P!NK

The tickets I ordered in August for P!NK's concert in October finally got used in January (because of it getting rescheduled twice)! And the 6-month wait between purchasing the tickets and attending the concert ended up being so worth it! It was a FABULOUS show!! 

 

The concert was in SLC, Utah on the Monday night of January 20 (MLK Jr. Day). Since it was a holiday, neither Josh nor I had to work, so we left Salmon around noon and headed for Utah. 

We took Kanyon with us, and we stopped in Tremonton on the way to drop him off at my parents' house. Since we knew the concert would be out late, we decided to spend the night at my parents' house and drive back to Salmon on Tuesday. The older 3 boys didn't want to miss a day of school, so they stayed home, but Kanyon said he didn't mind missing a day of school (and messing up his 100% attendance) so that he could spend some one-on-one time with his grandparents!

When Josh & I arrived in SLC, we parked at the Gateway Mall, and walked to Costa Vida for dinner. There was a huge line, but it moved pretty fast. We both love that restaurant! We always get the same thing: Josh likes the pork quesadillas, and I like the smothered pork burrito. Then we walked with the crowds down the street to the Energy Solutions Arena. It was a sold-out stadium. Our seats were in the top section (like always!).

The concert started at 7:30 and the opening act was a group called "The Kin". They were good, and we really enjoyed their music. What we didn't enjoy, though, was the people right behind us. The guy was drunk and had the nastiest smelling farts the entire night. Since our heads were about the height of his butt, every time he farted, it would instantly smell and I felt like gagging. It was disgusting!

After the opening act was done, we waited about an hour before P!NK took the stage!

Her first song was "Raise Your Glass", and she instantly grabbed the audience's attention with her acrobatic and singing skills. The next three photos were taken during her first song. There was a wire mesh, with three guys hanging from it (in the shape of heart of course!), then she was hanging from the guys, and doing flips and lunges, and singing the whole time! It was amazing! It's kind of hard to see her, but she's in the center underneath the row of lights that are blocking part of the view:

hanging upside down

doing a jump

holding on to the guys with just her arms

She performed 18 songs in all, and she was as equally as good a dancer and entertainer as she was a singer. I was in awe the entire night!

She did a very similar performance of the song "Try" at the concert as she did at the Grammy's (this is one my favorite songs of hers!). She was pulled from the bottom of the stage using a bungee that was attached to the ceiling, then she continued to sing as she turned and flipped and jumped. It was spectacular to behold!

Right after "Try", she added a song to the concert that I've never heard her sing before "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaaks. It was very raw and a nice, slow contrast to her other songs.

One of my favorites was the duet "Just Give Me A Reason". Nate Ruess' face was projected onto the screen behind her and his part of the duet was recorded, and she sang her part live right along with him. I love this song--it's one that my friend Amanda and I sing at karaoke and we have it memorized, and enjoy singing it together in harmony!

She danced on stage with her excellent back-up dancers for several song numbers, and she sang one song she wrote as she accompanied herself on a grand piano, which was impressive. There was also a song with a cage hanging over the stage, and she climbed up and was walking around the cage, clinging to the skinny wires, and then she went inside the wire cage and sang as she was spinning. She looked up as she was spinning, and the projected image on the screens showed the camera looking down on her. I couldn't believe she could sing and spin simultaneously without getting sick! Her last song was "Blow Me One Last Kiss". And then my camera died.

Most concerts I've been to have an encore. They usually turn the lights off and make the audience scream for several minutes before the performers take the stage one more time. P!NK also had an encore, but instead of turning off the lights and making the audience scream, they turned off the lights and showed a video of her and her family. It showed her growing up, and being in training for all the dance moves and acrobatics that she did during the concert, and bits of her with her daughter & husband. The short movie was set to her song "True Love". It was classic, and funny, and heart-warming (btw, she's my age!!! and has abs of steel!). As soon as the movie ended, she returned to the stage for her encore, in which she sang "So What". I wish I had a photo of her stunt during this song--she wore a harness that was attached to wires hanging from 3 corners of the ceiling, and she was lifted up into the air and pulled all around the arena as she sang. I've never seen anything like it. We were in the top section, and she was as high as we were, flipping and dangling by wires and singing non-stop! It was so remarkable. She began the concert with a wow-factor, and ended it with awe. She's one talented, classy lady! It was like seeing a concert and cirque-de-solei show all in one! I'm so glad that Josh and I went to see her! If I ever get the chance to, I would definitely go to her concert again!