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What a night

Brugge was good, but the Brussels gig was faaaantastiic! Much louder sound than in Brugge, you know it's been a good gig when you leave the venue with ringing in your ears .

The band really was in top form and Oakey was even more chatty than usual. After thanking the support band he mentioned their debut album and said "well done to them, making new songs isn't easy" and added with a big grin "I'm jealous"! He also complemented the venue and said "It's very vertical isn't it. Like Thunderdome in Mad Max, Tina Turner will be arriving soon." Best bit of the night was when he announced from the stage that they had some friends here tonight in Stig, Niels and Frank THAT made my day, there was really no need for him to mention me, but he did. What a top guy ! I can now die a happy man

During ESH Stig and I had a "moment" with Beevers with his "at least" singing bit. As I had pointed out to him after the soundcheck, he did have a very nice girlie voice when singing that line and he found us out in the audience and pointed at us when singing it. Precious

Sutton's synth had a fall out during TSOFC where he plays the lead, it just produced some sort of wobbly noises, but he took it as a laugh, holding up his hand to cover his face in embarresment and then run up to Beevers to kick the synth rack to get it to work. Funny!

Met the whole band afterwards, thanks to Stig and Simon and had a blast. It's not every day you get offered to drink a beer with The Human League And they were all in high spirits and we had a very entertaining time with them all. I asked Joanne if they had a nice tourbus for the euro shows and she said no, we only have mini-vans, which are cold and smelly. I asked if they were smelly before the band entered and she laughed and said, well they just made them even more smelly But what a way to celebrate X-mas, wishing Oakey, Susan, Joanne (with a cheek kiss - yum!) a merry x-mas and happy new year face to face as they left the venue

We still hung around with Simon Watson, who is just a mad man (in a good way!), Mr B and some of the crew, raiding the fridge and their supplies of candy bars (we ignored the fruit). When we finally left and roamed the streets of Brussels, I was torn if I wanted to eat my "Human league Mars Bar", but my stomach won the battle (as ususal) against my heart!

In case anyone besides me is interested, they had same set list for Brugge and Brussels:

Love Action (I Believe)
Open Your Heart
Mirror Man
Louise
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Heart Like A Wheel
Empire State Human
Seconds
The Lebanon
One Man In My Heart
Human
All I Ever Wanted
The Sound Of The Crowd
Fascination
Tell Me When
Don't You Want Me

Being Boiled
Together In Electric Dreams

Good times indeed, well worth the gruelling 1.700 km I had to spend in a car with Stig "Schumacher" Olsen plus the pleasent company of Michael and Ren. Stig took something like a 1.000 pictures, so I'm sure he will be able to to come up with more details at a later point.