2013
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Manchester Lowry
Manchester, England UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Manchester Lowry
Manchester, England UK

2 October, 2032



Songs Performed
PART ONE
  • Happiness
  • Never Enough
  • Don't Sleep In the Subway
  • Lost in You
  • Who Am I?/Colour My World Imagine
  • Look to the Rainbow
  • How are Things in Glocca Morra
  • This Is My Song
  • Crazy
  • My Love
  • Someone to Watch Over Me / The Man that I Love You're the One
PART TWO
  • Meant to Be
  • Reflections
  • To Memphis
  • I Know a Place/Sign of the Times
  • With One Look
  • Miss Otis Regrets
  • Let's Here it for the 60s
    (Round Every Corner / Call Me / The Other Mans Grass is Always Greener)
  • Theatre poem (Lowry only)
  • Love me Tender
  • Cut Copy Me
  • Sailor/Marin
  • Kiss Me Goodbye (in English & French)
  • I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
  • Downtown
Encore:
  • Here Comes The Rainbow


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3 October, 2013
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow, Scotland UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Manchester Lowry
Manchester, England UK

2 October, 2032





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Petula Clark
The Lowry
'SHE'S still got It.' smiles a grey-haired chap to his companian as he watches octogenarian pop singer Petula Clark singing her classic hits at The Lowry's Lyric Theatre.
      It's a sentiment hard to deny as Petula wows thc audience in the packed venue.
      One did wonder if her voice would still be up to It - she is 81 next month - but the years (all away as she sings with great gusto her 196Os dassics Colour My World. Don't Sleep In The Subway, I Know a


A Place, Call Me and, of course, Downtown.
      This last timeless hit - nearly all of those brought to their feet must have been teenagers when Petula was in her heyday - brings a standing ovation at the end of the show.
      Dressed in a long black dress and sparkly purple top, she shimmies across the stage in a manner belying her years She remains a decent pianist too, particularly clear on her rendition of Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender. Imagine - another stand-out moment.


     Those, and a catchy version of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, are highlights of latest album Lost In You. She gives several songs included on it their Salford Quays debut, at her first gig on a 10-date tour.
      Pop isn't all she has got either. She also recites a poem about the joy of the theatre
STILL GOT IT. Petula Clark began her 10-date UK tour at The Lowry, and above, in her 1960s heyday.



sings in French and regales the audience with anecdotes of some of the people she has met and wotkcd with, among them Fred Astaire, Lennon, Elvis, and Karen Carpenter.
      The audience appreciates every song, and she ends with the optimistic Here Comes the Rainbow, acknowledging that for many in the audience times were hard and her show was hardly a cheap night out.
      'You're worth it," shouts one fan.
     It just about sums up the joyous consensus.
Tom Rowley


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5 October, 2013
Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Newcastle, England, UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Newcastle, England, UK

5 October, 2032



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6 October, 2013
York Barbican
York, England UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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York Barbican
York, England UK

6 October, 2032



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7 October, 2013
Birmingham Town Hall
Birmington, England UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Birmingham Town Hall
Birmington, England UK

7 October, 2032



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     She made her debut as a child radio star during the Second World War but at the age of 80 she was back onstage last night, kicking off her set with songs including Never Enough and Don't Sleep In The Subway.
      Most seats in the venue were taken and the audiance, many in their 40s and 50s, applauded as she came out onstage accompanied by a band.
      The Epsom-born singer has embarked on her first UK tour in five years to sing tracks from her new album, Lost In You, including a re-imagining of her signature 1960s hit Downtown, a version of the Gnarls Barkley hit, Crazy, and a rendition of Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender.
      With two Grammy awards and over 68 million records sold, rhe formidable songstress has worked with the likes of John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Barbra Streisand, along with appearing in over 30 motion pictures including Goodbye Mr Chips with Peter O'Toole.
      She has had an amazing career and seems to be showing no signs of slowing down. Fans took to Twitter to say how she danced around the stage with more energy than people half her age and received loud applause.



