So day two of Top Gear Live is over. And we were there to see it – cos it’s our show, obviously. Anyway, the curtain went down for a second night, Stig wandered backstage with his Scalextric and the boys went to the pub, to make today’s show even better.
And if you’ve got tickets for the remaining performances, lucky you – London and almost all of the Birmingham tickets are now sold out. We don’t want to spoil it for you here, but we thought we’d show you some sneaky backstage shots of yesterday’s action, just to get your Top Gear juices flowing.
As usual, Jeremy, James and Richard were welcomed by a roaring crowd of women, and a few scary-looking hairy blokes too (some had mullets). And while they got the show going, we were hanging out in the paddock, watching the drivers warm up cars, before blasting out into the arena with a shriek of tyre squeal and roar of meaty V8. Or whatever size their engine was (the DBS sounded best, its V12 echoing around the cavernous Earls Court paddock).
When the cars were doing their thing for the audience, Jeremy and James sat backstage surrounded by cigarette packets and cans of Coke.
Then we spotted a dancing girl, and followed her to the arena – dodging powersliding supercars as we nipped across the bit behind the stage (you know the bit where they disappear out of sight? Well, there). As she got busy on top of a giant football, warming up for a very bendy routine, we watched the action on a telly. Then we spotted Oliver – Hammond’s Kadett from the Botswana trip – getting ready to enter the action. See him in the pic? Cute, isn’t he?
Anyway, you’ll just have to watch the show to see what happens next. And we definitely won’t spoil the Hollywood-style ending for you. But expect pyrotechnics, lots of strobey lights and a tame racing driver called Stig (there’s a clue in the picture we snapped at the top of this page).
Then check back here later for more news on the Top Gear Live World Tour. We’re going global, see, and we’ve just had a little chat to Jeremy and Richard to find out how excited they are…
Oh, and don’t forget Top Gear is back on your telly on Sunday night. It’s not live, but it’s just as good.
I wish top gear came to singapore
first
Extremly jealous of all those with tickets. I sadly had no parental permission and Birmigham is really to far to travel if your 13 and live in Aberdeen, Scotland. Keep the pics and gossip coming as it does ease the pain.
i can’t wait! I’ve got tickets for it in Dublin and i’m sooo excited! Can’t wait for sunday aswell! Love the show!
why cant you come to manchester it not fair. and is it true that james isn’t going to be at the birmigham show cos i think i got tickets from my friend for my birthday
I’ve got a single ticket for the show in Dublin on the Saturday. That’s right, I’m going I’m going on my own, but I don’t care, I’m going! I hope you bring actual supercars and not some crappy replicas, like you did in London. You better bring a DBS and Veyron, I love those cars! Go Massa!
I was at mph and topgear live on friday the second day. i was a foot away from jezza during the show and hamster said how’e'ya mate to me. so many class cars dere. best day ever!!!!!!
Top Gear has been in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Island too…
When will you come to Finland????
I was there. It was awesome. Clarkson asked for my views on the cool wall!!!
Bloody rubbish, went last three years, won’t go again. Tired, lacking imagination, dancing girls?? Trade show poor. Expensive sell out, Bet you edit comments like this leaving only the brown nosers!
Well I went yesterday and I won’t be going in future. The show was lame and the way the audience was herded about by rude stewards was unacceptable. The car show was way too crowded and too hot. The Sunday Times ‘enclosure’ was a joke – more crowded than the exhibition areas… It was good for a few years but it is now a cash cow…
I really wanted to go!
My dad wouldn’t let me, I was looking so forward to it. The MPH show looked so good to! I really wanted to see the DBS.
Maybe next year? (hint, hint):-)
Why? Why? Why not in Poland?? ;(
This was one of the best days of my life! Jezza, James and Richard were almost within touching distance!
But no signings?
Anyway, Brill show will be there next year!
I am going to Earls Court one, should be good!!!
Good Luck Jezza,Hamster and captain Slow!!
i know ho the stig is. here is the link of a video where you can see the stig with no helmet its a man with brown long hair. here is the link http://www.garagetv.be/vi deo-galerij/ghostwriter/T op_Gear_The_Stig_zonder_h elm__.aspx
you can see his face at the last 10 seconds of
Enjoy
i went to top gear live today it was the best.
