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Together Tour: Become A Guest Reviewer

Have you ever attended a concert and then told everyone you met about it afterwards?  Have you ever attended a concert, read a review afterwards and thought you and the reviewer must have been to a different concert? If the answer to either of these questions is yes then this might well be the post for you.  I’m looking for guest reviewers for the Alfie Boe Michael Ball Together Tour and it could…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: No.5

We’ve reached the half way point of our count down which means it’s only five weeks until the Ball and Boe Together tour starts!  The song at number five is a song that has been on the long list since the beginning but has only now made it to the top ten.  I’m talking about The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: Thanks to Annie for…

It’s Strictly for Alfie Boe and Michael Ball

I’m sure no one is surprised to hear that Alfie and Michael will be appearing on Strictly Come Dancing’s results show this year!  The date is confirmed as Sunday 9th October (not sure if this will be musicals week?) which means that fans will have a double helping of Alfie and Michael that day – Songs of Praise Big Sing will be shown earlier that day. To celebrate, let’s take a look back at…

Happy Birthday Alfie Boe!

Happy Birthday Alfie! Your amazing fans wanted to wish you a happy birthday so from all of us we hope you have a wonderful day! All the birthday messages are on the Birthday Messages to Alfie page so click here to pop over and see them As he has done for the last five years, Alfie is using his birthday to fund raise for Nordoff Robbins – if you haven’t yet donated, click here to do so if you…

Alfie Boe Joins Children In Need Rocks

Just announced, Alfie Boe and Michael Ball are joining the line up for Children In Need Rocks For Terry on 1 November 2016!  The show will take place at the Royal Albert Hall and will also feature Take That, Ellie Goulding, Alexander Armstrong and Gregory Porter amongst others. Tickets are on sale from: Royal Albert Hall – click here Ticketmaster – click here for seated tickets click here for…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: No. 6

The song in at number six is this year’s only offering from Alfie’s last album, Serenata; in 2015 My Heart is Yours entered the top ten at number seven.  The music is from the film, Il Postino and it is the only song for which Alfie himself wrote the lyrics.  Can we say it’s great to see an original song make the list?  A semi original song as the film version is instrumental.  The video is from…

On This Day, 23 September 2014, Alfie Boe Sang…

…at Classic FM Live (thanks Marcia for sharing): As befits a radio station, this performance at the Royal Albert Hall was never broadcast for TV so we only have sound…but what sound! Addio Sogni Di Gloria was chosen as your favourite Alfie Boe song in 2015 (not even making the top ten this time around) and the second song, Chitarra…

Wish Alfie Boe a Happy Birthday!

September is over half way through and that means that it is nearly Alfie Boe’s birthday!  Yes, on September 29th, Alfie will be 43…and getting younger every year! If you would like to post Alfie a birthday message, pop it in the form below and it will be featured on a new Message to Alfie page next week: This video is from the Classic BRIT awards in 2013 and I chose this video as it was just a…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: No. 7

The fourth song of this year’s best ever Alfie Boe song poll is the first of our new entries to the top ten, even though it’s been on the long list since the beginning.  Taken from the 2012 album Storyteller, It’s Over went onto be used as the opening song of the 2013 tour: Genius to start a set with a song called It’s Over.  The…

On This Day, 16 September 2012, Alfie Boe Sang…

…I Wanna Know What Love Is at the Sunflower Jam: Thanks as ever to Linda W for sharing (listen at the beginning and you can hear a few shouts of “Go on Alfie” from Linda). Sunflower Jam was a concert at the Royal Albert Hall to raise money for a charity of the same name, raising funds for and awareness of an integrated approach to…

Alfie Boe’s 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: Number 8

Three weeks into our third annual best ever Alfie Boe Song and we come to number eight and a song that is the only one (apart from Bring Him Home of course) to feature in all three polls: I was initially surprised to find it in the top ten at all, never mind making it all the way to number two so I suppose I shouldn’t have been…

Ball and Boe at Proms in the Park

Twenty years since the first Proms in the Park and they celebrated in style with Alfie’s first London performance for four years (although he’s appeared in Glasgow and Belfast in between). The first time we’ve heard Alfie and Michael sing songs from their much anticipated album, Together, they gave us not just the promised one song but an additional song too!  Here they are, thanks to Annie and…

On This Day, 7 September 2006, Alfie Boe Sang…

… Nessun Dorma on ITV’s Lorraine show: This time, it’s thanks to Alfie for sharing! As Lorraine Kelly says, amazing to hear such passion in such a fantastic voice – and early in the morning too!  Alfie was of course promoting his debut album, Classic FM Presents, an album that he doesn’t seem to be keen on, judging by his…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: Number 9

The song voted in at number nine is a song that usually makes female fans go weak at the knees, especially the French lyrics.  Yes, it’s the second song from Trust to feature in the fan’s favourite Alfie Boe song, If You Go Away: If You Go Away first featured in this poll in 2014 where it was voted in at number 8 although the…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song: Number 10

Counting down the top ten begins here which means that we are officially counting down to the Alfie Boe Michael Ball Together tour which starts in ten weeks! Lots to look forward to in the run up, including the chance for your very own concert review to appear here but first, here is the song you voted in at number ten: Forever…

Alfie Boe 3rd Annual Best Ever Song Poll: The Top Ten

Voting has now closed in the third annual poll to find the fan’s favourite Alfie Boe song (recorded) and the top ten is in a handy playlist for you: There are just four songs that survived from the 2014 poll and of these four, just two have been voted into the top ten in all three polls so far. In 2015, the top ten looked like this:…