I had a fabulous night yesterday, thanks to Ingrid who took care of everything so that I can have a tickets.
So great again to meet with Pottel, Ingrid,Isaac, Jeroen and others...
On the train to Stuttgart I was reading this forum and read Pottel calling dotds a boring song !! This put my morale down ! I made big sacrifices to come to listen to the so-called boring song !
And as if this was not enough, Prior to the show Isaac was teasing me, saying that the "new song" would probably be skipped so that the band can fly back early to London...
So, after Sonny (already a depressing news in itself) was played, can you imagine my level of anxiety... And then my level of despair when I heard the strong beat of Postcards intro !! I just thought Isaac's dreadful prophecy had realized... I felt desperate... Then I told myself: wait a sec... Something is wrong... Nigel is there with his clarinet... And they all look surprised... And then the beat stops... Marks laughs... Makes a (new) joke about Ianto being too much in a rush... And, suddenly, dotds starts... I couldn't believe it... And what a dotds ! Later Ingrid would tell me it was the best of all four, and I had no problem believing her: such poetry... So great and elaborated and end solo... Pottel, you are happy to live in 21st century... In the Middle Ages you would have been burnt alive for a lesser blasphemy than calling dotds "boring !"
After the song the superb band intro, using Paraguay as a platform, started as usual, giving Mark the opportunity to joke again, saying that Ianto was "dying to be introduced".
These are those few moments in life for which you want to live... With a last-minute trip I managed to catch the last and best rare live rendition of this most beautiful song that we had given up hope to hear... We don't think I will be played again without Nigel... Inceedible luck for me !
And I have to say that although I strongly disagree with Pottel about dotds, I really concur with him and all the others to say the this show was the best ever... Superb Speeday, incredible Telegraph solo (I will never again complain about the "karaoke mode" or miss the 2005 versions), even slightly longer than London 1, with new licks !
Although my seat was a bit far, I managed to come very close to the stage after the run of bulls, to see OSL and GH very close again... Superb renditions...
Superb night and then breakfast with my fellow AMITers to conclude this trip... You guys are special, MK creates a very strong community ! Thanks so much again !:)
