! I mean, nobody saw my ass or my vagina, but was dying of cold. And Bruce gave me his coat! Of course that did not suit me and I had to put it just so on her shoulders … I had drunk four glasses of wine, so could only smile and say thank you, full of shame. “
in the end, with the raucous audience of both singing lustily in a tone impossible for ordinary mortals, it was moved in the middle of Someone Like You , with the chorus of the audience to overlap his voice, and when he sang the version of Make You Feel my Love , Bob Dylan, who dedicated to victims of the plane crash of EgyptAir ( “I know that there was a Portuguese among the victims”).
Adele’s voice come to ensure a night memorable but to help the quality of the show was a band with nearly two dozen musicians (including an octet string) and a set design of great beauty, with digital screens and stunning detail, as the rain curtain that surrounded the singer while singing Set Fire to Rain .
in the end, after two returns to the stage, he finished with maximum power, with Rolling in the Deep, and fired up under a rain of confetti with your messages, handwritten.
“Thank you for coming to see me,” repeated more than once. We do thank you, Adele.
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