from=November 20th, 1997
Exclusive review by Helen Marijnissen
The day of my life!
It all started around two o'clock in the afternoon at the Melkweg in Amsterdam. The tourbus was there, but nobody in sight of the Corrs... I asked one of the crew members where they were and he told me that they were supposed to be in one of the hotels in the area. Knowing in which hotel they would be staying then (as all the artists are staying there) we went to the hotel. My friend didn't dare to go inside so there I went all alone. And there she was, Sharon sitting on a couch waiting for her brother and sisters. She looked at me with a face "Hè, I know you" and said "Hi" to me after I said hello to her. She wanted to know where she knew me from and I told her some events that would definitly clear up her memory. I went out very quickly to get my friend and we went down to Sharon to talk with her. They had just arrived and she was waiting for the others to go into town for some shopping. We asked her if she could sign a few things for us and I gave her Tristan's letter from Australia. After signing all our stuff she opened the letter and started reading (yes, Tristan, I did succeed!). A little later Andrea showed up and signed our stuff. She wasn't in a very good mood, but made up for that later that evening. Jim also hurried to and signed everything in a huge hurry to go outsite to shop. The last to arrive was Carolyn and Sharon told her to sign everything too. Then they decided to leave us. I chatted with Sharon for a while and I found out a few things:
1. The rumour that is going around on the NET that Sharon is singing "So young" is not true. I never believed it that she was singing it, but now everybody knows for sure :)
2. The reason the album hasn't been brought out yet in the US is becuase they can't be here and there at the same time for promotion, so they decided to wait with the album release in the US. As that part of the day is over I'll move over to the rest of the evening... First the tracklist for everybody who is wondering what they will be singing.
Intro
When he's not around
Love to love you
Love in the Milky way (a new song)(coincidence with the name hall they were playing which
is also called Milkyway when translated)
Forgiven, not forgotten
joy of life - in the bath
intimacy
what can I do
Hopelessly Addicted
Right time
queen of hollywood
haste to the wedding
runaway
dreams (a fleetwood mac song. They really love that song and decided to cover it)
only when I sleep
no good for me
I never loved you anyway
so young
toss the feathers
(extra encore)
joy of life
The audience was unbelieveble. Especially during the songs like runaway, love to love you, forgiven everybody was singing along and they were amazed with it. And then there were the instrumentals. They really made everybody start dancing and got a standing ovation for them. Then my best moment of the evening occured. After toss the feathers I Andrea gave me her tin wistle! I just couldn't believe it, and she made me very, very happy with it. The crowd went wild and they just couldn't leave without giving an extra song. So they all came back for one more song, but the ANdrea has one little problem. She couldn't play it on the other tin whistle so she exchanged tin whistles with me :) Then after the song was over she gave the first one also back to me, so there I was standing with TWO tin whistles in my hand from Andrea, so my friend has the other one now and she is very happy with it too. So then the story is over you would say! A great concert, time go home. WE had only one little problem. We bought them a huge bag on candy and forget it to give it to them all the time. So we decided to wait for them to come out again so we could finally give it to them. 1 hour waiting turned out in 3 hours of waiting in the freezing cold 'cause they had some planning to do with the Dutch record company (they probably will soon be back for some more promotion as this concert was such a huge succes!). They were very, very surprised to see we were still there and Carolyn loved the bag of candy I gave her, she was looking forward to eating it all in the bus. I asked for their oppinion on that evening's show and they loved it. They couldn't believe that the audience loved it that much. Andrea just couldn't believe that we knew every song by heart... We then said goodbye to them... ANd yes, now this story has finally come to an end :)) I hope you all liked it and that you will enjoy the concerts as much as I did!
Helen
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