Young voices at Coop arena

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Anyone go? I thought it was dreadful. People rave online about young voices but not sure if it’s better in the likes of the O2. The stage was a postage stamp, you could barely see that never mind your own school. Our kids were underneath a load of rigging on the ceiling. I thought they might have big screens up so you could see the performers/ kids but nothing. Very expensive school night.

We got Tony Hadley for one and Heather Small for the other! In a different arena and was fab!

@Fooshufflewickjbannanapants Heather small I’d have liked to see!

It did just feel like parents were ATMs. Tshirts, tickets, dvds.... can't believe they were asking for donations as well!

I absolutely loved it. It was the first time we've been. We did have fairly decent seats to be fair, in the middle of the block on the floor. The sound of thousands of kids so excited and happy was quite something to behold. I thought the acts were brilliant and the young girl who was singing on stage was amazing. DC were so tired when they came out but very happy and had thoroughly enjoyed themselves with their friends all day. I would have loved the opportunity to do this as a kid.

@TickingAlongNicely I considered getting a drink but the bar prices were extortionate as well so just went for a soft drink instead!
@Fargo79 aww that’s nice. I think that definitely looked like the best place to be sitting

It’s just a money maker. I’ve been to 2 at the NEC, barely been able to see my DC either time and it’s a really expensive ticket, plus t shirt/torch etc. All costs a fortune. DD loved it but she enjoys performing anyway. It wasn’t DS’s cup game of tea at all.
Thankfully, I’m done with it now.

My son did Voice in a Million in the SSE arena, similar concept! He absolutely loved it, honestly one of the best things he’s ever done. The SSE arena is quite small so we were relatively close to them, I’ve got some brilliant videos of him dancing with our head teacher. (I also work in the school).

This so exactly why I was a mean mum and told my child not to go 🙈

DH and I wore our (discreet in-ear) noise cancelling headphones which helped a little. It wasn't great for us but DD seemed to enjoy it which was the main thing.

@fashionqueen0123 I will be strongly discouraging it if there’s another year of it. I don’t thing ds will want to be bothered though anyway.

To compound things there was a flood after our session at the O2 this year and nobody could get home in time to pick up their kids from where they were being returned to on the coach - school, at midnight. Never again.

@violetsorrengail omg how stressful!

I'm out of ordinary then here because when DS did YV at O2, I absolutely loved it! I thought the lighting and production was great and I love a choir, all the collective enthusiasm and just innocence of it all. DS loved the coach trip, the (expensive) T-shirt and the little light fob, whenever we drive past the O2 or someone mentions it he's well chuffed when I say I saw DS sing there.

We were so lucky as we randomly got second row seats and DD's school was seated just to the top left of the stage so we spotted each other straight away and she was buzzing. That was the only redeeming feature of the whole thing though.

My friends dd did it the year before and they just pretended to go and she was non the wiser!!

Friends DD got back just after midnight. Said she was tired and cranky. My Dd is older now but I’m sure when she did it we went out local small concert hall.