Concert Reviews
Bournemouth International Centre, UK
May 3, 2004
Rose, Karen and I left Rose's place at about 8.30am, caught a bus to the train station. Bound for Bournemouth now,and arrive there about 12 noon. Guess what? Its raining!
We got a taxi from the train station to our Hotel. We were early for check in, but they allowed us to put our luggage in our room before they finished cleaning it. We went for a look around Bournemouth International Centre, collected my ticket from the box office (A5), took some pix of us standing next to David's huge poster, and then went through the park to get to the shops to do some more shopping for presents for home. We bumped into Gail and Janie near the pier. Karen and I bought some 'rock', then we went to get some fish and chips, and sat on the beachside eating it. I couldn't believe that people were actually in the water! It was freezing to an Aussie like me.
We went back to out hotel room, organised our clothes for tonight's show and then Karen and I went back over to the BIC to see if we can see David coming in for a sound check. What a bunch of groupies, LOL. We met 4 other fans there doing the same thing, and we waited there for almost 2 hours. In that time we went for a walk down underneath towards the stage door, saw the tour bus...a huge black bus...parked underneath, and then a security guard told us we weren't allowed down there. DAH!
We went back up to wait, had a lot of laughs with the other girls and the band came walking down the road and said hi as they passed us. Every time a car came around the bend we thought it might be David. People must have wondered why these 6 women were peering into their cars, LOL. It was so funny. The band eventually came out again, and it was obvious David wasn't doing a sound check today, so Karen and I went back to our hotel to get ready. We met Lesley M & Sue R there. Boy had my nerves gone troppo by now. Reality hit!!! "This could be the night" kept ringing through my head.
We met Rose's friend Angie and her hubby and daughter downstairs in the bar before venturing across to the BIC at about 7.15pm. There were heaps of people there already, and we checked out the merchandise, deciding to buy it after the show. We met up with Gail and Janie again, plus met Leigh, Mandy, Agi, Lesley G, Sheila, Nic D, Jojo and others who I can't remember their names (sorry girls). I was so nervous, my stomach was doing flip-flops!
Rose and I went in to get our seats at about 7.40. The atmosphere was over whelming! The lights went down, the band came on and we rushed to the stage! David came on and OMG I could not believe I was seeing him in the flesh! I could not believe how close I was to him either.
He opened with Hush, and then Echo Valley. He went along the audience touching hands, and I hung my g-string that Aussie Rose made for me over my hand. He came to me, put his hand out, held my hand for a second then took my undies. He read them, rolled his eyes with a big grin on his face and gave me back the undies!! I took a pic of that!!! I was in heaven, and I think he was too. I can't remember the order of the songs from then...heavy fog....but I remember him doing Summer Days, ITILY, Daydreamer, Cherish, I can feel your heartbeat, Common Thief, Last Kiss, Rock me baby, How can I be sure, I woke up in love. He took the Aussie flag of mine that I gave to Karen and she also gave him a toy platypus....he actually knew what it was. He also took Jojo's undies.
For the acoustic section they made us all sit back in our seats, saying that if we got up they would chuck us out. We were good little girls and sat for that entire part, but as soon as he went to pick up his electric guitar, we were all back at the stage. I was glad that they got us to sit down for that bit, David did No Reply, Blackbird, Hide your love away, Ricky's tune, Sweet lil Angel and ITILY. The show was over all too quickly, and somehow I had managed to take about 90 pix at this one, but there were a few that didn't come out. I had 3 hand holds in total. I loved how David chatted between songs, not just sang. He was a pretty happy guy that night too. I had a couple of close encounters of the third kind right in front of me, if you know what I mean.
After the show I bought some of the merchandise for the girls back home who had given me money to do so, and bought myself a black t shirt, photo and calendar. We went back to the bar at the hotel, where we stayed until about 3.30am. There was a young Italian guy came in while we were there...Marco...and we ate his hot chips..but that's another story, and I'll never tell LOL. I couldn't sleep, I was so on a high! I think being sober didn't help me either, LOL. Maybe I should have had a drink to help me sleep. I think I had 1/2 to maybe an hours sleep. Off to Brighton next!
Suey
Australia
