Adele review – a lesson in control from the end of the pier

SSE Arena, Belfast
The world’s biggest-selling singer delivers a solid – if unsurprising – show on the first night of her tourThree songs into the first date of her world tour, Adele begins addressing the audience. She was told not to say anything earlier in the performance, she confesses, lest she ruin the high drama of the show’s opening: echoing atmospherics, a moody black and white film of her eyes, the singer slowly rising up on a platform at the centre of the arena,