9 October, 2013
Guildford G Live
Guildford, England UK

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An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Guildford G Live
Guildford, England UK

9 October, 2032



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     After seven decades in the music industry, Petula Clark is returning to her home county for a show next month.
      The Epsom-born singer will be playing G Live on October 9 as part of her first UK tour in five years, in support of a new album, Cut Copy Me, which was released in February.
      Having sold 68 million records worldwide, she said it is on stage, performing to an audience, that she most enjoys.
      "I think most performers would say that," she said. "Except Barbara Streisand - I went to see her in Vegas and it was the first live show that she had done for a while, and I said 'how does it feel?'
      She said: 'I can't stand it. They're all so ugly - I wish I didn't have to see them."
      "There was a sense for her of not having control but the great thing about being on stage is it isn't all about being in control. Things can go wrong and every song doesn't work the way you thought it would."
      Clark went into the studio to record the contemporary-sounding track which would become the title track off the album as a one-off. It caused such a stir with the people who heard it and the record label, Sony, that her producer John Williams (not to be confused with the American composer) persuaded her to record some more tracks.
      "We recorded it in a very small studio in the bottom of this garden. Prom the outside it looked like a Wendy house but it's got windows and at the vocal mic I could look out and see birds and flowers," she said.
      "I was working with a young engineer and young writers and it all worked out fine. I have to say we didn't go in with an agenda to make a contemporary album - I wouldn't know how to do that."
      The album features several covers including John Lennon's Imagine, and Crazy, by Gnarls Barkley, which she was talked into recording by Williams.
      "So I did it and now I have to say it's one of my favourite songs and I'm going to be doing it in Guildford," she said. "I'll be doing Reflections as well which is a different song altogether with music by Bach and lyrics I wrote about my childhood in Wales."
      Also on the album is a re-imagining of her most iconic song, Downtown, which she again had to be talked into doing.
      "I said I don't want to do that. Everybody has done everything that can be done with it. I've re-recorded it myself.
      "He said okay and I had to go away and do something, in Paris I think, and came back and went into the studio.
      "He pressed the button and I asked what it was, he said it was Downtown. He said just sing it and see what it feels like. It felt like singing a new song," she said.
      "Most people feel its a joyful song about going out and having a good time. I've often though it's quite a melancholy song about being lonely."
      The shows on this tour will be a 'mélange' of songs from the new album (the first time she has played many of them), lots of the hits, some Gershwin and a song from Finian's Rainbow, her 1968 film with Fred Astaire.
      She said: "It's called An Evening With Petula Clark so that's what it will be.
      "I'll be doing most of the old stuff back to the sixties, although I won't be taking it much further than that, and new songs too. That's what's exciting for me - to mix it together."



10 October, 2013
Northampton Derngate
Northampton, England UK

11 October, 2013
Ipswich Regent
Ipswich, England UK

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An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Ipswich Regent
Ipswich, England UK

11 October, 2032



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     Petula Clark swept into lpswich's Regent Theatre on Friday evening for the eighth show in her whistle-stop ten-date 2013 UK tour squeezed into the first fortnight in October.
      The fact that she is able to complete such a demanding schedule with this glittering and mesmerising one-woman show reflects the star quality of this internationally acclaimed entertainer.
      Petula was able to beguile her audience with reminiscences of such stars as Fred Astaire, Elvis Presley, Sophia Loren and John Lennon in a programme featuring many of her hits from the past interspersed with a quite remarkable new set of songs on her new Lost In You CD.
      From the CD she featured the hauntingly beautiful title song plus other original tracks like the multi-faceted Cut Copy Me, Reflections, Never Enough, Crazy and I Won't Care plus new and emotive versions of her iconic world-wide hit Downtown, Presley's Love Me Tender and Lennon's Imagine.
      But it was with her long-time hits that Petula really got into party mood with upbeat medleys of her classic Sixties hits.
      Since beginning her recording career in the 1940s, Petula has become the best-selling British female singer in recording history while also making her mark on radio, television, films and the stage.
      I have been a life-long devotee of Petula Clark but in this performance I was truly captivated - Petula I was totally lost in you.
      And I think that also went for an enthralled audience who gave a standing ovation to a remarkable performer who burst to prominence as a child star and can still put on a two-hour one-woman show of outstanding vivacity and style more than seven decades later.
Chris Mills







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13 October, 2013
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
London, England UK

14 October, 2013
St. Davids Hall
Cardiff, Wales UK

2013 UK TOUR
An Evening with PETULA CLARK



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Ipswich Regent
Ipswich, England UK

11 October, 2032



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