Australia’s love affair with MICHAEL BUBLÉ is continuing, with Dainty Consolidated Entertainment thrilled to announce that his Crazy Love tour is coming to Australia.
The Canadian superstar – who The Australian newspaper called “the best in the business” – will be here in February 2011.
MICHAEL BUBLÉ is a blockbuster act, closing in on two million album sales in Australia. His worldwide sales stand at 25 million.
Australia gave Michael his first number one album anywhere in the world when his 2003 self-titled set hit top spot in May 2004. That album is now seven times platinum. The 2005 follow-up, It’s Time, is five times platinum, as is Michael’s 2007 album, Call Me Irresponsible.
This tour will be Michael’s eighth trip to Australia (four concert tours and four promotional visits).
He’s performed at the TV WEEK Logie Awards, played at the AFL Grand Final, guest starred in Kath & Kim, and most recently was the face of Foxtel’s coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
But, of course, it’s all about the music, with the Crazy Love Tour celebrating Michael’s latest chart-topping album, his fourth studio set, which debuted at number one in Australia and the US.
Crazy Love – which includes the Bublé originals Haven’t Met You Yet and Hold On – is already five times platinum in Australia, having sold close to 350,000 copies. Worldwide sales are closing in on five million.
“My songs have always been about love,” Michael explains, “mine and everyone else’s. But this time it was a little more extreme, and I dug deeper – way deeper.”
The multiple-Grammy winner last toured Australia in 2008, when he did 18 sold-out shows, the reviews were outstanding with The Age newspaper saying “Australia can’t get enough of Michael Bublé. From the first note, the crowd was putty in his hands.”
Michael has made the classics his own, delivering thrilling interpretations of songs such as Sway, Come Fly With Me, Fever, Kissing A Fool, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?, Save The Last Dance For Me, and Quando, Quando, Quando.
The Crazy Love album includes Michael’s versions of Cry Me A River, Georgia On My Mind, the Eagles’ Heartache Tonight, and, of course, Van Morrison’s Crazy Love.
“The one trick that can’t be borrowed or learned is genuineness,” stated the New York Post review of Michael’s Crazy Love show. “There’s nothing phony about Bublé. When he speaks to the crowd, it’s as if you’re in his living room.”
And Michael is at home on the road. “I just love getting in front of people. It’s so important to be in touch with your audience. They’ve paid their money, I want them to be entertained. If they want to cry or laugh or dance or sing or yell, they can do whatever they want.
“My responsibility is just to take them away.”
As The New York Times reviewer wrote after Michael’s Crazy Love show at Madison Square Garden, “His sincerity seems rooted in an attitude that might be summed up in a phrase: We’re in this together.”
“I can’t bullshit my fans,” Michael says simply. “They will know it’s real because they will feel it, too. And after that, we are no longer strangers.”