Gavin and I crawled out of bed at 6am- actually had a really good 5 hours sleep in a massive bed each! I would recommend the Jury’s Doyle to anyone! Caught a cab down to the station and got the 6.50am train to Dublin- met a guy who on the train who we had met in Belfast- I felt like total crap on the train and managed to get a bit of sleep. There were engineering works on the line so we all got kicked off the train and onto a coach after about an hour for the last bit of the journey and I managed to get a bit more sleep! Arrived in Dublin about 9am and dropped our stuff off at left luguage and were told that the station stayed open until 3am so we could get it back. Grabbed a sandwich from Subway and walked to the Dublin Point which was about 20 mins walk. Vern, Julie, James, Matt and some of the others were there already- it was cold and there was nothing nearby- no shops or toilets!

This photo taken by Jamie sums up how awful I felt! I look like crap!! Spent some of the day in a pub which we finally found about 10 mins walk away and the only thing in sight and missed them organising the queue so when we got back everyone had gone!! LOL! Had our bags searched on the way back in to join the queue once we discovered it had moved to the front of the building which was briliant because when they opened the door, we just went straight in! As we were running in it was all madness and Matt stepped on the back of my flip flop making it come out and then go back on but inbetween the wrong toe. Managed to sort of fall on to Vern andgrab hold of him to keep me up until I swapped toes then legged it inside. Luckily we were all still at the front when we got the bit inside the hall where they stopped us. Flips flops were off then as I wasn’t risking that again and I ran so fast when they let us in and we all made it to the front of the cat walk! James on one side complained this toe was hurting, Andy was on the other side of me! I was on the energy sweets to try and stay alive!

The crowd all squashed up which was unlike any of the other gigs and it rocked!!! Paul waved at me again during the slow bit of Hammer to fall when he was walking down to the front and Brian looked at us all again! He must have known it was us lot again! Could not get Roger to look at me again though!! LOL!

Brian was thanking the crew and I shouted Jim Beach very loudly and Brian said ‘What?’ then Gavin and I both shouted it and he heard. Then Gavin shouted out ‘His amazing pullovers’ at the top of his voice and Brian laughed!!

Set list:

Reaching Out
Tie Your Mother Down
I Want To Break Free
Fat Bottomed Girls

Wishing Well
Another One Bites The Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
Say Its Not True

(Me totally in love with Roger during Say its not true!)

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Love Of My Life
Hammer To Fall
Feel Like Making Love
Fire And Water
I’m In Love With My Car
Gtr Solo
Last Horizon

These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Radio Ga Ga
Can’t Get Enough
A Kind Of Magic
I Want It All
Bohemian Rhapsody
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The Show Must Go On
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions

Decided to leave after the gig and not wait which turned out to be a good idea as I know someone who went to the hotel and had to wait until 4am until Brian turned up and there was no sign of Roger at all!! We walked in to town to the station to collect our bag but it all seemed to be totally shut, we walked round looking for a way in until we finally found the car park and managed to get in there and rescue our bags (including passports so we could actually get home!!). Went to find some food and bumped into the Germans in Burger King!!! Grabbed a taxi and got to the airport about 2am. Found a spot on the floor and put on 3 layers of dirty clothes as it was freezing. I was shaking and feeling very ill and minging- woke up at 3.30am and went to brush my teeth to try and feel better then found a nice bench to go and sleep on and left the others on the floor!!!