Dan droves us to Bristol airport after getting up at 5am! The flight was ok but I drove Gavin mad in the airport by quoting ‘Say its not true’!!

We arrived in Belfast at 9am and got some old local bus to the city centre via a village where lots of locals got on- it was all very strange! Managed to find or hotel and dumped the bags then walked to the Odyessy and Michelle was the only person there at 11am! Two other guys turned up so we went and made a queue! We were next to a cinema/shopping/eating place which was brilliant- toilets and food all next door! It was a long hot day and we chatted to various people in the queue who were from the forums! I went round the back for a hour but then got a call from Gavin to say they were putting up the barriers at the front so we had to go back and sort out the crowd- that was 4pm and there were still only 40 people max in the queue! Queue got sorted but I mananged to miss Roger arriving and he actually signed things! I was gutted but oh well!! Eddie from the queue met Brian which was his life long dream and he was over the moon! Between 4 and 5.30 I went to the toilet about 4 times just in case!! LOL! I was also sunburnt and so tired but the queue was great and we were right at the front of it! It was all so organised. At 6.30 they asked the first bit of the queue to walk forward which we did, bag checked and ticket taken in the most organised fashion and Gavin and I walked first in to the hall and walked to the front and stood at the front of the cat walk in the centre. Nothing to worry about at all. In fact they were even letting people in blocks a time and it was fantastic! The hall didn’t really fill up until 8pm and even then it was still only 2/3rds full as that was all the tickets that were sold! We had loads of space and noone pushed- Great stuff- the best venue of the tour I think! The set list was:

Paul stands at the back of the stage in the dark when Brian is at the front doing the first bit of Hammer to fall and I spotted him and he waved at me!! During the slow bit, I shouted ‘You rock Brian’ and he looked at me and gave me a great, approving smile!!

Michelle had to sit down during the last few songs and ended up being taken out by the security guards. I was feeling quite bad too because of the sunburn! At the end of the gig, Gavin managed to get back stage to find Michelle while I had to wait outside in the cold and met a few more people off the forums! Gavin finally came out and then Roger came out of a side door and was signing a few autographs, I spotted him and Gavin ran up to him and gave him a condom! Roger and Serena laughed then I shouted Hi Roger and he looked at me and waved. Serena got in the car and I shouted ‘I love you Roger, see you in Dublin’in the most pathethic voice ever and he laughed! Wish I had recorded it!! Went back to the hotel and slept for 5 hours!