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Egmond aan Zee, Holland - 20 November 2004

Golden Classics 30th anniversary Holland tour
with SAILOR and The Rubettes
featuring Alan Williams
20 November - 02 December 2004

Location: Hotel Zuiderduin
Admittance: 8.30 pm
Beginning: 9 pm
Bands:
ZZ And The Maskers, The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams, SAILOR

Photos by: Karsten Wagner, Katrin Wagner
Video by: Karsten Wagner

Click here to see some photos of
The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams...


Video:

  • Here's a video-clip of SAILOR live in Egmond aan Zee, Holland, on 20 November 2004... Check out Peter, Phil, Rob and Grant playing "Blame It On The Soft Spot":
    filmed by Karsten Wagner © www.sailor-music.com


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Peter...

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enjoys the show...

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Rob and Phil at the Nickelodeon

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Peter

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Grant

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Peter during "Vera From Veracruz"

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Rob

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Peter

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Phil

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Grant and Peter during "The Old Nickelodeon Sound"

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Rob

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The audience during "The Old Nickelodeon Sound" ;-)

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Rob and Phil during "The Old Nickelodeon Sound"

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SAILOR fan Andreas won SAILOR's original Charango at last year's auction...
and brought it to the show to play it during "Vera From Veracruz" in the audience...

photo © by Karsten Wagner
...so Phil fetched him on stage to show the instrument once again!

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Rob and the "Josephines"...
"And her feather fan drops down from her thighs to the floor..."

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Peter

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The Full Monty...

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Peter

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Phil

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Grant

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Rob

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The Full Monty...


The songs that SAILOR played in Egmond aan Zee:

A Glass Of Champagne
Blame It On The Soft Spot
Sailor
Josephine Baker
Vera From Veracruz
The Old Nickelodeon Sound
Traffic Jam
Karma Chameleon
Give Me Shakespeare
La Cumbia
Girls Girls Girls
Latino Medley
Champagne Reprise

encores:
"Grant's moment" - drum solo
The "Full Monty"


photo © by Karsten Wagner
The first day of the tour is over, and Grant is already tired... just like the good old Charango ;-)

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Katrin and Phil


Egmond 2004 FANMIXA concert review by Linda Welch:

Well, it’s Egmond again, but this time it’s Fall
Icily cold but alive.
I’m freezing to death in a cold hotel room
Just waiting for night to arrive…

