22 September 2008
I started the tour ill and woke up this morning feeling really bad! The day got worse as the flight from Berlin to Antwerp was delayed by a couple of hours. Once we got to Brussels at around 8pm, we got the train from Brussels to Antwerp which luckily didn’t take too long.
By the time we got to the hotel in Antwerp, it was almost 10pm and I needed my bed! Went out and got a takeaway pizza and went back to the hotel while Terry and Gavin went out! They finally got in at 2.30am, very drunk and had met the crew (again) in a bar! It turns out that the man who designed the video screen graphics also did the cover of Dark Side of the Moon.
23 September 2008
I got the metro to the venue, after getting a sandwich and lots of water for the queue and didn’t arrive until 1.30pm. There were actually quite a few people there, probably about 20 – 30 people but the queue was quite spread out over a few different entrances blocked off by bins!! There wasn’t much around the venue and you had to pay 50 euro cents to use the loo at the pizza place opposite! Met lots of people– Caroline, Jens, the JDFK and Tiger Taylor! Japanese Freddie sang for the local press!
It was chaos when the ‘doors’ opened as they didn’t take all the bins away at the same time but we still managed to get in ok and stood at the front of the catwalk, on the lefthand side, next to the JDFK, the Japanese guys and Jens.
The set list was:
Paul reached down to me and said hello during ‘Say It’s Not True’! Pete was doing bunny ear actions at Jamie during the guitar solo! Brian introduced C-lebrity as a song from the new album… which only 3 of you have bought! It seemed like there was a long pause with the first note to We Will Rock You at the start of All Right Now. Everyone looked a bit confused so I think it was a mistake!