I had an exciting and incredible time at the concert! Martina can never disappoint!! Sarah Buxton was already performing when I got there. She did a good job with 'Outside My Window' and her other songs. Trace was great and really gave love and admiration to Martina more than once. I really enjoyed his video before the first song. It was hilarious.
Trace's Setlist:
Got My Game On
Swing
Songs About Me
Feel Something (not sure of the title), but I really liked the song
All I Could Ask For Anymore
Marry For Money
Chrome
Rough & Ready
You're Gonna Miss This
Hot Mama
Ladies Love Country Boys
Honkytonk Badonkeydonk (sorry for the misspelling)
Encore: Muddy Water
Keep On (not sure of the title)

I really enjoyed the background during Martina's set and the sound was superb as always!! The moon for 'Concrete Angel' and Martina performing less than 50 feet away from me for her performances of 'I'm Trying' and 'Love's The Only House/Blessed' was the icing on the cake. The only disappointment of the night was the people sitting behind me. They were drunk and loud. They were making comments all throughout 'Help Me Make It Through The Night'. The people around me were also giving them dirty looks and they finally took the hint. There was so much energy for this show and the encore was absolutely amazing. Martina picked two of my favorite 80's songs from the 80's!!
Martina's Setlist:
Ride
When God-Fearing Women Get The Blues
Happy Girl
Walk Away
Wild Angels
My Baby Loves Me
Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong
Lean On Me (this was good and the crowd were clapping throughout the song)
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Anyway (acoustic version was incredible & her voice made me speechless) WOW!
Concrete Angel (Very emotional and moving performance)
I'm Trying (Very emotional and moving; I LOVE this song!)
Love's The Only House/Blessed (this has got to be a keeper)!!
This One's For The Girls (many men sitting around me were singing this song too!)
Two More Bottles Of Wine
You're Not Leaving Me
Where Would You Be (this song and her powerful voice brough me to tears! WOW!!)
A Broken Wing (same reaction as WWYB)
Independence Day
Encore: Living On A Prayer (Martina really rocked this song and the people were really into it too!!)
Summer Of 69 (people were singing along to this one and Martina rocked this one too!)

Again, Martina was absolutely incredible!! Thank you for a memorable and amazing evening!!

Allyoops wrote:
I WILL be STANDING in the third row maybe closer for Martina's concert in Evansville. Just a fair warning to all who sits behind me cause I probably won't look back. I also, paid good money to enjoy my concert and if that means standing or singing then that is what I will do. I am there to show support to Martina not care what the people behind me think or say.

And Thanks Dave for the review.


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All you need is Love, Love. All you need is Love.

Ditto. I'll be one row behind you at that show, same section I imagine. Standing. Showing her my support.

There are supposed to be special sections at concerts for those with handicaps to sit and have unobstructed views. Beyond that, you can't expect thousands of other fans to all conform just for the sake of a few individuals. We paid the same amount too, and we all have our own ways of showing support to the performers.

When in doubt, always do the RIGHT thing from your own heart.

plritchie wrote:

There are supposed to be special sections at concerts for those with handicaps to sit and have unobstructed views. Beyond that, you can't expect thousands of other fans to all conform just for the sake of a few individuals. We paid the same amount too, and we all have our own ways of showing support to the performers

Yes there are "special" sections. Have you ever sat there? You should take a look at them at your next concert. Take a walk along there between acts. You will see how "special" the seats are. In my experience they are rarely unobstructed. Thanks to the 6 foot over intoxicated people standing in front of me. Then there are the people walking behind me. It seems like every other person kicks my chair. And nobody says I'm sorry or excuse me. Those seats scare me because of my fear of high places. They are off the floor, 20 plus rows. Some are to the far side of the stage and some in the back of the venue. I don’t feel like part of the concert. You call that special? Special to me means I feel like a princess, not an outcast.

Now, do I expect front row seats? No, I have been there done that. And I prefer to be 6 to 12 rows back. I wouldn’t turn down front row seats, but I don’t expect them. Do I expect people to sit the whole concert? No, It is part of being at a concert. I get that. I like being in the crowd. But you could take a look around you before the show and see if there are people shorter than you around. Maybe if you stand to the left or right side of your seat they could see better.

I have so much to say on this topic. I could probably right a book. If people would just try on other peoples shoes once in a while...

I agree, Martina was AMAZING during her performance!! But then again, she's always amazing! I had the awesome opportunity to get the front row seats and the meet & greet passes to meet Martina before she went on stage...that just made my night all the more special! Now I have a picture of me with my absolute favorite singer. I'm still in shock that I got to meet her and get her to sign my CD! She is absolutely gorgeous and such an amazing woman! (which I already knew...lol) I pray I get the chance to meet her again someday. I plan on going to see her 2 more times during the Shine All Night tour and am very excited about it!

