MEAT LOAF concert metro arena 31/10 a joke

foxybabe

I hope he is ok tonight, I am going to Birmingham. As yet the concert is still on. V apparehensive though I will be pretty p****d if he walks off again. I would rather it was cancelled at least I will get my money back.

pinkshoes

foxybabe wrote: »

I hope he is ok tonight, I am going to Birmingham. As yet the concert is still on. V apparehensive though I will be pretty p****d if he walks off again. I would rather it was cancelled at least I will get my money back.

I wouldn't hold your breath about him playing at Birmingham tonight!!! Read this:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2787427.ece

Meat Loaf halts gig to say: I quit

He would do anything for love, but he won’t do Tyneside. Standing on a stage there on Wednesday evening, it seemed that he might not, in fact, do anywhere, ever again.
Meat Loaf, the rock singer known for his larynx-trembling marathon performances, was less than halfway through his concert at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne. The opening bars of Paradise by the Dashboard Light were sounding when he came to an abrupt halt. “I can no longer continue,” he said. “This is the last show I may ever do in my life.” The man who has sung for decades that he would “run right into hell and back” appeared unable to contemplate a visit to Birmingham this evening. Newcastle appeared to have finished him off.
Thousands of despondent fans carried the news out of the arena. Phil Cammish, 23, from Newcastle, said that the singer had “started saying ‘This is my last ever gig, this is my last ever song. Thanks for 30 years, I can’t do this anymore’. From where we were sitting we could see him walk off stage and then a St John Ambulance crew ushered him away.”
It was then announced that the concert had been cancelled because of “an illness”.
Mr Cammish recalled that Meat Loaf had just sung Not a Dry Eye in the House, which includes the lines: “The ending’s just too sad to take . . . Listen and you’ll hear the sound . . . Hear the sound of a heart breaking.”
It now appeared that this might be the last song that Marvin Lee Aday, 60, the artist known as Meat Loaf, would sing on stage.
Outside the venue, Mr Cammish thought that he could hear the sound of a heart breaking. “I saw a man dressed up as Meat Loaf weeping on the steps,” he said. “Everyone during the gig was commenting that they thought he was plastered. He kept having emotional talks during the gig and telling stories about his children and slurring his words. He was saying things that had nothing to do with the gig.”
Mr Cammish said that he thought the star sounded awful. “His backing singers had to carry him through most of the songs. He couldn’t finish some of his hits.”
Another fan, reviewing the concert on the website last.fm, wrote that he thought Meat Loaf had looked tired and that his voice had sounded weaker than usual. A spokeswoman for the NEC Arena in Birmingham said that she was waiting to hear whether he would be continuing with his scheduled performance tonight.
Meat Loaf’s publicist said that she was hoping for the best. “He does occasionally have these blow-outs,” she said. “He collapsed on stage at Wembley a few years back with a heart problem.”
He is said to require a mask and a small tank of oxygen to be charged up beside the stage. The publicist said: “I think he just had a Meat Loaf moment. He’s not 25 anymore.”
Andrew Miller, Meat Loaf’s promoter, said: “I’ve just spoken to his doctor and it’s clear that it’s just exhaustion and stress. He’ll be fine and hopefully on stage in Birmingham.
“We hope that a 24-hour rest will get him better.”

- from thetimesonline today!

Poppycat

Meat Loaf 'ready' to resume tour

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7075316.stm

Staff at the NEC in Birmingham have told the BBC that singer Meat Loaf will perform at the venue later as planned.

juno

madfrenchgirl wrote: »

Honestly, I have been a fan since I was 13. However, the past 5 years, any footage of concerts I have seen, Jon sings in a lower key and very nasal (this is known as cheating). I have been to see them in Southampton during the have a nice day tour, we could not hear him for the first half hour (might have been sound problems in all fairness) and his voice got so bad, he had to let Richie take over for a couple of songs. He also let the audience sing most of Living on a Prayer.

Have you listened to their latest albums? Mr MFG-to-be keeps on buying them and I only listened to them once each. Jon cannot sing or even belt like he used to, even in studio. I always thought that technically speaking, Richie has always been a better singer (if you haven't done already, check out his solo work).

You were obviously not at Manchester last year. We got Dry County, and it was amazing. And Jon waved at me.

looby75

Poppycat wrote: »

Meat Loaf 'ready' to resume tour

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7075316.stm

Staff at the NEC in Birmingham have told the BBC that singer Meat Loaf will perform at the venue later as planned.

looks like staff at the NEC got that a bit wrong lol http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7075811.stm

Meat Loaf cancels Birmingham gig

Suggs

looby75 wrote: »

looks like staff at the NEC got that a bit wrong lol http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7075811.stm

Meat Loaf cancels Birmingham gig

Just wish I knew before setting off to the NEC

looby75

Suggs wrote: »

Just wish I knew before setting off to the NEC

Oops

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: (sorry )

LilMissEmmylou

Hapless, the live performance side of the industry is the only side growing - so I can assure people that most artists DO make money from their tours. Kiss may not have but i guess that would be down to overspending or else they underestimated their costs and should have had higher ticket prices to cover overheads. Id say it isnt common for tours to lose that much money - as what would be the point if there was no money in it

slightly more on topic - how gutting that hes not as good as he was, hes one of those acts ive always wanted to see but never got around to as yet.

foxybabe

Suggs wrote: »

Just wish I knew before setting off to the NEC

We were lucky, I was stuck in traffic getting to my friends which meant we were late setting off. Rang NEC just before we were about to go and they said he had just this minute cancelled. If I hadn't got stuck in traffic we would have gone all the way there.

The gig is rescheduled for the 29th Nov, but I am not very hopeful!!!

blondie7

I know its disappointing for people at birmingham that he didnt perform but at least you have not lost out as the gig is on at a later date or you could get your money back but us at newcastle have lost all that money for the tickets.

If he is not going to do gigs again then just dont and quit instead of having people hanging on to see if future dates are going ahead