Saturday 16 August 2025

Friday 15 August 2025. Saturday 16 August 2025. Global K-POP sensations BLACKPINK announced their highly anticipated return to the stage with a limited run of stadium shows across North America, Europe, and the UK this summer. The tour will wrap up with two massive shows at Wembley Stadium, making BLACKPINK the first ever K-POP girl group to headline the legendary venue. I will be going to both the shows. They headlined Hyde Park in 2023 on their last visit . -------- Friday. The venue looks very full tonight, must be over 70,000 here. There is gold circle standing within the circular stage extension. K-Pop fans always being made to pay top dollar for tickets, as the gold circle standing tickets are a whopping £600 each. The middle third on the pitch is expensive seats , which were £350 and £250.....Rear pitch standing is £140 . All skin colours are represented in the crowd . Maybe 75% female crowd as expected. Not much drinking being consumed as it's K-Pop . There is no actual support act, so we get 30 mins of their videos on the big screen before they come on stage BLACKPINK on at 8.05pm for 2 hours 25 mins. The show is a stunning visual treat for the eyes . We have lasers, fireworks, flames, confetti cannons etc. The four girls are 100% as cute as can be . They have a live backing band which was good to see, as many K-Pop acts just use backing tapes. Eight female dancers and eight male dancers. The big screens are fantastic, as the girls are followed around non-stop with close up cameras. The show was split up into five acts and an encore , and there was a costume change at the end of each act. The four girls get stuck into the dance routines , and the girls in the crowd are copying their moves. Thousands in the crowd have got hand held love heart sticks , that light up, that cost a whopping £70. Highlights included ' Rockstar', 'Lovesick Girls' and ' Jump' which included the lyric 'Spice up your Life '. ---- So come up with me, I'll take you high That Prima donna spice up your life You know I got that shit that you like So come up with me, run up, uh, jump ---- A very enjoyable show, as the girls put on a great show. Saturday show... Again it looks a full house of around 70,000 folks . Same stage time...on at 8.05pm for two hours 25 mins. A nice slight setlist swop , as we get The Spice Girls 'Wannabe' during the encore. Another really enjoyable show to watch.

Posted 16th August 2025