It was my first time n i cant wait to go again my view was ruined a bit coz a tall man sat in front of mr but i could still see all the action. Its the first time i have seen them in real life and next i want to meet them in person!!!!!!
I cant wait for the new series tomorrow its gonna be great!!!
Really? Did you even watch the episode? That’s Tim Schrick of D Motor, who is clearly not the Stig because the two of them appeared in the same scene, racing against each other. Some people…
I’m waiting for USA visits. Maybe eventually.
For those of you who did go, I hope you had a wonderful time. Maybe next year I might get to go.
Yet more Stig speculation in the Daily Star today – they were wrong too.
Turned out the tabloids papped one of our own TG staffers who happened to work late in the office. Check out the story on our homepage.
Or here if you’re feeling lazy:
http://www.topgear.com/uk /car-news/i-am-not-the-s tig
why won’t you guys come to the U.S.?
I have just got back from the Earls Court show and I have to say I was very disappointed. I love the show and the guys, but the ticket was £107 and the show was only just over an hour long. Far too long was spent watching some weirdo dance troupe…yawn! There was no opportunity to meet the guys either. Gutted
All in all, Autosport International was better, and the tickets are only £25!
Top gear my favorite show. i watch it ALL the time: on tv, youtube, on my ipod…i just cant get enough of the show.
Why dont they come to scotland ??????????????
Those of you who went, hope you had a great time, the pics look really cool. Wish i could go, but sadly my parents did not agree.
hammond should cut his hair short like how it was in season 9 & top gear dog should come back
I can’t wait till i go, I’m going to the Birmingham one, it looks epic! By the way ‘The Stig’ I followed your link and it was one of the drivers for the german side, seeing as the Stig wasn’t even in that particular challenge I’d have thought that was obvious…
why dont top gear getrid of t.g USA & ozzy and make back to a grubey car show how it use to be
thats how i like it
I saw the show at 11 this morning in earls court is absoultly amazing cant wait for nxt year
Went to Top Gear Live today and it was Bloody Brilliant! Definitely getting tickets for next year.
im seeing tg live at the nec at the mph motorshow. itll be ace
you are lucky if you live in Great Britain. I live in Poland, so Top Gear I can see only in television… I wish that they would come to Szczecin, but is impossible. Now I am waiting for new series- but it is not the same…
The TG Live show was fantastic and so was MPH! I will definitely be going next year!
i was at the 4 o’clock show
it was good but the dances were abit anoying coz there was less of the team
and im confused….was that the real reliant robin or not???
if you got the november mag then you will have the tg live hadley thing and it ses what tikets u can get (get that out if u havent trone it away) IM GOING TO THE NEC (BERMINGHAM) ON PLATNUM TIKETS!!!!!!!! YAY (and the best part is i get free tea lol)
TOP GEAR Is the best…
Just got tickets to the Sydney show!!! So looking forward to it!!
, if you cant get tickets elsewhere, come down to Australia, plenty of seats till avaliable for FEB 09.
Cant wait to meet Hamstar!
New season is starting very soon YAY
I still can’t believe that they will come to Hong Kong at Feb 19-22 2009
Can’t wait!
they are coming to new zealand early 2009
by the way TG already know holdens are gay , go the fords
YAY i have platinum tickets for sydney Cant wait. AND CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF REAL TG IS COMING BACK TO AUSTRALIA, Top GEar australia is killing me, i watched the first 10 mins of the 1st episode then i gave up, it was crap!!!
IF ANYONE KNOWS PLZ POST HERE!!!!!!
thanks
Top Gear,
I beg you, can you please come to Kobe, Japan?????? I would love it if you did:)
Was at the 4pm show yesterday. Really enjoyed it. Without giving too much away for those that haven’t seen it you get to see some amazing cars, great stunts and other cocking about. The group I was with all thought it was a great show. Will be going next year.
Yh i wish top gear came to singapore it would be great!
ace show lads! shame there was no vw stand at the mph, i need to see a new scirocco desperately but at least it came out briefly during the show!
what was everyones opinion on the san storm convertible?
