We were going to get the train to Hamburg from Hannover but as Jens was driving and had stayed at our hotel the night before, we decided to get a lift with him! We left the hotel at 11.30am and arrived in a very wet Hamburg at 1.30pm. We met Pierre and his mum at the train station at 2.30pm and got the S3 train to a station vaguely near the venue. We had a 20 minute walk through a park in the pouring rain to get to the venue.

It was a cold and wet day in the queue but luckily we were undercover. We met some people from San Francisco who loved Paul Rodgers and they ordered a pizza to be delivered to entrance 3 of the arena!

We saw the band arrive by watching through a gap in a fence – I think I saw Brian’s hair!

We were moved to the fan club queue at 5pm and the doors opened for us at 6. We were let in as far as the doors to the floor and got to hear them soundcheck ‘We Believe’. I was finally getting to know the words by reading them on the autocue every night – just like Paul!

We were let through the final set of doors at 6.40 and stood on Roger’s side of the catwalk! No surprises during the show. Danny waved at me during ’39 and I made Paul’s PA, Brad laugh by doing some mad air drumming next to him during Bad Company. In my notes, I have written there was a joke about Roger having 2 shoes but I can’t remember anything about it!

The set list was the same as the night before:

Surfs Up… School’s Out
Tie Your Mother Down
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
C-lebrity
Seagull
Love Of My Life
39
Electric Bass Solo
Drum Solo
I’m In Love With My Car
A Kind Of Magic
Say It’s Not True
Bad Company
We Believe
Guitar Solo
Bijou
Last Horizon
Radio Ga Ga
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
The Show Must Go On
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cosmos Rockin’
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen
We Believe was also played at the Soundcheck

It was a long journey back into the centre of Hamburg and we went for dinner in a steakhouse near the train station. We were all very tired after almost 3 weeks on the road and looking forward to flying home.

The flight home was from Lubeck, which is not really Hamburg so had to get up very early to get there. The flight left at 9.20 and we got back into Stansted at 9.45am UK time. It was a very long journey back from Stansted to Bristol – but it was all worth it!