It's 10.30 on a cold Sunday night and Justin (Timbelake, if you really do need a reference to his surname!) has just finished his 90 minute set at Earls Court. Any sensible artist would nip back to their hotel suite, snort some illegal substance up their nostrils and relax. Although Justin's purpose for his hotel visit is to quickly change his clothes and whip off to a second gig that very evening!

The Coronet club (where Charlie Chaplin started out!) in London was crammed packed inside and outside Sunday night with Justin fans hoping to catch glimpse of the latest teen heart throb to be imported from the States. The lucky ones had tickets downstairs to catch this exclusive adult performance where Trousersnake could freely say the word 'fuck' a few times, grab his crutch in a Jacko stylee and beatbox like no other mother--!

Like most small gigs this year featuring major artists the upstairs balcony was cornered off for VIPs - we naturally had a front row seat there! Although the promised guest list of girlfriend, Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguilera and Madonna was thrown out the window and replaced by Tazmin Outwaite and Natile Appleton! Maybe they got lost!

Justin took to the stage just after 12.30am after turning up backstage in his chauffeur driven car raced through the cornered off back street behind the venue. The venue being so small hasn't room to cater for any snazzy little VIP bar backstage bar and guests have to make do with the upstairs bar for a celeb chinwag afterwards.

Sitting next to a friend of one of the bass player, called Eddie, we were deafened by 'whoops' and 'yeah bro' every time the bass was used. Despite this the 80 minute set was pretty impressive with Justin playing his own instruments including a short piano set which had the audience applauding for more.

Justin managed to squeeze in all his chart-topping numbers. The crowd were anticipating an encore after he left the stage at 2am, although Justin had called it a day. Somebody else awaiting Justin's arrival was the manger of the VIP bar, apparently there was a rumor that Timberlake was going to spin a few tracks for a select number of VIPs after the crowd had left until 6am. At 2.20am however the manger received a call from backstage telling him that Justin had left the building.

We never found out where Timberlake ended up, however he may had joined Eddie and his mate at Browns nightclub where they partied the night away until Monday morning. Or maybe he crept to his bed to get some sleep ready for his performance later that night at Earls Court. To be honest, we didn't care where he was - we were knackered and had a bed of our own to snuggle into next to our Britney posters!

 

JUST IN TIME...