So I told you I was going to see The Good, the Bad & the Queen in Les Nuits de Fourvière. Finally, I won't see Elvis Costello  (I'm not that rich, you know) but I know Marc will and I hope he'll answer us about it

It was in a quite unusual place as the bands ere playing in a roman theatre (during the show Damon said it was a beautiful place. He also said Lyon was fantastic. I think so, too. I'm not from Lyon, but it's really a nice city, especially what is called "vieux Lyon", in french, the old Lyon.).
I was there for hours, waiting at the doors with some Clash fans with tee shirts, some english fans of Blur, and some people from Lyon who probably came to all concerts that sound good. There was 2 men with tee shirts from the Hammersmith concert, too (it was hard to resist to tell them "hey, I was in Hammersmith, too!!!"   )
We were given flyers for Monkey (he he, I already have my ticket! ). Then we entered the place, and I waited another hour to be in front of the stage  
We were worrying about the sky turning grey, because if it had rained, the concert could have been cancelled. Anyway, it had not.
The concert began at 9.30 PM with The Servant. Most of the people seemed not to kno them, some thought it was a stupid idea to make them play before the Good,the Bad & the Queen. Personnally, I didn't know they were playing too when I bought my ticket to the show, but when I knew it, I was really happy - I got their CDs and it's really good. The singer, Dan Black, is totally mad  :lol: , dancing everywhere in his strange way (but often on the left of the stage  ), and he's speaking french quite good (he made us laugh quite often. He's a funny young man.)
They played songs from How to destroy a relationship, like "Hey Lou Reed", but also songs from their first album.

Everyone knows Orchestra in France, but I think the song the audience liked the most was Liquefy. When they had finished and while the technicians were preparing the stage for GBQ, everyone was still singing "wo-oh-oh-oh"  

Probably they gained some new fans this evening.
Then GBQ came. From where I was, the one I was seeing the most was Paul. He often came toward our side of the stage  , I almost could have touched him, and a man behind me shouted "West London!!!" and made him smile 
Damon came once too   . The only one I couldn't see behing the battery was Tony .
They played the songs from the album, then an instrumental piece which sounds like Morricone, it seemed to me that it was telling a beautiful story. Finally Eslam Jawaad came for Mr Whippy. Behind the sun was magic just like when I saw GBQ play for the first time, but A soldier's tale was even greatest if it's possible 
At the end Damon counted to 7 in french.
Then it was almost midnight, I should have hurried to get a bus or the funicular but... I didn't   and waited at the artists' entrance. Damon came out after a while and signed some autographs, took some photos but I couldn't reach him, as his bodyguard said they had to go . Awwww... I should have told him I was coming from Toulouse and that I was going to join my hotel back on foot to see Damon, maybe he would pity me?

Anyway, it as a great concert, really.