Paul Potts

END OF THE TOUR

Posted 27th June 2008

Hi everyone,

After the Far Eastern journey, it was time to start the Scandinavian leg of my world tour.  I started off in Denmark with the first five of ten concerts in the country.  I was astounded when I was told that my album had actually been the highest selling album of the whole year in Denmark. For that, I’d like to thank everyone in Denmark for supporting me.  We started off in Copenhagen, of which I had fond memories of my first visit.  In September last year, I was told that in a 2 song live performance, I should expect a crowd of around 1,000 people.  I was flabbergasted when I walked out on stage in front of about 20,000 people!  The police said that they had the biggest crowd since Denmark won the European Championship in 1992.

I took quite a few walks through Copenhagen in stunning weather.  The areas close to the castle and palaces are truly stunning.  I found the audiences in Denmark incredibly supportive and appreciative.  At the start of the tour in North Wales, I was dreading the talking part of the show as I thought I would be stuck and nervous as to what to say, especially in places outside the UK.  English is spoken very very well in Scandinavia and this was proved to be true.  Quite a fw of the concerts were outdoors, and one or two of them were pretty chilly.  I had the pleasure of welcoming Natasha Marsh back on the road with me, we had great fun working together again in Scandinavia, especially as we had some very long journies on the tour bus from place to place.  We saw some wonderful cities and had glorious weather.  Stockholm I have always loved, plenty of nice streets to walk in.  Malmo, Gothenberg, and Oslo were all fantastic places to visit.

Part way through the Scandivian tour, I performed on the final of Holland’s Got Talent in Amsterdam.  It brought back to me the time last year when I was waiting to go on stage to perform in the final of Britain’s Got Talent. 

Although I was feeling quite nervous because of the sense of de ja vu, but then I just really enjoyed my perfomance. 

Before too long I was back in Amsterdam performing at the Music Hall, for my final two concerts of this part of the tour.  I got another reminder of the past though, waking up in agony as my left shoulder, which had been injured in the accident on my bicyle 5 years ago had completely frozen up.  Although it hurt even to breathe (and it hurt a lot!) I had made it through 77 concerts in 145 days without a cancellation and I was determined to finish the tour with a 100% attendance.  The Dutch audience, as ever were very friendly and appreciative, even though on the 9th I was keeping them away from watching their home team beat Italy 3 - 0 in the European Championship! 

I have really enjoyed the tour and it has been fantastic performing music that I love in front of over 200,000 people on this tour alone.  It’s been fantastic having 200,000 friends supporting me in person.  I’d also like to thank everyone that has left messages of support here on the website and elsewhere.  I do read them, and really appreciate it!  Thank you! Thank you also to a few more fantastic people without whom this tour would have been impossible. Thank you to my wife, Julz (of course!), Jake and my management team, my conductor, Mark Agnor, Musical Director and my Pianist, Chris Taylor (and voiceover artist extraordinaire!) and of course everyone who came to the show.  THANK YOU!!!

Now I have a few days rest, and then I am off to LA to record my next album….

See you all soon!