11.10.2002 Venice, 041

Since we left from Firenze it kept on raining all the time and it was really cold. The third day of the little tour and rain and bad weather all the time. It is a pity when you are in a new city and you can not walk around a little. Some people asked me "How do you like the city of ..." and I had to answer "I don't know, I just saw the venue.".

This time the backstage area is not very big and the stage isn't either. There are no showers in the venue which is very annoying after the show. The stage is already filled up with BG equipment and I guess there will not be many space left for us.

After the BG sound check we bring up our stuff and we had about more or less one meter left to the border of the stage. The stage is quit high and not of regular shape so they put some white scotch tape on the edge of the stage, so we're able to see where the edge is !

Showtime ! Italian fans are brilliant !

But the light show was a mess. All the spots in the back were gone and only the white lights in front of the stage were left. We were almost blinded and I could see hardly the edge of the stage and almost none of the fans. During some songs, we played in the dark !

The told us the next day, that they plugged in the lights to the wrong part of the system, so the fuse switched off ! After this show we got rid of Mr. Brilliant and is collegues and we have a new staff for the shows in Vienna and Budapest.