I went to the MPH Show yesterday, Saturday 6:30 pm.
Well, as they said, a lot of explosions, cool laserlights, cool cars, drifts, Audiance coo, wall,
…..
was similar to the normal Top-Gear program, but because it was live and we all paid £40 for it, they had to put some stunts, explosions ect to make it worth the money.
How it make me feel? Well, i somehow didn’t feel satisfied. It felt too short, and yeah Clarkson, Hammond were realy comming into the audience and were very near to us all.
I can’t quite put my finger on what it was, that did not make me so excited as when i normaly watch top-gear, they also played the mini-football that was a laugh; but something was missing.
It didn’t feel as long as our normal top-gear on telle, even though it was 30 min. longer ?!
It felt like you just stept in…and in 20 min. everything is over, and you get that feeling of the show being to short.
And even though it wasn’t cheap(actually, cause of hiring the place, explosions, lasers, perfomances ect), it did feeeel cheap.
Maybe the guys should have done less of the fooling around, and do more of the exciting and challenging bids of top-gear.
It surely was better than last year, watching from u-tube, the stage wasn’t lid properly, so many of the actions were left half in the shadow. This year they sortet that problem out.
What negative I felt there too was the seating hight, it was a bit too low, peoples heads are in the way, and the stage appears far shorter that it actualy is.
And I think, now i now what it was, it felt a bit more like a circus that our Top-gear as we know.
That’s it.
Is it worth paying for it?
Well the answer,
if you are a rockstar fan, and your heroes are giving a live performance, wouldn’t you come just to see them?
Hey I went to see top gear live!!!!!
I thought it was awesome and I loved the finale
And I loved seeing my hero Richard Hammond
i wish top gear would have a supercar race to northern ireland and the finishing line was my house.
P.S
I bet you that i could go round your track faster than 2mins and im a teenager
My 2 mates and I have been to MPH at Earls Court the past 3 years now and loved the show in 06 & 07.
But this year we were left feeling disappointed and cheated… the show was filled with glorified adverts, less than average dance routines, and a distinct lack of the usual banter and fun challenges from the TG lads. The Cool Wall and lap of the TG test track was rubbish… it obviously wasn’t controlled by the audience and was boring. And what happened to the 3D effects from previous years?!
Also, we were disappointed to see that once again, the TG boys couldn’t be bothered to come out and say hello to their fans… we have been to Earls Court 3 years in a row; on Saturday afternoon, evening, and now on the Gala night (Thurs) and they have never bothered to show their faces after the show, even to the people that bought Gold tickets and bothered to do the (boring) paddock tour afterwards.
Sorry Jeremy, James and Richard, but we won’t be coming next year, although I will of course still be watching the new series of Top Gear tonight… for FREE from the comfort of our living room!!
Yes i cannot wait for this, Top gear is one of the best TV shows on earth. becides from fonejacker, but its brilliant
So TG Live will be brilliant hopefully!
I Got Silver Tickets For November 1st, one of the best things i ever saw… Sorry for all who couldnt go, you would have loved it!!
*sigh*– waiting for you to come to San Antonio, Texas.
I got the ticket for a Saturday show in Dublin.
Really excited to see them here!!
I love TG and good to know the show rocks!! Though had to pay almost €100 for it!! Really Really Really hope its worth it now!!
I was at the 6.30pm show on Saturday at Earls Court and I loved it, well done to everyone involved! Is the leader board going to be published so that those who have already been can keep track on their position as the show moves around the world?
Jezza for priminister!
