The
girls are back in town...! - A concert review by Katrin
Wagner:
Concert
number 68...
Christel and I start our trip to the Sachsen-Anhalt-Tag
in Magdeburg early on Saturday. Christel has already
driven for almost 3 hours from her hometown Duisburg, so
that I take over the driving duties to Magdeburg. We
leave Kassel at about 10 am and arrive in Magdeburg at 1
pm. We don't know SAILOR's hotel nor do we have a room
for ourselves yet, so that we leave my poor old car in a
car park in the inner city and walk to the festival area.
The Sachsen-Anhalt-Tag takes place in the whole town,
with lots of different shows, stages and events as the
celebration of this section of Germany called
Sachsen-Anhalt. SAILOR will perform on the MDR stage on
the Domplatz later this afternoon, so that we decide to
search for this stage.
It's very very hot, but it fortunately doesn't take us
very long until we find the correct stage where the MDR
show has just started. A little later, a helpful ghost
finally tells us the name of SAILOR's hotel which is not
too far away from the place where we've left my car.
SAILOR will only perform at 5 pm and there's still lots
of time, so that Christel and I decide to walk all the
way back and further into the other direction to the
hotel. But as we arrived there, the hotel is booked up
already. No problem, we quickly make a phone call and ask
for a room at another hotel we've passed on the way from
the venue to this hotel, and they have a room for us. So,
after a brief "hello" and talk to Peter, Phil
and driver Thomas, we walk back to the car once again,
rescue it from the car park and drive straight to our
hotel to check in and relax a little before the SAILOR
show.
We are back at the Domplatz at about 4 pm and watch some
of the other artists before it's finally time for SAILOR
at 5 pm. The audience is in a good mood despite the heat
(except for those unfriendly guys next to me - you know
who you are!) and have a good time, as well as Rob, Phil,
Peter and Grant on stage who perform a short but very
entertaining playback set including their greatest hits
(using the "Live In Berlin" versions).
After the nice but short performance SAILOR are driven to
the Börderlandhalle in Magdeburg for the rehearsals of
the TV show "Magdeburg Für Anhalter" which
will be broadcast live on MDR television tomorrow
evening. Christel and I use the spare time for the walk
back to our hotel, a quick shower and special treatment
for our sunburn, followed by a marvellous meal at an
Italian restaurant on the way between our hotel and the
hotel of the SAILORs.
At 8 pm we are back at SAILOR's hotel, and the boys
arrive just a few minutes later, joining us for a drink
and talk. Later, Grant decides to go to bed early after
the long hot day, while Christel and I accompany Rob to
that nice Italian restaurant again...
On the next morning Christel and I return to SAILOR's
hotel, where they boys take a lot of time for us again
before we have to drive back home at 1 pm.
Grant promises to give us a very special wave during the
live TV show tonight... let's see if that works ;-) (Oh
yes, it does! THANKS so much, Grant!!!!!!!!)
Katrin Wagner, 03 July 2005
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