Review: Pink at Birmingham NIA

Apr 17 2009 Review by Alison Dayani

IF Pink ever quits her day job, she can always turn to the circus.

For the petite 29-year-old twirled, balanced and manipulated her body around a trapeze while singing upside down 20ft high above a gasping audience in a pop concert meets Cirque du Soleil style show.

The acrobatics started earlier on with Pink emerging through the floor of a catwalk stage on a ring, floating in a red showgirl outfit with ruffled skirt and long train to the song Bad Influence.

It was to be the first of 10 costume changes - an array of skimpy leotards, glitzy bras with leggings and even a camp Captain’s ensemble - through four segments which proved a dramatic feast for the eyes and ears.

Despite rekindling their romance, Pink’s split with motorcross husband Carey Hart last year has done wonders for her career, the impetus behind her ‘angry music’ string of hits.

These were played out like a soap opera of the marriage breakdown with Pink pleading through Please Don’t Leave Me, before So What and making an poor male dancer take the brunt of her anger in various painful ways.