Britains Got Talent...Yes Really

After getting quite hooked on the tv show this year, both myself and Jayne were quite interested to catch the live tour of Britain's Got Talent, so we managed to snag tickets for the Wembley Arena show on the 21st (of June).

The tickets said the doors were 6.30, what they neglected to mention was that the show would start at 6.30, the doors seemingly having opened some considerable time prior to that, we got in literally as it was about to start.

Ant & Dec don't do the live tours so it was left to Stephen Mulhurne to be the guide for the evening, but rather than him kicking off the show we got the "wonderful" DJ Talent (how the hell did he ever get through to the semi finals?). Give him his due he got the crowd warmed up and had his 2 minutes of fame, hopefully never to be heard from again.

Diversity then kicked off the show in proper style with one of their routines bringing the house down, before the first sighting of the evening from Shaheen Jafagoli. The 12 year old did well, but his voice sounded like it was suffering the strains that being on tour puts on someone, especially someone young. Holly Steel and 2 Grand faired much better, before Stavros Flatley got the loudest cheer of the night with their Riverdance routine and had everyone on their feet for at least 2 minutes afterwards. When asked afterwards, all Dad Stavros had to say was "I need a bacon sandwich".

Aidan Davis then showed why he is the "heir apparent to George Sampson" with a good routine, before Shaun Smith had all the ladies in the audience screaming, my wife included lol. Julian Smith also brought the house down, before the first half was closed with a fantastic routine from Flawless (who I personally still think should have won, but what do I know I'm not 10 million people).

Flawless returned straight off the interval and were joined halfway through their routine by George Sampson, cue unbelievably high pitched screaming from the younger members of the audience. That must have rivalled anything Westlife or Take That got in their boy band heydays. George then did his new solo routine from the Britain's Got Talent final which was admittedly very good.

The second half featured some more interesting combination acts, but before we get to those, it was Susan Boyle's chance to make a lot of her critics eat their words. I don't think the sound crew were quite in step with her, as her backing track seemed to start very quickly, prompting her to ask the audience if we minded if she started again, and then when someone shouted "I love you Susan" she responded "I love you too". Handled like someone who had been doing it for years, not in the priory two weeks ago. She performed both songs she had performed on the TV show, getting a standing ovation both times, and well deserved because her voice in person is something quite awesome to behold. People like Lily Allen (who has been known to slag Boyle off in the press) should wish they had half the talent of SuBo.

Back to those combo acts previously mentioned, first up Shaheen, Aiden and the 2 youngsters from Diversity put on a very entertaining Jackson 5 routine (Shaheen wisely left most of the dancing to the other three lads). Hollie and 2 Grand put on a decent duet, before "The Smiths" combined on a fantastic rendition of "Ain't No Sunshine".

The funniest moment of the evening was the appearance of Darth Jackson and his Stormtroopers, although there were a couple of Stormtroopers not quite the same size as all the rest. Cue the stormtroopers doing the Stavros Flatley dance and the Stavros boys "unmasking" before having a funny exchange with Darth Jackson with Stephen Mulhurne in the middle.

All that was left was for Diversity to finish off the show with a combination of their routines including the winning one from the final, and they were awesome. All in all a very good live experience, and we got home at a reasonable hour to round it off nicely. Definitely worth going to see. But I still think Flawless should have won :)