Lady Gaga concert in Manila, Philippines - concert coverage photos and videos

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

(photo close up shot by Diego Pineda)

My sister decided to buy tickets of the concert, but we got a wrong timing and the upperbox section is already sold out. We got the general admission area tickets and then we arrived at the coliseum, we were surprised that they opened up a ticket selling for a upperbox area standing only. We took our dinner at the Gateway mall food court and I saw there the fans of Lady Gaga, all in their flashy outfit, with that lightning figure make up in their face, and carries a light up disco stick. Pedicab performed as a front act of the night, people went crazy and thought that the show will start, everyone ran into the front row of the VIP section and then later on, the bouncers controlled the crowd and let everyone sit on their designated seats. We at the gen ad area saw everything from above, in an instant of minutes, the coliseum was full and packed with fans and concert goers.

The concert crew placed a white cloth cover the front of the stage, and we heard an announcement that there will be another intermission break after the Pedicab performance, the lights went out and then we saw a large projected image of Lady Gaga at the giant whit cloth as it covers the entire stage. I think we waited for another 30 minutes until the show started. When the lights went off again, everyone screamed, we saw a big projected counted in the white cloth and a short film of Lady Gaga entitled "Candy Warhol" is playing,then we saw Lady Gaga coming up on stage from the right side, carrying some props with her dancers.

here are some of my experience and review
( read more below and see the photos/videos)

1. Paparazzi was the first song of the night, and the set up performance is much the same I saw in Youtube, and even joked with my sister and said that I feel like I'm watching a Youtube video, I have the performance recorded in video, but if you want to see the main performance, watch the Youtube video here at Lady Gaga - Paparazzi and Love Game Live HD and it's just the same.

2. At first I thought that having Lady Gaga performing in Araneta is bad, I got this impression that her music style is not fitted tot the venue, because everyone will be dancing while watching. But then I was wrong, Araneta is a perfect venue and I am not open minded at first about her music, Lady Gaga is not for dance music only, and can be level for RnB, rock, metal, pop, and dance.

3. She pause for a moment and stands on the stage for minutes, giving time for the camera paparazzi took photos of her.

4. She talks to the audience and said that her best friend is from the Philippines. And Manila is her new friend today, she loves the city and happy to see everyone.

5. I don't know if this is a joke. Lady Gaga said "People are asking if Lady Gaga has a dick", she's referring to the issue that she is gay or hermaphrodite, people screams so loud and then she answered something like that she is loving her dick... ohh that means..she..a he? or maybe its a joke for us.

6. A big tv went on stage every break, a time for Lady Gaga to change her clothes. The tv screen projects some videos from the Candy Warhol film.

7. I love the Just Dance performance, a big tv screen is on stage again and she performs behind it with a color edited version of Just dance music video played in sync with her.

8. She performs with a heavy metal band, the guys play so hard banging their heads, with long hairs and rocker attitude.

9. Everyone raise their hands and dance, and people showed their disco stick during the Love game performance.

10. She always take time to talk to the audience and it was fun to see her talk and do this funny comedic moves. She also said that there are many beautiful people in Manila.

11. Most of her costume and outfit is much the same from her concert tour in other countries.

12. Love to see her play the piano and do this exhibition of spreading her legs and placing it on top of the piano keyboard and plays.. yeah.. she even plays the piano with her feet on top.

13. She played Poker Face 2 times, one is the keyboard solo version, which you can watch the Youtube video here at Lady GaGa "Poker Face Piano Acoustic" Live on The Fame Ball Tour Los ... with the same set up and outfit. And then she closes it with the extended dance music version of Poker Face.

14. At the end of the concert, everyone shouted "we want more!" but then we Lady Gaga and her crew took a nice bow after it, everyone shouted and clap, but then no encore is seen.

15. Lovely, fun, enjoyable, wacky, she looks like a barbie doll, and the night is so full of lights, dance, females and cameras. Its a great event and fun experience, Lady Gaga did well in entertaining us and wow us with her talent and performance.

as she said from her twitter