Copenhagen Concert part 2

ALL about Copenhagen - Part 2

Monika and Dieter were going to meet the guys and have lunch with them - all of us were so jealous!! So they left at 2 and came back later... After me going on sleeping for another while we finally caught the bus between 4 and 5 p.m., changed buses one time, and walked round some quarters. Dieter had already told us that at the Café there was an archway, and then a courtyard where the boys had sat. He was telling it like he and Monika saw the Café, "oh, there's this Café Rust", then walked by, "oh, there's a courtyard - and there are the boys --- ??!".
When we walked by there wasn't the boys - we only heard some muffled tones, drums and then the beginning of "Josey". The thought that this were our boys, being right in there...!
And there was someone standing outside near the archway. I guess at that moment everybody thought the same as I: "Wait, somehow you know that guy..."; and then when it came to my mind I said in quite a surprised tone but still quiet enough (fortunately - if he'd heard me... !): "Manny!"
Monika and Dieter talked to him for a minute, and then our group went on, to another café, a couple of meters away from Café Rust and near a corner. Most of us were to excited to have "dinner" but Josey and I both ate a big plate of Nachos with cheese and sour cream. Then we made for the Café.
We walked through that courtyard, went up some stairs and were in a long and narrow (only about 6-7 meters) room, one half with some barstools and tables and at the end of the room - the stage.

- Well, I'll try to show you:

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|1  |||2             1= left of 1 are some toilet rooms
|  _____             2= some stairs up, on the other side of 1
|     O |            3= the bar
|_     O|_           4= the door
| \     4_|  |_____  5= the stairs, right at the building
|3|     |=|5       | 6= some "tiny bar" with LOTS of buttons on a
| |    O|=|        |     table
|     O |          | 7= also some barstools
|_    O_|          | 8= the courtyard (outside!)
|6     7|          | 9= that archway
|_|    7|     8    |10= the stage, without any barriers or so
|       |          | O= the bartables
|       |          |
|       |          |
|-------|          |
|  10   |          |
|_______|_ 9_______|

- Hope you were able to make some sense out of that!

But there was someone sitting on one of the barstools at the bar: dark brown curly hair, a little beard, a cap on, and a disarming smile... Stormy!! He said hi to each, but he'd only been waiting for us to appear, and so he left soon after.
We had to wait three hours - the concert was gonna begin at 10 p.m. - so we took some photos of the empty stage with the instruments on it, of the room, sat there at the bar... Actually we were only allowed to stay there during that time because we were fanclub. What an honor!

Some time Monika said "oh, there was Todd", she'd seen him rush to the toilet [1]. Of course I had seen nothing but I'm used to missing the best things! A few minutes later the same, including me missing it again.
Then, an hour or so later, Chrissy suddenly said "there was Todd!" - but with a look on her face as if she'd just said "I'm pretty sure it's strawberries with cream for dessert!", assumed that she'd die for strawberries with cream (that association came to my mind almost immediately after)! So at first I did not believe her but she insisted on it, still with that dreamy, very strange look on her face. Totally odd...

When other peopz came we sat down in front of the stage, afraid that some others might go there. But those lazy persons only wanted to sit down somewhere so they stayed near the barstools in the back! We were about the only ones to stand immediately in front of the stage. (By the way: before, one guy had addressed me: "Are you English?" - "No, but I can speak English." - "Are you a fan?" - With my fanclub t-shirt on he asked me that!
So I pointed on it and said "yes - a real fan!" - "Could you sing some tones of "Breakfast At Tiffany's" so that I remember what it sounds like?" So I did - after having assured that he'd really asked that. Funny one!)
At 20 past 10 the boys appeared. Someone had told me first that they were coming from behind us so I had kept turning around, but then someone had said they were not coming from that direction but from somewhere behind the stage, climbing up somewhere. So of course they did come from behind us!

They started with "Daybreak And A Candle End". Afterwards they fooled around a bit, and Toby looked at us fanclub peopz and said "I like those t-shirts!" (I stood exactly as I had wanted to - a bit left so I had a good view on both Pipes.) And Todd said something about "my brother's got a lady over there", pointing in the direction of the barstools [7]. Really?? (Well, however, during the gig Toby looked into that direction a few times.)
Then they played some more songs - at a good volume, after the third song we began to feel like half-deaf! -, and some time Todd pointed on Clay saying "this is Clay Bergus - he's a famous German soap opera star" - because Monika had told him that he looked like someone out of a series (it's called "Good Times, Bad Times"). Yet he really does, that's our common opinion.
When they played "Hell In Itself" as #7, I started to cry! I had thought maybe I would - in case you've read on Audrey's Page what the song is about, you'll know why! By chance they played three of Josey's favorite songs, "Hell" as mentioned, "Josey", and "Dr Crippen"; but only one of my favorites. But to that later, that one was the encore. And they played "11th"! Though not all of the CD version of it, John's drum solo turned into another song, this special one called "Deep Blue Something"!
I did not properly realize it, until Toby suddenly began to sing "I remember ...(not understood) and pictures"... I was all captivated, not able to move. The lyrics included about "you always leave ... one cannot rely on you" or so, I cannot remember... but all heartrending! And some time he repeated, over and over again, "you're not alone, you're not alone, ...", the melody of that only changing between two tones next to each other (major). That were about the loudest parts of the concert, some time I found I had my fists clenched!