Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Friday 20 April 2007

Coimbra Waking in Barcelona A

15.39

Coimbra.

Waking in Barcelona…

IMG3228.JPG

A lobby call for 08.50 I…

IMG3231.JPG

II…

IMG3229.JPG

Is Biff a Happy Boy?...

IMG3233.JPG

Biff is a Happy Boy…

IMG3238.JPG

On the road…

IMG3239.JPG

… to Barcelona airport I…

IMG3240.JPG

II…

IMG3244A.JPG

III…

IMG3245.JPG

Our flight delayed nearly 2 hours; 1.5 in the air & another bus…

IMG3247.JPG

… and a 1.5 drive on the bus to Coimbra I…

IMG3251.JPG

II…

IMG3257.JPG

III…

IMG3262.JPG

IV…

IMG3266.JPG

V…

IMG3273.JPG

VI…

IMG3276.JPG

VII…

IMG3278.JPG

VIII…

IMG3282.JPG

IX…

IMG3283.JPG

Hotel I…

IMG3296.JPG

II…

IMG3298.JPG

… and just in time for lunch, for those who acted quickly.

View from the room: straight ahead…

IMG3304.JPG

Left…

IMG3310.JPG

Right…

IMG3305.JPG

So, almost countryside. The development on the left is a new hospital.

To the gig I…

IMG3318.JPG

II…

IMG3325.JPG

III…

IMG3329.JPG

IV…

IMG3331.JPG

V…

IMG3332.JPG

Dressing Room of the Rock God…

IMG3334.JPG

Catering I…

IMG3337.JPG

II…

IMG3342.JPG

Auditorium…

IMG3340.JPG

Stage I…

IMG3343.JPG

II…

IMG3348.JPG

Sound check I…

IMG3353.JPG

II…

IMG3358.JPG

III…

IMG3361.JPG

IV…

IMG3360.JPG

Foyer…

IMG3362.JPG

00.21  A good show to a small, supportive audience who took a little longer than usual to get it. Portugal feels very different to Spain. Not the same attitude, not the almost-greed-of-the-consumer-audient elements. A friendly & helpful monitor engineer, in marked contradistinction to the Barcelonean sound man last night, Sr. El Jerko Maximum Est.

Portugal: a very different culture to that of Spain.

DISCOVER THE DGM HISTORY
.

1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
.