A CRITIC once complained that a Keith Urban concert had too many crowd singalongs. Last time I checked, the frequency of crowd participation was the ultimate measure of the success of a concert.
Urban did not have to encourage an almost full house at the Sydney Entertainment Centre last night to join him in song.
From the opener Put You In A Song until he walked off stage two hours later, Urban was greeted by an enthusiastic choir of thousands.
The country music superstar is in the enviable position of having so many hits, there are no misses - making a bar or toilet break risky in case you miss your favourite song.
"This is about you tonight; if you want to scream and sing and dance on your seats ... security is going to leave you alone," he said.
His infectious likeability - and satellite stages positioned throughout the venue - help him achieve the arena performer's holy grail of creating intimacy in such a huge venue.
And it doesn't matter how many songs Urban writes in devotion to wife Nicole Kidman, you can tell from the screams and their besotted grins that his legion of female fans reckon he is singing just for them. But the Get Closer tour is also about planting the seed of fandom with a new generation as Urban interacts with some very lucky young'uns getting to share a moment on stage. And his guitar. Maybe that's the dad in him now.
Urban also paid tribute to his Australian country music roots by dedicating Making Memories Of Us to the late Slim Dusty and his wife Joy McKean.


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