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Wertheim, Germany - 13 May 2006

Event: Baden-Württemberg-Tag
Location: Showbühne an der Main-Tauber-Halle
Bands: SWR1 All Stars, SAILOR, Hot Chocolate
Beginning: 6.30 pm

Photos by: Katrin Wagner

The audience during "The Old Nickelodeon Sound"

Henry, Peter and Phil during "La Cumbia"

Henry, Peter and Phil during "La Cumbia"

The Full Monty...

The Full Monty...

The Full Monty...

The Full Monty...

The end of the show...

The songs that SAILOR played in Wertheim:

A Glass Of Champagne
One Drink Too Many
The Old Nickelodeon Sound
Vera From Veracruz
Give Me Shakespeare
Karma Chameleon
The Secretary
La Cumbia

encores:
Grant's Moment – drum solo
The Full Monty
Girls Girls Girls
A Glass Of Champagne

Soapland...?! - A concert review by Katrin Wagner:

Concert number 74 starts early Saturday afternoon in quite a hurry. My friend Christel joins me after work and a 2 1/2 hour drive from her hometown Duisburg, and at about 3 pm we leave to Wertheim. There is a big festival called "Baden-Württemberg-Tag" today, with lots of different events and shows and stages in the whole town. SAILOR are going to play at the "SWR1 Partynacht", a similar event as their show in Bad Ems last June.
We arrive at our hotel in the little village next to Wertheim (as SAILOR's hotel is booked up) at about 5.45 pm and quickly get ready for the show that is to start at 6.30 pm. SAILOR are not at their hotel but at the stage at the moment (special thanks to my informant! ;-)), so that we decide to get there too now and search for their hotel later.
The first band is already performing as we reach the stage. At the same time a big rain shower reaches the town too, so that most people rather stay a bit at the back and wait for the sun to return while they enjoy the show. We discover Peter backstage and decide to say hi. He talks to us for a while and tells us about his long journey to this weekend's shows - despite the rain. We've had no idea that there has been another concert in Vienna yesterday, but it has been a concert for a private company.
SAILOR's show is exactly on time - from 7.45 to 8.30 pm. They play their typical short but marvellous set with their greatest hits that the audience enjoys very much, even despite the next big rain showers during the show. Everyone in front of the stage is soaked to the skin, but nobody really cares... especially not us, although I'm slightly worried about my camera getting wet. The show also features the latest Nickelodeon-version again. And the mandolin is back at last!
After a great and funny and wet SAILOR show Christel and I leave the place again and start the search for SAILOR's hotel. We find it quite quickly and also find out why it has been booked up: Wertheim is quite a small town and this festival is quite big, so that all hotels (and there are just a few small ones) are full. SAILOR's hotel (well... "hotel") has only got a few rooms.
As the boys arrive a little later they tell us that there has been trouble with the rooms earlier, so that Grant has decided to stay with his son Edmund instead. He lives quite near and has come to see the show anyway. So we say goodbye to Grant and sit down at the bar with Peter, Henry, Phil, roadie Mark and driver Thomas. The beginning of a funny evening that ends with Phil having to pay for several drinks that nobody's ever had at this weird place...
Next morning Christel and I check out at our little hotel and drive back to the three remaining SAILORs, as they will only leave at midday. So we sit down with them at their "hotel" again and talk. They tell us some more interesting hotel-stories... Nobody except for Peter has had any soap in the rooms. Peter insists that this is because he's the lead singer... ;-) Instead, Phil has a wasp nest in his room! Fortunately, as he explains, the wasps seem as tired as him, but they wake up when he dozily pulls back the curtain and the whole thing falls onto his bed!
Phil plays us his two new masterpieces from the new albums of singers Peter Grant and Duncan James (formerly with Blue). He has produced the song "Windmills Of Your Mind' on the album of Peter Grant that has recently entered the UK charts at number 8, and he has written a wonderful song called "Turn My Head" that will be released on Duncan James' debut album soon. Great stuff!!
In the end we are first asked to sit down in another small room while the SAILORs wait for their ride to the airport, as the "hotel" expects quite a few guests and the "lovely" service people insist that they need every chair and table. A little later, when Peter, Henry, Phil and Mark want to order some last drinks before their departure, they don't even get anything any more, and we are all asked to leave and make room for the lunch guests. What a lovely place... not!?
If anybody wants the name or link to the hotel's website to avoid having to stay there... I'll be happy to pass it on as a warning...
Katrin Wagner, 19 May 2006

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