2006-07-29/30 Extra Acoustische show afgelopen nacht

[@pestaartje]

uitleg door Cyllan:

so any more news on this supposed 3am gig coz if it's happening, it'll be in 20 minutes

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Do we even know where it's going to be if it happens?

No idea where it is Mandy or how the lottery people were selected.

Just back from the show, perhaps I can shed a little light on the lottery selection.  Axl announces from the stage that they are playing two shows tonight, this one and another acoustic set in a club at 3 am.  He said that people had been selected at random from their ticket purchases.  He read out about 10 names from a list he had and then a little later about another 10 names.  These people (plus whoever else they'd booked tickets for, I think) were to go and get a wristband to get them into the club.  The final name he read out, at the end of the show, was for an all expenses paid trip to see the band in September in California.  At least that's the way it sounded to me.

Was a truly great show, by the way.  : ok:

[@pestaartje]

Kudos to bobblehat at mygnr!!!!

I've not posted before so you may not believe the following account of tonight, but it's all true! I was at the Wembley gig tonight and my sister had her name read out by Axl. We were in a state of shock for a few minutes before we got off our arses and went looking for our wristbands. A group of people gathered outside S1 section and lucky us, none of the security people had any idea about an acoustic gig. After much walking around and trying to get info on what we had to do, we were told to watch the rest of the show and then to meet at section N1 when people had left the arena where we would be taken down to the standing area (strangely, most of the people who won were in section S8 and had bought their tickets within the last few days).

The winners had to provide photo ID or they wouldn't be allowed their pass (not wristbands like Axl said). We were then given an envelope with the pass and info on the venue. The show was held at Cuckoo club just off Regents Street, so a group of the winners all went and got a night bus to Regents Street as there were no taxi's to be seen! If any of the people that travelled with me to the show read this, please PM me as you were all so nice and it's a shame we didn't get to see each other after the show. I was the girl who kept making you walk to different bus stops. biggrin.gif

The club was tiny and the show was just amazing. Sebastian Bach was stood next to me for a long time and he was rocking out to I.R.S and handing cigarettes to Axl. The show started about 4:00am and finished at 5:30am. The songs I can remember being played are (not in order):

Knocking On Heaven's Door
Sailing
Welcome To The Jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine
I.R.S
Used To Love Her
Nightrain
You're Crazy
Mr Brownstone
Paradise City
Patience

There were a few more but I am drawing a blank at the moment. The show was fully filmed by the band's crew, so hopefully it will surface at some point. People took loads of photos so they should surface too.

It was a brilliant and surreal night and I am absolutely knackered but very happy and lucky to have been there. If you have any questions I'll try to answer them but don't shout at me if I can't.

P.S No one got a free CD.

[reckless]

Ik hoop dat het is opgenomen.

[@pestaartje]

gehele setlist:

You're Crazy,
Mr. Brownstone,
Used To Love Her,
Patience,
Welcome To The Jungle,
Knockin' On Heaven's Door,
Sweet Child O' Mine,
Sway,
Sailing,
Nightrain,
IRS,
Paradise City

[Axl4ever]

Woow cool zeg!

Wie weet waren Kiek en Tino er ook wel bij 
You never know !

[Tino]

We hebben staan duimen hoor!!! Daar voorin, maar helaas. Wij hebben dus onze eigen after party moeten organiseren. Was ook leuk, maar die extra show was natuurlijk veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel mooier geweest.

[@pestaartje]

I cant believe I am actually sitting in work after a weekend that dreams are made of!  I wont ramble on as others will prob have lots to say too.

The gig on saturday night at Wembley was fantastic - the sound was great, I thought the whole band were completely on fire and it sounded incredible.  I was hanging out to hear TWAT, but was really happy with the show, the covers were great, but there was still time for Rocket Queen!  There are many pages on this gig so I wont witter on - you all know about the announcements from stage that Axl made about the acoustic show - well my name wasn't called out, so I didnt think it was to be.....how wrong was I!

My friend won a ticket and thought that Axl said it was plus 1 and said that we should go with him (me and my hubbie) and we'd be fine.  So after waiting an agonising 40 mins for a cab from Wembley - we set off.  We also had in the car with us the girl who won the LA trip as well as the Acoustic show pass.  She was lovely - really nice and was completley in shock.  I really hope this trip comes off for her - I think she really deserved it.  So, we get to the club - it's tiny, I mean tiny.  There were loads of sloaney wankers leaving and when they saw us lining up, they were asking what was happening - so of course there was suddenly lots of interest from pissed up people hanging about and trying to get in.  Security were trying to usher them away - some were very resistant!

Waited in the line for about 40 mins in the end I think.  I saw Jarmo, Adz and Christos arrive (met them after the Wembley gig briefly, as well as Ignatius - nice to meet you all!) and go straight in.  It looked pretty damn hard to get in and of course I still didnt have a pass at this stage.  I wasn't going to try and blag - I honestly thought that the pass my friend had would be cool.  Seb Bach arrives, beta arrives - we were getting so excited - this was actually happening!