My alarm clock going off at 5 in the morning can only mean one of two things – either I’m having to work at our head office in London or I’m catching a plane to see SAILOR…
Saturday 20 November was SAILOR’s first gig of their Holland tour, and I had to be there, so I didn’t mind the early start. The journey went very smoothly. I flew from my home town of Southampton instead of having to drive up to Heathrow, but as it’s a small airport, it was a very small plane. From Schiphol airport I took a train into Amsterdam Central and changed trains to Amersfoort. The hotel was a short taxi ride from the station and I checked in just after midday. I had a lovely big room, the only trouble was it was freezing cold, so I got into bed to keep warm and dozed off... The telephone woke me up around 2.30 – Katrin had arrived with Karsten, Christel and Andy, so I went to their room to say hello and catch up on what had happened since we’d last met in the summer, when Christel and Katrin had come to stay for the Marvellous Festival in Reading.
Timing worked out perfectly and we were able to listen to SAILOR’s interview on Dutch Radio 2 before all five of us piled into Katrin’s car for the drive up to Egmond. Some of the signposts on the motorway were a bit confusing, and we discovered that there were actually three towns called Egmond (!) but we got there in plenty of time (or so we thought!) We decided to have something to eat but although we gave our order at about 7 o’clock, the food didn’t come until nearly 8, so Katrin and I ate at top-speed and went to the concert hall to find the promoter, who had Katrin’s tickets. We went in early, and had a chance to chat with ‘our boys’ before the show, who seemed pleased that we’d all travelled to see them for this first concert of the tour.
Unlike last year’s show in Egmond, when I really didn’t enjoy the bands that were on before SAILOR (I shall never forget the Gibson Brothers making their 2 hits last for 45 minutes!) I liked both the other bands that were on. First up were ZZ and The Maskers. I’d never heard of them, but they played Shadows-style music, which I’ve always liked. After them were The Rubettes, and we made sure we were right in the front so we were in the right place for when SAILOR came on stage. I was a teenager when The Rubettes were big in England, and I remembered all the words to almost every song they did (we’d listened to some of their songs on the way in the car, which had also helped!) I even managed to sing their trademark high notes when the micro-phone ended up in front of me! Katrin pointed out that Phil had come out to watch part of the Rubettes set, and I couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty that I was enjoying myself so much – almost as if I was being unfaithful to SAILOR (how daft is that?)
At last SAILOR came on stage to a tremendous welcome. I was aware of lots of people singing along around me and it was obvious that a great many people there were loyal fans. Five of us whipped out our maracas at appropriate songs and shook along – Andy went one better and produced the original Charango and was invited up on stage to show it off. Katrin and I had another ‘accessory’, which we’d planned during our Sunday afternoons in the SAILOR-Chat and as Rob started the second verse of "Josephine Baker" we took out our feather fans and fluttered them in front of our faces. One day we’ll surprise them with something so much that they’ll forget the words, but Rob stayed on track despite bits of black feather floating around (Katrin’s fan was moulting!). "Traffic Jam" is always a huge hit with the audience in Holland - but everything SAILOR did was a huge hit with the audience that night. It all whizzed by so fast, and the boys disappeared for a quick costume change in time for the Full Monty (which was nearly spoiled by the DJ, who thought they’d really gone for good and came back out on stage!) There was one slight snag – and it seems to happen every time – and that’s the tape during the Full Monty. It always jams in the same place so the boys never get to finish their routine. Shame! You’d think Naylorman would have fixed it by now, wouldn’t you? ;-)
After a quick chat with SAILOR after the show, we decided to head back to the hotel, but Karsten had been ‘identified’ by a couple of Dutch women who were convinced he was the Red Indian (or should I say Native American?) from the Village People. Nothing he could do convinced them that he wasn’t and they tried to make him sing YMCA. In the end, he gave in and started signing autographs... I’ll leave it to his discretion as to whether he tells you exactly what he signed!
After another very short night’s sleep, we met up for breakfast, joined by some sleepy SAILORs, before packing our cases again and checking out. We didn’t have to leave for a couple of hours and one by one the boys (including Graham) came out to talk to us in reception before it was finally time for Katrin, Karsten, Christel and Andy to drive back to Germany, and for me to get a taxi to the station. It had been a very tiring 36 hours for me and I didn’t know how SAILOR could possibly do it all again that same evening, and the next, and the next, and the next...
Thanks for a wonderful show, guys, and for spending time with us. I’m looking forward to the UK tour next year and Katrin and I will have to get our thinking caps on and plan some more little surprises…
Linda Welch ©


A concert review by Katrin Wagner:

