Gig review: Josh Groban - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

CLAPPING, cheering and whooping are accepted forms of expressing approbation at a Josh Groban concert, but if you really want to know how it’s going down, look to the glowsticks.

A scattering of his audience came armed with them, brandished during his most hardcore slushy ballads in a slow waving motion, somewhat undercutting the lyrics’ earnest sentiment. Was this what he had in mind while singing the line “when you change colours, I change mine too”?

There was a fair amount of such extravagant emoting woven through this two-hour show – Groban didn’t get to be the popera-loving housewives’ choice by pulling his sentimental punches – but as much of his set was in Spanish, there was a protective language barrier against his worst excesses, not to mention his self-deprecating, witty answers to some hand-picked audience questions.