The lights went down and Danny, Dougie, Tom and Harry came on and opened with the first single from their new album,’ Above the Noise’, ‘Party Girl’. The whole crowd are singing along, even though the song hasn’t been out for long.
The second song they played was ‘Nowhere Left to Run’, which is also the name of their 40 minute film.
It starts off simple with just guitar, joined by a subtle bass drum and Tom singing the verse and then it kicks in to the chorus with Danny on lead vocals and Dougie joining with the bass guitar. They then merged it into their very first hit single, ‘Five Colours in her Hair’. It started off slow at first in the opening verse and chorus; it then went to the normal fast paced tempo, everyone was singing along to the lyrics and you could definitely tell who the hardcore fans were, as they were not only singing the lyrics, but in the way that McFly do when performing live.
McFly have sort of gained a new sound, they have definitely progressed since their first album, ‘Room on the 3rd Floor.
As usual when the crowd is asked how they are, McFly are answered by a lot of screaming. Tom then welcomed everyone to the tour and then went on to play his personal favourite off of the album, ‘If You See Kate’, however part way through the song, they stop as Danny had to sneeze. After Danny had sneezed, ‘If You See Kate’ starts up again. It is a new song, so no one sings along, which is rare as quite a lot of the new album had been leaked a few weeks prior to the tour. People were clapping along; all you can see is a sea of hands and cameras. The new song got a good response from the fans, which is always a positive when you are premiering new material.
The next song is a classic from their album Radioactive, ‘Lies’. Of course everyone is jumping around, the entire mosh in front of the stage swarmed whilst singing along.
It then goes in to ‘Falling in Love’; everyone is clapping a singing along until the middle eighth where the song turns in the ‘Star Girl’ (from the album Motion in the Ocean). It is by far one of the crowds’ favourite songs, and instead of the lyrics ‘make a little love in the moonlight’ the last two words were changed to ‘Shepherds Bush’.
The audience was introduced to the backing band and a joke was made about one of the backing vocalists’ boobs.
They then went on to do a cover of ‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz, which they had recently performed on the Radio One Live Lounge. It was a rocked up version of the song and everyone knew it as the original version was already rather popular.
The next song was the first track on their new album, ‘End of the World’. Not many fans knew it, but a select few did as it was a song that was able to be downloaded by Pioneers of Super City, it has got the crowds approval.
The next performance was ‘Friday Night’, which is one of the best songs that these four perform live. It gets the crowd excited, which is why in previous tours, they have opened with it.
After ‘Friday Night’, Harry and Dougie go off stage and leave Tom and Danny to do an acoustic version of ‘Too Close for Comfort’. It was outstanding and just beautiful. They haven’t performed that song on a tour in quite some time, so it was nice to hear it again.
Dougie came back on stage for ‘All About You’, which was the Official 2005 Comic Relief Single. The crowd immediately sings along and Harry returns to the stage.
Tom admits he is a perfectionist and is proud of his songs and hopes the fans are too.
The next track was a bit slow but still rocky and is called ‘I’ll be Your Man’. Tom fronts the entire song, it is amazing and a very loving song, it could possibly be a new favourite amongst the fans.
There is a brief interval and the crowd starts to chant ‘McFly!’ over and over as soon as the band leaves for their small break. Anticipation fills the venue as everyone is waiting for their favourite band to come back on stage.
McFly returned to the stage and welcomed, yet again, by screams and played ‘One for the Radio’, which the crowd always enjoy, especially when they put their fists in the air and declare ‘WE DON’T CARE’.
Tom, Dougie and Danny play the backing to ‘Faith’ by George Michael and introduced us to Harry, as he spent the entire show at the back of the stage drumming. He says a few words and says that he can see his mother in the crowd singing along to every song.
Isaac (one of the backing band) plays ‘A Whole New World’ and everyone sings along. The guys then talk about Super City and how it has taken them 2 years to make and that is why they have been absent off the music scene since ‘Radioactive’. In the day that Super City opened its gates there were 10 million hits on the site in 8 hours causing the site to run slow and crash, therefore all citizens of Super City were ushered out of the site and the gates were shut until November 8th where they would re-open the site after dealing with all the glitches.
Seeing as the band played ‘Five Colours in Her Hair’ earlier on in the set, which is unusual (as every McFly tour, apart from Wonderland, ended with Five Colours), they end with their most recent hit, ‘Shine a Light’, which normally would involve Taio Cruz, but for the tour, Tom sang Taio’s parts.
The four definitely ended the show in style and all the fans left happy and with a renewed love of McFly.
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