Part two: Newcastle cont........

Hi Everyone - it appears you liked what you read and you want more :-)

So here's part 2 - newcastle cont...........

As there were 2 sets of doors to the venue, Sarah, Gavin and someone else (can't remember who!!) had a chat to the security person and told him we'd been there since 8ish (although alessia and jamie had been there way before that!!).  He agreed that he would let our set of doors open about a minute before the other doors.  We then started panicking about where we were gonna stand.  Julie drew a picture of the stage.  Basically there was a main stage where all musicians were based then a long catwalk, which ended with a smaller jutty out bit where they would do their acoustic parts, and Brian and Paul came and stood there quite frequently.  Around this part was the best place to stand because you can see the main stage and be close to whoever comes up the end.  So we all decided what we were aiming for once inside.

The venue people stuck a piece of paper on the doors telling us when the soundcheck was gonna be etc........silly people!!   At around 3.30pm Cat, Sarah and myself decided we needed exercise and wandered round the back to catch a glimpse of the band.  When we got there, two other girls who were waiting informed us that we'd just missed Roger going in - Sarah and I were not amused !!  Eventually the bus turned up though, drove in through the gates and dropped Jamie, Danny and Spike off.  Brian's car turned up and he waved at us :-)  Once he'd gone inside we made our way back to the other side of the pavement and had to get out of the way of this van.  We had jokingly been saying 'oh perhaps this is Paul' to pretty much every vehicle and this van was no exception.  So we said it, turned round to look at the van and it read "Hire Me £25 per day"  This was so amusing!!  Obviously you had to be there ;-)  In the end we gave up waiting for Paul and went back to queue!

Cannot remember what time they let us into the venue (Sarah's journal reads 6.30pm so that will do :-)  but the security bloke was true to his word and let our side in first.  He told us we had to get to the end of the corridor where a member of staff would be waiting.  So some of us went right and the rest of us went left.  When we reached the member of staff we were told we were early and he was not letting us in!!  Panick!!  Nice security man had followed us and explained the situation to the staff member.  So we were held there for a few minutes - we all thanked nice man for sticking to his promise!!  Wasn't that nice of him :-) ??  They then let us into the venue, we had to give them our tickets as we went in but all the front of the queue managed to get where they wanted to be :-)

Setlist

Reaching Out, Tie Your Mother Down, I Want To Break Free, Fat Bottomed Girls, Wishing Well, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Say It's Not True, Year of '39, Love of My Life, Hammer To Fall, I'm In Love With My Car, Guitar solo, Last Horizon, These Are The Days, Radio Ga Ga, Can't Get Enough, A Kind of Magic, I Want It All, Bohemian Rhapsody ------------ All Right Now, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions

The gig was brilliant!!  Trina and I got to the left hand side of the jutty out bit (which from now on I shall name the platform :-).  We had a good view of the stage and when they did their acoustic parts!!

Highlights for us both were the following:  As Paul hadn't turned up for the soundcheck (or at least we hadn't seen him) Trina and I started worrying, even more so when he came out during Eminem's Lose Yourself, stood a the bottom of the platform with a coat over him.  It was just part of the act LOL...............Anyway back to sanity - Roger's drum solo (although reading the setlist it's not mentioned and I copied that from another site grrrr.......) Just before I'm In Love With My Car he does a drum thingy which is called 'Let There Be Drums' which is a cover I think!!  Anyway I had not seen this before and I stood there with my mouth open in shock gaping at the man!!  Wow was that amazing!!  His hands were moving so fast, it was just so incredible to watch and the ferocity he hit the drums with was just amazing!!  I was gobsmacked!!  During Brian's acoustic part he starts Hammer To Fall slowly, he stopped and said 'I'm not going to continue until the person stops videoing'  (he did swear about it naughty boy!!) He went on to say that it was a special moment between him and us (ie: the people that were there that night!!)  It was also the first time I'd seen them do Wishing Well which was fab, but it was interesting to see that Show Must Go On and Feel Like Makin' Love had been taken out.  After the encore they came out and played a Cream track.  Well only about 5 seconds of it coz then Paul said 'oh bugger should've rehearsed that a bit' LOL...........Roger came down to the platform for his 46664 song Say It's Not True, afterwards he asked if anyone in the audience was wearing a condom and went on to say Danny was wearing one and Jamie was wearing two!!  Ha ha.........Fabulous gig, even if Paul wasn't on stage a lot, but in my mind they had definitely come on leaps and bounds since Brixton, but this gig felt short to me!!

 

 

Look out for tomorrow's instalment........more excitement in Newcastle!!

 

 

P.s Got my shoes for the wedding today - will show you a pic soon!!  :-)