Chris de Burgh Concert in Düsseldorf -
3rd of December 2006
The concert in Düsseldorf was my last CdeB-concert for this year. Already more than 13 (!!!!!!!) months ago I had bought 2 front-row-tickets for Kerstin (from Bochum) and me.
After all those concert-weekends during the last time this was "only" a normal concert for me - no airports included….., no longer journeys, no foreign guests.
I started to drive to Düsseldorf at 15.40 p. m. in the afternoon (45 min. - 63,3 km). This time I drove alone, Birgit and her husband Olaf followed later. The weather was terrible, it was raining heavily, so driving on the motorway was no pleasure - but with such a nice reason for the trip and with the right CD in my car-CD-player (would you believe it - I listened to the "Storyman"-album?!) all this was no problem. Kerstin arrived a few minutes later. We both parked very close to the Philippshalle. We had planned to spend the time before the concert together and intended to go for a walk together or to a Café, but as the weather was so terrible we only managed to surround the Philippshalle when the rain just had stopped for a while Soon we met Angelika B. and her husband in front of the entrance, the crowd in front of the venue got bigger and bigger, and time passed rather quick until we could enter the hall at 18.00 p. m., just when the rain began to get heavier again.
Like always the last hour before the concert passed much too quick while meeting a few other listmembers, having something to eat, looking at the merchandising-articles and also with the long toilet-cue. We met Birgit and Olaf short before the concert began, but they had bought their tickets only 2 weeks before the concert and so they were sitting in a block far away from us. That's why we couldn't enjoy the concert together. But we met again afterwards.
When Kerstin and I wanted to sit down short before 19.00 p. m. (yes, the concert started 1 hour earlier than usual) we had to find out, that our seats were not on the left side in front of the stage like it was to be seen in the seating-plan. They seemed to have changed Block A and B, so our seats were in front of the right side of the stage. Also good - no problem. And Kerstin was glad to be sitting in front of David! All the mailing-list-members were sitting there, as they all seemed to have bought their tickets at midnight of the 29th of October 2005 when eventim started to sell their tickets.
I don't know why, but for me this was the best concert of the 3 (Birmingham, Dortmund, Düsseldorf) concerts I've seen this year. Maybe because at the previous concerts there happened so much other things like travelling and meeting friends over all the other weekends - which I enjoyed very, very much!!!!! But this time I could concentrate only on the concert, and I wanted to enjoy the songs and Chris and the whole atmosphere one more time - every second of it. I even had planned not to take so much photos.
Don't worry, in spite of taking photos I enjoyed it!!!!!
Kerstin and I went to the front with our gifts after "Spirit" again. When I told Chris, that he please should come back soon again somebody behind me also agreed, he should return soon. I realized, there now was a whole crowd of people standing behind us with their gifts. Already when Chris spoke to Kerstin and me he said to the audience: "Just a moment, I'll be with you again soon". He took some more presents, then he went on singing while the others, which had not yet delivered their gifts could enjoy the next song standing right in front of Chris. It was their turn after "The same sun".
Angelika Baumeister even managed to climb the stairs and go on the stage, when she handed the calendar over to Chris, which she had made for him. She had designed a wonderful calendar with as much photos of listmember, as she could find, and a lot of us even had written some sentences on the calendar-pages during the After-Show-Party in Dortmund the weekend before.
Chris even had two special guests this evening!!! So far he always had had one guest: Kristyna Myles, who sang the duet "Raging storm" together with him. But this time Aled Jones, who is working for BBC radio also was his guest. Aled accompanied Chris' and Kristyna's song "Raging storm" with the drums. Tony was standing next to the drums with a rattle in his hands during this song. And Aled Jones was not alone, there was also a film-team - from BBC television I assume - who filmed his whole appearance. When the acoustic session started, Aled played the Bongos sitting next to Tony. Later he came once again back on stage to dance and sing along (as kind of background-singer together with Kristyna).They all seemed to have a great time on the stage! All this was filmed.
When Chris started singing "The Lady in Red" we all were still on our seats, but when he went down from the stage to "visit" the audience below, where he hugged a few ladies, we decided to stand up and start with the party-part of the concert. It was great, and I had the feeling, the fans around us were singing much louder than at the other concerts I've been at. Too soon followed "The snows of New York", which meant, everything was over…….. .
The lights were switched on, we talked to some other fans, also to Birgit and Olaf, then we had to leave the venue. Kerstin and I didn't hurry to get into our cars, as the parking-area was still so crowded. But at 23.00 p. m. we finally had to drive back home…….. , where I arrived short before midnight.
