Concert #1 review!!

(Don't mind the colors in this post. Blogger has like a glitch or something . The colors are slightly random.) Hey guys! WOOWWW! Okay, so I woke up at 8:23 EST and I immediately went on my iPod to look at reviews... Boy was it a treat!! I'm so excited! Okay obviously, I was not there, so I can't write my own so I am going to have a mixture from the two most awesome people I know: Lexi from the Mini Angels Blog (this is her blog) and fan_de_LoK from the Libera Dreams forum. He posted his on the french forum. Okay okay okay. So I'm going to start off with the picture of all the boys, old and new. (you can click on it to make it MUCH bigger)

The new boys look all so adorable. I think that Isaac London looks a little, tiny bit like a younger version of James Mordaunt. Ya know what's weird? That's EXACTLY how I pictured Orlando to look. I don't know. I think sometimes I have psychic powers. Anyway ON WITH THE REVIEW! 

(i honestly have no clue why Jubilate is in white background, and also why the entire review is in black, and also why this is in some grey-ish color. It won't change colors. Soooo annoying. It won't go away!)

1. JUBILATE-  Jubliate started with Ralph, Alex, Jakob, Barney and Carlos. Later on they were joined by the others. Everyone came from behind the tabernacle. This song chained into... take a wild guess...

2. LIBERA- Solos were done by Luke and the oh-so-lovely Eoghan! Ralph did the "Liberaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" at the end. The boys stood in a large arc with Josh in the middle I would presume. 

SPEECH- It was a Barney and Cassius speech! Their speech was about how there are 26 boys in the group, old and new. Everyone waved. Barney mentioned that he started singing in the choir when he was 9 and that the youngest on this tour is 8. If I had to take a guess at who that was, it would be either Isaac London or Ben Fairman. (watch me be totally off.) 

3. SONG OF LIFE- Ralph, of course sang beautiful solo. Daniel and Kavana were there, too! Fan_de_LoK mentioned that they used the colors pink/ mauve which reflected nicely off the white stone above the tabernacle. Sounds lovely!

4. SANCTISSIMA- Ralph did the solo again. Apparently this kid is the "it" kid now! The boys stood in two rows. The first row knelt down and then the second row right after. Mentioned is that for some of the songs the newbies would leave the stage and wait on the side with a chaperon. That's cute.

5. SANCTUS- Jakob sang the high parts in the back. Apparently that kid can sing! Luke sang the "Santus" at the end. Niiiiiiice! 

SPEECH- Kavana and Cassius gave the second speech. It about the moose mascot. I love that mascot personally. lol. Apparently the moose has been on every single tour since Libera began. And the thing has its own passport and it has a seat on the coach. I don't know what you're thinking, but that moose has it pretty darn good. 

6. ALWAYS WITH YOU- Freddie, as always, sang the solo. Lexi said it was the strongest she's ever heard him! Makes me wanna be there :( Anyway, Jakob sang the high parts. On stage there were two triangles that got bigger and bigger framing Freddie. Jakob was isolated on a pedestal. I'm not a huge fan of this song when I listen to it on my iPod, but I really want to hear it live!

7. ETERNAL LIGHT- (favorite song ever.) This is what Lexi said. So apparently Ralph and Daniel came out to appear to be singing this song. But then hold the phone, Josh was in the middle and he started singing "Thought of love surround you..." LOL. I wasn't even there and that's like... giving me chills or something I can't explain it. LOL. Ralph joined in on the second verse. But back to Josh, apparently he was enjoying every second of it, you can completely tell by the look on his face. That must have been so nice. I mean, the dude is 16 years old, turning 17 in October and he is singing his solos still. Like what a nice surprise for Josh fans! So awesome. I'm trying to picture it and octave lower. Lol. It sounds pretty cool though! 

8. SALVA ME- Matthew RA song the high parts in the back. Apparently he did very well! 

SPEECH- So Barney had this speech. I swear this kid seems like he is hilarious. He introduced all the musicians and he introduced Lamentione, which they sing in "our own special ‘Libera way.’" When he said "Libera way" he put it in airquotes, with his fingers! LOL this kid is great.

9. LAMENTIONE- Daniel, Jakob, Carlos, Ralph, Matthew J., Matthew R-A, Dylan, Eoghan, Barney and Freddie sang facing Mr. Prizeman with all the others standing behind them with their hoods up. Apparently (I am realizing that I saw that a lot.) the song was stunning, and soft and intense at the same time. 

10. EXULTATE- Appar... Apparently (shoot. I'm going to try to stop saying that.) the song was changed up a bit. Freddie, Eoghan, Ralph and possibly Luke sang the song in unison. They were in an arc formation that gradually got bigger. Except for the center which stayed in place with a combination of big and small people. I want to see how tall Josh really is, because in this one picture on Lexi's blog, he looks like he is at least 5'11", 6'. 

