Review: James Blunt at Star Live

Paul Pennay | Apr 23, 2008 2:00 pm | 1 comment | 2189 reads

April 18
James Blunt
RMB 380-780.
8pm. The Star Live (6425 5677)

We didn't actually make it to James Blunt's sold-out Beijing show last Friday, but that's Beijing photographer Judy Zhou was there and took these great photos of an appreciative crowd. According to local media, the show started at around 8pm with a casually dressed Blunt sauntering onto the stage and launching into Give Me Some Love. After that, the crowd joined the singer-songwriter in singing High and Goodbye My Lover before Blunt changed into a grey suit and delivered what many in the crowd had been waiting for; a rendition of You're Beautiful. Blunt also pulled out a bit of Chinese (Xie Xie, Wanshang Hao and a rather advanced Haoyun Beijing), before finishing of the night with a crazed finale that ended with him crawling on top of his piano.

You can take a look at a couple of videos of the Beijing show below and video of his Shanghai gig over at Shanghaiist.