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München/Germany, 21. August 1999
Sunny blue sky above Munich – and the good feeling to see Jimmy in a few hours. Not too long after arriving in the city of Munich the gig in the "Heizkraftwerk".was brouht to our attention through some flyers
The
"Heizkraftwerk" is an old thermal power-station which is now a disco.
In Munich we met up with two other Jimmy-fans and with them we waited the
whole evening. The excitement built up from hour to hour. Nobody
knew the right time of the concert – the rumors were that the gig would
begin – 9pm or 11pm or even at 1.30 am. So we
decided at 20 pm (8pm) to drive to the "Kunstpark" – an area with many
clubs and discos. Of course the first trip was to the "Heizkraftwerk",
so we could finally know when the gig would really start. At the door was a
paper with computer-written letters that showed us that admission would
be at 11pm and that the concert would start at 1.30 am. The
door was open and so we went in and looked around the
disco. Except for a little stage, we saw nothing. Now we had to pass
the time for two hours which wasn´t really hard. Then it was time – it
was 11pm and we were allowed to go into this room where in less
than three hours Jimmy Somerville would be live on stage. But what
followed in the next 2 ½ hours was really cruel for our ears –
House-Music. But who likes it...
Suddenly two powerful guys went unobtrusivly in
through the main entrance and after them, with bowed head..... Jimmy.
Nobody noticed anything. Then a guy spoke to me in
English and asked where I had gotten the T-Shirt I was wearing with the
signature of Jimmy. When I found out that he was a friend of Jimmys,
I asked him if it would be possible to do some photos with Jimmy. He
went backstage and some seconds later Carol, Jimmy´s manager, came out
and asked me who I am. I said that I am from the first Jimmy
Somerville fan-page she opened the door and suddenly we stood in front
of Jimmy. My knees were trembling, but it was a great feeling to see
him in person, and he was in a fantastic mood. We did a lot of photos
and talked about so many things, among other about his tour where the
rumor excisted that it wouldn´t take place. But he said immediately that
his tour will take place later because of problems with a band. We also
spoke about his appearance in Freiburg at the "Radio Rgenbogen-Party"
where most of the audience wasn´t enthusiastic about him, and this was
the reason why Jimmy´s appearance only lasted 20 minutes instead of the
planned 40 minutes. He told us, that he decided during the concert to
cancel some songs because of the bad mood. He was really depressed
about this. Then we said goodbye with only 15 minutes until the
concert. At 1.45 am he came on stage with his two background-singers
Gillian and Matthew with an acapella-version of "Mighty Real"- now music
which sounded great for our ears. The next song was "Why" and the
audience was beside themselves with joy. The enthusiasm was also
fantastic at the still unknown new songs "Lay down", "Something to live
for", "Stone" and "Someday soon". Jimmy became better from second to
second because he realized that the people were really enthusiastic
about him and his songs.
"Don´t leave me this way", of course with the well-known "Love to love
me baby"-Intro was also at this time a big event. As an encore Jimmy
sang "Never can say goodbye" – and the hall shaked. At the end it
became sad – Jimmy sang the slow and sad version of "Smalltown boy".
Under the loud applause he said goodbye to his fans – and looked very
satisfied. After this concert more than 80 % of the people left the
disco – a clear sign the the most of them were only there because of
Jimmy.
Finally: Jimmy showed clearly what a great singer he is. Jimmy is and
will be the best.
IwI
 Gillian, Jimmy und Matthew seconds before their appearance and seconds after their warm-up |
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 IwI, Jimmy und Carsten ( IwI: "Who never stood beside Jimmy, can´t know how small he is - or how tall I am" ) |
Special thanks to Kerstin and Terry for the translations