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Wembley ~ Arena ~ UK
MAR 28th
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support band ~ picture house
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Home By Now / No Matter What
Life Is A Lemon
Dead Ringer
I'd Lie For You (and that's the Truth)
Anything For Love
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rock and Roll Dreams
Is Nothing Sacred
Paradise By the Dashboard Light
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bit of meat singing "tom Dooley
intro band
Midnight At the Lost and Found
Honky Tonk Woman ~ vocals from kasim & patti
for crying out loud
1999 ~ tom, patti etc
Mercedes Benz ~ PEARL
bit of modern girl
Two Outta Three Ain't Bad
You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth
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Bat Out of Hell
tHIS REVIEW WAS WRITTEN BY DONNA JACOBS
I was lucky enough to have a front row seat at this concert which was excellent.
At 7.30pm support act
Picture House came on and really got the crowd going with some of their
songs. They played for 30 mins and after they left the crowd started getting
ready for the main event.
At approx 8.10 we were
treated to a simulated thunderstorm with lightning effects and rain playing
through the speakers. The atmosphere built up to a crescendo and at 8.30 it went
totally dark. We were then led to believe that there was an electrical
fault (this was all part of the show) with smoke rising from the mixer desk and
men walking around with torches . The crowd went wild as Meat appeared as a dark
figure on stage, dressed in his customary black clothes, and took his seat on a
cluster of imitation rocks.
He opened with the
beautiful, haunting Home by Now/No Matter
What
complete with a backdrop showing a menacing forest. He then
launched straight into Life is a Lemon with the
backdrop disappearing to show the band playing a new intro to this, complete
with Patti, Pearl and Ray each playing a bass drum for all they were worth. This
really brought the place alive. It was played with such anger and energy that it
was unbelievable. This was followed by Dead Ringer for Love
that was acted out on stage as in the video and was very
entertaining. Then came the rock ballads I'd Lie for
You and I Would do
Anything for Love sung brilliantly by Meat and
Patti. Meat then sang Lawyers Guns and Money, a
relatively unknown song during which Meat, Kasim, Ray and Damon played a great
guitar segment. This was followed by the magical Rock N Roll
Dreams come Through sung as passionately as ever. It all went quiet as
Ray and Tom played the intro to the new single Is Nothing
Sacred. Meat and Patti sang with such emotion and passion that it just
blew you away. The visual effects and fog were just stunning and left you in
total awe of it all. If this is not a huge hit the world has gone mad!!. The
mood then changed and the crowd went mad as Damon played the intro to Paradise by the Dashboard Light. A huge metallic walk
through curtain descended in the middle of the stage from which Meat emerged
dressed in a tuxedo and bow tie. When Patti appeared she was wearing a wedding
dress much to the shock and dismay of Meat Loaf. He remarked that he could not
remember asking her to marry him, only being in the back seat with her at the
lake. The pair of them then disappeared behind the curtain to re-enact the "Phil
Rizzutto" part (and we all know how that goes). Meat reappeared several times with
various parts of the wedding dress and threw them aside much to the cheering of
the crowd. When they both re-emerged Patti was wearing a skimpy white dress and
stockings, which seemed to send the male population of the crowd into a
frenzy. They then launched into their usual insults and arguments with Patti
upsetting Meat and making fun of his size and certain parts of his anatomy. The
crowd found this very entertaining and amusing.
After this blinding performance the band took a bow and left the stage, except Meat who helped set up stools at the front of the stage for the acoustic set. The piano and drums were also moved forward.
Meat introduced the band one by
one, including "his girl" Pearl, and they took
their seat. He almost forgot
to introduce John the drummer until one of the
band noticed he was missing.
There was some heckling in the audience to which
Meat replied that if they
could do the intros better then they were welcome
on stage, the stewards
would not stop them but may "shoot" them. The acoustic set got underway and
included Midnight at the Lost & Found, Mercedes
Benz(sung by Pearl), Honky Tonk Women, 1999 & Two outta Three ain't
Bad. He also made Patti sing the song that she sang at her audition and
told the story about her kicking a city bus after believing that she'd
failed. The last song of the acoustic set was You Took the
Words Right out of My Mouth, and to hear over 10,000 people singing along
and clapping was truly amazing.
The acoustic versions were brilliant with Meat remarking that he has a lot of fun during this part of the show. It also showed the great talent that all the band members have, they were very good.
Last but not least came the awesome Bat Out Of Hell complete with the inflatable bat. This really made the place erupt with people singing, clapping and stamping their feet. Then it was over all too soon, the lights went up and everyone left with BOOH ringing in their ears.
I think this was the best
concert so far and Meat seemed to put so much into
this performance and
appeared to thoroughly enjoy it. He still has what it takes to turn a concert
into a totally mind-blowing piece of theatre. His voice is as strong as ever
whether he is singing a ballad or a full blown rock song and he seems to sing
with a passion that not many other singers have.
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