Then - an angel appeared and gave me a pass!  Seriously, an incredibly kind man (whose name I dont even know) had a spare pass and gave it to me.  I am so grateful to you, I dont know if you post on this board - if so, please PM me so I can thank you again.  All i know is he was Irish and a fkn legend.  So we got in (after complications with the passes - absolutely no plus 1 - had to get another pass for my husband, which happily I managed with the help of my good friend Steve (THANK YOU FOREVER).  And we were in.

I reckon there was about 80 people in there.  Very briefly met Tommy, Dizzy and Del James and then we were crushing against the stage - well, it was a step really!  I didnt see where axl appeared from (from thin air and a puff of smoke!), but suddenly he was there and it was real real REAL!
I cannot descibe the feeling.  I never thought I would see them at somewhere as intimate as Hammersmith, let alone somewhere smaller and acoustic.  I think they started playing at 4.15am ish.  Setlist i think was (correct me here Jarmo, I am very tired!)

You're Crazy  (wow wow wow!)
Mr Brownstone
Welcome to the jungle
I Used to Love her
Nightrain
Knockin' on heavens Door
Sweet Child O' Mine
I am Sailing (Rod cover again)
IRS
Paradise City

I can't descibe Axl's mood - he was chatting, laughing, dancing, shaking hands, put on someone's straw stetson hat, someone gave him some sunglasses to put on. He was incredible.  His voice was fkn spot-on.  People were asking for requests (Civil war etc) and he was going "no, that will be denied, our survey says uh-uhh - we're not playing that!"  But he was in the best mood ever.  He was asking for a Tom Collins from the bar, something about White Russians (I think there were drinks being passed around at that point)

I couldnt see very well (am not very tall at all) - so was being lifted up by hubbie every now and then and standing on tiptoes - until I ended up on a chair at the back with a much better view.  I took some photos - but have no idea if they will be any good at all.  Couldnt get any form of audio as had a dead phone.  I was too overawed to do anything really, apart from try and take it all in.

Sad thing was - when I went to get my hubbie inside, he was waiting (in the pouring rain) and he said that lots (well 15 or so) of people behind him in the queue had left as the security would only let in one pass per person, so girls/guys who had "won" tickets were being turned away as they wouldnt/couldnt go by themselves.  I feel that was a real shame as towards the end of the night, lots of people were let in to the club (members I presume) and they were pissed up fuckheads who didnt have a clue who was playing and were too drunk to realise what was happening.  I saw Calum Best in there for godssakes.  Maybe he's a fan - but I doubt it.  I really feel for those who didnt get in - its a real pity that all the fans didnt get in and then they could have let a few members in later - not another load of suits like they did. probably 150 people there by the end.

Aside from that - this was the single most amazing GnR experience ever for me - I thanked Robin as I left (I felt like a kid at a party).  Axl was shaking hands left right and centre - didnt want to bother him and we just slipped away at the end.    Axl did say how fucking hard the band work , they play their asses off every night, and people still moan that its not the old guns n roses - and asked us to cheer for the band - I yelled my fucking head off.

Another funny moment - during paradise city - everyone was doing their thing and axl turned to Ron and said "there's more leads than that!" (meaning lead guitar parts) and Ron laughed and improv-ed more.  So many classic moments - I cant even begin to stop and put them all together in order.  I'm knackered as we didnt get home till 8am (after a pleasant stroll around an empty covent garden waiting for FUCKING TUBES to start) - then I was back to Wembley for last night (nice to meet you, Magnus). We all know what happened last night also - Seb bach was fkn great - I thought he was a total star for stepping in - no-one else could have done it.  But the midgets in paradise city - wtf?Huh? weird and unnecessary.  I dont know whats up with Uncle Axl - but i hope he's ok.

I would like to thank a few people for such a crazy, rock n roll adventure of a weekend:  Steve (you fkn rock my friend), my Irish angel for my acoustic show pass, Jarmo (for this board, and being a nice guy), Christos and Adz and Ignatius (nice to meet you guys, thanks for saying hi back), Seb Bach for paradise city last night (and being nice in the club) - but most of all:  Axl, izzy, robin, tommy, ron, richard, dizzy, frank and chris.  peace

Hope everyone who was at Wembley/acoustic had a great time.

[@pestaartje]

foto's:
http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/leila76/London/?start=0

[Kiki]

..nog meer foto's: http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=75951&st=0 


Thanx cherry_bomb

[Axl4ever]

OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!  Wow zeg........

Hier wordt ik wel heel erg jaloers van zeg....

God, ik zou gek zijn geworden zeg...zo dichtbij....

Het zal je gebeuren zeg 

[Hollywood_Rose]

OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!  Wow zeg........

Hier wordt ik wel heel erg jaloers van zeg....

God, ik zou gek zijn geworden zeg...zo dichtbij....

Het zal je gebeuren zeg 

je bent niet de enige die jarloers is denk ik

[Axl4ever]

Nee dat denk ik ook niet nee....

Ben jij jaloers dan 

[Hollywood_Rose]

Nee dat denk ik ook niet nee....

Ben jij jaloers dan 

JA!

[Axlrocks]

Ik ben wel jaloers op mensen die dit meegemaakt hebben! Cheers!

[Summermoon]

Dan krijg je toch spontaan een hartverzakking als je naam wordt voorgelezen . Ben echt jaloers!!Jammer dat ze dit in nijmegen niet gedaan hebben