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Roadie Mark fights with the Nickelodeon

...and the accordion ;-)

Red Dessert in Munich - A concert review by Karsten Wagner:

Ahoy Shipmates,
Katrin, myself and Uli from Hamburg went by train to Munich on the 14.10.2006 to see SAILOR with their new Singer: Oliver Marsh! Yes, it's Henry's son!
Arrived in Munich's railway station, we jumped into a taxi and arrived 20 minutes later at the hotel, where the bands stayed too.
Very soon, we met all SAILOR-Boys and the went to the big shopping-mall, where the concert happened. Over there, surprise, surprise, we found 2 stages and on the first floor the SAILOR's again, building the stage set for the soundcheck. All around hundreds of people, cause at this time, all the shops where still open, strange situation.
Later that evening we went to the gig with our friend Susanne, she arrived in the meantime. We arrived in front of the stage, first row, so we where able to take pics and do video-taping the show. We met many other SAILOR-fans and friends there, which was great!
The Equals where first that night on this stage, The Spencer Davis Group followed on stage 2 "downunder", after them, SAILOR  came on "our" stage, with some news: Henry with a new red suit plus red hat, Phil with a new jacket (see photos), for the very first time: Ollie Marsh (see pics for his outfit too), playing Pete's "marvellous blue guitar", and a - in the meantime - "flightcaselodeon" aka Nickelodeon with no more lights, no bell (stolen!?), nearly all broken.
BUT: It was a great gig, they really played so well together, that all the people there went nuts. Ollie was GREAT! He sung so well and played the guitar really good, so after the gig, many People came to us, telling that he is a great new singer and guitarrist for SAILOR. We agree totally! The SAILOR-Boys had not much time before this gig to rehearse, so there where two non-SAILOR-songs on the setlist: "Wooly Bully", originally from Sam The Sham And The Pharaoes" and "Sailing" from Rod Stewart.
What a night, great show, and later in hotel, we all raised a glass of champagne together for Ollie, cause he did so well!!!
Welcome aboard, Ollie!
Greetz: Cap K ~        

A concert review by Rolf Breitling:

On Saturday, 14th October, it's time for SAILOR again. They are playing a concert in reachable distance and this one is very special indeed! First gig with Henry's son Oliver as the lead singer.
SoI am very excited about what might be expecting us. We have dinner in a lovely pizzeria and watch the SAILORs having a relaxed lunch at their hotel from there, and we can also have a first look at Katrin and Karsten.
SAILOR are announced for 9 pm, but their performance is delayed to 11.30 pm so that we also have to watch The Equals. While the Spencer Davis Group plays on the other stage we meet the other fans including Katrin and her brother in front of the stage, where we anxiously wait for the SAILOR boys.
Finally it's time for them, and the band has made a very fortunate chouce with Oliver Marsh. He sings in a very confident way, SAILOR have got the needed fresh blood after the return of Henry and the introduction of Ollie. Because we are right in front of the stage, the joy of playing of the boys catches us too. They don't just play their set, but the 4 of them really have a lot of fun. There are even some new songs, very emotional "Sailing", wonderfully sung by Ollie.
After 80 minutes the concert is unfortunately over again - but SAILOR have been so good that I have bought my tickets for February 2007 for the special SAILOR headline concert in Munich on the next day.
Rolf

A concert review by Uli Neumann:

From the North of Germany to the South and back, just to see SAILOR.
It was just five weeks ago, that we said condingly goodbye to SAILOR Captain Peter in Parchim, now the first performance with Oliver Marsh was up to take place. After ten years a new face. Then it was a little shock to see a young man with sideburns and an electric guitar instead Georg Kajanus performing on the NDR-Oldie Parade. The internet was less common, Katrin's Marinero website was not even planned.
This time, we knew, that there will be a change in the line-up. We, who know SAILOR and Phil's talent to find excellent musicians, left no doubt that Oliver would be a good singer. Some "fans" were doubtful, believed that Oliver might be too young. I don't consider such statement to be fair, everyone needs to be given a chance. For me it was clear not to miss this historical performance.
The Oldie Night should start at 9 pm, as per the programm SAILOR should play first, but we've had enough experiences with this kind of planning that we didn't bargain the info to be correct.
We purchased the tickets online. I didn't get a reservation for the train to Munich in the non-smokers coach for the whole trip, but only to Kassel. I accounted a room in the same hotel like SAILOR, preordered the concert ticket on the Internet.
The alarm of my radio alarm clock woke me up at a quarter past five in the day the concert should be. I had a fast breakfast, went to the suburban railway station by car, took the train to Hamburg-Altona and changed to the ICE superfast-train. The train left the station in time and we reached Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe with a delay of about five minutes. In Hannover the train coming from Hamburg was coupled with another train to a common train. The coach in which the Wagners had their seats was in the other part of the train, so I had to change the train-parts in Kassel to join the Wagners for the rest of the travel to Munich. Since Fulda some passengers didn't take their reserved seats, so I could sit down there for a while. I gave some of the Parchim CD I manufactured to the Wagners. Almost the rest of the three-hours-travel I had to stand or to sit on the floor. From Augsburg to Munich I could sit again.
Normally I wanted to travel by tube to the hotel, but the Wagner prefered to take a taxi so I joined them.
Arrived at the hotel we checked in and went to out rooms on the 4th floor. Because I had difficulties in turning on the light in my room, I returned to the reception desk. I left the elevator an saw SAILOR and welcomed them with an "Ahoy" and was heartly welcomed by them. I returned to my room rapidely to fetch their copies of the parchim CD.
We went to the venue in our "stage dress". The venue was a shopping mall open to 8pm. My completely black outfit in "Georg Kajanus style" with a little live-buoy at the revers seemed to be enough to get the attention. The tickets were sold at the center management. The musicians dressing-rooms should be there later, too. The center manager asked me for a special-task, a large mirror and a warderobe had to be brought to SAILOR's dressing room.
In the afternoon the soundcheck took place, the stage was places on the upper floor In the meantime Thomas had told me that SAILOR would not use the unloved "Fakelodeon" but the blue flighcase-Nickelodeon. This is not in the very best condition, the illumination ist broken, cable and lamps hang losely. The good old "Steinway" Nickelodeon placed at the Wagners in Kassel will not be in a worse condition. Maybe we should fix a new lighchain (it doesn't cost very much in germany) and bring it to Munich in february for the next SAILOR concert with a special transport. The fakelodeon would not have been appropriate for the stage in munich with the audiance at three stage sides, anyone could have seen the fake, that would have been embarrassing. I wonder where the beautiful blue Nickelodeon is SAILOR used in the beginning of the '90s of the last century for their comeback performances. It would be perfect to place the keyboards and the sequenzer on it. It could be pimped wiht a light chain and would look beautiful and authenctic. Supposable it is slab-built not needing much room.
During the soundcheck the sound was awful, SAILOR was really disappointed by this. In the meantime Susanne met us, I went downstairs with her to visit a well-known restaurant in the ground floor of the mall. The soundcheck was audiable in the whole building so we could listen to the songs without a problem.
After a flying-visite at the stage till the end of the sound check, I went with Susanne to her brand-new SUV parked in the underground car park to get her luggage to her room. Susanne just had an option for a room because she supposed SAILOR to play as the first band. If it would have been like that, the would have travelled home the same evening.
Now it was about time to retire to our rooms to relax a little. On the radio they broadcasted a hint about the concert, played "Girls Girls Girls" followed by "La Bamba", of course not the SAILOR-Version. Caused by the "Latino Medley" I'm already used to hear this and other songs together with SAILOR songs.
