The Acoustic Show

[usk]

....I think they started playing at 4.15am ish.? Setlist i think was (correct me here Jarmo, I am very tired!)

You're Crazy? (wow wow wow!)
Mr Brownstone
Welcome to the jungle
I Used to Love her
Nightrain
Knockin' on heavens Door
Sweet Child O' Mine
I am Sailing (Rod cover again)
IRS
Paradise City

......

Great review babydolls.

I was one of the lucky as well, and even though I'm not Jarmo, I would make some comments on the setlist. I believe that it was like this:

You're Crazy
Mr. Brownstone
Patience
Welcome To The Jungle
Knockin' On Heavens Door
Sweet Child O' Mine
? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (didn't knew the song....)
I Am Sailing
Nightrain
IRS
Paradise City

What else can I say. The biggest night in my life ever. Came all the way from Denmark to see the 2 Wembley shows, and then getting to experience this as well... Now I can die a happy man...?

And finally....? Didn't anyone get a picture of Axl and Bach sharing that joint! A won't a picture of that?

[bobblehat]

So we got in (after complications with the passes - absolutely no plus 1 - had to get another pass for my husband, which happily I managed with the help of my good friend Steve (THANK YOU FOREVER).  And we were in.

Great review and I'm glad it all went well! Axl did say it was a +1 and "anyone else you have in your group" but when it got to the point of collecting the envelope with the pass, GNR's security said it was a +1 only. Then when we got to the Cuckoo club the same security man said "one pass, one person" and that there were no +1's allowed. My friend and I waited back a bit and spoke to the man on the door (the short Brazilian looking one - people said he was Beta's son but I don't know if that's true) and he said "don't worry, I'll get you in" and ushered us through. HE WAS A GODSEND! If he reads this, thank you so much. Because of having to wait around I saw Axl arrive and he was posing for the paparazzi for a while. He was onstage within a few minutes of arriving.

[jarmo]

This is the setlist... I wrote it down in order to actually remember it! 

You're Crazy, Mr. Brownstone, Used To Love Her, Patience, Welcome To The Jungle, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Sweet Child O' Mine, Sway [The Rolling Stones cover], Sailing [Rod Stewart cover], Nightrain, IRS, Paradise City


I got in because I was in the right place at the exact right time. I guess it's called luck....



/jarmo

[jazjme]

Musta been an awesome expierience~! NICE!

[Will]

I got in because I was in the right place at the exact right time. I guess it's called luck....

Exactly why I didn't get in or even know about the show.

[babydolls]

Thanks for your pics Leila - they are absoutely great! a fantastic reminder. ?good one Bobblehat and usk as well - thats so cool. ?Yep - it was a real shame that some people there with passes didnt get in coz of the +1 thing

am still on cloud 9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?

Laughed a lot as NME cocked up again with their reporting that it was at Koko in camden (with their brag about it being NME's home) - I hope those journos actually went there instead of Cuckoo. No wonder they dont have the set list!

[Drew]

WOW! Quite a few HTGTH members with so much luck!! Surprise show my ass!

[cotis]

glad to hear you guys had a great time!! hopefully he does some stuff like that more often, as long as he doesn't blow out his voice

[Olorin]

Some scary pictures in there. Axl looks sky high in most of them, no wonder he was knackered the next night.

[leila]

I got in because I was in the right place at the exact right time. I guess it's called luck....



/jarmo

The same for me....
It was an incredible night!After the show we met 2 guys which knew that the party was at Cuckoo(thanks forever!!).So we went there,but obviously we couldn't enter without pass..but..life and destiny are strange...and a man of gnr staff saw me and my friend and told us that we could get in..I can't believe it yet...
I know...too much Axl pics..I love the band..but..he's the man that shocked my life when I was 13..and after 17 years he was in front of me,for the first (and maybe for the last..) time in my life...and my photocamera couldn't stop to take picture of him..
I know that I have been very very lucky!....It has been the most incredible and unforgettable present for my july 30 birthday!!
Like a dream...

Ps : sorry for my english..

[leila]

..well..I think that I have write badly? ...it has been my 30 years old birthday present (i was born the 14 of july..)..sorry..

[Will]

I'm happy for you. It's nice that some people in this world are that lucky.

Unfortunately I'm not one of them and I'm bummed out I missed the show even though I was not very far, but anyway, "c'est la vie".

[miss bomb]

haha, thanks for that u reminded me of a few things i forgot!

was truly the most incredible experience of my life being there.... 

[Bravefish]

Not to put a dampner on this but 2 questions:

How the fuck did Axl know the names of people who were coming to the gig.

and it seems like all the people who got in (from boards) were females.

Fish

[Mandy.]

Not to put a dampner on this but 2 questions:

How the fuck did Axl know the names of people who were coming to the gig.

and it seems like all the people who got in (from boards) were females.

Fish

When you buy the tickets, you have to give them your name and address for the delivery.

[Bravefish]

Not to put a dampner on this but 2 questions:

How the fuck did Axl know the names of people who were coming to the gig.

and it seems like all the people who got in (from boards) were females.

Fish

When you buy the tickets, you have to give them your name and address for the delivery.

so let me get this right, axl randomly looked at the list of people who bought tickets and picked names and let them in..this seems like bullshit, I bet mosltly fit groupies were let in.. all the reviews ive seen are from girls.

fish

[Mandy.]

Well, it does seem that mostly girls got in, including the one who won the thing to CA. I don't think it was Axl who picked the winners, and I wonder how the selection was made.

[bobblehat]

Lots of people from section S8 were chosen for some unknown reason. During the Wembley gig, I commented to my friend that he kept staring over at our block which was weird in itself. I travelled to Cuckoo with about 8 other winners (and their friends) and they also were in S8 and had bought their tickets on the Wednesday or Thursday prior to the show. I noticed that nearly all the names were female but one Asian boy also won, but maybe his name sounded feminine to Axl?

Anyone that travelled to the Cuckoo show on the N18 bus please PM me - it'd be great to have a chat!

[Olorin]

Awsome review, sounds like you had the time of your life

Man I'm jealous

[stezmacc]

Thanks for sharing the reviews and pics, you lucky people, must have been an amazing experience? WTTJ acoustic eh? would have loved to have heard that.