"I've waited almost three years for this!" said Michael Bublé as he walked on stage at Durham Riverside on Wednesday night to huge cheers from thousands of waiting fans.
"Thank you so much for being so patient." The swing singer's long-awaited tour date at Durham Cricket Club's Chester-le-Street grounds - where he set the mood from the off with Feeling Good - had been postponed since 2020 due to the pandemic and he joked that by now he and the band need the money.
The less than summery weather too was a source of jokes. "This is exactly what had imagined when I dreamed of this sunny warm night..." he said, before admitting he had been "freezing my ass off" while the team tried to hold down the stage's big screen to prevent it blowing away.
