I bet only one guy wrote a bad review and all the others copied from him LOL. Anyway, I think its necessary to say that a artist needs to show respect to his fans (which some here said Paolo didnt) BUT then fans need to respect the artist also. And I think its by far the worst thing for an artist if the "fans" leave early, and talk, and dont pay attention. Thats truly disrespectful. It could not have been that bad that it was necessary to leave early. I dont know why so many Swindoners (?) all of a sudden voice their protest and say all the same. There must be something about this city. And I think its not irrelevant to think that when some decided to leave for whatever reasons, this kinda provoked a chain reaction. No matter how terrible something is, I would stay there firstly because I paid, and then because I imagine how somebody feels being on stage giving his best (or something like that) and people leave or chat. It also spoils the fan for those who actually liked it, and assumingly there were a few. I dont think that made him feel any better and didnt improve his performance in any ways. I saw that often that supportacts and other are being booed off the stage not because they were bad, but because "fans" wanted to see "their" artist. If you talk of Paolo being disgraceful, you need to talk of you being disgraceful too if you left. Staying wouldnt certainly make you deaf or hurt. Its all a bit overreacted here, true or not. I think this mocking about the Swindon gig is enough now, we know it by now, thank you very much.

Bravo Arcoiris...! Thank you for your posts. I wholeheartedly agree with all you've said. Thansks for the links as well. I could at last see for myself that those people were crazy!! There was nothing unusual about his performance from the clips I've watched...!

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Originally posted by Sahnewolke <3:
I bet only one guy wrote a bad review and all the others copied from him LOL. Anyway, I think its necessary to say that a artist needs to show respect to his fans (which some here said Paolo didnt) BUT then fans need to respect the artist also. And I think its by far the worst thing for an artist if the "fans" leave early, and talk, and dont pay attention. Thats truly disrespectful. It could not have been that bad that it was necessary to leave early. I dont know why so many Swindoners (?) all of a sudden voice their protest and say all the same. There must be something about this city. And I think its not irrelevant to think that when some decided to leave for whatever reasons, this kinda provoked a chain reaction. No matter how terrible something is, I would stay there firstly because I paid, and then because I imagine how somebody feels being on stage giving his best (or something like that) and people leave or chat. It also spoils the fan for those who actually liked it, and assumingly there were a few. I dont think that made him feel any better and didnt improve his performance in any ways. I saw that often that supportacts and other are being booed off the stage not because they were bad, but because "fans" wanted to see "their" artist. If you talk of Paolo being disgraceful, you need to talk of you being disgraceful too if you left. Staying wouldnt certainly make you deaf or hurt. Its all a bit overreacted here, true or not. I think this mocking about the Swindon gig is enough now, we know it by now, thank you very much.

Hear, hear Sahne... well spoken!!

I say....if you are that upset over ONE show....get over it.

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Originally posted by Sahnewolke <3:
I bet only one guy wrote a bad review and all the others copied from him LOL. Anyway, I think its necessary to say that a artist needs to show respect to his fans (which some here said Paolo didnt) BUT then fans need to respect the artist also. And I think its by far the worst thing for an artist if the "fans" leave early, and talk, and dont pay attention. Thats truly disrespectful. It could not have been that bad that it was necessary to leave early. I dont know why so many Swindoners (?) all of a sudden voice their protest and say all the same. There must be something about this city. And I think its not irrelevant to think that when some decided to leave for whatever reasons, this kinda provoked a chain reaction. No matter how terrible something is, I would stay there firstly because I paid, and then because I imagine how somebody feels being on stage giving his best (or something like that) and people leave or chat. It also spoils the fan for those who actually liked it, and assumingly there were a few. I dont think that made him feel any better and didnt improve his performance in any ways. I saw that often that supportacts and other are being booed off the stage not because they were bad, but because "fans" wanted to see "their" artist. If you talk of Paolo being disgraceful, you need to talk of you being disgraceful too if you left. Staying wouldnt certainly make you deaf or hurt. Its all a bit overreacted here, true or not. I think this mocking about the Swindon gig is enough now, we know it by now, thank you very much.

I was in Manchester on the 18th and it was great but it also got a slagging off in the review in the local paper. Same kind of thing but not as harsh. Don't know what some people went to see. Yes he was slouching and didn't talk much but anyone whose seen him knows that. Lots of the people there didn't seem to want to be there to be honest and talked all the way through - no respect at all. Could barely hear Autumn Leaves because of all the chat near us but Paolo was brilliant it was the audience that weren't. Definitely got my money's worth and would go again and again.

