Maren and Hayo:
It was great!! It was nice!! It was Chris de Burgh!! :-)
Now we are back from our short holiday trip to Bad Segeberg and we would like to give a short report of the three days around the concert.
We arrived on Sunday evening and parked our little caravan directly in front of the main-entrance. By the way, we were the 1. fans which had been arrived there... :-) First of all we like to make a great compliment to the roady crew, they were just as sensational as Chris de Burgh himself! They worked three days mostly around the clock with just 5 hours sleep between ( we know that so exactly, because we watched each step of the men and made friends among the crew ). On Sunday they built up the main parts of the stage. ( All steps are fotographed and filmed on video. :-) ) A REALLY HARD JOB, THEY WERE GREAT UNDER THIS CONDITIONS, it was sooooo hot ( over 30 ° C in shadows ) !!
Next day two trucks from Nothingham arrived and we talked to a very friendly and funny driver. He was very pretty and kind. Obviously he loved his job. They installed lights and sound equipment on that day.
On the big day, they hadnīt finished the stage just in time, they finished it ca. 10 minutes before the caoncert started... Uff, really hard work and really just in time... On 20:15 Chris started the concert without his band, he played solo, just he, his guitar and a piano. Oh, by the way, has anyone seen the little man with the silk shirt and the leather bag under his arm? No? He was the piano tuner and the whole crew searched him for the complete day, we saw him... :-) We saw everything and we got it on photos :-))))) And we saw (obviosly :-)))) !) Chris and his band arriving, yes, we saw everything. It was great!! Chris arrived in a black BMW 735 I at ca. 17:45. The band arrived a bit earlier in a white tour bus, in the morning a pink (! ugly !) bus arrived with sound- and light-engineers. Although that morning we had to moove our cravan from the place in front of the main entrance. A nice roady gave us his parking area - next the tour bus ( it was only 2 meters from the pink, ugly tour bus, so we could follwo every move they made. Oh, it was a sooo ugly bus!). They were very friendly to us. Not a bit shy or arrogant. They were without any star behaviour.
We stood in the first line!! Yeah, it was great. By the way, we didnīt saw Martina :-( ! We looked for her, but there were to many 21. lines... :-( Shit! )
After that, the band appeared on stage and we were really impressed and surprised, because it wasnīt the old band and the new lead guitar was very good. Neil Tayler!? Quite good voice and a really good guitar player. Peter Oxendale was the stage clown and made a lot of fun with too popular german songs, someone who plays soo bad, must be a virtuose (he made intentionale mistakes). He played "For Elise" and a walze composed by Strauß... :-)))) Chris said that he needs more practice... He tryed it the whole night in the hotel but he didnīt succeeded... Poor Peter. :-((( We feel sorry for him. :-)
The part when Chris sang "Oh Danny Boy" was really great, he sang it a capella!! What a voice! I (Maren) got goose-pimples (what a funny word, :-))))))! ).
And finally "Patricia"!! It was graet! By the way, the orchestra ( "the 12 beautiful young ladys" ) was it, too. One of the girls fell from her chair and it made a loud "BANG". The whole band was short before giggeling... :-) Chris, too.
At ca. 22:55 the concert ended, after some bonus songs, the whole arena was dancing and it was a great feeling to be a part of it! :-)
If we resume, it was a great event and our hollydays were it as well.
Go on like that, Chris!
O.k., we had a long and hard day. Driving more than 450 km back home and we want to sleep now. Thank you little caravan, giving us a home for three exciting days live around a very nice Chris de Burgh concert. We saw everything... And thatīs the truth. We swear. We can proofe it by photo- and video material. Good night, everybody! Live long and prosper ( V ) :-) !
Maren and Hayo (private concert investigators :-) )
First of all, it was a great concert. Well, of course it was. You knew that. It was a Chris de Burgh concert :-)
It didn't rain and it was warm. At 19:55 Martina finally managed to find me (Hi Martina!). Now we now more about rows and seat numbers in Bad Segeberg. Very strange.
I wouldn't really call this a listmember meeting or gathering, but it was the first time I saw another listmember from face to face, and at least we had the opportunity to talk for a few minutes before she left for her place.
The concert started at 20:15, Chris looked at the sky and pointed his thumbs up. 5 minutes later, the clouds started to come up and I thought "Okay, that was it. Two summer days and a rainy concert". But it stayed dry. Whow!
Oh, you wanted to hear something about the music. Sorry, I'm already a little tired.
The first 45 minutes, he played alone on the piano and the guitar, starting with "Carry on". Mostly old songs, quite a lot from Man on the line (Transmission ends, The head and the heart,...). He obviously enjoyed it, sang "Connemara coast" together with a girl that threw a sunflower on the stage, talked a lot.
Then the band joined him, three men with (e-)guitars and one drummer whose names I don't remember plus Peter Oxendale on the keyboards and piano. Half an hour later the Romanian String Ensemble, 12 "beautiful young ladies", also entered the stage. The style of this second part alternated between slow love songs and rocky songs. He played the complete Revolution trilogy, which I really loved.
Towards the end, the concert got more and more rocky, similar to the "Into the lights" tour. Of course, Don't pay the ferryman, High on emotion, Say goodbye to it all where part of it.
The concert ended at 22:55, and it had no real break in it. Quit good, I think.
To sum it up, it was a great concert. BUT it was nothing knew. Some special arrangements where absolutely identical to earlier concerts. You know what I mean when you hear it. I also wonder why he had that string ensemble. You couldn't hear much of them anyway.
Nevertheless, great weather, great concert.
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