ShareSophie Ellis-Bextor performing her Perimenopop Tour at The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham on Wednesday 28th May 2025.
Images and Review by Kevin Cooper
Sophie Ellis-Bextor was dressed for dancing and dance she did when she took to the stage at the Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday night for her first concert as an aunt.
In 2020 during the first Covid lockdown, all people can remember is isolation, masks, vaccines and Sophie Ellis-Bextor and her family dancing around her kitchen, singing her infectious songs and entertaining in a way that only she knows how.
Opening with Relentless Love and Music Gets The Best Of Me, the London born singer brought disco to the Concert Hall and a whole lot of energy and enthusiasm. With a randomiser and disco button which was brought onto the stage to choose which songs from the new album were to be given an airing, it stopped on Catch You and Dolce Vita both of which were very well received.
Hypnotized saw her dancing across the stage with pure abandonment before an acoustic Young Blood allowed her and the crowd to catch their breath. She delivered a staggeringly good version of Freemason’s Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer), whilst the infectious Get Over You had the crowd singing along.
There was a mash up of some of her hits and covers as Lady (Hear Me Tonight), Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love), Can’t Fight This Feeling and a killer version of Abba’s Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) had the euphoric crowd on their feet as they sang along.
Donna Summer’s I Feel Love left the crowd exhausted before a melancholic Like A Prayer thankfully slowed things down. Murder On The Dancefloor sent the crowd into a complete frenzy, and for the encore there was Bittersweet and an acoustic version of A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed that saw her singing amongst the crowd on the first tier.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is always charming and fun and her next visit to Nottingham will be on 20th July when she makes an appearance at Splendour on the Sunday on the same line-up as Kaiser Chiefs and Travis. Only a fool would under estimate her appeal, because a huge sequined attired crowd will undoubtedly be there to sing along to the Kitchen Disco Queen.
