American pop princess Britney Spears, US
rockers Incubus and British rockers The Cult, and former Beatle great
Paul McCartney will round off the Formula One concert series in
November.
Flash Entertainment’s announcement this
morning revealed the much anticipated star line-up of performers for the
Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after-race concerts,
which kick off on November 11.
The Yasalam ‘Beats on the Beach’
entertainment programme, which culminates in a series of free concerts
by Arab and International musicians along the Abu Dhabi Corniche, will
welcome British DJ Fatboy Slim this year, together with Wyclef Jean and
Jay Sean.
Britney Spears, 12 years into a career
that has resulted in a sale of over 100 million records worldwide, is in
the middle of her seventh concert tour, Femme Fatale, named after her
latest album. She will be performing on Yas Island on November 11.
Already, the album became the first of
her records to yield three top 10 singles in the US, and her singing and
dancing performance in Femme Fatale has garnered positive reviews.
Rolling Stone Magazine said of the tour’s kickoff in June that is
“managed to propel [Britney] forward ... [she’s] offering possibly her
flashiest, fastest moving and most entertaining production yet”.
The Femme Fatale tour has been touted as
Spears’ resurgence on the international charts, and at 29, the pop star,
whose career seemed in danger of permanently crashing and burning just a
few years ago, has shown that she’s back.
On November 12, Incubus will perform
in Yas Arena on their If Not Now, When? world tour, which shares the
same name as their newly released seventh album – their first in five
years. The Cult, veteran British rock band, will also perform on this
night.
Known for incorporating a variety of
genres and styles, including alternative rock, heavy metal, funk, hip
hop and electro, Incubus’s early funk-metal sound was heavily influenced
by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but has since broadened to thrash,
rap-metal, post-grunge rock and grinding alt-metal in the style of Korn
or the Deftones.
Sir Paul McCartney, known as “the
good-looking” Beatle and listed in The Guinness Book of Records 2009 as
the “most successful musician and composer in popular music history”,
has had 91 of the songs that he has either written or co-written reach
the top 10 and 33 make it to Number 1. He will round out the concert
weekend with a performance on the final night, November 13.
In 2009, McCartney attended the
exclusive Grand Prix Ball, where he performed with Dame Shirley Bassey.
Last year, rapper Kanye West, rockers
Linkin Park and pop legend Prince headlined the post-race performances
on Yas Island, while pop acts such as the reggae artist Sean Paul and
the US R&B vocalist Kelis performed for free on the Corniche.
Lebanese pop star Nancy Ajram and Lebanese singer Fares Karam were also
part of the Yasalam line-up.
The 2009 post-race concert series
featured Beyonce, Kings of Leon, Jamiroquai and Aerosmith. The F1 concert series is available to
holders of tickets to the F1 races.(TheNational.ae)
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