September 2, 2000
from a magazine
called
What's on in Birmingham
a poster announcing the concert
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| Birmingham, The Old Chapel September 2, 2000 |
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| Birmingham was the largest of the cities we went to. The Old Chapel is located in a suburb. Here is the original text from the brochure: "The restored Victorian Old Chapel has become Birmingham's most exciting live music venue, with a capacity of 200 seated or 310 standing. There is extensive free parking and a fully licensed bar. The superb acoustic of the original building have been augmented by state of the art digital sound equipment and full lighting rig to television production standard, giving an extremely flexible and spacious, yet intimate atmosphere." | ||||||||||||||||
| In front of the Old Chapel, we already met with Jacky and her family. For the very first time, we saw Pat and her husband, and we were glad to meet them in person. We also said hello to Hannah. Thus, some fans from the Mavfiles list had come anyway. | ||||||||||||||||
| The stage was rather far away from the audience, and the seats were arranged like in an auditorium, so everyone was able to watch the concert well. The acoustics were unique, and probably the best we ever had. Once again, the boys were wonderful, brilliant as always, and the show was a real success. The atmosphere was very good, and the boys had much fun on stage once more, and that dense atmosphere, of course, could be felt by all the audience as well. The only thing that was a bit annoying was that people kept walking up and down the stairs to get themselves their drinks from the bar. | ||||||||||||||||
| Oh, yes, it was Paul's birthday, and it was lots of fun singing "Happy Birthday" for him together. He really enjoyed that all the audience sung for him. | ||||||||||||||||
| After the show, there was once again enough time left to talk with the boys and all the other fans. We also met the two fans again we already saw in Nottingham and Leicester. It felt good that many people had the opportunity to attend more than one concert. And we were happy that finally, Pat had had his Idle Jets CD called "Atomic Fireball" for sale, too. | ||||||||||||||||
| This was our last concert, we said good-bye to everyone, and we received the promise they would come back to the UK again in spring 2001. With this joyful anticipation, and with the memory of a fantastic week in England in our hearts, we drove back to the hotel. The next morning, we were already heading for the ferry to the Netherlands in our left-hand drive car which was such a perfect vehicle for these exciting days, and we arrived exhausted, but with the music in our heads in Germany. | ||||||||||||||||
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| You made us so happy, you boys and our fellow fans: thanks a lot! | ||||||||||||||||
| Lou and Andreas | ||||||||||||||||
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| And this is a cut from a magazine called What's on in Birmingham |
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| Below: a poster announcing the concert |
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