Bruno Mars Moonshine Jungle Tour

    For this week, I wanted to post my review of Bruno Mars' Moonshine Jungle Tour. To begin, Ellie Goulding provided an entertaining warm up. She started off a little slow with descent music, yet hard to hear her vocals but as her show progressed the vocals became much clearer and she brought the arena chanting her songs. Her best performances were towards the end with Lights, Anything Can Happen and I Need Your Love. Ellie brought a great energy that got the crowd pumped up and ready to see Bruno Mars. Bruno Mars began his show with the sounds of the jungle roaring through the speakers. Then with the golden curtain fall, he begin to sing Moonshine. Bruno Mars gave very sexy and sly performances such as Runaway Baby, Treasure and Marry You. His show had a combination of some of his current songs from Unorthodox Jukebox and his last album Doo-Wops & Hooligans and some fan favorites such as Billionaire and Nothing on You. Mars also brilliantly added some great covers which further added to his already great show. His crew known as the Hooligans, brought a great vibe to the show adding pure fun. There was a great moment where Bruno selected a girl from the audience and all the Hooligans including Mars would compete to see who the best pick up lines.
    Also,  Mars' dance moves were spot on with no gimmicky cliché moves. What made Bruno Mars' show great was the fact that he was having fun onstage and was able to actually play music. I wanted to capture that in The Hooligans and Shredding It Up. What too many performers do is take their show too seriously and for the audience it can be hard to tell if the performer is actually having fun. It was very apparent that Mars was as he flashed his beautiful smile several times and even laughed many times. I wanted to capture this in Just Smile. What was really nice was the fact that Mars actually had a band and was playing instruments. It was truly a night of music. Mars was an excellent drummer having an impressive drum solos after one of his songs and he shredded on the guitar. Lastly, Mars was able to bring some seriousness when it was necessary. He almost teared up in When I was Your Man and If I Knew. Overall, Bruno Mars' show was a fantastic night of live music and entertainment.      

Ellie Goulding (2013)

The Hooligans (2013)

Just Smile (2013)

Shredd It Up (2013)