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Awww thank you for your lovely reports Garethluvva, Chris and Val I agree it was so sad to see he was in pain with his throat I loved every minute of the gig though the only thing I didn't enjoy was worrying about his voice but no one could pull it off and remain the cheerful self he always seems to be, only a true star could do that I'm sorry to hear you lost your poster Val and your tag, what he wrote was really sweet and thoughtful, bless him. x

Thank you for your report Elaine, was lovely to read i'll tell Sarahjane about your advice to garethluvva on what time to get there. x

Thank you for this Heather its lovely to hear Gareth is on there with this song

Happy Birthday and Anniversary here's to the next 10 years, i'm sure it will still be going in 10 years without a shadow of a doubt.

Hi everyone Due to Illness the dates this weekend have been postponed. 8th November - The Gwynn Hall , Port Talbot 9th November Mill Arts Centre - Banbury You should have all been contacted by the venues now and we are arranging new dates. I'm sure you have all followed Gareth's progress and we hope to have him fully fit very soon however he has been advised by the Doctor not to sing until Wednesday. We will keep you updated with Gareth's progress - and please accept our apologies. Unfortunately sometimes these things cannot be avoided. Gareth HQ x

I have a horrible feeling he won't be better for his tour and will never be fully right again *cries*

This was Gareth this morning, Early start for me today... Yawn.. London bound to see yet another voice specialist. hopefully it went well. now he's just said I've been here all afternoon. Rehearsing for my tour. I'm playing piano for most of it :-) who's coming? X I'm glad we will be getting to see that side of his talents too the fact he said he'll be playing the piano for most of it means he will be concentrating on softer songs to be careful of his voice for now rather than do a lot of the louder one's like Living On a Prayer.

Yeah i'm worried too there has been a lot of venue's but like you say about not singing on that many songs, each band sings no more than 5 or 6 anyway, he hasn't tweeted or favorited any tweets from people who were there this evening, he usually does during the concert when other bands are on like when he watches Xfactor at weekend and i'd of thought he would of been on Twitter more with it being the last show, its probably nothing but it makes me think he doesn't feel good.

Thank you so much Doris and Gazman for your reports I enjoyed reading them but i'm sorry to hear you had to leave early Doris because of trains with the concert starting late x

Oh yeah Wolverhampton, that would be perfect too as we get a tram from there back to Snow Hill, not bothered about Manchester with things as such as I like to go with Sarahjane and can't always be off work etc for 2 venue's.

Thanks for posting these Chris i'm hoping Birmingham and/or Manchester get one so I can go with Sarahjane although I know Redditch is where Hayley Langston lives and isn't far from Birmingham and Oldham not far from Manchester.

Thanks for posting these pics Chris Some I took

Yeah not guaranteed, suppose these things are aimed at those who just want to meet whoever they can. Had to sign in between 3.15 and 4.15 then it started around half 4, 4.45

I noticed that on Twitter but its a shame its a couple of people saying things like, looks like Gareth isn't doing too well then. Thanks for posting x

It was just certain one's from certain groups, certain one's did the signing bit and certain others did the photo bit, they said they try to get at least 1 member from each band at each bit but some are in sound check, so say if Gareth is doing the photo part and is there at the start but then gets called off for sound check, you miss out on him if you're too far back in the queue but after we spoke to the people at the desk as Sarahjane said, they were very helpful in making sure we got there when Gareth was. you went past the signing tables first then the photo part after.

Thank you for your lovely and very detailed report Sarahjane definitely enjoyed the concert myself too, of course nothing beats his solo stuff. Here's our pics from the meet and greet, will probably post the others in gallery gates thread

Thank you for posting this Val I was just about to do it when I seen this. Its lovely to see there's 4 for next year already which is well in advance too. x

Its lovely venue's are wanting him back isn't it definitely a good sign, I see he's back at Wednesbury too for a lights switch on.

Its been confirmed now on Facebook shame it wasn't announced sooner for some reason along with the Banbury one the day after, shortest notice ever for a gig I think, wish we knew the reason why confirmation is so late, not good when we want him to be successful can only hope there was a good reason, that's my complaining over. Editing to say maybe this one has only just been arranged anyway unlike the Banbury one.

Part 2 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152766033610871

Iv'e never been on a plane and it doing this to his eye has put me off I think as I hate anything to do with eyes.

Its lovely to see this little message on FB, there's another one to come each night until this Friday https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152765988615871

Thank you for posting this Val saw this on Twitter the other day too. Thanks for this Chris, that will be awesome if its a tour, it might be too as the poster doesn't say what the venue is.

Thanks for posting this Val that date is the date I first met Gareth 8 years ago but clubbing isn't really my thing and its too close to other things. I look forward to the interview on Tuesday I think I saw Gareth and his family come back from New York Monday so I think he'll be on.

If it happens on the November tour when I go i'd be tempted to shout something and have a go, he wouldn't of liked it if it had been done to him, makes it worse the fact its such a beautiful song.