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22/06/97 - PHILLIPSHALLE,
DUSSELDORF Review by Maria Heutz:
Düsseldorf
was the first concert in my life. My interest for Bryan’s live music was
so small that I almost had missed also this one. You must know I’m a big
football fan and I preferred to go to football matches with my favourite football
player Jürgen Klinsmann. Over and above that I thought I’m too old to
go to concerts.
I was away in Düsseldorf and it was pure chance that
I noticed the posters with the announcement of Bryan’s playing in the Philipshalle.
I bought a ticket and on the gig day I drove towards Düsseldorf. I was more
than nervous for my first BA experience. Neither my husband nor my children have
this enthusiasm for BA’s music. So I had to go alone. I was there very early
with around 30 fans still waiting. It was nice and sunny weather and there were
people looking for tickets. So it must have been a sold out gig. I was absolutely
clueless, unsuspecting and inexperienced and didn’t know where to go when
the doors opened. These were the reasons why I’ve found my place rather close
to the stage but in front of Keith’s microphone.
The concert started
without a supporter band, with 20 minutes delay and on the b-stage. There Bryan
performed Straight from the heart and Depend on me. The woman next to me spoke
to her mother because she didn’t know both these songs. On the main stage
Bryan began with The only thing that looks good on me is you followed by Do to
you and other songs of the 18 til I die album.
Let’s make a night to
remember shouldn’t be missed cause this was the tour’s motto. The lines
of I think about you Bryan totally mixed up. When he played (I wanna be) Your
underwear on the site there were two big inflatable plastic dolls in bikinis.
So later in the newspaper article about this concert he was called a fetishist
of underwear. Completely new for me was his song Hey Elvis which I hadn’t
heart before but loved at the first touch.
He also joked with the audience
when he formed his own band by bringing up some guys to play bass, guitar, drums
and percussion and of course a singer. The singer was totally crap singing Thought
I’d died and gone to heaven and Bryan called the band “Scheiße”
This means in English “Shit”.
I haven’t seen much of Bryan.
He only once changed his place with Keith. He wore blue jeans and a green tight
t-shirt. He is so thin. Mostly I watched Keith and his fans who flirted a lot
with him. One girl through her bra on stage and Keith put him on his mic’s
stand. I noticed that he is very nice to his fans and that he has beautiful brown
eyes.
The concert lasted about two hours and all in all I loved it very much.
I was surprised how different a concert is compared with an album or a song played
in the radio. There are so many little things that change live, also the intros
are different. So I swore to go to further BA shows soon. But I didn’t know
that my next BA experience should take place more than two years later. Setlist:
***b-stage***
Straight
From The Heart
Depend On Me
***b-stage***
The Only Thing That Looks Good
On Me Is You
Do To You
Let’s Make A Night To Remember
18 Til I Die
All
I Want Is You
I Think About You
We're Gonna Win
You're Still Beautiful
To Me
(I Wanna Be) Your Underwear
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Everything
I Do
Touch The Hand
Heaven
Please Forgive Me
Kids Wanna Rock
Have
You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
Cuts Like A Knife
Hey Elvis
Run To You
*Audience
Band*
Somebody
There Will Never Be Another Tonight
All For Love
Summer
Of ‘69
It Ain't A Party...If Ya Can't Come 'Round
I’ll Always
Be Right There | 
