All roads led to the Big Dome last Tuesday (September 18) and fans from all over the city filled the iconic Smart Araneta Coliseum to the rafters in an unprecedented turnout as the pop-rock band Maroon 5 held the Manila leg of their Overexposed World Tour 2012.
Although this was the third time the band performed in the Philippines, it seemed like it was their first as the event quickly turned from a one-night concert to a historic musical experience in the Philippine concert scene.
The queues at the newly-transformed Grand Atrium of the Smart Araneta Coliseum said it all. It was a veritable sea of humanity as excited fans snaked through the lines to enter the venue. There was a mad rush to buy the merchandise and the glow sticks around the coliseum concourse before they positioned in their places. No one wanted to miss a second of the much-awaited performance. Who could blame them? The mad scramble for tickets to the concert started as early as June when these were uploaded on TicketNet Online. In just a few days, the concert was sold out.
When Maroon 5 finally came on stage, the screams went beyond loud. Adam Levine and his band brought the house down with the opening number,