I always love hearing from Osmond fans about what it was like to meet and/or see The Osmonds in concert, especially from these two types of people:

a) A first timer

b) A man!

A first timer because it reminds me of how it was for me the very first time I met them and it is so nice to hear this from a man’s point of view as well as you can guess, women outnumber the male fans when it comes to The Osmonds.

So here we go, I want to give a great big thank you to Dave Wyatt for his review and the lovely photo of himself with Jimmy and Marie Osmond.  I love this review for another reason as Dave was at the same Meet and Greet that I was, so his review reminds me again how fantastic it was and I particularly love the bit about kissing Marie’s hand, how wonderful, you go Dave!!

Over to you Dave:

Wow what a dream I had. Did I really meet all the Osmonds?

My sister & I used to love watching the Osmonds on TV back in the 1970’s. We both had the Osmond World magazine and Jayne even had Osmond socks! Never in a million years did I think I’d get to see them.

Back last year when it was announced that all the Osmonds were going to do a World Tour I was so excited. Even more so when I saw they were coming to Cardiff which isn’t far from where I now live.

I asked Jayne if she wanted to come and for some reason she said no!! I booked my VIP ticket as I so much wanted to meet them. Unfortunately for Jayne when she found out that I really had bought a ticket she changed her mind but unfortunately the show by that time was “Sold out”. Never mind though being the nice brother which I am I told her I would ask Donny for his autograph.

It seemed such a long time for the concert though. I really was counting down the days.  About a week before the concert I was getting really excited about seeing the Osmonds at last. I booked a day off work and also the following day to recover. Lol

On 28th May I caught the train into Cardiff and arrived at Cardiff CIA just after 12:00 hoping to meet the Osmonds as they arrived. It was awful weather and I looked like a drowned rat! I had spent lots of time preening myself especially for Marie. Anyway at about 14:45 I saw Jimmy & Marie (didn’t recognise her at so first. She is so petite I thought). I politely asked for a photograph and Jimmy was very obliging. The first Osmond I had ever met.

At around 15:30 myself and the other 100 or so fans went in and checked-in where we received our goodie bags which consisted of program, signed photo and framed display. We were also handed a card to write our question for the Q&A segment. As I’m a huge Elvis fan I made my question Elvis related and asked if they would have liked the opportunity to have recorded with Elvis.

Anyway time for the Meet & Greet. We were all told under no circumstances not to take photographs or ask for autographs otherwise we would be ejected! I pointed out that it clearly states that we can take photographs on the letter we had received with our tickets only to be told that the rules had changed!!! As my sister was unable to come to the concert I was hoping I could get autographs for her (especially Donny).  We were all taken into the arena when the Osmonds appeared and came towards us. Now being a bloke even I was starting to tremble and going weak at the knees. I could feel the hair on the back of my neck start tingling. Whilst I appreciate there were about 100 people who had paid £250.00 for the VIP tickets we were quickly ushered around and only really had the chance to say “hello” to each Osmond before moving on to the next one! I shook all their hands except Marie’s. I politely asked if I could kiss her hand and she said how cute I was. OMG!!!

I found all the Osmonds to be extremely pleasant to talk too and so very polite. Personally I think it would have been better to have had a smaller VIP crowd and we would have had more time with each Osmond. But then again things are done to generate income (100 fans @ £250.00 each = £25,000.00!!) I must admit I did spend a bit of time with Donny telling him how my sister is a huge fan and she so much wanted to be at the concert. I was even contemplating asking for his autograph for her and risking being ejected!

After the Meet & Greet, Marie came over and spoke to all of us present whilst everybody else carried out sound checks etc. I did ask Marie if she would marry me (seriously) but she did say she already had 8 children and didn’t want anymore!

Next came the Q&A. Hey Donny read my question first. WOW. He even said my name too. Alan answered the question and I found it very interesting hearing about how they met Elvis etc. Donny kept on to Alan asking him to answer the question with either a yes or no lol. Thankfully we were able to take photographs in this part only and I took quite a few.

Next the sound checks which was a mini concert in itself. It was so funny watching Donny & Wayne dancing to The Proud One. Really wish we could have taken photographs though.

That was the VIP part over and done with. It only seemed like such a short time we were with the Osmonds. Luckily I had bought a ticket for the VIP lounge which included a meal which was very nice.

The concert itself was absolutely FANTASTIC. What a show. This was easily the best concert I have ever been to. I bought a few things in the intermission and also paid for a concert CD which I have on at the time of writing this.

Would I pay £250.00 for a VIP ticket again? No I wouldn’t. Whilst I can’t find any fault whatsoever with the concert or meeting the Osmonds, things were rushed and we certainly were not treated like VIP’s.

With all the video cameras about I really hope we get a UK DVD of the Concert.

Thank-you very much to the Osmonds for such a fantastic time. It was such a pleasure finally getting to meet all of you. I really wished Jayne (my sister could have been there too).