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Chris Williams: Hi all, well here is my review from last night at Hameln....yes I'm back in Germany again ;-) !!!!!!!!!!! Like I said before...thank goodness for the cheap airlines like Easyjet etc !!! So we arrived in Dortmund at about 14:15 hrs and picked up our rental car...guess what colour it was.......'black'.......now many of you by now know that I HATE black !!!!!!! still I can't really see the outside when I am driving ;-) and it doesn't have 'air con' in either......thats what you get when you hire a smaller car:-((( And of course the weather has changed now and it was hot on the drive, but i'm not complaining..its better than rain !! So at 16:30 wearrived in Hameln and found our hotel which is right by the river. We checked in and then went down and had a lovely meal and drink in the beer garden overlooking the river. Soon it was time to get ready for the show and meet our friends. We walked to the venue together and once there I met other friends and one special one, 'Konni' who I have not seen since November. It was great to meet up with her again :-)), but of course too short , as the show was nearly due to start. The venue area was in a big park which looked very nice from what we could see, but due to our time constraints, we couldnot see very much of Hameln at all:-((( The opening of the concert was the 'Storyman'themeand then Chris appeared from the side of the stage andhe was wearing a white shirt with a white t-shirt underneath and black trousers and black jacket of course!! The stage was fairly high, although not as high as Mainz, I don't think. Also the first row of seats was along way back >from the stage, and this I hate because it seems harder for the 'energy' to bounce between Chris and the audience and vica versa. His voice seemed perfect from the start, and the usual songs followed in the solo section, so I won't go into all of them, and even if I wanted, I can't remember them all :-(((( its the old memory,its not as good as it used to be ;-)) After a few songs he took his leather jacket off in the usual style and then he said hello to all the people otside the venue, that were watching the show for nothing....but this time he told them that there was free beer and later there would be naked dancers !!!!!!!! (ummm I never did see those dancers ;-))))) The walk about bit was the same as usual and went down very well of course. the audience really do love this interaction with them. Once the solo part was finished, it was time for band part and in this we got a big surprise, as right in the middle of this part Chris sang a very upbeat version of 'Missing You' :-))))) Now I have not heard a band version of this song for maybe 5 years !! For 'Raging Storm' Kristyna Myles was wearing a very short black dress!! i just really love this song, so I'm really pleased that she is on the tour. I also noticed that she was on stage singing some backing vocals to Spirit.I have never noticed this before, has anyone else ? When the fast dancing bit came, there was a stampede to the front and I was nearly knocked over, but thankfully someone caught me as I was falling. I was a bit shocked as I never expected such a mad rush and to be practiaclly knocked over at a CdeB concert !! Of course as usual the end of the concert came far to soon, and after the last song we said our goodbyes to some of our friends and then walked back to our hotel where we had a quick drink before retiring to bed at about 01:30 hrs !! Wel thats about all for now!! take care all Chris(W)thebluehealer and 'roaming CdeB reporter. |
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