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Erfurt, Germany - 10 August 2002

Event: Traumzeit Open Air
Location: Thüringenpark
Admittance: 3 pm
Beginning: 5 pm
Bands: Vital, SAILOR, The Equals, Manfred Man's Earth Band

Photos by: Katrin Wagner, Karsten Wagner, Christel Müller
Video by: Karsten Wagner

Showtime...

SAILOR during "La Cumbia"

SAILOR during "Give Me Shakespeare"

Rob and Phil

Peter

SAILOR during "The Secretary"

Phil

Phil, Grant and Peter announcing "The Old Nickelodeon Sound"

The audience... ;-)

Rob and Peter during the "Latino Medley"

The "Full Monty"...
In the na... in the na... in the navy ;-)

...the "Full Monty"

...the end

SAILOR (left to right:) Rob, Peter, Grant and Phil
"If you see any of these people, call the police!" - quotation: NaylorMan ;-)

The songs that SAILOR played in Erfurt:

A Glass Of Champagne
One Drink Too Many
La Cumbia
Give Me Shakespeare
Vera From Veracruz
The Old Nickelodeon Sound
Karma Chameleon
Panama
The Secretary
Girls Girls Girls
Latino Medley
Champagne Reprise

encores:
"Grant's moment" - drum solo
The "Full Monty"

SAILOR and the Wagners... (left to right:) Karsten, Rob, Peter, Grant, Phil and Katrin

A concert review by Katrin Wagner:

It's my 50th concert... Karsten, Christel and I leave at 9.45 am. On the first half of our way to Erfurt it rains so much that we can hardly see the streets. Very encouraging, especially because today's show is going to be an open air event...! Shortly before Erfurt the rain suddenly stops, so that we arrive at our very favourite hotel just in time, at 1 pm. Ten minutes later SAILOR arrive at the hotel too, accompanied by Grant's wife Michelle and Phil's wife Ann. We welcome each other, then SAILOR go to the soundcheck. A few minutes later we also drive to the area where the open air concert will take place. Meanwhile it's 3 pm, and the concert will start at 5 pm. So the area is still quite empty. We place ourselves in the first row in front of the stage and watch SAILOR's soundcheck. Fortunately the weather is much better now.
The concert starts at 5 pm. During the first song of the first band, Vital, it starts raining again.
At 6 pm it's finally time for SAILOR, and suddenly the weather gets a little better again. They do a marvellous show. Rob makes a lovely German announcement for "The Secretary", saying that this song is for me because this concert is my 50th SAILOR concert. (Thanks a lot!!)
After this great show Karsten, Christel and I leave the show and get back to the hotel. As usual there is no bar, so that we have brought our own drinks etc. When SAILOR arrive at the hotel at 11 pm everything is ready for a nice "after-show-party" at the hotel.
We spend a nice evening (or night!?) with Rob, Peter, Grant (or as some people call him "Ivan the Dirty"), Michelle and Graham and drink the bottle of champagne which Rob gave me because of my SAILOR concert anniversary (And again: many thanks!!). Phil and Ann also join us a little later.
At 1.30 am we all go to bed. The next morning we all have to get up at 6 am. Breakfast with SAILOR at 7 am, photos at 7.50 am and leaving at 8 am because they are going to have a 6 hour drive to Rostock, where they will perform at 2 pm... Marvellous!!
Copyright by Katrin Wagner, 12 August 2002

A concert review by Karsten Wagner:

Katrin, Christel and I started on Saturday at Kassel: 9.45 am in the morning to reach Erfurt early this day! The festival was planned for 15 pm. After a drive on the motorway with very much rain (sometimes, we saw nearly nothing), we reached Erfurt safely, and found back again the hotel, where SAILOR stayed for the 4th time. There's no bar inside, we knew that, so we brought something to drink and to eat for the boys, the whole crew (Michelle, Grant's wife and Ann, Phil's wife were there too) and for us. This was for the Aftershow-party ;-)
We had to wait at the reception because our room was not ready. After this was ok. we drove to the Thüringenpark, where the concert "Traumzeit" (Dreamtime) happened. We arrived, as SAILOR did their soundcheck, and stayed there until 18 pm, when they started their gig, as the 2nd band.
As ever, this was a goooood gig ;-) Rob did an announcement, saying that this is the 50th gig for a girl in the first row (Katrin) :-) .
Back in the hotel, I lost our room-key, but Christel luckily found it. At the reception I met Manfred Mann, he was on that festival too, he had a conversation with the reception-girl, saying that he has his own blanket with him, so they had to put a clean sheet on..... funny chapter of that evening *g*.
Soon we started the hotel-party, with Grant ("Ivan der Schmutzige" *ggg*), Michelle, Peter, Rob, Graham. The others joined in later... Always fun, to talk, hear older SAILOR-songs, have some drinks...
Early in the morning we decided to use our hotel-rooms for a short time, and then meetup soon again to have breakfast. After that, we took some new band-pictures from and with us and SAILOR. SAILOR drove to another show in Rostock, and we drove back to Kassel.
Copyright by Karsten Wagner, 12 August 2002

Concert Photos