And finally we reach intermission. How sad, half the concert is already over. (This is taking me forever to type.)

11. TE LUCIS- (I'm going to start saying According to... instead of Apparently (it makes me cringe just by typing that.)) According to Lexi this song is a must "hear" in person. It starts with the low voices, awesome. I have this thing when I hear a low voice in a song, I get really excited. I don't know.. lol. They stood behind the altar. When they finally came out it was Ben, Sam, Josh, Alex and Tiarnan. (I have to..) Apparently, they harmonize beautfully. This chained into the ever so lovely Mysterium.

12. MYSTERIUM- Normally, it's Ralph and Stefan. I like to call them the Super-duper duo. lol. But with the absence of Stefan, Luke took over. Woohooo! The colors sounded nice, like blue, red, purple. Nice. This song actually went straight into the playful Gloria!

13. GLORIA- The trio of the songs were beautiful according to Lexi! Apparently at the end they turned like a little quarter turn to the audience and apparently that was striking to see according to fan_de_LoK! Sooo cool!

SPEECH- Cassius and Freddie gave a speech about their robes. They talked about how their hoods are huge and that they practice blindfolded. When Freddie said this he yanked Cassius's hood forward over his face. HAHA that would make me giggle. 

14. THE FOUNTAIN- Ralph's solo was really pretty, apparently. Always is, always will be.

15. WHEN A KNIGHT WON HIS SPURS- Ralph had another solo in this song. The boys were grouped in groups of 3 and 4. I want to hear what people mean by it was "rearranged". I love this song the original way, so I wonder what it sounds like the new way!

16. STAY WITH ME- The awesome Daniel sang this. It's amazing how his voice is still high... as said by many.. because he is 15 turning 16 this year, so it's crazy! He's lucky. Matthew RA did the high parts, which were great. The lighting was yellow/ gold and the thing with the hands, that I... memorized from the 2007 video. They go back on the Angeli on the "aaahs", and back foward on the "you see me through" on "through". LOL okay I'm a little weird. 

SPEECH- Sam speech!!! He did the famous "voice-changing" speech. Apparently, he fist-bumped, knuckle-touched whatever you wanna call it Jakob before saying his speech. Awwwww, cousins! 

17. AVE VERUM- Carlos had the English solo and Jakob echoed him. Matthew RA did the high parts. I have come to really like this song. I don't know why. I memorized the words in 15 minutes.. lol. I obviously have a life. 

18. LOVE AND MERCY- This song makes me want to go to everyone I see on the street and give them a giant bear hug. Since... *sniff sniff* James wasn't on tour, who would do the solo? Cassius!! Instead of Cassius starting off the song by himself, him and Freddie did a duet. But Cassius did end up doing the "Mercy and Love" at the end by himself. I love that part, and it seems so innocent and pure. 

19. GLORY TO THEE- In this song, I always try to figure out how many sections are in the Canon, I counted 8. Hehehehee. Eoghan sang the solo in the beginning!!! According to Lexi, he has a very strong voice! A strong, beautiful, perfect voice! 

SPEECH- Jude and the new Ben. Ben Fairman. He just looks like he is tiny in the picture he's in. They talked about being new. Jude started it off with "Hello, I’m Jude, and I’m new," and then after he said that Ben Fairman goes, "But I’m newer!". So cute! He went on about having only 2 months to learn the songs. That's a very short amount of time. This is a song list of like.. 20. And they have to memorize choreography and words and notes and speeches. And like, geez.. it takes me a while to memorize dances at dance. Like .. 6 months. Props to him. 

20. HOW SHALL I SING THAT MAJESTY?- YES. This song is awesome. Okay so like, Stefan is famous for this song.. (in my eyes). But because he was not there, Eoghan, Jakob, Ben and Jude sang the solo parts. But I think that Jakob and Eoghan sang like.. legit the actual part. That's soooo nice! I really wanna hear this one live, out of all the songs in this concert, I want to hear this song.

21. ENCORE- EXULTATE- That's nice. Real nice! I really like that song. Like a lot. It's so much fun and stuff. Yeah I like it. Okay AWESOME CONCERT.

I would post some pictures but I cannot because they are Lexi's. I'm not going to take them so I'll give you the link to her post. (her post!)

Okay there you go. Please visit http://www.mini-angels.blogspot.com/ or http://www.libera-dreams.com/and look at fan_de_LoK's post if you did not get the full effect here. Thanks so much! And I'll see you again later on! (This took me 3 hours.. lol)