Katy Perry- California Dreams Tour 2011

London Hammersmith Apollo- 19th March 2011


Possibly one of the best birthday presents I've ever had was given to me from the lovely Lee family: a ticket to see Katy Perry! My birthday was in the December and the show wasn't until the March! So we had 3 months to learn every lyric of the new album, Teenage Dream and prepare ourselves for the excitement of the California Dreams tour!

Ellie, Jo Lee and Becca Lee very excited!

We had seated tickets so did not need to queue from so early on, as some of the other Katy Cat's did! The time finally came to join the queue of excitable fans and we entered the venue to be greeted by the smell of sweet, delicious, candyfloss. This was something we had anticipated, as Katy had posted on her Twitter account:


 "I hope that it's going to engage all of your senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch".


 It most certainly did smell delicious, and we also experienced a delicious taste of candyfloss too, as it was being sold alongside the merchandise. Yum, yum, yum!

Becca Lee with the yummy candyfloss!

When looking at the merchandise, it showed what a charitable and thoughtful woman Miss Perry is, as she was donating a large profit to the Japan Earthquake appeal. We brought some of her Cherry Chapstick and some light up firework stick things (really not sure of the real name!!)

Cherry Chapstick

DJ Skeet Skeet was a fantastic opening act: a DJ from California, playing some well mixed contemporary chart toppers. He interacted well with the audience and really got everyone hyped up.

DJ Skeet Skeet (image from his Twitter)

Before Katy came on stage, a film was projected. It was the beginning of a story, of how Katy Perry landed in 'Candyfornia'. 

She made her grand entrance by shooting up onto a platform covered in giant sweets and candy, singing her number one hit, Teenage Dream. I'm not going to lie, a had a few tears from the pure excitement and disbelief that I was in the same room as Katy Perry!

One of my favourite songs of the night (although I loved them all and had lots of favourites), was Peacock... the costume was just incredible and the colours were beautiful:

When she sang Hot and Cold she showed that not only could she sing, not only could she dance; but she was also a magician too! She changed outfits 8 times in the duration of the song!

Ooooh, every song that she sang was brilliant, whoever said that Katy can't sing live, needs to go to one of her shows!! The whole show was completely and utterly brilliant: she interacted with the audience so much (I really wish I was one of the lucky fans at the front that she KISSED!!!), and fans were also able to go up on stage (very jealous!).

Fans on stage (jealous, jealous, jealous!)

Katy finished the show with her number one single: California Girls, which seemed the perfect way to end it: she had giant gingerbread puppets, and was joined on stage with the very talented dancers, who had supported her throughout the whole show, and in themselves had also put on a fabulous performance!

Newcastle Metro Arena- 27th October 2011


I had the best time of my life when I saw Katy in March, and the ticket prices were not unreasonable, like they are for so many artists these days. They priced at about £30, which was definitely more than worth it!


The concert was on a Thursday, and this time we had standing tickets, so we know we had to get there early, so that we could be as close as possible. Unfortunately, this meant that Uni was off the cards that day!


I went with 3 of my favourite Yorkies: Miss PerryBerry, Tabby and Sofia! We spent the evening before hand making our very own "I <3 Katy Perry tops" and all had blue wigs, (except from Tabbs, as her hair was 'wild' enough on its own!), and we wore them on the train to Newcastle which made it even more exciting. I'm going to skip pass the depressing part of the day, where Miss PerryBerry forgot to bring her railcard, so had to pay a lot a lot of money because the ticket man clearly wasn't having a generous day!

We arrived at Newcastle station, where my eccentric Uncle Ian met us, wearing his usual bright salmon (not pink) shirt! He was ever so kind, and let us have his flat for the night, so we had somewhere to stay! He had made us all a packed lunch, to keep up our energy levels throughout our day of waiting, which consisted of: a bottle of Evian, a can of diet coke (he is very health conscious!), a small box of sushi, a salmon and soft cheese sandwich (courtesy of Tesco's Finest), a Cadbury's Twirl, and a small baguette. Yumm! 


He then dropped us off at the Metro arena (which for some reason took us quite some time to find!), and we made our way past some fans that had camped over night!! That is very dedicated... especially in October! There were some fans with mohican's (not really the type that I would have expected as a Katy Perry fan, but then this could resemble the days when I dressed as a goth, but S Club were still by favourite band!) 


There were about 40 people in front of us in the queue, and we soon made friends with the people around us, and had a great time singing lots of Katy Perry songs! It did rain a bit, but we were geniuses, and had come prepared: with black bin liners! Not only are they good for warmth, but they also protect from the rain! And, you can throw them away!!

Ellie and Sofia in the queue, having a little nap!

7 hours later, the doors opened. I have honestly never thought I was going to die, as much as I did at the moment. The hoards of fans pushed and pushed and ran and ran to try and get through the doors first. Being the standard height of an 11 year old really does not help in situations like these! The four of us held hands tightly and somehow got our way through the doors, and then the next 7002308208120820128028210 doors we had to go through, to get into the arena. We shot to the stage, and this time, there was an added on catwalk, so we positioned ourself with good view of both the stage and the catwalk! And we got an amazing view!! We were so, so close! (So close that Miss PerryBerry noticed that Miss Perry had a little bit of cellulite!!- this made us love her even more!! She was a NORMAL REAL woman!!!)

She had added in some more bits to this show and it was even better then the first time (which I didn't think was even possible!!!)


Definitely would be happy to go to her concerts every day of my life!


Here are some photos of the show: