amie wanted to leave at 6 in the morning for the stadium but we managed to persuade her to go a bit later. Eliza, Jamie and I all planned to travel to the stadium together so had breakfast together then got a taxi and arrived at 9am. Had NO idea where to queue and the place was huge. After walking round for about half an hour and not finding anybody, we started to a queue at a gate on the South side of the stadium just before 2 girls arrived. One had been at the Leipzig concert so I started quoting at her! She looked a bit scared! So there were only 5 of us for what seemed like hours. It poured with rain, Jamie read Harry Potter, Eliza went to find some shelter and I just sat there in my stupid red raincoat! Eliza was right- Germans don’t queue!!!
There were no toilets or shops for miles around that we could see but there was a park across the road with lots of bushes and trees so I went to the loo in a bush (quite a few times!) and managed to get stung on my leg.
Andy and his friend arrived about lunchtime, as did the John Deacon guys! We had so many conversations with the security guard trying to confirm we were queuing in the right place- he even showed us a map and radioed somebody to confirm it but early afternoon, it all went wrong. We were in the WRONG place AGAIN!!! Why is it SO difficult?!!! Me and Nico walked round to check out the queue which was described as a building site at the North left hand corner as we heard there were only a few people there- turned out that was true so we called up everyone else and told them to get round here ASAP! There were 4 woman in front of me but were spaced out so it was only really one person. Got chatting to them waiting for everyone else. Still no sign of Brigitte at this point- panic! A German TV station turned up and Jamie was interviewed, in doing this she got pushed to the front of the queue!!! We heard Queen doing the sound check and Brian was there!!! He must be feeling better! Brigitte finally turned up not long before the doors opened!
Doors opened at 5 (ish!) and Jamie got through first- I was shouting for her to run again! She was the first person to get to the gold circle were she had to be wristbanded and then she ran in and got the left hand corner- exactly where we wanted to be! I got to the gold circle not long after and it seemed like ages while I was being wristbanded and I was just saying ‘please please please’ to the guy doing it. I ran in and there were a few other people there but had no problem at all getting my space! Thanks Jamie!!!
Everyone was quite spaced out and we stood up most of the time waiting because of the rain.
It was great because we could actually get out to go to the toilet/buy food/merchandise and get back to our spaces! It decided to chuck it down with rain just before the concert started but it was so refreshing and nice! They actually had to come out and brush the water off the catwalk!
The set list was:
Reaching Out
Tie Your Mother Down
I Want To Break Free
Fat Bottomed Girls
Wishing Well
Another One Bites The Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Say It's Not True
'39
Love Of My Life
Hammer To Fall
Feel Like Making Love
Tiny bit of Now I'm Here (no singing)
Drum Solo
I'm In Love With My Car
Guitar Solo
Last Horizon
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Radio Ga Ga
Can't Get Enough
A Kind Of Magic
I Want It All
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Show Must Go On
All Right Now
We Will Rock You (with WWRY Germany cast)
We Are The Champions (with WWRY Germany cast)
(plus Paul sang a bit of ‘Singing in the rain’ during the show!!)
The gig was AMAZING! I shouted I love you to Paul and he said thanks and blew me a kiss! They played really well and watching most of the concert in the light was brilliant!!!! We did a dance in Crazy Little Thing Called love and Paul copied it! He looked at us loads of did Brian! Jamie had one condom and threw it at Roger who picked it up and turned round and gave us the biggest grin ever and looked right in my eyes in the day light! The cast of WWRY Cologne joined the band on stage at the end for We Will Rock You/ We Are The Champions! It rained on and off during the show. Roger ran back down the catwalk after Radio Ga Ga!
I totally lost Jamie as we left the stadium and spent 15 mins looking for her. She was standing in the middle of a park shouting Sarah at the top of her voice! We got a taxi back to the hotel and found some fans already outside. We went in and I rushed upstairs to get rushed and straighten my hair while Jamie got some drinks in. Rushed downstairs panicking that I might miss Queen arriving but it was ok! We saw Veikko who told me not to drink too much while I was standing there with a large German beer!
Paul was the first to arrive with Cynthia and he only stopped briefing for a chat. We told him we really enjoyed the gig and it was the best yet!. Pointed out to him that he imitated the dance we were doing during Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and he agreed, then we told him how many shows we went to and Cynthia said we were crazy!!! They then went off to their hotel room and never returned.
Next to arrive was Brian who stopped outside and signed loads of stuff. We waited in the lobby with our beers! He came up to us with a welcoming look, seemed happy we weren't hounding him with picture requests and whatnot. He voluntarily put his arms around us we talked about how great the gig was. I babbled on about food poisoning, and how worried we were and glad to hear he's feeling better. He was happy, he said something about the food in Lisbon. Jamie couldn't stress how good the gig was and the outdoor lighting made it fantastic. We also told him how many gigs we'd been to and he said "Bloody Hell!" and I almost replied with "Bloody Hell, Leipzig!”
Roger snuck in through the back, but since we're staying at the same hotel, we were in the lobby. We went up to him and Sarah asked if we could have a chat for two minutes. We told him, again, that it was the best gig yet, and he was really taken aback, he said he didn't agree, we told him we liked the outdoor lighting and he said that they don't like that lighting. We mentioned the rain, I said I liked it because it was cooling, he made some sort of response saying he didn't like it too much. Sarah then said well he was protected back at the drum kit, but he said he had to go on the catwalk anyway. Then we asked if he recognized us and he said "Yeah! Actually I do, from the front row!" Aaaaaaah! He also said that he had to take it easy today because of his wrist, so we took the opportunity to ask what had happened and he said it was just a little sprain. He said that he was glad we liked the show then turned and went into the bar.
Trip Kalef arrived somewhere in the middle of all this and I got my picture taken with him. We also got chatting to a random guy who knew Trip and he actually worked for Mariah Carey.
Cooper, Eliza, Brigitte and Elenir turned up about 1am and we were still out in the lobby drinking (Brian and Roger were in the bar area). Then some girls came in and asked if we were English and I said I was. They asked if Mark Owen from Take That was here and I started screaming! I love Mark Owen. Nobody else had a clue who he was!! We didn’t see him though!
We headed into the bar where we saw Jens and his friend so stood with them. Roger was there nearby with Rory, Dominique and Justine.
Brian was over chatting to people from WWRY Cologne. Spike and Jamie (Moses) were also in the bar and Brigitte was chatting to Jamie (Moses). She went off to speak to her friend on the other side of the bar and had to brush past Roger!
Later on, Brian looked like he was off to bed so I went over to say good night. He smiled at me and gave me a kiss of the cheek then I chatted with him and Viekko. Brian was asking how I could go to all these concerts and I explained how I paid off my student loan and worked for the government so I got lots of leave! I explained that my boyfriend didn’t actually like Queen and Brian said he could understand!!! LOL! Said good night and he said good night to a few people from WWRY. I went to get Jamie from the Internet café so she could say good night to him too!
Shortly after Roger went off to bed but we didn’t get the chance to say good night.
I then chatted to a girl who was in WWRY for a bit. Later still, we were sitting at a table and then two random guys came and we told them that Queen had been there. They didn't believe it at first. Then one shouted "Brian - come back!" and they both kept asking me who Roger Taylor was. They didn't exactly know Paul Rodgers so I sang them some short versions of the all songs!! Oh dear! They did recognise them though! We were the last ones in the bar except for an ugly old drunkard.
Jamie was still up when I got to our room and I just crashed out. 3 hours sleep later……….
Edited the picture tags to make them show up. Hope you don't mind, Sarah!