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London 02 Arena, London, England  Tour

London 02 Arena, London, England  on August 21st. 2007 Blue Lena arrived Sunday in London and gives us the reports from the shows. Blue Lena is warming up now for the show to-nite - Keithian and Charlotte sends their greets Set list: Start Me Up - You Got Me Rocking - Rough Justice - Rocks Off - Let It Bleed - Beast Of Burden - Can't You Hear Me Knocking - I Go Crazy - Tumbling Dice - Intros - You Got The Silver - Wanna Hold You - It's Only Rock'n'Roll - Respectable - Satisfaction - Honky Tonk Women - Sympathy For The Devil - Paint It Black - Jumping Jack Flash -  Brown Sugar (encore)       Review from Blue Lena: Just back from the O2 show and my feet are killing me! I was lucky enough to get into the Rattlesnake way before the doors opened around 5:30, so that was cool. The place was huge and nicely decorated with couches and soft chairs in grouped seating areas, as well as tables. They had huge chippy tongues projected on all the walls, which was cool too. They had an Indian food bar, which was delicious, as well as the regular fare like shepherd's pie and desserts. Beer was on tap this time, and there was a nice selection of wines. I got to hear soundcheck, and they did a few notes of what sounded like She Saw Me Coming, but never really played the song, then they ran through Rocks Off, Beast of Burden, Angie 2x and Shine A Light. Keith did Silver. Soundcheck didn't finish until 6:30pm, so I think doors may have opened later than 6, or else they just didn't let people into their seats until 6:30pm. The opening band was the Kooks, and they sounded ok, we were directly behind the stage so we could hear everything quite well. Mick's girlfriend L'Wren spent some time chattingnear our table...man is that girl tall and skinny! By 7pm it was a zoo backstage and the place was packed, but it was a huge room so it accomodated the large crowd well. We left for our seats around 8:30 or so. Security was so non existent that we never even had our ticket ripped or checked! Once on the floor we saw tons of people we knew and were sitting next to Bjornulf from IORR. Said hello to Angela Richards again and her husband Dominic, it was so nice to see them again.  The show itself was fun and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't one of my all time favorites.  My faves of the night were Rocks Off (even though they messed up the ending), Beast of Burden, Can't You Hear Me Knocking and I'll Go Crazy (since I hadn't heard that one yet). I did manage to get front of the B stage on the rail on Keith's side so that was nice, and Respectable was different.  I thought they were good tonight, but not great, but I think it's just because there weren't any major surprises for me in the set and the lack of security in the front meant there was tons of people trying to squeeze into our row and then blocking our view sometimes. All in all a very fun night and I am looking forward to Thursday's show...please play Shine A Light and don't save it for night 3 when I'm not there. two above photos © rini