 Tonight we headed to the Oasis Centre in a Swindon,
a venue which is a themed swimming pool and sport
centre by day and a gig venue every now and again
by night, we arrived at the Oasis Centre at 7.30pm
it took us a long time to get parked after the
parking attendants sent us in a strange direction
that we ended up on a random jolly boys outing
for 20 minutes whilst trying to figure out how
to get to the main car park, we managed to get
there in the end and made our way by foot to the
front door of the venue in the freezing cold wet
and windy weather.
When we got into the Oasis Centre we had a look
around at the merch and noticed that Lily Allen
programmes were on sale at £10 each, now
this caught my eye as I’m not used to seeing
programmes being on sale at gigs but then again
I don’t really go to many pop concerts and
can’t see my favourite metal and punk bands
putting a booklet together of their favourite
photos and selling it for £10, anyway it
seemed to be a winner as there was forever a queue
for people buying the programmes.
 After a quick drink at the bar and a bit of waiting
around I made my way to the front of the stage
to join the rest of the photographers in the photopit,
Lily Allen was due on at 8.45pm, at 8.55pm the
crowd became impatient and started chanting “Lily,
Lily” really loud, it took another 5 minutes
later for the lighting to dim and the backing
curtain to swing open whilst Lily Allen’s
backing band took to the stage with Lily following
them on seconds later dressed in a stunning tight
fitted black dress, big high heeled black shoes
and one of her finest black wigs with a perfect
fringe, Lily started off by teasing the crowd
saying that she knows who got kicked out of the
X-factor, she then laughed and announced that
Jedward had been kicked out of X-factor which
had a bit of a mixed reaction on the crowd but
answered the question on why she was late coming
on stage.
Lily starts off with ‘Everyone’s
at It’ and she oozes with style and class
on stage as she walks back and forth whilst singing
along perfectly to the song as well as breaking
out in a funky dance every now and again to let
the strong 3000 people in the Oasis Centre tonight
that she is there to have the time of her life,
Lily then played ‘LDN’, ‘Back
To The Start’ and ‘22’ all in
a row and each and every song gained a good reaction
from the crowd with so many people singing along
word for word.
 Lilly Allen is a live artist who has a stage
show that you are always going to remember, she
had a massive TV screen which showed images of
herself on stage, she poured pints of Guinness
on stage from her own beer tap and passed the
pints to people in the front of the audience,
she also had three very short breaks to change
outfits and remove her wig to show off her natural
hair.
The highlights of the show for me was hearing
Lily Allen’s cover versions of the classic
Kooks song ‘Naive’, the Mark Ronson
collaboration of ‘Oh My God’ and also
hearing her perform ‘Smile’ live whilst
hearing 3000 people sing the song word for word
back to her, at the end of smile Professor Green
came on and did a bit of rapping alongside Lily’s
vocals, he was a bit of an Eminem wannabe but
for someone who the crowd had never heard of before
he went down really well.
Another highlight of the show was hearing everyone
sing along the uber catchy ‘Fuck You’
and then the closing song of ‘It’s
Not Fair’ which was heavily remixed and
a song that I never wanted to end, the only downside
of the show was that Lily Allen didn’t play
‘Womanizer’ which was on her set list,
but after the late start due to the X-factor time
wasn’t on Lily’s side and I shouldn’t
of been so nosey to check out the set list.
Lily has come along way since she first came
on the music scene, she is a fashion goddess and
also a musical goddess and she ran the show tonight
in both the musical and fashion sense.
Lily Allen – 5/5
Review By Trigger |