I think it's fair to say that everyone is entitled to their opinion and clearly opinion is divided about the Swindon gig. I also appreciate that the 'genuine fans' on here who do travel to see Paolo, queue up to get his autograph etc are going to be a bit cheesed off with new members joining just to express their disappointment and of course you will want to defend him.

I just want to clear a few things up though if I may. I didn't buy tickets to see Paolo just because it was a local venue - I've had his album for months, enjoy listening to it and if he hadn't done a gig in my home town I would have investigated travelling to one of his other gigs. Also I have been to a lot of concerts / gigs at a lot of different venues, for a lot of different types of bands/artists so I'm not naive enough to think I am going to see an artist perform a carbon copy of their album(s). Nor am I a screaming teenager who attends gigs just to squeal at my latest crush. I go to gigs because I enjoy live music. What I expect when I go to a gig is to see the artist - be it a relatively unknown warm up act like Newton Faulkner, a long-established band like Foo Fighters, and everyone in between like Paolo - is for them to able to sing well live and entertain me. In my opinion, Paolo didn't. I appreciate he had sound problems to start with so I still clapped and cheered and sang along to try and give him a chance to warm up and get into it. But he didn't - and having spent the best part of £40 on 2 tickets (£38 with booking fees etc) I decided not to waste the remainder of my evening at a gig I wasn't enjoying. I've never left a gig early before and it's not a decision I made lightly but regardless of whether he was drunk or not, I felt Paolo was not putting his best effort into the gig so why should I stay and support that.

wow. expensive.

are you being sarcy?

lol, no, i mean it - i paid $13/$15 ea for tix, was happy about that, especially since i had to bail on the l.a. show

My friend brought me tickets to see Paolo for Christmas at Brixton Acadamy on 24th April and after a much anticipated wait the date finally came round. Being such massive fans you can imagine our excitement as we were waiting in the crowd for him to come on, we even had a little wager as to what song he would open with. As soon as he came on it was blindly bvious that he was drunk and/or mashed up on god knows what. We did stay to the end just, only because we where sure that we wouldn't be this let down and the performance would improve. To be honest though in places it was just damn embarressing. He didn't seem to know the words to his own songs, had no crowd interaction, which wasn't helped by the fact that we couldn't understand a word he said. He seemed to enjoy and put more effort into the cover songs that he did and basically killed his own songs. When he left the stage, waiting back stage for the crowd to go wild for more all i could hear were booooos! This didn't deter him and he proceeded to come back out and sing some stupid song about a funky ciggerette! We couldnt of been more dissapointed! Paolo SORT IT OUT!

Hey everyone

Let me begin by saying that I respect everyone's opinion. We're entitled to think what we think!

The interesting thing about that is that we all think we're right (I'm talking about negative press here RE: Swindon show). What right do any of us have passing judgment on someone we don't even know? I mean, we love him, his music, etc...but do any of us know him, his daily habits, his stresses, his happiness? No. Is there really ANY proof at all that he was drunk? No. He had 2 beers on stage. He mumbles. He hugs a mic stand and it's 'Oh my god - he's absolutely p***ed...what on earth?!!'

Really folks. This is rock and roll. This is not Take That. None of us REALLY knows Paolo. We just know that we love him. I was at the show in Swindon and you know what I noticed? People had to leave to go out for a smoke. People were leaving because they were hot...very HOT.

Cheers to Paolo and everyone who works with him. Only they know the real story and I'm quite sure that he has an excellent team around him given his success. No one can go it alone.

And let's also think about this:

Paolo isn't just doing all this non stop touring for himself. He's doing it for you guys. Think about how long it's probably been since he's had a whole week off to just relax at home with his family. He's going nonstop for you guys. He's does more in a week then we probably do in 2 or 3 weeks. Give him some slack.

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And let's also think about this:

Paolo isn't just doing all this non stop touring for himself. He's doing it for you guys. Think about how long it's probably been since he's had a whole week off to just relax at home with his family. He's going nonstop for you guys. He's does more in a week then we probably do in 2 or 3 weeks. Give him some slack.

I agree. This has been the only time of ALL his shows that I have heard so many bad things about one of his gigs. And also learning about all the other problems that occurred night (the temperature of the club, the late start, the sound issues, some inattentive members of the crowd - I'm inclined to not put so much blame on Paolo...I know I wasn't there, I just can't believe Paolo was how some are saying. AND I've seen the clips and he looked on point to me...

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i sure wish i had been able to see these "awful" shows, must have been so difficult, hehe