3rd of December 2006
The concert in Düsseldorf was my last CdeB-concert for this year. Already more than 13 (!!!!!!!) months ago I had bought 2 front-row-tickets for Kerstin (from Bochum) and me.
After all those concert-weekends during the last time this was "only" a normal concert for me - no airports included….., no longer journeys, no foreign guests.
I started to drive to Düsseldorf at 15.40 p. m. in the afternoon (45 min. - 63,3 km). This time I drove alone, Birgit and her husband Olaf followed later. The weather was terrible, it was raining heavily, so driving on the motorway was no pleasure - but with such a nice reason for the trip and with the right CD in my car-CD-player (would you believe it - I listened to the "Storyman"-album?!) all this was no problem. Kerstin arrived a few minutes later. We both parked very close to the Philippshalle. We had planned to spend the time before the concert together and intended to go for a walk together or to a Café, but as the weather was so terrible we only managed to surround the Philippshalle when the rain just had stopped for a while Soon we met Angelika B. and her husband in front of the entrance, the crowd in front of the venue got bigger and bigger, and time passed rather quick until we could enter the hall at 18.00 p. m., just when the rain began to get heavier again.
Like always the last hour before the concert passed much too quick while meeting a few other listmembers, having something to eat, looking at the merchandising-articles and also with the long toilet-cue. We met Birgit and Olaf short before the concert began, but they had bought their tickets only 2 weeks before the concert and so they were sitting in a block far away from us. That's why we couldn't enjoy the concert together. But we met again afterwards.
When Kerstin and I wanted to sit down short before 19.00 p. m. (yes, the concert started 1 hour earlier than usual) we had to find out, that our seats were not on the left side in front of the stage like it was to be seen in the seating-plan. They seemed to have changed Block A and B, so our seats were in front of the right side of the stage. Also good - no problem. And Kerstin was glad to be sitting in front of David! All the mailing-list-members were sitting there, as they all seemed to have bought their tickets at midnight of the 29th of October 2005 when eventim started to sell their tickets.
I don't know why, but for me this was the best concert of the 3 (Birmingham, Dortmund, Düsseldorf) concerts I've seen this year. Maybe because at the previous concerts there happened so much other things like travelling and meeting friends over all the other weekends - which I enjoyed very, very much!!!!! But this time I could concentrate only on the concert, and I wanted to enjoy the songs and Chris and the whole atmosphere one more time - every second of it. I even had planned not to take so much photos.
Don't worry, in spite of taking photos I enjoyed it!!!!!
Kerstin and I went to the front with our gifts after "Spirit" again. When I told Chris, that he please should come back soon again somebody behind me also agreed, he should return soon. I realized, there now was a whole crowd of people standing behind us with their gifts. Already when Chris spoke to Kerstin and me he said to the audience: "Just a moment, I'll be with you again soon". He took some more presents, then he went on singing while the others, which had not yet delivered their gifts could enjoy the next song standing right in front of Chris. It was their turn after "The same sun".
Angelika Baumeister even managed to climb the stairs and go on the stage, when she handed the calendar over to Chris, which she had made for him. She had designed a wonderful calendar with as much photos of listmember, as she could find, and a lot of us even had written some sentences on the calendar-pages during the After-Show-Party in Dortmund the weekend before.
Chris even had two special guests this evening!!! So far he always had had one guest: Kristyna Myles, who sang the duet "Raging storm" together with him. But this time Aled Jones, who is working for BBC radio also was his guest. Aled accompanied Chris' and Kristyna's song "Raging storm" with the drums. Tony was standing next to the drums with a rattle in his hands during this song. And Aled Jones was not alone, there was also a film-team - from BBC television I assume - who filmed his whole appearance. When the acoustic session started, Aled played the Bongos sitting next to Tony. Later he came once again back on stage to dance and sing along (as kind of background-singer together with Kristyna).They all seemed to have a great time on the stage! All this was filmed.
When Chris started singing "The Lady in Red" we all were still on our seats, but when he went down from the stage to "visit" the audience below, where he hugged a few ladies, we decided to stand up and start with the party-part of the concert. It was great, and I had the feeling, the fans around us were singing much louder than at the other concerts I've been at. Too soon followed "The snows of New York", which meant, everything was over…….. .
The lights were switched on, we talked to some other fans, also to Birgit and Olaf, then we had to leave the venue. Kerstin and I didn't hurry to get into our cars, as the parking-area was still so crowded. But at 23.00 p. m. we finally had to drive back home…….. , where I arrived short before midnight.
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