Sell-out Taupo concert entertains thousands

HITS: Bonnie Tyler entertained thousands in Taupo on Saturday. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

It was a sell-out crowd at the Taupo Summer Concert Tour with international acts ICEHOUSE, lan Parsons Live Project & Bonnie Tyler entertaining thousands.

About 15,000 people attended the concert held at the Taupo Amphitheatre yesterday .

It was the second of three shows in the annual Summer Concert Tour.

A 16,000-strong crowd headed along to Queenstown last weekend, with the tour finishing up in Whitianga today. Greenstone Entertainment chief executive Amanda Calvert said the two Saturday sell-out shows were great.

"We can't thank all the fans enough for coming along to support these fantastic artists who make the long journey to New Zealand to share their first-class talent with us all."

There was a unique chance on Friday for fans to get up close to the artists at a public signing session at My Music Taupo.

Headliners Aussie rockers ICEHOUSE, celebrating their 40th anniversary, played their namesake Icehouse, plus crowd favourites such as Hey Little Girl, Electric Blue, and Great Southern Land.

Bonnie Tyler had people dancing along to her well-known hits, Total Eclipse Of The Heart, It's A Heartache and Holding Out For A Hero", as well as renditions of other artists' songs including Tina Turner and The Bee Gees.

Alan Parsons Live Project, featuring Alan Parsons himself, along with lead singer PJ Olsson, and Todd Cooper on saxophone, played mid-afternoon taking people back to the 70s with the likes of Eye In The Sky, Games People Play and Damned If I Do.