Pussycat Dolls On Tour // Doll Domination Tour // Reviews

Reviewed by Thomas
Venue: Bournemouth BIC, 25th January 2009

OKAY !!!
The Day after the Night before and I genuinely had the one of the best nights of my life!!!
I started queuing at 2pm for standing (some people had been their since 6am) and was in the front of the first block) so roll on 4 ½ hours and the car park was full and 3 block of people where rammed!!!!
Myself and my group managed to get to just to the right of the stage and where at the bar!!!!
The crowed was pumped and the atmosphere was electric in Bournemouth that night with PCD being echoed throughout the standing section….
It the came to 7:40 and the lights darkened for Lady Gaga (20 Minutes late!!!!)
She came on behind a cloth and 3 very attractive S&M’d up dancers!!
Her VT began to roll, and her specific New York background and their was a different feel in the air as it felt like a separate concert all together!!
Candy Warhol was what she was being labelled as and she delivered nothing more than sweet brilliance!!
She played around with the moving rectangles that supported her behind along with the hunky 3 male dancers (reminiscing Madonna’s Sweet and Sticky tour of 08) each song was brilliant all with their own brilliant performance of crucifix lifts and dancing, along with GAGA who was singing live, there came a quick costume change and then GAGA closed her set with the anthemia Just Dance which brought the house down
STRONG POINTS
Vocals (amazing trills and strength)
Performance
Image
Energy
Highlight songs have to be Just Dance and Paparazzi and Poker face
WEAKER POINTS
Interaction with audience (hello Bournemouth was all we got with head down)
Songs all blended into one we never knew which song was which)
Lady GaGa is defonatley a talent to be reckoned with

A short 15 minute interval and the pussycats opened with takin over the world to warm the crowd up!!!!
They arrived on amazing motorbikes much like their album cover and the energy was their from the off!!
Highlights for the 1st act have got to be I Don’t Need a Man, I Hate This Part and Buttons especially Buttons with the SPFX and amazing dance routine.
Even though at the beginning Nicole’s mic wasn’t quite right so she sounded really echoed! Her face looked as if she was about to kick some1 in the ass but within a matter of seconds it was sorted
Pussycat dolls had a rapport with the audience that was like no other act I had seen at the BIC even with me and my friend every time Jessica came over she was singing and dancing the song to us and mouthed I love you, they were buzzing of the crowd’s energy!
Then we Got to the solo’s which I have to say I was looking forward to a lot! I love the flow of this section when after each performance they inro’d themselves and I have to say melody’s vocal performance was amazing even if she was ill bless her !
But my highlight was Kimberley’s Solo Don’t Wanna Fall in Love the energy and connection between her and her dancer Ramon was amazing, the way he camped it up (which was obviously deliberate for you guys in the forum lol, if you watch the sailor scene then we is dancing as straight as the rest of them..idiots) really fitted the feel of the song and the song itself is pretty good.
Jessica’s solo came in at close second, If I was a Man for me
So Next was time for the old school Section and I loved the video interlude beforehand when Nicole explained the history of the PCD at the Viper Room and it just set the tone and made people realise the not only the Dolls but Robin Antin has worked VERY hard to get PCD where they are today!
Anyho so Big Spender was amazing the ballet bar and melody singing, choreography was so tight!
And I loved that the dancers had the chance to shine in Watchamacalit because that doesn’t happen often enough on tours
But I have to say the last section was by no means least and was definitely my favourite by far with the Swarovski adorned costumes amazing SPFX and amazing set list I knew was ahead so we had magic to get us into the swing of things which was brilliant then we had BOTTLE POP!
I love this song soooo much and was sooo jealous when the 4 who got picked got picked haha but I was hilarious because bar 1 (the guy who won who was hilarious) none of them were doing the routine they were just shaking they’re ass around haha the Dolls looked a bit like eeek and I was like I KNOW THIS ROUTINE haha
Anyho so soon enough it was the finale with the Robin S Remix of Don’t Cha and the amazing When I Grow Up in which Melody, Ashley, Kimberly and Jessica came over and sang bits of the 2 songs as I was tryin to do the routines from my cramped place in standing! They loved it and kept mouthing we love you and almost having dance off’s with me MADE MY NIGHT!!!
So the lights went up and I have to say was such ana amzing concert the Nicole ran back on stage like 5 mins after the house lights went up to give this guy his t-shirt back and then security told myself and my group were to go if we wanted to meet them
So we did and they were all genuinely lovely!!
I have met The Saturdays and Girls Aloud but I have to say they are the nicest by far and the fact they bothered to come out was a gift and a true showing of how nice a band they are
Mikey Minden and Robin Antin and the dancers (especially Ramon who gt a massive cheer) waved at us from down the stairs and then 1 by 1 the dolls came to see us but my camera died so we just were hugging and screaming OMG was amaze!!! Ashley gave me a hug then Kim gave me some words of advice when I told her I was a dancer she said haha
GO AT IT, KEEP STRONG, AND ILL SEE YOU SOMEDAY ON STAGE loved it!!!
Melody didn’t come over to our side but the Jessica came over which was amazing, she rememberd me from the audience and got her hand, touched my chin and said THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR BEING AN AMAZING AUDIENCE MEMBER, YOU MADE MY NIGHT, GOOD LUCK not even joking after a hug I nearly fainted !!!!!!
Then Nicole ushered her way out and looked flawless and I gave her a hug and said thankyou she was lovely and spent ages speaking to every1, haha even signed my sisters arm!!!
All in all 25/01/09 is a date at the BIC ill never forget! HAVE A FAB TIME EVERYONE!