Eminem (November 4, 2012)Įminem was the first hip-hop star to play an Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix race-day concert. Nickelback performed these songs well enough, with lead singer Chad Kroeger in fine voice. The big hit Something in Your Mouth is a modern-day version of Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls, while Bottoms Up is the kind of stomping hard-rock Poison rode to fame on. Critics deride the group for peddling second-rate grunge, but live, the group look further back to the glam acts of the 1980s. The surprising thing is that perennial rock punchlines Nickelback are far more fun than they get credit for. Minogue kept it fun and breezy throughout the night and fortunately jettisoned the snooze-worthy material from her ill-fated dalliance with electronica and trip hop in the early 2000s for the jubilant sounds of Kids and the ever-green classic The Loco-Motion. Opening with the hit Wow and ending with modern pop classic Spinning Around, the Aussie pop star was all class and verve in what was a great performance. Kylie Minogue was all class and verve in 2012. Even if the Beatle delivered those timeless group and solo hits half-heartedly, it still would have been a great gig.īut McCartney, 69 years old at the time, was more than up for it and was in fine voice in an epic 37-song set which featured The Beatles' Hey Jude and Get Back, Wings favourite Jet and Live and Let Die, and solo classic Maybe I'm Amazed. The greatest ever Abu Dhabi Formula One gig is a close tie between Prince in 2010 and Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney plays to a packed house at Etihad Park in 2011. It arguably remains, one of the smallest crowds to attend an after-race concert. On paper, nu-metal group Incubus and goth-rockers The Cult are both successful in their own right, but putting them back to back in one night seemed too random for even the most eclectic listener. The Purple One began the gig with the storming 1984 hit Let's Go Crazy, and the crowd responded in kind in what has come to be viewed as one of the UAE's greatest ever concerts. Prince at the 2010 Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix. The group ended their show with their hit, One Step Closer. Linkin Park (November 13, 2010)Ī bittersweet experience for seasoned UAE concertgoers, with Linkin Park singer, the late Chester Bennington, in roaring form as he tore through many of the band's powerful anthems including What I've Done and In the End. Fresh off the back of career best album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the rapper performed a commanding set including album bangers Monster and Power, in addition to fan favourites Diamonds from Sierra Leone and Touch the Sky. It can be argued that West was at his prime during this period. The performance helped set the course for future Abu Dhabi Formula One race day concerts, in that they mostly comprised artists with a big catalogue of anthems. The historic inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend ended with the US rockers performing a greatest hits set which included Walk this Way and I Don't Want to Miss a Thing. Steven Tyler on stage with Aerosmith during the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Released two months before the Abu Dhabi gig, the crowd were able to hear fresh takes on hits Sex on Fire and Use Somebody. The US rockers made their debut performance in the Middle East on the back of a tour supporting their fourth album Only by the Night.
The sextet ended the show with the one-two punch of Love Foolosophy and Deeper Undergound, transforming Etihad Park into a mammoth open-air club. While the UK group only played a handful of shows that year, they were a well-oiled machine in Abu Dhabi with a sparkling set that took off with the stomping The Kids and went on to include favourites Little L and Canned Heat. Nearly 40,000 people packed Etihad Park to see Bey perform a selection of solo hits including Crazy in Love and Irreplaceable, and a fiery medley of Destiny's Child tracks including Say My Name and Survivor. Not only was the gig part of her first solo world tour, but the burgeoning pop star's show was the biggest of the tour, says Lickrish. Beyonce (October 29, 2009)īeyonce's 2009 gig for Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was part of her first solo world tour. We head down memory lane to look back at those who have taken to the stage at Etihad Park since 2009. Those artists joined 41 other international acts in making their Abu Dhabi Formula One debut with shows big and small, loud and mellow, brilliant and, in few cases, underwhelming. That playbook is neatly illustrated with this year’s concert offerings, featuring RnB star Khalid on Thursday, grime rapper Stormzy on Friday, British soul singer Lewis Capaldi on Saturday, before an epic race day show on Sunday with rock titans, Foo Fighters.
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