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Sportpaleis - Belgium: 4 December 2004
Vlaardingen - Antwerp - Vlaardingen 220km.
On inventation from Mungo Jerry management (thanks Peter) we
drove to Antwerp / Belgium for the "Golden Years
Festival" arrived in Antwerp around eight, I call Ray
for our appointment but it was not aloud to go backstage and Ray
didn't get the change to come to us because he needs to warm up
for the gig. First band on stage are "The Fortunes"
with there hits. Second "The Middle Of The Road"
better as we've seen before, (don't forget Sally Carr is 59 and
still sexy) the stage is making up for Mungo Jerry, the full
UK-band except Micky Frampton. The show was great, The public
(The Sportpaleis was full packed) was full enthousiame
when the band started the first tunes and get out of there body
by "In The Summertime" very very great performance
from Ray and the band, wonderful !!. As usual for this kind of
festivals the security was bit overtight, no change to get near
the stage for making photo's, camera's were not aloud but nobody
notist my camera. So all photo's are taken from the tribune
from, lets say, 80 meters from the stage, lucky me I have 300mm
zoom-telemeter, not easy in the dark without flash ( I didn't
dare) as you can see the photo's are not all perfect but always
better as nothing. Treid again to get near the stage but the
security hold me and again they didn't notist my camera hidden
under my coat. Next on stage "Slade" with a great
show, as far I know all original bandmembers are still in the
band. The rest of the bands were not interested for us ( The
Troggs / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and Alvin
Stardust) Time to go out of the venue to try again to get in
contact with Ray, I call Ray but his phone was out, he called me
back later and explain there was no change to get into the
dressingroom and he was waiting for an interview so he didn't
get the time to see us. No problem at all, we had some drinks
and food and drove home 'round midnight.
Again a great show from Mungo Jerry, thanks to
all.
Rob & Nienke
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