I LOVE YOU TOP GEARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
I do hope you are coming to finland, only problem is we don’t really have anywhere big anough
i was meant 2 go on saturday but my mum thought we were going today then we checked the tickets and we missed it i was soooooo guted im onl 12 and love top gear and whe parents finally said yes i miss it!!
jeremy is a porshe person
richard is a ferrari person
and james is a ford person
hey, jst want to say that i was at MPH in Earls court n saw the show, the boys rocked the place out. i was so close to the action in the stands that a could’ve jumped from my seat onto the arena floor with the guys. they were awesome. great job
I KNOW THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TOP GEAR LIVE BUT I WAS THINKING AN AUDI R8 VS A MITSABUSHI EVO 10 AROUND A CIRCUIT LAP DRIVEN BY THE STIG AND JEREMY SHOULD BE PRETTY INTERRESTING BECAUSE I THINK EVEN THOUGH THE R8 IS ALOT FASTER THAN THE EVO 10 WITH ALL ITS HANDELING AND ALL IT SHOULD BEAT THE R8
JEREMY IF YOU ARE READING THIS CAN YOU TELL ME WHATS THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN A BUGGATI VEYRON AND A VOLKSVWAGON NARDO W16? REPLY
JEREMY IF YOU READ THIS YOU SAID THAT LAMBORGHINIS ARE MORE COMMON THAN FERARI WELL IN NORTHERN IRELAND I SEE MORE FERARI,S THAN LAMBORGHINIS BUT HAVE ONLY SEEN 1 LAMBO IN MY LIFE
My Hubby and I are going to the Sydney show in Australia. We have even booked our flights to get there and back and worked out our accomadation. It’s our 1 and only holiday for this year and next so we slurged and got Platnim tickets. We could cause we are TG mag subscribers so got in as soon as it opened up at the ticket site.
Just can’t wait. Pitty Captain Slow is not coming though. If any of you can , go check out TG Australia. Wazza is hillerious.
ive got tickets for birmingham on 13.10.08!
aghhhh! cant wait!
gd luk 4 the show! =]
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I took my oldest son to see 1.30pm show on Saturday and we were really lucky as we has Row A seats. He loved it and I really enjoyed it, BUT, the boys weren’t on an awful lot, there was far too much support stuff and not really enough of the japery that makes TG. (Is this due to Clarkson’s recent crash?) James was on the least, which I found really disappointing, no encore and it’s a shame they didn’t do autographs or a meet and greet in the Paddock tour after. Did manage to see James and Hammond outside their “room” whilst on our tour, and managed to join to get a few pics, but as all the other ladies doing the same were after Hammond’s pic, I will have to have T’Shirt in future stating “I’m not here for Hammond”.
I did enjoy it, but felt that it was too short. In the afternoon the MPH show was dangerously crowded and I did leave early as my son(whose blind in one eye) was getting heavily jostled. Security and Stewards need to be more on the ball.
Would come again, but TG team take a leaf out of John Barrowman’s live show. Entire 1st half totally solo (50 mins ish, 2nd half he was only supported for about 20-25 mins.) This is what the fans want, more of the guys who ARE the show and not a fleet of silly dancing girls and circus tricks.
whoooow, MPH IS a cash cow !!
Before i went to MPH Live 2008 on the just now past Saturday, i didn’t bother calculating the money MPH brings top-gear!
5000 people present at one show, they did 4 shows on Saturday at earlscourt.
The silver tickets cost £40
so, 5000 x 4 =20 000 people
20 000 x £40 = £800 000 !!!!!!!!
That’s enough to buy a Bugatti Veyron, and certanly far more than enough to pay for a hall, pay for ensurance of the exibition halls to keep this posch cars in there, to pay for the performances, pay for health and safety non-sense, for the lazers ……all easy.
I feel robbed to be honest, the show wasn’t that good!
£800 000 in 1 day, insane!
Went to all 4 days in London.
Had platinum tickets every day.
Was so worth the money, I loved every minute of it!
I’ve been going for three years, and every year it just keeps getting better!
x
I tell you wha, that’s there solution to the credit crunch, to get money in, and it works.
mammma miiihaaa
getting that much money in, i hope they gona put some of that in the next serieses to come.
(finger-cross)
i went to the show on sunday at 11am, the show was great, i think an hour isnt really long enough and would have liked the boys and the stig to have done a lot more instead of the dancing lot etc.
