One Wild Night! (Bon Jovi) (UK Tours 2001 in general)

Member Name: The Colonel

Product:	UK Tours 2001 in general
Date:	21/06/01 (95 review reads)
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Advantages: Atmosphere

Disadvantages: waiting around, get wet, no loo's!

Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June. What a cracking couple of days!!

My Sister and I are mad Bon Jovi fans, and decided that following the Crush tour last year, we would go again, this time to the "One wild night tour". (not that it took much persuasion!)

We were up at 4.30am to drive from Bristol to Milton Keynes and arrived there at 8.00am. We had a long wait (approx 10 hours) before the first support act "Delerious" came on. This band are excellent, and are bound to make the big time sooner or later.

The second band "Matchbox 20" came on about 45 mins later, they are also very good, and very big in America, where they originate from.

The atmosphere was unbelieveable. When the stage started to be prepared for Bon Jovi, the crowd went wild!

There was a huge video screen, which the band appeared on before they came on stage. They appeared to be in a lift, and the doors opened on stage. It was amazing when they stepped through the doorway. Gobsmacking in fact!

Jon was wearing a really awful pair of sunglasses, which he admitted he wore because he knew the crowd wouldn't like them!! (so he threw them into the mass of 85000 people!)

He had on a pair of combat trousers, a leather jacket and a cowboy hat. (girls, it was soooo worth the hassle getting there, just to see that bum in those trousers!!!)
Later on he changed into and "Oxford University" t-shirt, which was very chuffing!

They played for approx 2 3/4 hours, banging out their classic tracks, such a "Living on a prayer", "One Wild Night", "Bed of Roses","Always", "Bad Medicine", "You give love a bad name" etc. Jon's voice is wonderful live, and he does a bit of showing off too! (hmmmmm)!!!

Richie's guitar playing is also excellent live, as are David Bryan on Keyboards and Tico Torres on Drums.

Jon was extremely
witty, (but then i'm biased!) and the whole band seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves.

Fireworks went off on key lyrics, which looked fantastic.

Milton Keynes is a bit of a rubbish venue though, no seats, no loo's (Except the portible variety, which are disgusting, with no toilet paper!)

You get soaking wet if it rains and if you are stuck down by the stage, you can't get out. (My sister and I had to wait 15 hours before we could go to the loo!)

When the concert finished, it was a half an hour walk back to the car park, and just our luck, an accident had occoured, which meant we couldn't get out for 2 hours. The traffic situation is terrible, and we didn't get home till 5.00am the following morning!!

And Guess what?

We had to be up at 10.00am to drive to Cardiff Millenium stadium to do it all again the following day!!!

Having seen two concerts in a row, we expecting them to be the same, however different songs and gags were performed.

You think we're mad? obsessed? well, this Friday, we're off to the Bristol Fleece and Firkin to see "By Jovi" the tribute band!!! (also highly recommended.)

If you haven't been to a concert before, it's a great experience. If you do happen to see Bon Jovi, you'll find that their fans are a really good crowd. No trouble is caused and no crowd surfing.

Concert tip: if it's an outdoor event, take toilet roll, munchies, magazines and waterproofs, maybe even something to sit on. There's a lot of hanging around.

Oh, and don't forget your camera!!

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