Capital Summertime Ball 2012 review

This Is Ark guest writer Rahema Begum gives us the highlights of this year’s Capital Summertime Ball…

Coldplay kicked off this year’s Capital Summer time Ball, attracting more than 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. Arriving on stage after a series of explosive pyrotechnics the band launched into their ‘Mylo Xyloto‘ hit ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall‘.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin

The group then performed their biggest hit ‘Yellow’ also playing their latest Rhianna collaboration ‘Princess Of China‘.

However, the biggest crowd pleaser was ‘Viva La Vida’, getting fans on their feet and singing along as soon as they began to play it. Coldplay finished off their opening performance with their No.1 hit ‘Paradise’.

Next up was American Idol star Kelly Clarkson, she kicked off her performance with ‘Since U Been Gone’.

Kelly Clarkson

Kelly then went onto her latest single ‘Dark Side’ taken from her album ‘Stronger’ then finishing off her performance with chart topper ‘Mr Know It All’ which she dedicated to anyone who had dated a tool.

She then finished off her Summertime Ball performance with ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’.

Flo Rida arrived on stage with an astounding start with ‘Club Cant Handle Me’. Fans were bouncing the arena with the rapper from the word go, and the atmosphere only intensified when Flo shouted “Let me hear you scream!”’

Flo Rida

Flo Rida  then gave whistles to fans for them to join in with him when he performed his new single ‘Whistle’. He shouted “Do we have any wild ones in the building?” before performing ‘Wild Ones‘ from his upcoming album, out next month.

Whilst performing ‘Good Feeling’,Flo Rida leapt into the screaming crowds. He finished off her set with all time hit ‘Low’.

The ‘Kickstarts’ rapper Example launched straight into his hit single ‘Stay Awake‘ getting fans straight to their feet. He then went straight into ‘Won’t Go Quietly’, asking the crowd to “See who can jump the highest.”

Example

He asked fans to make noise whilst he performed the last track of his set ‘Changed The Way You Kiss Me’, and the crowd obliged, singing back every word.

Miami rapper Pitbull took to the stage by opening up with ‘Mr Worldwide’ and going straight into ‘Hey Baby’.

Pitbull

The star then performed his collobarative song with JLO ‘Get on The Floor’. He then went onto perform his collobaration with Chris Brown ‘International Love’ and then finishing off with Neyo’s collaboration ‘Give Me Everything’.

Cover Drive headed out onto the stage and performed their song ‘Twilight’ which went down a storm with the crowd.

Cover Drive

Conor Maynard, named UK’s equivalent of Justin Bieber, headed on to the stage asking the audience whether they were “ready to party”. The teenager showed off some dance moves during his performance of ‘Can’t Say No’.

Conor Maynard

Lawson came out and performed their debut single ‘When She Was Mine’ and got the crowd to sing back every word of their recent release.

Lawson

Usher made the audience ‘Scream’ with his topless performance. Usher wowed fans after he started off with ‘OMG’

He then moonwalked for the audience removing his leather jacket to just a black t-shirt to perform his worldwide club hit ‘Yeah’, ‘DJ Got Us Falling’ In Love’ getting close and personal with fans.

Usher

He then went onto perform his hit track ‘Burn’ which was released in 2004, Usher then performed ‘Climax’ the lead single from his upcoming album ‘Looking 4 Myself’.

Usher then sang his David Guetta collaboration ‘Without You’ before wrapping up his set with his latest single ‘Scream.’

Rita Ora kicked off with her latest single ‘RIP’ she then began to tell Wembley stadium they were looking ‘hot’ she then went onto her DJ Fresh collaboration ‘Hot Right Now’.

Rita Ora

The crowd was surprised to see Dizzee Rascal on stage performing his new single ‘The Power’.

Dizzee Rascal

The crowd wasn’t expecting another surprise appearance but Cheryl Cole took to the stage to perform her new single ‘Call My Name’.

Cheryl Cole

The Wanted performed their biggest hit singles opening their set with their debut single ‘All Time Low’ then moved onto their 2011 hit single ‘Lightning’, before performing last year’s charity single ‘Gold Forever’, which fans sung along too. The Wanted then introduced their new single ‘Chasing The Sun’ they then finished off their performance with ‘Glad You Came’.

The Wanted

‘Price Tag’ star Jessie J opened her performance with ‘Do It Like a Dude’ mixing Jay Z and Kanye West’s hit ‘Paris’ in the background.

Jessie J

Jessie brought out special guests Rizzle Kicks to rap the verse of her 2011 hit ‘Price Tag.’

She went onto performing ‘Who You Are’ followed by a tearful speech about her childhood bullying experience.

Jessie then went onto perform her new single ‘LaserLight’ she then launched into her final track ‘Domino.’

The ‘Lego House’ star Ed Sheeran kicked off his set with his single ‘Drunk’ followed by ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You.’

Ed Sheeran

Ed then went onto saying how his set had been extended so he could next perform brand new single ‘Small Bump’. Ed told the crowds to sing his next track ‘Lego House’ as loud as they could. He then finished off his set with his first hit single ‘A Team’.

‘Boyfriend’ singer Justin Bieber arrived on stage  and opened up with ‘Somebody To Love’, he then asked the audience who wants to be his ‘Baby’ he performed his global smash hit ‘Baby’.

Bieber then went onto slowing his performance down with his new single ‘Die In Your Arms’ from his forthcoming album ‘Believe’.

He then dedicated ‘Turn To You‘ for his mum – the song he released on US Mother’s Day. He asked “are there any single girls” before launching into ‘One Last Lonely Girl’.

Justin Beiber and Cary Rae Jepson

Carly Rae Jepson was introduced by her friend Justin Bieber, and arrived on stage to perform her chart topping single ‘Call Me Maybe’.

Justin then finished off his set with ‘Never Say Never’ where he paid a special tribute to Usher thanking him followed by his latest release ‘Boyfriend‘ as the crowd screamed long after he finished performing.

Katy Perry finished off the whole show by performing her huge headlined set. She started off her set with ‘Hot n Cold’ moving onto her biggest hit ‘Teenage Dream’, then ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’. Katy went onto belting her new single ‘Part Of Me’ moving onto ‘Wide Awake’  from her upcoming 3D concert movie Katy Perry: Part Of Me 3D.

Katy Perry

Katy went onto performing ‘The One That Got Away’, she then shocked the audience with a surprise cover of Queen’s signature hit ‘We Are The Champions‘, asking Wembley fans help her sing the iconic rock chorus.

After performing her 2011 hit ‘Firework’ she then urged the crowd to finish off the evening with her final song ‘Califonia Girls’.

All Images Courtesy of Capital FM