no doubt gazza, the place to be at on this tour! I was in Lenningrad for the first time in 1980 and 83 in July and never saw nitetime, again St Petersburg in 1999 and 2001...what an historic place to see the STones
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28th July 2007 03:19 PM
PartyDoll MEG
Thanks for all your hard work, Gazza. And thank you Beast!!
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28th July 2007 03:21 PM
bootcover
AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
28th July 2007 03:22 PM
SweetVirginia
Yes, thank you Gazza & Beast.
Beast is my hero on the Euro tour.
She has been at so many shows.
28th July 2007 03:27 PM
fireontheplatter
quote:bootcover wrote:
i am just glad that mick has stopped pushing and shoving ronnie around like he used to back in the day. what a bully he was then.
thanks for the song list.
jeep?
28th July 2007 03:28 PM
LadyJane
SFTD in St Petersburg.
Goosebumps.
Did the entire show take place during daylight hours???
LJ.
28th July 2007 03:30 PM
glencar
This show is done already? Curfew or something? Anyhoo, I wish I had made it there. Never been to St. Petersburg, or Russia, for that matter.
28th July 2007 03:30 PM
Gazza
Thats all, folks
"absolutely brilliant show. Shame about the audience"
28th July 2007 03:32 PM
Gazza
quote:LadyJane wrote:
SFTD in St Petersburg.
Goosebumps.
Did the entire show take place during daylight hours???
LJ.
I think its 10.30 there now. In a city that far north, its going to be daylight until very late at this time of year. There may have been some kind of curfew too - after all, this show took place in a main square in the city centre and not a stadium.
28th July 2007 03:33 PM
Martha
Thanks for posting the set and photos. I didn't realize the show was already in the can.
xxoo,
Martha
28th July 2007 03:34 PM
fireontheplatter
quote:Martha wrote:
Thanks for posting the set and photos. I didn't realize the show was already in the can.
xxoo,
Martha
the pepsi center...denver co.
28th July 2007 04:39 PM
KeithRichards
According to bv on IORR at least 100,000 people were at the show and the crowd was great. He also said it was the best performance of this tour so far. Looking forward to more reports.
28th July 2007 05:27 PM
Gazza
there was a noise curfew which meant that the show was scheduled to start at 21.15 local time (it appears st petersburg is 3 hours ahead of UK time, not two as I thought), so the Stones played from around 21.30 for almost two hours.
28th July 2007 05:34 PM
Gazza
quote:KeithRichards wrote:
According to bv on IORR at least 100,000 people were at the show and the crowd was great. He also said it was the best performance of this tour so far. Looking forward to more reports.
Bjornulf's review :
This was the best show of the summer for sure. And it was the best performance of the tour. And the largest crowd at least 100,000 of which half were for free and many paid 1,000 Rubel which is 30 Euro i.e. 40 us dollars. Cheap cheap cheap. The crowd was great. The "sitting down" bit I read about above must be a local thing. They were absolutely into the show. And the "venue" was absolute beautiful. Unique buildings surrounding a large place/square in historic beautiful St Petersburg. Keith did his best opening parts on Rough Justice, it reminded me of his previous highlight in Russia, see my report about Flip The Switch in Moscow 1998: [iorr.org]
Indeed it was a great great show and a great great crowd. Mick, Keith and Ronnie were running around on the B-stage like maniacs. They wanted this to be a great show. Keith was 100% sharp and concentrated all through the show. The security style was changed 180 degrees vs. the previous show in Russia 1998, when they had 1200 uniformed police all over. Now there were suit and tie style security, firm but nice. Nothing on sale anywhere except for special t-shirts. Total of 10 - ten - toilets for the entire crowd. But it was a great show.
It is now half an hour past midnight here in St Petersburg and I need a beer or two. Then I will write a detailed report with some great photos here soon after. I made some fantastic photos because it never went dark, twilight during the encore.
28th July 2007 06:05 PM
Gaby
Good to hear it was a great show, and good to see they changed the setlist just a little bit (they got "Little T & A", how lucky... I'm in love with that song).
28th July 2007 08:28 PM
GotToRollMe
Some photos by Dmitry Lovetsky for AP:
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28th July 2007 08:31 PM
Gazza
What an amazing setting. That pic of the traffic going down the street as normal whilst Mick is on the screen in the background is a bit surreal...
28th July 2007 08:34 PM
PartyDoll MEG
quote:Gazza wrote:
What an amazing setting. That pic of the traffic going down the street as normal whilst Mick is on the screen in the background is a bit surreal...
Yes ..it is really strange to see cars passing by that monstrosity of a stage!!
28th July 2007 09:21 PM
LadyJane
This one:
yeah....
surreal is a good description!
outdoor lighting should make for more great photos!
LJ.
28th July 2007 10:27 PM
jaggergurl
Wow!! what a beautiful place to see a Stones show... and SFTD, amazing, it must have been amazing!!!
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