Birmingham ~ NEC ~ UK

MAR 25th:

The support band were Picture house again tonight.... And again tonight Myself & Lor were the only ones up. Apart from Jamie who we dragged up for a few minutes LOL...

Home By Now / No Matter What

Life Is A Lemon

Dead Ringer

I'd Lie For You (and that's the Truth)

Anything For Love

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Rock and Roll Dreams

Is Nothing Sacred

Paradise By the Dashboard Light

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Midnight At the Lost and Found

Honky Tonk Woman

Modern Girl

1999

Two Outta Three Ain't Bad

Mercedes Benz ~ Pearl

You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth

Bat Out of Hell

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      Tonight we had my youngest daughter Jamie with us. The show was much the same tonight as the other shows. Apart from the fact that the security on the way in took my camera off me ~ aghhhhhhh ~ no pix for this review...... I did get to take a roll of film for Damon with his camera ~ which was pretty cool. I was a nervous wreck in case they didn't come out  LOL . . . .

The beginning of the show was the same as the others with the thunder storm etc... Then Meat comes on stage in the usual way and sings Home by now.

Then They go into Life is a lemon & as usual the backdrop is down for the beginning of this. The silhouettes of the band are seen through the drop. Eventually the curtain is dropped & the whole venue erupts into a huge round of applause. The band are all playing some kind of drum ~ apart from Kasim.

After this comes Dead ringer ~ with the Kas Meat & Ray going over to Patti, Pearl & Drey.

I'd lie for you is next beginning with Ray playing solo guitar. This then goes into Tom playing the keyboard & then Meat begins singing...

I would do anything for love follows this with some excellent vocals from Patti.

Lawyers, Guns and Money is next ~ the band all really seem to enjoy this song... Patti especially. Kasim is really good on this song too ( not that he isn't on the rest of course)

Rock and Roll Dreams is another great part of the show ~ Ray has some great guitar parts in this ~ these are some of my fav parts of the song...

Is Nothing Sacred starts with loads of dry ice.... Ray begins by playing the guitar & then walks over to Tom by the piano....

Paradise By the Dashboard Light ~ well what can I say ~ it was as good as always......

After this the band came down for their encore. Then they go off ready for the acoustic set.

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Meat stays on the stage & arranges the stools. Then he sits down & asks Charlie to bring his guitar on. As always Charlie gets a huge cheer.....

Then Meat brings the band on stage individually ~ Starting with Tom.

When they are all on they go into Midnight at the lost & found.

Followed by Honky Tonk Woman ~ Kasim starts the singing on this followed by Patti.....

Then there's a small bit of Modern Girl

Then Meat plays stump the band ~ Apparently the crowd shouted out for 1999 ~ they played this with various members of the band starting with Tom.

Two Outta Three Ain't Bad was next

Followed by Mercedes Benz sang by Pearl

Then finally on the acoustic set came You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth

After this the band all went off stage apart from John & Tom ~ they just moved back. John went back to the drums.

Then lastly we got Bat Out of Hell ~ with Bob The Bat at the end....