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Chris Williams: Hi all, well here is my review of the concert in Erwitte last night. In the late morning, we set off from Hannover to drive the 2 hours to Erwitte, where we were staying in the Schloss Hotel. We found it easily thanks to our trusted SAT NAV friend !! AS we were driving upto the hotel, we saw Andrea and her friend Karin (not a list member) who we planned to meet up with there. After Andrea had picked up Sibylle from the local railway station, and we had unpacked, we all sat down in the beer garden and watched lots of people arrive !! There was a big wedding party there that day as well....but we already knew about that from the day we booked the hotel. When we first arrived we had quite a scare as the lady on reception could not find our booking on the computer, and she had to make a phone call, and then went off to talk to someone else before coming back to say that they could not still find my booking :-( Thankfully I had the confirmation email on me still, so once the lady had seen this, there was another panic as hse tried to find a spare room for us. thankfully they still had a tiny double room, rigth at the top of the castle hotel. Stewart and I did not mind at all that it was a small room, as it was still nice, just a liitle bit hot...but we coped alright !! Soon we set off for the venue and waited for the gates to open. The actual venue was in a big tent like a 'circus tent'....but thankfully all the sides were rolled up so it was not too hot in there. We all sat on long wooden benches in the main arena part and raised seating on the sides. Right at the back there was a few tall tables where people could stand to watch the concert. The benches really reminded me of when I was doing PE at school !! The concert started on time and Chris was dressed in all black as usual.......I guess Chris's suitcase must be a lot lighter than mine ;-) After, I think it was the third song, Chris sat down at the piano and then noticed a lady with 2 young children approaching the stage with some lovely soft artificial sunflowers, so he came down the steps from the stage and bent right down, to take the flowers from the sweet little girls and of course thanked them for them. The sight was soo sweet to see. After that he said that the smaller children could come and sit down the front, but only a couple actually came down and to be quite honest I doubt that they saw much as the stage was quite high, esoecially for children to see. At this point he did offer them to sit on the side of the stage, but their mum said that the speakers would be too loud for them. The usual songs were sung of course and at one point he made a small reference to the awful weather in Hannover the night before. The britney bit went down really well, and at this point alot of fans came forward and tried to stay there, but CA and security made then go back and only about 3 did not and even they sat down on the floor to watch. The rest of the show was the same as normal until when Chris asked us all to join him down the front...well that was of course if we wanted to !! Again at this point Chris said that little children could sit down on the stage. Only one little girl was put on stage by her mum, and she was a right little love, and quite extrovert, even at the tender age she was...i doubt that she was more than 3 years old !! she sat right on the front of the stage and was clapping and really 'playing' to the audience..who of course loved it as she was sooo cute. I saw Chris smile down at her several times :-)) At the end of Ferryman....she ran right upto Chris and he gave her a big kiss on both cheeks.........maybe I should try this kind of approach tonight ;-) Chris only came back for the one encore last night and after Snows of New York had finished, as Chris was walking along the front of the audience shaking peoples hands, she again ran up to him and I was afraid that he would not see her behind him, but thankfully he did and took her by the hand as he finished shaking the rest of the peoples hands that were down the front. At this point in the show, I usually draw back fronf the stage to let other people in, so that they can gat a handshake from Chris. Only too soon, the real end came and for the first time in several days Chris did not come back on stage to do his 'party songs bit'. I really really missed this bit, but appreciate that Chris must be pretty tired after all these concerts so close to each other. Gosh I know how tired Stewart and I are with all the 'touring' around !!And we dont have to stand on stage and entertain 2 thousand Plus fans every night. Take care all, Chris(W)...thebluehealer and travelling CdeB reporter !! |
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