Very over crowded and really disapointed that i didnt get any autographs, was dying to meet Jeremy!! wud go nx year but not paying V.I.P prices again, really not worth it. Luv u Jezza! xx
what an absolute mind blowing day the show was fab will deffo be going again next year
I agree with ‘Mumsy’ (previous poster). My husband and I had platinum tickets so we had the paddock tour, VIP area etc. Unfortunately the car arena was far, far too overcrowded to properly have a look. The VIP area had a lack of seating and when we went to get our meal after the TG performance, they had nothing but veggie lasagne on offer, nowhere to sit to eat anyway and the bar had run out of change so they wanted my husband to pay a fiver for one glass of wine.
The live performance left me with a mixture of feelings – on one hand it was fabulous as I was seated about 3 foot from Hammond and Clarkson when they stopped in the middle of the crowd – got some brilliant close ups of them. But I felt the show was lacking content from the three people we had all come to see. Too much rubbish dancing and drumming. The car football was funny and the driving was good (what there was of it, anyway) but I got the impression the boys were very tired and didn’t have the energy to give more than they did.
There was no signings or photo opportunities or any chance to ask car questions of the guys which was quite disappointing. If the number of tickets had been reduced, maybe there would have been time and space to do this.
Having said that, I will definately still be going next year and I’m still waiting for those elusive tickets to see the show at their hangar.
Top Gear Rules OK!!
i went to top gear live on the 31st
and i have to say even though how much i like all things top gear(many previous comments on the site:)) it was a bit dissapoiting
soz guys :s but the programme is so much better
i saw this performance me and a friend … is there a next year because it was amazing. cant stop talking about it. We love richard and oliver. new series is amazing
I went to Top Gear Live on saturday and I was a bit disappointed! It was a nice show but it wasn’t Top Gear…
Just cut out the dancing girls and let Jeremy, James and Richard talk about cars and mess about.
Still love the tv show!!
Going to see Top Gear Live in Dublin nov 29, can’t wait am so excited about it. Hope it lives up to my expectations as i love the programme so much and would watch it every night if it was on! Just the thought of seeing the boys in the flesh especially Hammond!!!
I went to London On Sat 1st. I agree with the comment about it being not quite as good as last year – the guys werent on enough and there was too much of the scantily clad dancing girls rolling about on a huge ball??!!! Whats all that about!!?? The rest of the show was good – especially when Jeremy and James come into the audience – Jeremy came right along the row behind us and Richard was at the end of our row (about 15 ish seats away) I wish it was the other way around though!! Disappointed that there was no chances to meet the guys 0 I carried books and dvd’s around all day on the off chance that I met them!! The stewards on the Paddock tour ruched us around too (this happened last year at BIrningham too). It takes that long to get out of the arena and into the paddock area that if you are some of the last few in (if you have had Platinum tickets like I had then you are last out as you are furthest away from the doors!) you get hurried round. Maybe the timings of the programmes should be changed slightly so that everyone gets enough time to go around and have a reasonable amount of time to look at the cars?
I am definitely going to go next year, and Id get the VIP tickets again even though there werent enough seats in the area (although we did pretty well and managed to get seats to eat) as you get the best seats in the Live Show. I hope they guys/producers etc of the show take note of the comments on here and have more of the TG Guys/cars and less of the dancing girls Last year was a better show. It would be nice if we had the chance to meet the guys aswell – especially if we have paid for VIP tickets – I know they cant sign everyone’s programmes etc but even if they just came out and said hi from their ‘offices’/wherever it is they go after the show, that would be nice.
* I meant Jeremy and Richard came into the audience – not Jeremy and James!! Id like to know where JAmes was though – he wasnt around much!?
Dancing girls? oh no…
I’ve tickets for Dublin on 28th and the cheapest tickets were €100 (that i can’t afford). Please please boys listen to the comments and cut the dancing girls – we want to see you guys!
p.s. I do now have a disturbing image of you three in dancer costumes – please don’t go down that route!
I WAS AT THE NEC AND SAW THE 11AM SHOW ON SAT 15TH NOV.
IT WAS ABSOLUTLY FANTASTIC!!!
JAMES AND THE MILK FLOAT WAS REALLY FUNNY!
JAMES TALKING TOO THE PRODUCER WAS FUUNY TOO!
Me & my son lee was in brum 15th nov, show was brill getting better every year keep it up lads