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Glasgow Times
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Singer Joy Crookes announces Glasgow O2 Academy show
Joy Crookes, famous for songs like Feet Don't Fail Me Now and When You Were Mine, will be performing at the O2 Academy in the Southside. (Image: Image supplied) The gig will take place on Monday, November 10. READ NEXT: Indie band to perform in Glasgow after TRNSMT performance The singer, who has over two million monthly listeners on Spotify and has performed at the likes of Glastonbury and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, first rose to fame in 2013 after she uploaded a cover of Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles to YouTube at the age of 15. The video gained the attention of over 600,000 viewers, one of which included her current manager. The upcoming Glasgow show follows the singer's latest release, Carmen. READ NEXT: Popular Irish band announce huge Glasgow show Tickets for the show go live at 10am on May 30. Pre-sale tickets will go live on May 29 at 10am. To purchase and/or sign up for pre-sale tickets, visit
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cyndi Lauper live at The O2 review: fun, barely-contained mayhem
Last summer, Lauper drew a huge crowd at Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, but gave a rocky and uneven performance in a show beset with technical difficulties. When her vocals weren't drowned out entirely by the cranked-up bass, she often lagged behind the band, possibly due to issues with her in-ear monitors, and by the end, she appeared frustrated with the production team. It was far from a triumphant victory lap, and ahead of her first (and last) arena tour since 1987, the new wave star had a lot to prove. Fortunately, she sounded far better last night at The O2. Lauper still has pipes after all, it turns out: unleashing an operatic quaver for her cover of Prince's When You Were Mine, and belting out the high notes of I Drove All Night to huge cheers while her floaty white skirt served as a projector for images of cars and streaming headlights. 'And I still can't parallel park,' she quipped afterwards. Lit by the crowd's phone torches, Time After Time finally got the rendition it really deserved, too. Lauper also invited surprise guest Boy George on for her joyous closer Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Conceptually, Lauper explained, the Farewell Tour is intended as a piece of living art: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun featured visuals by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (and a dot-covered costume for Lauper) while True Colours was accompanied by a version of Daniel Wurtzel's installation art piece Air Fountain. 'If I'm going out, I'm going out big,' she reasoned, on her distinctive Queens drawl. 'I've never been a church mouse anyway.' So far, so slick? There was still plenty of chaos along the way: opener She Bop featured Lauper performing a slightly honking recorder solo, and ahead of a cover of Mardi Gras song Iko Iko, she clambered out of a trapdoor in a frill-covered dress by designer Christian Siriano, accessorised with a washboard chest-plate. 'The gays want glamour!' she declared, quoting Siriano. There was also no reining in Lauper's love of a meandering, slightly excessive story. Earlier iterations of the tour's setlist featured a cover of Wanda Jackson's Funnel of Love, but last night Lauper got too carried away with one of her winding tales. 'Holy cow! I forgot to do a song!' she exclaimed. Not even this could halt her monologuing though; within minutes she moved straight onto romanticising houses covered with asbestos ('I always used to think that the shingles looked like Good & Plenty [sweets]') For most other artists, this could easily be a total trainwreck, but Lauper's too charismatic for that. Though far from polished, it was hard to resist the charm of her sweary Queens drawl, and in the end, the undercurrent of barely-contained mayhem felt like an integral part of the fun.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cyndi Lauper review – still showing her true colours in fun farewell tour
Within 10 minutes of appearing on stage, Cyndi Lauper has sung about masturbation, played a tuneless recorder solo, accidentally hit a crew member with said instrument, and given a rambling speech about wrestlers, the Goonies and how, after more than 40 years in music, this will be her last tour. 'I figured if I was going out,' she says while sporting a mint-green wig, 'I'd go out with a bang.' That's certainly one way to describe the approach to the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Lauper's first (and now final) arena shows since 1987. The tour began last year in North America, although that time on the road hasn't reined in the chaos: the show is all over the place. Along with the incident involving the recorder, Lauper is plagued by technical difficulties, poor sound that buries her voice beneath an admittedly slick band, an uneven setlist, dodgy costumes, and her own garrulous monologues. For anyone else it could be disastrous. But as Lauper begins another anecdote about a breakup with boyfriend and the movie Poltergeist, she wins you over with her charming and squeaky New York drawl. 'I'm only talking to you because I don't want you think that all this is bigger than you and me connecting,' she says. When things align, the show is excellent: material from She's So Unusual is a highlight, Lauper's still impressive voice punching through her fizzy cover of Prince's When You Were Mine, then delicately caressing the soft, pillowy Time After Time. There's moving vulnerability in an a cappella take on Fearless, revved-up passion during I Drove All Night, soaring euphoria in the new age strum of Sisters of Avalon, and a poignant performance of True Colors staged alongside a version of artist Daniel Wurtzel's Air Fountain installation. It's just enough to distract from the mess – but then again, Lauper has often left slick perfectionism in the hands of her peers. During her final and most famous song, the aim of the night becomes clear: even at 71 years old, this girl just wants to have fun. • At the O2, London, on 11 February; then touring.
The Guardian
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Cyndi Lauper review – still showing her true colours in fun farewell tour
Within 10 minutes of appearing on stage, Cyndi Lauper has sung about masturbation, played a tuneless recorder solo, accidentally hit a crew member with said instrument, and given a rambling speech about wrestlers, the Goonies and how, after more than 40 years in music, this will be her last tour. 'I figured if I was going out,' she says while sporting a mint-green wig, 'I'd go out with a bang.' That's certainly one way to describe the approach to the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Lauper's first (and now final) arena shows since 1987. The tour began last year in North America, although that time on the road hasn't reined in the chaos: the show is all over the place. Along with the incident involving the recorder, Lauper is plagued by technical difficulties, poor sound that buries her voice beneath an admittedly slick band, an uneven setlist, dodgy costumes, and her own garrulous monologues. For anyone else it could be disastrous. But as Lauper begins another anecdote about a breakup with boyfriend and the movie Poltergeist, she wins you over with her charming and squeaky New York drawl. 'I'm only talking to you because I don't want you think that all this is bigger than you and me connecting,' she says. When things align, the show is excellent: material from She's So Unusual is a highlight, Lauper's still impressive voice punching through her fizzy cover of Prince's When You Were Mine, then delicately caressing the soft, pillowy Time After Time. There's moving vulnerability in an a cappella take on Fearless, revved-up passion during I Drove All Night, soaring euphoria in the new age strum of Sisters of Avalon, and a poignant performance of True Colors staged alongside a version of artist Daniel Wurtzel's Air Fountain installation. It's just enough to distract from the mess – but then again, Lauper has often left slick perfectionism in the hands of her peers. During her final and most famous song, the aim of the night becomes clear: even at 71 years old, this girl just wants to have fun. At the O2, London, on 11 February; then touring.
