Hola! Bikini was not easy to find but we eventually saw a queue outside what looked like a metal crypt and joined it. The crypt door opened upwards hydraulically and led us into what can only be described as the Starship Bonamassa, think Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with a dark passageway leading underground into the bowels of the earth. I was expecting to meet Luc Picard or Lucifer but instead a very friendly booking office chap gave me our tickets ... and we were in!
The venue holds around 600 and very soon filled up with a mostly young male audience of Spaniards so I was alright! When Joe and the boys came on the audience were very enthusiastic and gave them a rapturous welcome. It was great to be in a smaller crowd again but my feet were killing me after walking around Barcelona all day.
At Bristol Joe looked peaky but last night he looked fab and seemed to have gotten over his flu bug (for the girls - he wore a black shirt and jeans and had his hair a little shorter and slicked back) and looked FIT. From the start the audience were with him. The setlist was much the same as Bristol. I LOVE The Ballard of John Henry and can·t wait for the new album so I can play it over and over. This will become a Joe classic Im sure. Mountain Time was phenonemal, the beauty of this song gets to me every time and it? LKs fave too. The opening to Sloe Gin was a little different this time, but the whole song and the way Joe plays brings a tear to my eye every time. The set just whizzed by and I can honestly say this was one of the best gigs weve seen and well worth coming to. Joe and the band really seemed to be enjoying themselves.
And at the end, we got to hear Joe say "muchos gracias signors y signoritas"!!
PS We hung around after the gig hoping to speak to the boys but decided to leave when the pizza guy arrived!!!!
PPS Sorry no apostrophes but cant work out the Spanish keyboard