A concert review by Katrin Wagner:

Concert number 79 starts with the arrival of my friend Christel at midday. Together we start the journey to Nürnberg in my poor old car. We reach Nürnberg at 4.30 pm and check in at the hotel. SAILOR are at the concert hall which happens to be right next to the hotel for their soundcheck. We sit down at the foyer and wait.
A little later Phil, Henry and Oliver return from the soundcheck. We say hello to the boys and talk to them briefly. Phil says that he needs to iron his stage outfit before the show. Henry says that he's going to crumple his own stage suit in the meantime. "That evens up then", I suggest! Phil decides to catch up on some sleep a little later, while Henry and Oliver want to go for a walk. Before they leave they ask us whether we have tickets for today's show. No we haven't, as the venue has never replied when I've asked them to leave some at the box office for us. The two Marshs suggest that we could get in with the help of Phil and tell us to ask him when he returns. This would be really great, as the tickets are quite expensive.
Christel and I continue the waiting at the hotel foyer and meet Andrea, a nice Tremeloes fan. The Marshs return after a while and go to the hotel restaurant, later back to their rooms. We wait.
Meanwhile the concert has already started next door. We don't mind missing the first two acts, Duty Free and German singer Ted Herold, as we have already seen them live before, but Christel and I would really like to see the other bands. But so far all we can do is... wait.
At about 9 pm Grant appears at the foyer and we welcome him. He suggests that we should simply try to get into the concert hall without any help and, should that plan fail, we can still come back and wait for the SAILORs to help. No sooner said than done, we're on our way. There is just one security guy protecting the backstage entrance who lets through immediately as I  say good evening to him in English.
Inside the "Meistersingerhalle" Ted Herold is on stage. Christel and I decide to have a look around and then return to the hall for the performances of the Fortunes and, afterwards, Herman's Hermits. The audience is seated, but as we don't have tickets and therefore no seats and the hall is nearly full, we stay at the side to watch the other bands. But when it's time for SAILOR at about midnight, Christel and I go to the front of the stage, hoping that people behind us won't complain. Some more people follow us soon to dance in front of the stage.
SAILOR play a 50-min set with most of the usual songs and the "Full Monty" again. Even Christel (the old Peter Lincoln fan!) is quite impressed by the new SAILOR and Captain Ollie! Again, the show could be summed up as big fun and we enjoy it all very much. Grant's son Edmund is there too, and Edmund's wife stands next to us and takes a lot of photos.
After SAILOR's show the boys are supposed to sign autographs at the foyer of the concert hall. Together with lots of other people we meet at the autograph desk, not just to give some of my website flyers to the waiting people but also to get autographs for ourselves for a change. But no SAILORs anywhere. Where are they? A few minutes later the question is answered: they are already signing autographs at the foyer, but at the wrong desk. We guide them the way to the correct autograph desk where they continue the signing and sell CDs and DVDs. We help some fans who don't speak proper English. (The funniest moment here is when I ask Henry about the price of the "Live In Berlin" CD for another woman and he says: "45.000 Euros for you, Katrin!" Hey - I'm only trying to help selling your stuff!?) One guy insists on buying something with "Josephine Baker" on it and wants to leave when he is told that the song isn't included on any of the CDs. But I recommend the DVD instead, as it includes a great live version of this song, and he buys it.
A little later Christel and I return to the hall to watch some songs of the Tremeloes. Then we walk back to the hotel and sit down at the foyer there. SAILOR arrive back at the hotel at about 2 am, and Grant, Henry, Oliver and roadie Mark sit down with us, as well as Edmund and his wife, while Phil goes to bed. He doesn't return. Unfortunately the bar has closed only a few minutes before the SAILORs returned. :-(
Grant goes to bed a little later, as well as Henry. Christel and I stay at the foyer together with Oliver and Mark until 3.15 am...
At 9.30 am it's on the next morning it's breakfast time for all of us. SAILOR have to wait until the late afternoon before they can get to the airport and fly back home, so that we meet them again at the foyer to talk before Christel and I have to leave at midday.
Thanks for another marvellous SAILOR weekend, boys!! ;-)
Katrin Wagner, 26 April 2007