Ne-Yo

Saturday night Ne-Yo played his first of two shows at The O2 Arena as part of his UK Tour with support from Chipmunk and Trey Songz. Up first was Chipmunk, with just a DJ for company, playing a shorter than normal set of half a dozen songs including his latest collaboration with Chris Brown 'Champion'.

The main support act was Trey Songz, although I didn't get any shots of him because as we were waiting to go through to the pit, Ne-Yo's management came and asked all the photographers if we would like to go backstage to take some photos of Ne-Yo in his hospitality suite. It was a pleasant suprise, especially at an Arena show, and with an artist like Ne-Yo. It wasn't something that he, nor his management needed to do.

By the time we had taken some shots, and walked back to where we needed to be, it wasn't too long before we were in the pit waiting for Ne-Yo to take to the stage. When he did come onstage, dressed in a black suit and with female dancers dressed in very little, he played some of his most popular tracks such as 'So Sick' and 'Beautiful Monster'.

You can see a few more photos from the show, plus backstage shots on Flickr.