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3 hours ago, 6lake sa66ath said:

What revelations about GN’R music are you alluding to?

I just watched it, all he mentioned was that he worked on “Axl’s songs” during the pandemic.

The next album is a new Conspirators release following OotD. Nothing else GN’R related mentioned.

He only mentioned “I want a Guns record done” around 8:50 mark. For what it’s worth…

Belgium is already onsale and the ticket is €35

Bought Düsseldorf, Amsterdam and Luxembourg 

This European leg was great! I went to three shows: Graspop, Rome and Weert. Axl’s mic sound had issues at Graspop and had a comfortable VIP Deck ticket there, so watched it from a distance, knowing I would be in the GC for the two other shows. The atmosphere and location in Rome were the best, Circo Massimo in the heart of the city was so great! Sound wise, Weert was the best out of the three, at least for me.

New music is a nice to have, but I don’t let the lack of it ruin the joy of the nostalgia act and the soundtrack of my life. Plus: I’d rather have PTU, Reckless Life, Locomotive, DOTF (I always liked that TSI song so much, finally it was played!!!), Anything Goes and My Michelle than a new song. Watching Axl having a lot of fun and having a better voice was great and made it better than previous legs. I

Next time I will be there again a few times, whether or not there will be new music, I don’t care :-)

4 minutes ago, Jaap1978 said:

Jeez what a review.... I was also in the golden circle and actually had one of the best evenings in a long time. I saw them last year in Hannover after not seeing them since the 90's and was then already pleasantly suprised, but yesterday was in my opinion even much better. What I really loved was the pure energy from the whole band. Very nice uptempo, lots of enthousiasm which looked very genuine to me. Ok Axl struggles on some points, but he makes it up at so many points with his whole being, the raw power he still has in both his physical presence on stage and as well in his voice.
I finally had a place in the golden circle where I could really enjoy Slash (always my favorite gunner) and I am a professional composer and sound designer for more then 20 years with a lot of experience and speaking from a professional perspective I can only say that this is a PRO with not enough capitals to emphasize what a top musician Slash is, so the article speaking about Slash that he just plays the solo's hasty and sloppy is an insult and shows me the reviewer really lacks both knowledge and an independent view. This reviewer had as I read it already made up his mind before he attended the concert.

But I had a heck of evening and saw only enthousiams and positive folks around me and when walking back to the car I didn't hear any negative thing, the contrary, people where enthousiastic and seemed like they had a nice evening. Which it was!

Couldn’t agree more!

Reviews by the newspapers are in general not very positive, but this one is brutal: 

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/07/12/hallo-dusseldorf-begroet-de-leadzanger-van-guns-n-roses-het-publiek-in-weert-waarna-hij-ze-drie-uur-lang-kwelt-a4169605?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebook&utm_term=20230712

Me and my friends had a blast, the sound was really good, the golden circle was pretty small. They also point out that the band was late like in the past but don’t blame the organizers for the worst parking experience ever, we were stuck in the traffic jam for 2 hours (couldn’t walk due to my knee injury) and were glad that ultimately we only missed two songs. I am sure the traffic was the reason for the delay. My impression was that everyone around us had a blast as well! I am usually more a Slash fan but Axl owned the stage!  Don’t know what these journalists are talking about, but maybe they had some vinegar for breakfast…

Just now, JasmineSwe said:

The chopper just flew over 

Think (and hope) it is checking how bad the traffic is and whether there should be some more delay

1 minute ago, Dani_1455 said:

Should have started 

Hope not TBH. There are so many people stuck in the traffic in town, it is not moving. Shitshow this organisation of the parking

31 minutes ago, Lio said:

Spotted you 😁

I am still in the traffic, must be someone else 😂

Just now, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Small

Excellent! 

7 minutes ago, JasmineSwe said:

So me and @Stay.Of.Execution are inside, close up front. The venue is quite small, with some bar tents obstructing the view further back 

How big (or small) is the golden circle?

18 minutes ago, julian204 said:

An article in the local newspaper states that about 20k tickets have been sold. Quite a big contrast with the other shows on this tour, at least from what I've seen on social media 

Must be a small golden circle then, finally :-)

2 minutes ago, julian204 said:

Not a clue, but there was a full page ad in the newspaper a couple days ago promoting the show, so I feel they are pretty desperate to sell some more last minute tickets.

Of course the bad ticket sales don’t look good, but the upside may be a relatively intimate concert and hopefully a very small Golden Circle, which tend to become bigger and bigger. It was pretty big in Rome.

Waiting in the plane at Fiumicino Airport to go back to the Netherlands. What a great show, great energy and I really liked the location, the setting of Circo Massimo is great and my hotel was literally next to the field). On to the show in Weert on Tuesday, curious how many tickets have been sold by now.

Where are they handing out the GC wristbands? Do you need a paper printed ticket for that (i.e. are they marking your ticket) or is the e-ticket ok?

(just a last minute thought)

Can you bring a bottle to refill water?

Some GC tickets available again on Ticketmaster and Ticketone.

Does anyone know what time GNR is expected to go on stage? 

Is there already a time schedule available?

1 hour ago, JimiRose said:

Not sure there will be a soundcheck, doors open at 2pm, so it'd have to be a very early one if they do. Darkness are on the main stage at 345pm, smaller acts in the tents starting from 230pm. It is possible they could soundcheck this afternoon i guess? no one is playing today. 

I think the venue is open for “Open House” today, lot of activities during non-concert days, so I would guess no soundcheck today.

Last year, I walked through Hyde Park recovering after two nights of Pearl Jam, when on the Sunday morning around 11am, Duran Duran was soundchecking for that night. Was actually fun hearing “Wild Boys”.

For what it’s worth, might be a scenario for the GNR soundcheck tomorrow.

Pity I need to miss the show as my wife told me last week that she actually is in the UK this week for work, so I needed to stay home in the Netherlands for the family and sold my ticket. As good trade-off I will now be enjoying GNR in Rome (always wanted tondo a gig in an ancient setting) next week when it will be a comfortable 35 degrees haha.

33 minutes ago, Dani_1455 said:

Yes I think about It, well so let's wait for the show, they start at 19:00 local time if I remember correctly

Festival website says 9:55pm -0.55am

Snakepit 1 in Rotterdam in 1995 (opening for Bon Jovi, went specifically for Snakepit)

Slash’s Blues Ball Amsterdam 1997

Snakepit 2 Amsterdam 2000

Adler’s Appetite somewhere in NL 2004

Velvet Revolver in Cologne 2004 and Amsterdam 2008 (last show)

Gilby in a small Dutch place 2006

Loaded in Amsterdam 2009

Walking Papers twice in 2013 (Tilburg / Amsterdam)

AXL/DC in Werchter 2016

SMKC seven times (NL / Germany / Luxembourg / Sweden)

Duff’s Tenderness tour (Amsterdam / Brussels) 2019

The show in the Netherlands will be moved to a different location due to poor sales. It will now be the Bospop terrain in Weert where there will be a festival a few days before. Capacity some 25-30k

https://www.1limburg.nl/entertainment/2164822/tegenvallende-kaartverkoop-guns-n-roses-niet-in-landgraaf

37 minutes ago, Stryker said:

“Guns N' Roses will be unveiling more news and surprises soon. Get ready!”

Possibilities could be openers, new dates, new music. Any other ideas? 

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