Recap from Fourteen Plums website:
Clearly the Lady Antebellum gig was extremely high-profile. There were media people there, such as E! Online correspondent Marc Malkin (who tweeted that Kris was hot and adorable haha) and some posters for Fuse. Radio stations such as 104.3 MyFM were also there. The majority of the crowd was made up of Lady A fans. I don’t think anyone really knew that Kris was going to be there. Several people were not familiar with him at all until we told them he had won American Idol. From what I could gauge based on crowd reaction, the best-received songs were “Heartless/Gangster’s Paradise”, “Alright With Me” and “Come Together”. “Live Like We’re Dying” and “Can’t Stay Away” got good reactions too. I could tell people were impressed with “Heartless/GP”. When the band did the harmonies for GP some people were cheering and clapping. “Alright With Me” definitely got people’s heads bopping and I could see some girls in front of me singing along to it.
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Other observations: someone next to me was talking about how they had liked Kris’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” while he was on Idol. People started clapping spontaneously during the slow part of “Come Together”. During “Hey Jude”, apparently Kris’s fly was open and an audience member pointed it out to him. He made a face and quickly zipped it up without even bothering to turn around haha You can see it in some of the videos above. Kris talked about Lady Antebellum asking him to open for them (AMAZING, right?) and he said “Who could say no to that? Of course!” At one point during Lady A’s set, Charles (the lead male vocalist) said “Thank you to Kris Allen. We should be opening up for HIM!” Cale also got a lot of attention. Many girls were pointing at him and taking his picture. Some guy thought that Chris Torres was high because he was super into the set and super energetic hahaha Overall, a really good crowd response. I have no doubt he gained new fans last night