Photos from the gig: www.girlonfire.co.uk/photos
Photos from after the show: www.girlonfire.co.uk/photos
Got up at 6.20 and did my hair- left at 7.30 after making Gavin’s packed lunch for him to hurry him along! I did the driving on this leg- we made good time and arriving in the queue at 10am. There were about 10 people there already mainly people we knew so we joined them in the queue! I started to rain at one point and I had to wear my Hayley from Coronation Street red rain mac to try and protect my hair but it was ruined anyway!
Walked to the train station nearby a couple of times to go to the loo. Gavin entertained us for a while reading stories out of tacky magazines! Went round the back for a bit and Roger had already arrived but saw Brian arrive and he gave us a wave and thumbs up!
We were finally let into the gig at 6.30 and the security looked after us and made sure we were first to go in and we made it to the front of the catwalk!
No track 13 anymore- this had been replaced with a remix of ‘It’s a beautiful day’ followed by Eminen ‘Lose yourself’ then that first note of Reaching out and it all started!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The set list was:
Paul seemed to be off the stage quite a lot at this show so maybe they were saving his voice for this leg of the tour. No ‘The show must go on’ or ‘Feel like making love’ but it was a great show!!
We decided to try the Hilton to see if they were staying there so we all piled in my car. Bad things always happen to me in Newcastle but I only managed to drive the wrong way down a one way street once this time! Found the hotel and by this time it was chucking it down with rain but luckily there was some cover. There were about 10 of there and firstly Roger turned up!!! He stopped and chatted to us all for a while and signed some stuff. He was in a great mood tonight so must have had a good gig! Gavin asked him for a photo but he didn’t want one taken so I hovered next to him and got a few snaps!
I said ‘You will have to wish me happy birthday in Holland Roger’ and he replied ‘We’re not playing in Holland’. We all looked at him and said ‘Yeah you are’. He laughed and seemed to remember that they are playing there over the summer!! He is such a sexy guy. Just before he went in his said ‘This is the time when I say Brian’s behind you’ and Jen fell for it!! His girlfriend was there too, she smiled and said hi to Michelle then disappeared off into the hotel! Brian arrived next and didn’t want to sign anything as there were some professional autograph hunters about but he chatted for a while. Gavin asked him if he minded us taking flash photos from the front row after his problems with the guy videoing and he had no probs with that! I had my picture taken with me (and its actually a good one at last!). Brian was carrying a ‘Free’ CD which I thought was quite cool!I gave him a photo of him taken on the Another World tour and he looked quite shocked, said thanks and took it!
Paul arrived and we were made to get in line inside the hotel. When he got to me, I got him to sign something then Gavin took a photo of Paul and me. I said ‘Do you remember Gavin from the front row?’ and he did!!!!!!! LOL!
Jamie and Spike arrived- got Spike to sign a pic and he asked when it was taken- the Freddie Mercury birthday party in Shepton Mallet. Got Jamie to sign a photo of me and him from Brian’s tour and he said he looked so young and so did I so he signed it Jamie Moses 05 and then I suggested we had a more up to date pic taken- he was so drunk bless him, you could smell the alcohol! After all that excitement, we tried to find our hotel which an hour to get out of Newcastle as we were so lost! We all just collapsed about 2am and slept so well. We had Michelle with us as she had no where else to stay!