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An evening with the Scissor Sisters
Posted on 13-01-2012
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the Scissor Sisters concert in Abu Dhabi, and it was absolutely amazing. By 10pm the crowds were anxious to hear the band, and I swear there were so many gay men around me it was like Grindr but with straight people too. As soon as the band took the stage at 11pm, the crowds completely lost it, and we were treated to an hour and a half of fantastic music. They covered all their classics like Laura, Take Your Mama Out, Fire With Fire, Invisible Light, and even Sex and Violence. The atmosphere was beyond electric as people sang along and screamed like crazy whenever Jake came near the front of the stage. I sent a tweet to @jakeshears before the concert which went a little like this:
I was majorly peeved that my camera decided to die halfway through, so I had to rely on my Blackberry to take photos, which didn’t turn out as bad as I thought they would! It would have been epic if there was any merchandise on sale as I would have loved to grab a t-shirt or something to add to my ever-expanding wardrobe.
After the band’s exhaustive set we were treated to an incredibly talented beatboxer (whose name escapes me…WTF!) who did some truly amazing things. Drums, bass, violins, trumpets and vocals all seamlessly reproduced by one man with no other equipment or backing – it was absolutely incredible. We then had the pleasure of the fierce Ms Dynamite entertaining us, who really interacted with the crowd and got every single person jumping around and dancing. The night was then wrapped up by a final hour of DJing before everyone headed out at about 2.30am. Exhausted from the screaming/dancing combo, I headed back to my hotel for some shuteye, with the chorus of Invisible Light as my lullaby.
A big thank you to Think Flash Abu Dhabi for organizing the event, but my personal thank you goes out to @dannclark for inviting me to the gig, and for being so incredibly stealthy as he whipped around the stage with his team between sets, dismantling equipment, shifting gear, adjusting mikes, and not to mention MCing the crowd! Thank you so much Heather! xoxo
Here’s some quick photos I managed to nab with my phone:
