MILLIONS of music fans were delighted by the news that Gotta Get Thru this hitmaker, Daniel Bedingfield was making a comeback.
The singer who has kept a low profile since his early noughties heyday, surprised fans when he announced a return to the spotlight with three UK music gigs.
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But the recent show at Manchester’s Bridgewater hall left fans unimpressed, with many blasting his performance as, ‘self indulgent.’
Writing on social media, one fan wrote:
“30 minutes in and Daniel Bedingfield is yet to sing a “hit,” Feels like a quite selfish concert, singing new material and doing him a disservice as his voie is still great.”
Another wrote: “Really really poor, a show consisting of a load of new material that nobody came to see, very self indulgent. Sang probably 4 old songs at the most, voice went and left the stage after just over an hour. I love him but this was just disappointing!”
Meanwhile another fan also said they left the venue ‘disappointed.’
“I was really disappointed too. Seemed very self indulgent lot’s of new songs very few hits, even though it was advertised as a celebration of twenty years since the successful two albums. Voice went halfway through and it was like he didn’t want to sing the well known songs.”
Another said they felt let down, they said: “Been looking forward to this for months and couldn’t feel more let down. Don’t like hearing “I don’t want to sing this” before my favourite song, even if it’s true.”
Bedingfield’s breakthrough hit Gotta Get Thru This was written in his bedroom and took the UK music scene by storm in the early noughties.
After topping the charts in 2001 and 2002, his debut album sold more than 4 million copies after which he won Best Male at the Brit Awards.
But the New Zealand -born star struggled with the scrutiny of the spotlight and after his second album failed to replicate the success of the first, he retreated from the spotlight.
When a stint in a West End musical War of the Worlds came to an abrupt end after just two months in 2016, Daniel decided to throw himself into another career.
He followed his passion for environmental issues, working in regenerative farming.
Speaking to The Sun, Daniel said the switch was good for his mental health after the madness of the music business.
” I focused it on learning languages and trying to reverse climate change, honestly. Trying to figure out regenerative practices, aggro farming, so I just learnt a lot of that.
“It’s the same level of intensity, the eco-system’s being destroyed by human hands and we have to do something to reverse it, and I just put that same intensity into something else.
Indeed Daniel has also founded his own label Hoooks to help break through musicians become financially viable.
Remembering his own path to success, he says: “[DJ] EZ gave me my leg up, he put me on a compilation and that blew gotta get thru this up. I’ll be eternally grateful to him. I do feel a great responsibility to do what I can to help new musicians break.”
The singer whose sister Natasha Bedingfield 42, is also a successful recording artist on the comeback trail, insists that his new shows are not a money making vehicle, but the only way to stay relevant.
He says: “Live shows are the only reason to be physically present nowadays.”
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