After having slept a little, the alarm-function of my little world receiver I activated in precaution woke me up in time to have a shower before arriving in Katrin's room together with Susanne to have a glass of champagne Susanne brought to Munich. So we were already in a good mood when we went to the venue. There was already a big crown waiting for entry. Nice to have the tickets, so we didn't to wait twice.
The Equals was the first band to play and the did quite well so we ejoyed there performance. The secound band to perform was "The Spencer Davis Group" who played in the ground floor of the mall. In the meantime I went in the basement for a short time, on my way back I was asked by a woman, if I belong to SAILOR! Karsten ist already used to these encounters.
We kept our places direct in front of the stage, more fans and other people came to the stage long before SAILOR's performance to get a good place. Obviously we were not the only people who came esentially to watch and hear SAILOR.
The sound of breaking waves was audible, lasted for a minute and enhanced the expetation and then they appeared on stage: Phil alway as neat as a pin, Grant completely dressed in black (he sat in front of a completely black background), Henry in his new outfit completely in red, frock, trousers, shoes and hat. And there he was, in the afternoon he was more dressed like a hip hop star, Oliver Marsh in a white shirt an pirate trousers completed with boots. The obligatory intro music was played, Olvier grabbed Peter's blue elektric guitar, his dad pounded the first accords of "A Glass Of Champagne" to the Nickelodeon's keyboard, Oliver played the first accords on the guitar as the new live-singer with SAILOR and startet to sing - just marvellous!
SAILOR performed almost all of there hits and as a big surprise "Harbour", only true fans know this song. I love it when SAILOR play these old tunes. It's not nessecary for them to perform other artists material. This time they performed Rod Stewart's "Sailing" and the twist-classic "Wooly Bully". In mind that they had only a five-week-period to rehearse all songs with Oliver, this is no mean feat and we get over it, that they played this two not-SAILOR tunes. I guess in February we will enjoy a pure SAILOR show.
The mood was simply marvellous, the Munich audience has to be given a huge compliment. Some poeple argue that SAILOR is noch more mass-compatible, 11.000 poeple in Parchim and 2.000 poeple in music show that they are up-to-date.
Of course the concert was much to short, the concept of this event was without encores. After the show SAILOR sold CDs and signed many autographs. No one, who wanted to get an autograph was rejected. Many other stars only sign few or no autographs.
We went back to the hotel an to the hotel bar which had opened for longer than usual. But soon they had to close and we sat down in the foyer for a little after show party. It was almost 3 am as I retired, the alarm was ajusted to wake me up again just another three and a half hour later.
I took the expensive breakfast (16€) in the hotel's restaurant, Thomas was already there, Grant and Henry followed later. At about a quarter to ninr it was time to say goodbye to travel to munich central station by underground to catch my ICE to Hamburg.
Arrived at home, I mailed all photos I took to Katrin, some of the can be found on the website now (see above).
Oliver had a marvellous debut with SAILOR, it was a good descision to travel to Munich to support his first performance and make it easy to SAILOR to begin a new era.
Welcome a board Captain Ollie!
Uli

A concert review by Susanne S.:

After 22 months of "SAILOR-concert-abstinence" I took the advantage and went to the gig in the harbour (sorry, shopping center) of Munich.
By reading the comments before you already know who else was there and a lot of things which happened before and after the concert. But you might be interested to know what I think about the gig. Anyway, I am going to tell you.
To start with: It was nice to meet K&K again and fans I hadn`t met before.
The evening was for SAILOR a great success. In my opinion they could not have done any better. The audience was taken whether they want or not to a journey they won`t forget for a long time. The music and the performance were excellent and electrifying.
I don`t dare to say that it is because 50% of the SAILOR-members have been exchanged since I saw the last concerts. No way that would not be fair to Rob and Peter. Though Henry and Ollie replace them well Rob and Peter also fitted into the band well and did great jobs.
Maybe it was the need of changes and reorganisation in the group and the situation to find (a) new member(s) who fitted in very quickly which raised new energy.
Ollie was convincing. Think, he only had 4 weeks for rehearsals! Image how strong he will be when he has more routine. Don`t get me wrong there was no situation anybody would have thought that it was his first night with SAILOR. But that makes one even more expectantly…
Susanne