Michael Bublé Higher Tour Review: Crowd-Pleasing Singer Dazzles at Sold - Out London’s O2 Arena

 Michael Bublé Higher Tour Review:        Crowd-Pleasing Singer Dazzles at 2 night      Sold - Out London’s O2 Arena

Editor Stephen Hill 28th / 03/ 23

Canadian heartthrob Michael Bublé is back with a bang for his first UK arena tour in four years, Higher.  

The four-time Grammy winner, fresh off his latest victory with his album of the same name, oozed confidence and charm onstage at London’s O2 Arena on Sunday night.  

The Canadian singer-songwriter Bublé was pleased as punch to be enjoying his 26th gig at the London landmark arena, which he told the 15,000-strong crowd more than once.  

Those who are fans of Bublé know what to expect – big, splashy orchestrations, easy patter and interaction with the audience and those powerhouse vocals that soar to fill the space with ease.

He fulfils those expectations and some, with a set that opened with Feeling Good and closed (before the encore) with Cry Me A River, exactly the standards that he has helped popularise all over again with his smooth and mellow tones.  

Bublé also includes his own songs like Just Haven’t Met You Yet, Home and Save the Last Dance For Me.

New song Higher is the high point of the evening, showing off Bublé and the dramatic and musical capabilities of his 26-piece band and three backing singers with aplomb thanks to the heavy drumline, swooping melody and jazzy graphics on the video screens surrounding him. 

 It also stands out in a set that includes an Elvis Presley section – the singer paid tribute to the icon’s wife Priscilla as a ‘great lady’ – and other classics like Smile (sung with a simple piano accompaniment) and Sway.

It’s quite something that Bublé is able to make such a huge venue feel so intimate, but he does, working hard to maintain the illusion that it does not, in fact, require a lot of effort. The only sign of that were the multiple face towels he went through, throwing them out into the appreciative crowd afterwards.  

He also threw in a few more ‘grown-up’ jokes to help shed his ‘Christmas Boy’ image, as he put it, playing up the angle that was ‘so sexy’ he made women faint in during his outdoor UK tour last summer – and the amount of giggling and shrieking from his crowd on Sunday would suggest they agreed. 

Bublé is just world class and truly adored by his audience, the singer second show tonight also sold out.

The singer o2 shows have seen over 30,000 tickets being sold.