This must be a sort of a record!

Do we win something?


C

you're probably get a kick in the teeth email from RS.COM offering you some
"once in a lifetime special discount deal",
on a European tour soccer t-shirt.

it's a malediction, i'm too sad...
just hope they don't cancelled the show like 98, but only postponed


Rolling Stones Italia
[www.rollingstonesitalia.com]

Back in 98 as soon as I heard that the show in Milan was definitely cancelled I did lift up the phone and bought tickets for the Wembley No Security shows in june '99.
Guess never in my life, even my wedding, has been as planned in advance as those '99 shows in London.

Still, I'm curious: is there any other place in the world that can claim so many cancelled / posponed shows?

C

just be grateful they even planned to play Milan

Birmingham, the UK's second city hasn't had a gig since 1973

the bastards!

andy js, remember some lyrics , Mick sings "I´m not going to Birmingham...", was it "Flip The Switch", right?

Sadly, I was on the receiving end of all the postponements/cancellations. The 1998 show was to be my first; I was already halfway to Milano when I got the news about Mick's throat. Oh well, if I get to see as many shows this summer as I did in 1998 I'll be happy nonetheless.

Hello Italy!

I can really feel your disapointment. I was going to see Stones in your beautiful city. I didn´t know about your earlier cancellations, what a shame!

Still coming to Milano, other issues, like good food and wine in my mind..

Wesley

a little specification:
"2nd cancelled show in 8 years"

cause in 1998 the May 31 concert in san siro was posponed to June 10, and then the 10 morning cancelled with the stage ready in the stadium (everytime I think about it I cry)

Rolling Stones Italia
[www.rollingstonesitalia.com]

Man, I do remember well the june 10th cancellation.
I was at my desk talking to my colleagues about the show that evening and at around 11am a friend of mine calls and says it's cancelled, it was the only show I planned to see for that tour and I felt as if the world was falling on me.

Maybe they could move the show to Rome ...

wesley Wrote:
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> Hello Italy!
>
> I can really feel your disapointment. I was going
> to see Stones in your beautiful city.

Not sure where you heard that Milano is a "beautiful city."

Raoul Duke Wrote:
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> wesley Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hello Italy!
> >
> > I can really feel your disapointment. I was
> going
> > to see Stones in your beautiful city.
>
> Not sure where you heard that Milano is a
> "beautiful city."

Well, it ain't THAT ugly!

C

...they've cancelled Liverpool every year since 1971.

I´ve already seen Venice, Verona, Padova and Rimini: surely M is something like these?

W

liddas Wrote:
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> Well, it ain't THAT ugly!

To Italy, Milano is what Wichita is to Kansas - its arm pit.

wesley Wrote:
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> I´ve already seen Venice, Verona, Padova and
> Rimini: surely M is something like these?
>
> W

Not in this dimension.
Those are beautiful cities, Milano is not ugly but it sure ain't beautiful.
Of course there are very nice palazzos and you can feel the glamour everywhere.

To tell you the truth, Stones concert was the main reason to fly to Milano. After staying 3 days there we are flying to Dublin.

This was a compromise plan: I am Stones Fan and my wife is a fan of Ireland. We`re staying 1,5 weeks in Ireland and after that coming back to Finland (a promised land of monster rock)

So, keep on rockin.. (in this tour there are no RS gigs in Finland..)

W

Wesley, you from Finland? Moi moi.

Do you know this guy?



I am the one on the left.

Where have you met Andy McCoy?

Hanoi Rocks was a very good RR band!

i met Andy McCoy when he was playing with Iggy

he was off his head in the middle of the afternoon, god bless him

Hanoi had some genius moments though

I´ve seen Andy playing Wild Horses with a Finnish rock/blues man. It was really good stuff.

Maybe I´ll see some rock clubs in Milano, surely there some? Blues and jazz are not bad either..

W

wesley Wrote:
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> Where have you met Andy McCoy?
>
> Hanoi Rocks was a very good RR band!

I did interview him for Rolling Stone magazine two years ago in Helsinki.
We spent the craziest 12 hours of my life with him.
The photo is taken at Tavastia club.

So, I´m looking for clubs like Tavastia in Helsinki, hope to find such places in Milano..

..And in Dublin, Kilkenny etc.

W

dunhill Wrote:
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> Guess never in my life, even my wedding, has been
> as planned in advance as those '99 shows in
> London.

Those Wembley shows were great, great, great. Do you remember when the whole stadium at the first show sang that Tom Jones song : Delilah. Hope to meet you at Twickenham and also at the new date in Milano ( that will be my first time in this stadium ).

Actually I did attend the 2nd, but I remember lots of people in Stones regalia at Sticky Fingers that saturday night.

It was pouring rain, and fantastic.

So now we know! It's the Milano's fault.