OneRepublic / James Arthur / Fitz & The Tantrums

Ignatius Feb 23, 2019

James Arthur had won the X Factor UK awhile back. The song I recognized was Impossible, but he had a great set, I loved his accent, and the keyboard solo blew my mind. That guy made the thing sing like a guitar, mmm it was so good.

Fitz was fantastic, with the sax and the funky cover of Sweet Dreams. Michael sang the wrong words at the start of The Walker, but he just played it off like "look how stupid that was" and I enjoyed it. Really energetic band

As usual, the headliner gets a more elaborate stage setup than the openers, these guys literally disassembled a whole screen that was hanging in the middle of the stage to make room for the drumset and 5 times as many lights

Ryan Tedder's voice is freakin heavenly, he hits so many high notes with a clean falsetto and nails his vocal runs. The only problem is he really loves his vocal runs and drawn out endings to songs. They're nice to hear but the middle of the show kinda dragged on for me. But the sound was as good as I was expecting, the lasers were nice, made me wish I went to more outdoor shows with lasers, like Muse in 2011. They shot confetti twice while the lasers were going, the first one was a very fine confetti that looked like glitter, it was the first time I'd seen glittery lasers, lol