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Alessia and I got up and down to breakfast for 6.30am feeling very sick and bad from the night before! All the flash backs of the things I said to Roger started to come back and I knew that wasn’t a good thing! Tried to eat as much as possible but was feeling very sick! Just about managed to straighten my hair then we jumped in a taxi to the stadium, Arrived about 7.30am to find Jamie waiting there with Andrea who we met the night before plus the Portuguese guys! Talked to them for a bit and watched the video Andrea took of me talking to Roger the previous night! I almost fainted- I am going to be so embarrassed when I see that full screen!

The day went on and more people arrived- the Austrian guys, Isabelle, Pierre and his mum plus the Portuguese fan club and about 9am, the sun was starting to get very hot. There was a panic about lunchtime that we had been queuing in the wrong (every time- why?!!). Jamie had gone back to the hotel to sleep and Andrea and I walked off round the back leaving Alessia with all our stuff. Spoke to a security guard round the back who confirmed we were actually queuing in the wrong place. By the time we had walked back round to where we had been queuing in the boiling hot sunshine everyone had moved. Finally found them queuing in the right place. Alessia had got the Portuguese guys to help her carry all our stuff and had saved us space at the front. Unfortunately the queue was totally in the sun and there was hardly any shade. All the Portuguese were sensible and sat in the shade and I had to join them but Alessia stayed there in the sun all afternoon!

All I ate all day was 3 ice lollies and I drank 4 litres of water. There was a toilet in the garage down the road so we could use that but it was disgusting! Everyone stood up about 4 which was an hour before the gates were due to open so we had to stand for an hour. A TV crew arrived and asked if we were from England and if they could interview us at 5 as part of the Portuguese Live 8 coverage. The doors were due to open at 5 but we said yes as long as it didn’t hold us up getting! They came back at 5 and everyone was pushing, we all did a sing song then we were live on TV!! The interviewer asked me where we were from so I explained that I was from England, Alessia was from Italy but living in London and Jamie was from America. She asked what I thought about Queen and Live 8 so I said something like it’s a shame they couldn’t do the show and I would have been there if Queen weren’t playing in Lisbon! Alessia said something too. She then asked us if we had anything else to add and I said ‘I love Roger Taylor’ and Alessia shouted ‘Bloody hell Leipzig’. I read a few days later on Brian’s website that Queen had been watching Live 8 in their dressing room so they may have seen us!!

The doors finally opened at 5.30 ish after we had a bit of an argument with the security guard who then threatened to let the Portuguese in first but it was actually the Austrian guy that got through first then me. We ran down some steps and there was nobody about to stop us running! Got to more steps and I could then hear footsteps behind me, it was Jamie overtaking me. I shouted ‘Run like hell’ to her and I have never seen anyone run so fast in all my life!! We had to run through the seats at the back of the stadium- all of this I found hard because of my flip flops then we got on the flat ground of the stadium and I did my best to catch up!! We all got to the front row of the catwalk and turned round to see all the Portuguese just walking in!!!!

The stadium took ages to fill up and we could easily wander off and get back to our place. We all bought some drumsticks and Andrea and Alessia were banging them against the barrier so hard, it was hurting my head. Met two women behind us who were Paul Rodgers fans and actually knew Paul so we chatted to them for ages. A random bloke arrived and said he has just seen us on TV from his hotel room! Turns out Terry was a mad fan from the UK and did all the summer shows! I was feeling bad and had to sit down through the support band. Queen finally arrived on stage at 9.30pm when it was just getting dark! The catwalk was long so we were quite way back (as I was telling Roger the night before!) but the show was great! I was texting Vern and Didy with the setlist all the way through and they were keeping everyone on QOL updated! LOL! The set list was one of the standard ones and nowhere near the length of Belfast and Dublin which I felt was quite disappointing but I loved the atmosphere at the gig! We managed to forget the condoms but did told up our flag which they spotted!!!

After the gig, we were all just so tired from the night before, we just went home and to bed!!