You know the way James Brown used to faux-collapse?
Was that restart.rehearsed? She's done a restart in a high-profile performance before (see the 2017 George Michael Tribute at The Grammys) and the cynic in us wonders if Adele uses a restart almost like a performance tool to get the audience rooting for her. It made us love Adele even more but it slightly made us cringe. If we had all those rich and famous pairs of eyes glaring up at us we'd definitely have to restart or possibly even stop and go to lie down. It wasn't just the viewers at home who were dazzled by the sheer star-power of the audience.Īdele herself was clearly star struck when, a few bars into current chart banger, Easy on Me, she suddenly stopped the song to say: "I'm really scared" and asked the piano player to go, "one more time." There's Dua Lipa! There's Samuel L Jackson! Jodie Comer! Gareth Southgate! Dawn French! Emma Watson! Stormzy! It was like Madam Tussauds but everyone was real and not just real but swaying about and dancing to the songs of Adele. It was like celebrities were being hurled towards us one after the other, a dazzling and extraordinary display. It was an assault of celebrities on the eye. The camera did some panning across the audience (this was, after all, An Audience With Adele) and immediately our brains could not cope with it. In this piece, from here on, we'll simply say "sings" but please read it as "belting out". (*We say belting out, because Adele doesn't sing. The show opened with Adele belting out* Send My Love To Your New Lover. If your heart has stopped racing enough to relive some of the moments we loved and moments where we cringed, please join us while we unpack it a little. Some moments had us fan-girling and fan-boying all over the place, but some moments really made us cringe. National treasure, living icon, superstar song-writer, teller of dirty jokes and, quite frankly, extreme nightmare ex-girlfriend/wife.Īfter a long hiatus, there she was on stage at the London Palladium, sparkling and resplendent in her gown with only two days having elapsed since she dropped her instant hit album, 30 so we were still very much getting over that when she began to sing. Our national songbird, collective sweetheart and girl next door who is literally nothing like any girl we've ever lived next door to.
#FAR CRY 4 FUNNY MOMENT TV#
An Audience with Adele was on at the weekend and it was the first time we've seen Adele on TV for ages.Īh, Adele.