1048 kilometres total...
How many times have we driven to the direction of this area in West Germany called the "Ruhrgebiet" and how many times have we waved at the famous concert hall "Westfalenhalle" (the venue where we've first met SAILOR in 1993) and blamed it for being responsible for all this while passing it?!?
Karsten and I meet our friend Christel in Duisburg on the morning of Saturday the 20th of November. A little later we are joined by our SAILOR-friend Andreas and the famous Charango. Andreas has won the instrument (used at songs like "Panama", "Vera From Veracruz" etc.) at last year's SAILOR-auction and has now brought it so we can take it along to the concert to surprise the boys.
We leave for Holland at about midday and reach the hotel at 2.15 pm. Today is the first day of the
Golden Classics 30th anniversary Holland tour with SAILOR and The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams, and both bands will be staying at the same hotel for the whole tour. That means that we have at least another hour of driving ahead of us to the venue later today.
At the hotel we check out our nice room for four (that makes it cheaper!) and meet SAILOR fan Linda who has come all the way from Southampton to see the concert today.
We all get ready for the concert and then meet again in our room to listen to SAILOR at the show "Muziekcafé" at Radio 2 which is broadcast from 4 pm to 6 pm. SAILOR perform three songs - "Girls Girls Girls", "Traffic Jam" and "A Glass Of Champagne" live on the radio, and Phil and Grant also have a little interview.
When SAILOR's part during the radio is finished the five of us (!) try our best to get ourselves and all the usual concert stuff - including the Charango - into my poor old car and drive to the small town Egmond aan Zee.
After another hour in the car with not much space but good music and lots of fun we reach the Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond aan Zee once again and go inside. Before we go to the venue we decide to have dinner. This takes a little longer than expected, but afterwards we can finally go to the "Zuiderduinzaal" and meet SAILOR, who have just arrived after their radio show, as well as the promoter of the tour and some other fans including Lody and Marja.
A little later the boys try to find a silent place for an hour of sleep, while we go in front of the stage in order to secure the best places in the first row of the audience. Unfortunately we have to leave the places again, as the first band - ZZ And The Maskers - are being filmed by several cameras, but as soon as they have finished their performance we can go back in front of the stage.
Next it's time for The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams who do a very good show, so that we all have great fun there in the front row!
At midnight it's time for SAILOR, so NaylorMan gets everything ready on stage and then takes care of the sound which is - as usual - absolutely marvellous! SAILOR are absolutely marvellous too, in spite of some funny incidents and a shortened set. The Dutch people in the audience are in a very good mood and sings along as loud as they can.
During "Josephine Baker" Linda and I get out our feather fans (matching the lyrics) to surprise the boys, and during "Vera From Veracruz" Andreas takes the Charango and pretends to play. After the song Phil tells the audience that this is SAILOR's original instrument which was used at all their recordings and fetched Andreas and the Charango on stage to show it.
At songs like "La Cumbia" or the "Latino Medley" we all get our maracas out and make some noise, so that Phil thanks us for the maraca-support and says that they have "the best fans in the world"... Well, no problem when you have the best band in the world right in front of you...!!! ;-)
After the usual "Full Monty" the show is over - much too fast as usual - and we meet the boys while they sign autographs and sell CDs and DVDs.
Afterwards we say goodbye and fix an appointment for breakfast in a few hours, as everyone is too tired now. Karsten, Christel, Linda, Andreas and I reach the hotel again at about 4 am and try to get some sleep.
At 8 am the alarm clock rings again, and we meet the SAILORs and NaylorMan at breakfast. Afterwards we check out but then stay at the hotel a little longer to talk to Phil, Grant, Rob, Peter and Graham before we have to say goodbye.
What a nice start of a very special tour... And thank you very much SAILOR and NaylorMan for the great time - as usual!
(Also special thanks to Bas Siewertsen!!)
See you in town...
Katrin Wagner, 22 November 2004


A review from the "Noordhollands Dagblad":

EGMOND AAN ZEE - The pop bands The Rubettes, SAILOR and ZZ And The Maskers started their Dutch tour Saturday night in Egmond aan Zee. With fans from France, United Kingdom, Germany and Friesland. Many of the 700 visitors combined the event with an exploration of the region. Music from the Seventies as an attraction for tourists.
The show was opened by the first real Dutch beat band, ZZ And The Maskers. Jan the Hont and his brother Hans still belong to the original line-up. (...)
The English band SAILOR had their first hit in the Benelux in 1974 with "Traffic Jam" and reached very high chart positions in the top 40 with hits as "Sailor", "A Glass Of Champagne" and "Girls, Girls, Girls". Dressed in the original sailor-outfits they played hits from 70s' and from the 90s, with songs like "La Cumbia" with which they also reached high chart positions in the Netherlands. They sound a little less polished than the Rubettes. This band also has an active fan club which follows SAILOR everywhere.
Berry Gubbels from Helmond were really enthusiastic: "I think that SAILOR played extraordinarily well." (...)'


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