JLS

JLS

THE 4^TH DIMENSION TOUR

(Sheffield – 28/3/12)

The highlight of my week was definitely going to see JLS on their current tour. I went with my best friend, cousin and my little brother who had never been to a concert before let alone a boy band concert. It was also the first time we had managed to get floor seats.

First of all came the support acts – we had NVS up to start the ball rolling who seem to warm the crowd up nicely, one of the guys did remind me of a younger version of Marvin. The came Oritse’s girl group Vida who even though there music is not exactly my cup of tea got the crowd going and it was nice to see the support from the JLS fans and finally came Starboy Nathan who really got the crowd worked up and got himself a new fan in me – I love his song ‘Who Am I’.

Now it was time for the main act itself and after a bit of confusion of whether they were going to come down from the roof at the front of the stage (as we say people up there) they had travelled across the arena and came down one by one into a middle stage and kicked off the show with Take You Down followed by The Club Is Alive. The crowd went crazy as the guys ran through the crown to get to the front of the stage.

I loved the whole then to this years tour with it being a matrix / ghostbusters / video game thing. The show was full of surprises like flying about in the air while doing their own rendition of hit song Earthquake to emerging in to the middle of the crowd again on a triangle scaffolding getting up close and personal with their fans.

They played hit after hit and even treat us to some album tracks off of their other albums including Outta This World and That’s My Girl. They even did a medley of Chris Brown and Usher which they absolutely smashed.

After singing their anthem Everybody In Love in the middle stage earlier on in the night it led me to wonder what song they would finish with. Of course everyone was up on their feet when they belted out their summer smash hit of 2011 She Makes Me Wanna and I along with the people that came with me was doing the famous dance routine. It was time to slow it down a bit and let us catch our breath while they beautifully sang their new single which is also in aid of Sports Relief – Proud. I have to congratulate Aston and JB in particular on the high notes that they hit during the song – I was completely amazed.

It was drawing to the end of what was going to be a fantastic night and yet I still couldn’t work out what song they would end on – they had already sung Everybody In Love and She Makes Me Wanna, I had completely forgotten about Do You Feel What I Feel until the beat music started.

All in all JLS completely smashed the show from beginning to end – it was completely AB – tastic with Oritse flashing his new abs at the crown, it was only JB who kept his shirt on but with the arms he has got he doesn’t need to flash his abs.

I left the arena with my ear ringing and hardly being able to speak but it was completely worth it. The only problem JLS have is how the hell are they going to top this years tour next year. I will look forward to finding out.