The Reading show was even better than I expected...Martina's song choices were incredible and she nailed everything (as always..lol). Never missed a beat the entire 2 hours she performed! I'm still amazed at how she can run in those heels! lol I love the moon ride and that she gives the fans sitting out further the chance to be closer for a couple songs...I gotta say, I was up dancing and quietly singing along a lot thru her entire set...but thankfully no one around me said anything...probably because they were also up out of their seats...my friend sitting in the fourth row did have someone on her case about standing but I think she still continued to do her thing...that's what concerts are about! And people have to go expecting that we are going to get into the songs (at least the upbeat songs) and get up and dance around...that shows our support for Martina...I sit during all the slow songs until the end when we give standing ovations...which btw, Martina got 2 in a row and she was totally touched by that! but she totally deserved them! Now I understand if people are disabled, not to stand up as much as normal, but they should still understand that sometimes you just gotta jump up for Martina (if you are able to) and I'm not trying to be mean about it, just reasonable...ask nicely for people around you to maybe keep the standing to a minnimum if you are absolutely unable to stand up with them...now I haven't seen where the disabled sections really are at these venues, but at least they have a section for it. Now the people that are able to stand but choose not to or are in a bad mood an just don't feel like it, I don't feel sorry for them at all...it's a concert and they need to expect people to get into the music...

Ok, that's my opinion on the matter, but regardless, Martina did put on an amazing show and her set-up totally rocked! Can't wait to see her again!


total equestrian

First, I just LOVE Teeeee's abstract comments and views. Always have. Keep it up!
Second, my apologies for continuing to hijack a thread that was supposed to be about a good time had at Reading.
Perhaps this whole standing/not standing thing needs it's own thread.
Third, and just like Teeeee, I doubt I'll win any new friends with this one, but here goes nothing...
If you KNOW beforehand that you have a disability that will prevent you from standing for 2 hours, but you go ahead and buy a floor seat anyway, then it's YOU who screwed up and made the wrong choice. Not us. Don't expect an entire section to act as YOU expect them to. You have ZERO right to tell other fans how to act or show their support at a concert. NONE!!!!!!!!!
Buy an actual seat in the stands. That way it won't such a big issue. I've had to do it before, when I was hurting too badly to stand that long.
It's no secret that I have terrible back issues. I just had to give up a May 1st floor seat on this forum due to needing back surgery for the 3rd time next month. But I absolutely will not let that keep me from standing alot during the shows I see over the next 3 weeks. I'll just eat more pills if it hurts alot. Big friggin deal.

I want M to look out over the floor section and see a sea of standing people, arms waving, really getting into her performance, showing our love for her in that respect. Anything less would likely disappoint her.

plritchie wrote:
First, I just LOVE Teeeee's abstract comments and views. Always have. Keep it up!


I want M to look out over the floor section and see a sea of standing people, arms waving, really getting into her performance, showing our love for her in that respect. Anything less would likely disappoint her.

Well I am glad that someone here appreciates my enlightened way of thinking. My references are somewhat obscure since thay are from the FX show "Sons of Anarchy" (which Leigh does in fact watch so she will understand them) and my views are what I would term as "cutting edge" and "progressive" in a cave man sort of way. I am hoping to mainstream both my references and my views to be honest.

And I hope *some people* take note of what is NOT included in what plritchie hopes to see at Martina concerts. And those are some crazy woman dancing on a chair and some heidimorris type doing her best Taylor.....I mean Kathleen Edwards vocal impression.

I've been having recurring nightmares that I go to a concert and Leigh is doing some kind of dance on a chair to my right and heidihegnermorris is singing off key to my left. And we are the only three people at the concert. And it is a dry venue to boot. And I can't even get a good contact high because AIA is not in attendence.

It is like I dreamed I went to aa concert and ended up in the middle of an escape from Bellvue or something. It is quite traumatizing to be perfectly frank.

My excuse is that I was born "special" and I know everyone here is JEALOUS about that too.

And I just try to keep it real here. I gotta make sure that the Leighs and the heidihegnermorrises of the world know that this "women's empowerment" thang rom Martina is just a case of artistic liscence and not to be taken literally.

And on and on I go......making new "friends" with each and every new post. LMAO!!!!!!

BTW, I saw a post from you a while back that was something that would have been right out of my playbook. I was LMAO so hard when I read it that my sides hurt. I'll bet if you were not to atatch a username to that particular post most people would have guessed it was a post of mine. And that was a post you made on Sarah Palin and that "movie". I even had to do some "research" and indeed it was real! The whole way you worded it with the "actress" and the "downloaded it for free" was totally something that could easily have come from my rather abstract mind. That was a freaking scream!

Matter of fact in my original post I refered to a wrap party and certain movies "making ones skin craawl"....well lets just say your post and mine were along the EXACT same line. Leigh for sure knows what scene in SOA I am talking about.

Of course everyone here totally avoided replying to that post of yours! Kind of a trend with the both of us I see. LMAO!!!!!!

GAW!! I hate that Im outta the loop- dont even know what post you r referring to with Sarah Palin.... Glad to see this topic has spiraled outta control tho- at least for once, it was not ME who careened it off track... So glad to see ya back, TEEEEE!!!!! I missed ya-- AIA


* OBNOXIOUS, ANNOYING & occasionally AMUSING

Hey plritchie!! lemme guess- ur fave novel is by Ayn Rand - "The Fountainhead" LOL!!! & ur fave song by the KINKS, from (if my fried brain recalls correctly) the "Low Budget" LP, titled "Superman"... LOL....


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