Adele (AAP)
Adele
wowed fans and celebrities alike at a pre-Grammy Awards gig in Los
Angeles on Friday (local time), her first in the Californian city for
four years.
The Brit superstar announced the concert on
Wednesday, and tickets were offered to people in the California area who
were previously registered with her website.
The lucky fans were treated to an array of her old
and new hits in the 16-song set at venue The Wiltern, with celebrities
including Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Tom Hanks, Emma Stone and
rumoured new couple Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom also in the excited
audience.
Introduced on stage by her friend and fellow Brit, The Late Late Show host James Corden, Adele opened with her recent worldwide smash hit 'Hello', her first single from the new album 25.
Adele chatted to the crowd in between songs
including 'Set Fire to the Rain' and 'Someone Like You', revealing that
she'd been to Disneyland on Tuesday with son Angelo, and then joked
about the venue being far too hot. "I feel like my make-up's about to
slide off me [sic] face!" she laughed, according to Billboard.com.
She then apologised for the US$50 price of tickets, telling fans she wanted them to be much cheaper.
"Sorry if it was a pain in the a** getting the
tickets. Did any of you pay more than $50 for any of these tickets?" she
asked. "They [the record company] were all saying, 'Oh let's do $150 a
ticket, oh yeah! So-n-so said that…' I said $50.
"I
would have [charged] less, but my record label is paying for this. As
you can see by the set, we've run out of money," she joked, referencing
the sparse backdrop.
Before the last song of the
night, Adele asked her fans to give a rendition of her hit 'Hello'.
Desperate to capture the moment on video, she ran backstage, still
holding her microphone, and pleaded with someone to lend her a phone.
"I
need some kind of recording device. Hang on!" she said. "Wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait! Someone give me a phone! Oh come on, there's like 20
f**king people back here, give me a phone!"
Joining
in at the end of the song, Adele told the crowd to thunderous applause,
"That was f**king amazing. That was a whole f**king song! You are
amazing!... That was amazing. Thank you."
She
finished her triumphant set with her 2011 hit 'Rolling in the Deep', and
an enthusiastic Jennifer Lawrence was seen dancing along to the song
with Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Orlando Bloom.
Celebrities
were quick to praise the Brit's surprise gig, with Tom Hanks posting a
gushing message on Twitter. "Adele. What a show. What a voice. What a
woman. What an artist. What a date! Thank you. Hanx," he captioned a
photo of the singer on stage. His wife Rita Wilson later shared an image
of her and Tom meeting Adele and her boyfriend Simon Konecki on
Instagram.com, writing to Adele, "There are no words. Only thank you."
"I
know you're gonna rock the WILTERN [sic] tonight girl," wrote Lady
Gaga, while Josh Groban tweeted, "Finally got to see the transcendent
@Adele tonight. That voice live is a world treasure... !!!!!!"
The singer's world tour kicks off in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 1.
WENN
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