Since I haven’t been to any of the other music festivals this summer, and I didn’t have any on the calendar, when the email for discount tickets to the Mercedes-Benz World Summer Concert Series came into my inbox I thought why not. The line-up didn’t sound too bad with Will Young, The Saturdays, Scouting for Girls, Alexandra Burke and Olly Murs though if I’m honest the only reason I wanted to go was to see Alexandra Burke! and I guess maybe a little part of me wanted to see Will Young, who was the headlining act, too.
It was kind of weird to be going to a car factory/showroom/museum to attend a concert but hey for the most part it worked. There is heaps of space out there and all they really need was stage, lots of porta loos and lots of chairs!
Unfortunately the planning wasn’t that great in terms of placement. We were towards the back and side and we had okay views … when the booze line wasn’t in our way! The alcohol shack was right behind us and because they were so slow the lines often went all the way down the aisles to at least halfway to the stage! Frustrating but at that stage people were up on their chairs and moving around and standing in the aisles to see the performers anyway!
First up on stage was Olly Murs
Then Alexandra Burke
Scouting for Girls proved popular with the young teen girls
A small break for the self-photos
Rather randomly, as they weren’t on the bill, we had special guests The Wanted. Apparently to make up for the fact that the concert was late starting they had called up to say they were happy to go on and do a couple of numbers!
The Saturdays were full of high energy though a dude with a giant yellow poster kept getting in our way!
And finally Will Young, who was good but unfortunately our concentration was suffering at that stage and we left before he completed his set!
The concert today was a looong afternoon and evening but we had a good time. The crowd was a totally random mix of people from really little kids to really old adults. It was fairly relaxed though queues were ridiculous first for the drink, then for snacks and then for ice cream! Ah well!
