A review by Manfred / manfred@ironmaiden.com

Incredible!
This was my first wild night, and I thought it was simply gonna be OK, but I stood with no words with the first song.
First of all, I can't help myself not to complain about the dudes that were selling Coca-Cola, they were charging the thirsty crowd, 5 German Marks (aprox. 2,5 US$) for a little 0,2l glass of cola, then because they were selling a lot, they raised the price to 6, and then 7 German Marks, a ridiculous price...

The first band, Southside Johnny was really cool, though some people were still sitting on the floor, the same with Stereophonics, although they didn't play anything good, and then, the cartoon song for the intro to One Wild Night, everybody was anxious and then they came out from the elevator, and stood up looking at the screaming and wild crowd, then, as we all expected, they started with One Wild Night, and made a change on the setlist, with Always, and continued throught the wild setlist until they got to Livin' On A Prayer, the last song from the second encore, everybody thought it was over, they were saying goodbye and all, but the crowd screamed so much, that Jon had a word with the others and then said, "OK, ONE more song!" and then they played Tequila/Twist And Shout and made us all shake our booties! It was incredible, they played for 2:35 minutes, the stage was also really tight, with a building look and a flashing red light at the top, they also threw some firelights to the sky, during Lay Your Hands On Me and others, awesome, then it was over, but everybody left the stadium satisfied... And the next time, german people, don't sing "Hey Baby...Uhh, Ahh" if you want an encore...

P.S. If somebody has the bootleg in audio or video, please e-mail me, I would appreciate to trade or make buisness with anybody...

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