Last gig of 2016 EU tour.
Went to the venue around 11:30am. Hot weather once again. We received news that everyone needs to go to the box office to receive their tickets or if they had a fan zone ticket then they need to have a bracelet. So..Thousands of people shoving and pushing themselves in to this small box office. General admission, fan zone tickets, seated ticket and VIP – all had to queue to get whatever they needed from this one tiny office that had zero organisation. There were 4 people who had no idea about anything working there. Chaos. Absolutely the worst experience in a concert i have ever been in.
Also i learned (my fault, not theirs) that since my fan zone ticket was paid with my dad’s card i couldn’t receive my ticket thus i was ticketless eventho i had paid for it. This news was delivered to me after i had queued in three out of four “queues”. The workers just told me and many others to go to the window next door. Absolutely ridiculous and so unprofessional. It was so bad that i decided that this was the first and last time for me to go to a concert in Italy. Thank you very much. Oh and the fact that it was +35C didn’t help at all.
After i had learned that my beautiful fan zone ticket will just stay in the office a very nice fan helped me out. She had bought an extra seated ticket for herself so i got that one.
When i entered the seated area i went to use the toilets. Even that was a catastrophie. There were hundreds of people queuing to use these few restrooms. Unbelievable. There were security guards in the toilet queue to try and keep it in somewhat of an order. Insane.
Eventually i was ready to sit down, but then i ran in to the fan who helped me out with the ticket. She had found a fan zone bracelet – someone obviously had lost it. She gave it to me and told me to “have fun” 😊
I ended up in the fan zone are about row 7. Didn’t see anything at all so i decided to sing and that’s what i did.
The audience did sing loud and that was very nice, but i was suprised how abruptly the cheering and clapping ended after each song vs in other countries.
Sadly in front of me there were three girls who talked thruout the entire gig and were on facebook. Very annoying.
It may had been the fact that i was far away, but in my experience the guys weren’t at their best. It felt like they were tired & ready to go home at times. It was lacking the intense energy that the previous gigs have had. Not saying they were bad in no means, but there was defenetly noticeable differences when you compare this gig to the others i have seen. My friend was in the second row & she agreed with me that this wasn’t the best we have seen.
One of the screens didn’t work and at times Adam’s mic seemed to have problems.
Brian was clearly the audiences favorite. He got huge applauses everytime he did something.
High points: gorgeous venue, B&B place & owner were great, Who Wants To Live Forever, Somebody To Love and Love Of My Life
Minus: Unorganised fiasco (not the guys fault ofcrs), going to the city after the gig with pre ordered shuttle bus “service” was yet another failure (thousands of people and hardly any buses. We waited about two hours for a bus).
The citys me & my friend went to or thru to get to the next gig were as follows:
Helsinki, Cologne, Copenhagen x2, Dusserdölf, Bryssel, Warsaw, Auschwitz, Katowice, Berlin, Bucharest, Sofia, Milan x2, Padua, Istanbul, Venice, Helsinki.
Tour highlights:
Experiencing truly amazing live music, meeting new people, traveling and seeing different cultures, Bucharest and Sofia were beautiful and the gigs were spectacular, being a tourist in Poland for a few days, nice and unique B&B and hotels (10-20€/night in most places), Adam being superb in Sofia and making us go completely crazy & wet from the champaigne shower (wonderful break from reality), due to the hot weather we got a tank top Adam in Bucharest for the first time, audience singing loudly, fun memories for a very long time, every gig was different and unique, actually a working cooling system in Padua, in Poland a make fan proposed to his girlfriend on the stage and she said yes – very beautiful.
Tour not so great experiences: Monsoon in Cologne, blazing hot weather in Bucharest +40C, fiasco in Padua, our room cooling system in Bucharest was a fan we named “Larry the lawnmoer” – loud. Electric Pyramid – enough said.
Traveling non stop with a backbag for two tweeks from one country to the next meant that we had some mishaps along the way as well. Wrong airport, illeagal taxi ride (crazy, kinda surreal and risky but at midnight when u realise u are in a wrong airport and u only have a few hours to make it across the city to get ur flight and nothing was working – yeah it was the only way), some guy in Poland took us to the railwaystation since the only bus going there didn’t come and we would have missed our flight, I lost my ipad (pissed off), train strike in Italy – the only in advance paid train trip we had (stress).
This trip has been overwhelming in so many levels. Truly amazing concerts and fan experiences with Adam and crazy stuff happening. All ended well and now two exhausted but happy Finnberts are on their way home. Home to go to work the next day so we can save money for our next adventures.
Can’t remember this guys name, but he was one of the crew members. I named him The Viking and then later on i saw this pic of him with an actual Viking hat on! 😅
In Sofia i saw a box that said “Queen sex pit”
Final notes: i am forever greatfull for being able to see these shows. QAL has made me a very happy lady 😊
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