BRING IT ON PEEPS – DETROIT COVERAGE

PHOTOS:

SET LIST (will be updated with Youtube videos)
Openers: KSM & Honor Society
- Don’t Close The Book
-That’s Just the Way We Roll
-A Little Bit Longer
-Goodnight & Goodbye
-Hello Beautiful
-SOS
-Burnin Up
-Love Bug and Joe & Frankie dancing
-Pushin Me Away
-Still In Love
-Shelf
-Can’t Have You
-BB Good
-Year 3000
-Hold On
-Play My Music
-Gotta Find You
-Video Girl
-Free Falling
-Superstitious
- Kevin Spraying foam
- Nick drumming
- Close Up of Flips
Foam on Joe’s butt
HQ CONCERT WRAP UP

ARTICLES:

OMG! Thousands of screaming Jonas Brothers fans crammed Joe Louis Arena Sunday night, swirling their glow sticks, tugging on homemade band T-shirts and, totally jumping when the trio belted out tween favorites.

But many in the crowd, which was composed primarily of the Claire’s set, had to thank not Kevin, Joe, and Nick for the chance to hear the bubblegum ballads, but the other Big Three.

You know, like, the Detroit carmakers.

Tori Ley, 7, of Westland was among the fans who got in thanks to the splashy auto show charity preview gala. Every $400-a-pop ticket for the Friday night event came with a Jonas Brothers concert pass. Friends who’d attended the soiree passed them along to her family.

“They’re cute and cool,” she said of the well-coiffed cuties on stage, her own hair laced with glitter gel for the big night.

She liked all three of the brothers Jonas equally, but Melissa Woy had a clear favorite: Nick.

“Every time he sings ‘A Little Bit Longer,’ he cries,” gushed the 14-year-old Mt. Clemens resident, who was wearing a self-designed puffy-paint T-shirt crammed with Jonas Brothers trivia and doodles.

Although most chaperones were moms, a handful of dads were on deck — more than a few fortified with concession-stand beer. LOL!

“It’s a little bit weird,” confessed Tony Rosati, 37, of Windsor, who usually goes to the Joe for Red Wings games, but was now hanging out with his 11-year-old so-excited-she-danced-around-before-the-show-even-began daughter Olivia.

Despite the Beatles-esque reception at the concert, the EMT station nearest the VIP entrance was still empty after the first few songs

SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — It was like so awesome clean-cut fun you wanted to totally dance your feet off!

If, that is, you could hear the music.

The Jonas Brothers, the hottest boy band on the planet, delivered their catchy pop wrapped in smiles and fashionable costumes Sunday night at the Joe Louis Arena.

The screaming that welcomed the Jonas family bore a nuclear-fusion feel, that started with the band’s orchestral intro and continued when a giant JB sign was lit aflame, and somehow intensified when the brothers launched into their hit That’s Just The Way We Roll.

When they sashayed into Don’t Take My Heart, it sounded like they were singing what the entire crowd was thinking.

The steam kept erupting for hits Hold On and the rocking BB Good, also a theme of the wholesome act.

With grins, karate kicks and the occasional flip, these youngsters boast a confidence and stage presence that belies their age. And with that sort of reception, how can you blame them?

Their reach keeps growing, helped by energetic stage antics and main singer Joe’s connection with the audience.

The Jonas Brothers achieved their popularity through the children’s network the Disney Channel, and Kevin, 21, Joe, 19, and Nick, 16, have been gaining ground ever since — as the hysterical Joe Louis crowd emphasized.

People who bought $400 charity preview tickets Friday night at the North American International Auto Show had a ticket thrown in for the Jonas Brothers. But if the ritzy car crowd expected a business-like environment at the Joe Louis — as they had Friday night at Cobo Arena for the comparatively ancient and sparsely attended Doobie Brothers — they had another headache-inducing thing coming.

This was mass hysteria dressed in pink, waving glow-sticks and largely chaperoned by smirking parents.

When opening act KSM, a punky all-girl band, strutted onto a high-pitched scream went up as if everyone had just won a free iPhone.

Same goes for the next warmup act Honor Society, an energetic troupe of preppy boys in jeans and ties.

But the Jonas Brothers forced the group squeal into ear-damage territory.

The lads, of course, were playing to a receptive audience. And never mind that the Jonases have taken vows of purity, wearing rings to prove their commitment to abstaining from sex before marriage, not to mention declining drugs and alcohol.

Amid a sea of ecstatic teens and tweens and kids as young as perhaps four, this was Jonas as religion. It seemed like every second girl in attendance wore a T-shirt professing some sort of love of the brothers Jonas — with the likes of “Mrs. Joe Jonas” emblazoned on the back.

Windsor’s Ariana Ventrella, 12, attending her first concert ever with her friend Ciara Multari, 12, considered the event amazing.

“It’s really exciting,” Ariana said from her main-floor seat. “I’m a pretty big fan. Huge fan.”

“We like listening to their music and dancing to it all the time,” added Ciara. “We listened to it coming over here.”

Take away the parents, and some bemused adults may have liked the idea, the average fan was about 12 — seemingly every one armed with a camera for souvenir hug shots and phones for real-time texting.

OMG, the JBs are sooo HOT!!!

SOURCE: Windsor Star