Sunday, 8 February 2009

Top Gear Live!

We went to the Top Gear Live show yesterday. I'm not so into cars but Adam is and I find Jeremy Clarkson quite funny so thought it could be good!

It was boiling hot so we didn't stand around looking at the cars outside acer arena for too long and went to take our seats.

The whole thing is highly sponsored as you'd expect and contains so much advertising, but I actually really enjoyed the live ads prior to the show beginning. Navman did a live piece with a couple arguing over directions then the 'Navman' walking down through the audience singing a love song and giving the couple a GPS which of course fixed their whole relationship! And Audi did a great dramatic piece with the arena lighting and Audi circles flying everywhere.

In the actual show itself, was quite similar to the TV show, they had the Cool Wall, and spent quite a while making jokes at James May's expense (who wasn't their with Jeremy and Richard).

The best bits I thought were the car football (bit of a shame the England team lost against the Aussie cars - there were only about 6 of us cheering england on in the audience!), and the 4 motorbikes who drive around inside a metal sphere!
Would definitely recommend it!