During the concert in Alexandria, Bedingfield performed ' What's My Name?' and ' Sex on Fire'.

During the concert in New York City, Bedingfield performed ' Hot in Herre', ' Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)' and ' Hold It Against Me'.' Pocketful of Sunshine' (contains excerpts from 'We're All Mad').Kevin Hammond (Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Myrtle Beach).Amongst Hirsh's positive comments was praise for the four-piece band, whom Hirsh said ' backed without extraneous frills but still managed to offer plenty of color.' Opening acts the show coming to life when she sings 'Try' and Bedingfield's bombastic cover of ' Purple Rain.' He concluded that 'Bedingfield then left her fans wanting more, not less.' Marc Hirsh from The Boston Globe noted that Bedingfield struggled to fill 'a modest-sized theatre' at her show in Somerville, but said that Bedingfield had the last laugh as he performance was strong enough to rub in their faces. It reminds me of why this is what I absolutely love.' Critical reception Дave McKenna from The Washington Post gave the tour a mixed to negative review commenting that Bedingfield's Brit Pop proves that 'less is not always more.' In his review, McKenna felt that the show gets off to a slow start, but that there were good moments e.g. There's just something about being on the road and singing my songs live that is refreshing. I always find inspiration in performing for my fans. 'I'm so excited and ready to go back on tour in the U.S. To introduce the tour, Bedingfield stated, She stated she would like Beckham to design the costumes for her to wear on tour. During a recent interview, Bedingfield expressed her desire to work with Victoria Beckham. Newcomers to the music scene, Andy Grammer and Kevin Hammond, will also serve as the opening acts. Singer-songwriter Kate Voegele (who opened for Bedingfield on her previous outing), will join Bedingfield at select concerts. The singer will perform in nightclubs and theatres to provide the concerts the intimate feeling she desires. Bedingfield plans to perform tracks from her latest LP, along with a few of her hits to an acoustic sound. The singer describes the tour as a 'stripped down set in an intimate setting'. Sponsored by Freschetta, the tour will primarily visit the United States in the summer of 2011. Less cartoonish pomp, and BedingfieldвЂ™s own performances could feel just as liberated.The tour was announced on Bedingfield's official website on 20 April 2011, concurrent with the release of her third single 'Weightless'. вЂњThis song was just my heart crying out to be free,вЂќ she says. Better still is Wild Horses, performed with piano accompaniment. At a vulnerable-feeling rendition of I Bruise Easily, a couple wearing matching Bedingfield merch clasp hands and gaze into each otherвЂ™s eyes. Covers of Purple Rain and ColdplayвЂ™s The Scientist are better saved for the neighbouring Lucky Voice, but a partial rendition of her brother DanielвЂ™s UK garage-pop classic Gotta Get Thru This is fun, unexpected вЂ“ and crowd dynamite.ДЄside from the raucously received Unwritten, the setвЂ™s quieter moments are the most memorable. While singing about вЂњfree-fallвЂќ in the jingle-like Roller Skate, she arches her back like a Goop loyalist during Pilates. She leads energetic arm swaying to These Words, miming record scratching to a lyric about вЂњhip-hop beatsвЂќ. She talks of her вЂњcrazy ideaвЂќ to spin a microphone in her hand as far as rockвЂ™nвЂ™roll misdemeanours go, itвЂ™s not quite pounding an eight ball and trashing your hotel room.ДЄt other times, Bedingfield brings to mind the happily naff ease of a ButlinвЂ™s Redcoat. ThereвЂ™s a whiff of the jukebox musical to BedingfieldвЂ™s headbanging and hair-tossing, though.

She goes hell for leather on phones-aloft rock ballad Wishful Thinking and shows off her vocal grit in Real Love. Backed by a five-piece band, she wears a black velvet jumpsuit and spiked boots, a Boohoo Chrissie Hynde. ItвЂ™s a decisive left-turn from the Radio 2-friendly sound perhaps expected of Bedingfield, and one she seems to relish.

Going by BedingfieldвЂ™s live return, the influence of Perry, whoвЂ™s made rockers out of Christina Aguilera and Pink, has stuck. At the end of musicвЂ™s lucrative CD era, that was enough to rack up a startling 10m album sales, as well as a Grammy nomination for her wide-eyed gap year anthem Unwritten.Д«edingfield has teamed up with Linda Perry for her first album in eight years, Roll With Me. Back then, Haywards HeathвЂ™s least offensive musical scion struck commercial gold with a smattering of breezily uncynical self-affirmations-as-songs. T he late-noughties reality phenomenon The Hills is back, and so is the woman who wrote its theme song: Natasha Bedingfield.

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