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If It Ain’t Broke, Break It Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire) Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) Bad For Good DeadRinger For Love 45 Seconds Of Ecstasy Amnesty Is Granted Bible And A Beer Blind As A Bat Dissentience (Band Instrumental) Paradise By The Dashboard Light Anything For Love Bat Out Of Hell
Rock’n’Roll Dreams This venue was really impressive! On the previous two occasions that Kasim Sulton has played here with Meat Loaf they played in a green and yellow circus tent but now they’ve built a massive venue that will certainly give Manchester a run for its money! Liverpool is the European City Of Culture this year so loads of money has been poured into its regeneration and it certainly shows. Earlier in the day we went to look at some Beatles sites and drove through some of the less well-off areas but even they have been spruced up a lot. I’ve never had much luck buying decent seats at Liverpool (I’m not one of those people who buy them off E-Bay for extortionate sums of money) so for this concert I opted for the VIP package that the venue runs. Unfortunately I was still disappointed with my ticket as I paid £172 (about $340) and still ended up back in the 11th row. However we did get to attend the champagne reception beforehand which had a gorgeous dinner and it was nice to be able to sit and chat to other fans there. By the time we’d finished eating and chatting we arrived in time for the last couple of songs of the opening act (Arnos Carstens) but it was just ridiculously loud so we opted to come straight out again.
 The set last tonight about 2 hours again and was the same as at Plymouth except that You Took The Words Right Outta My Mouth was dropped again. Supposedly the no cameras policy was in place but there was nothing to indicate that other than security stopping a few people at times. I didn’t see any signs and nobody mentioned it or check our bags as we entered the venue. Some people were openly videoing during the concert so I took a few photos near the end. Most of the people at this gig sat down through the majority of the concert but they obviously all really enjoyed it (just from a seated position). I spoke to someone after the Meet and Greet who said that it was great to meet Meat Loaf but as there were 49 people there they didn't get a lot of time with him and the promised backstage tour didn't happen. 49 X £155 is £7,595 (about $12,000) which is good miney for about half an hours work! Kasim was wearing black trousers and his lovely Christmas wrapping paper shirt and played his KSulton Bass throughout the whole concert. He really seemed to be enjoying himself on stage tonight which was great to see. Meat Loaf also seems to be enjoying these concerts far more which must make life easier all over. I posted a really detailed review of the Plymouth concert here so I won’t go through the whole set song by song again but the highlights for me were Bad For Good, Blind As A Bat and Rock’n’Roll Dreams. Tonight it was good to see the "flames" in Frying Pan and they are very effective, especially as they change colour too.
 Before they all come on stage some jungle drums music is played over the PA system. Apparently this is called Oh Well and it certainly makes people sit up and take notice! Kasim posted after the Plymouth concert that there is a storyline that weaves through the whole set. Tonight I worked out the DeadRinger For Love / 45 Seconds Of Ecstasy / Amnesty Is Granted / Bible And A Beer part but I just can’t see a story through the rest of the songs. The story for those 4 songs is that Patti and CC walk on stage and originally Meat Loaf chooses Patti over CC so they sing DeadRinger together. CC then sings 45 Seconds Of Ecstasy while Patti tries to get Meat Loaf to continue his interest with her. She fails so she walks off stage and then CC and Meat Loaf sing Amnesty Is Granted together. Patti then returns to the stage and sings Bible And A Beer. Quite how Blind As A Bat follows on from that beats me I’m afraid. The band’s instrumental is called Dissentience and is originally by Protest The Hero (but without the lyrics). I do wonder why they chose that particular tune or who suggested it but Kasim gets to play some amazing (very fast!) bass in it which is very impressive and is another highlight of the set for me. All in all it was a good concert and was certainly much better than the Plymouth one but there is still some spark missing from this tour for me at the moment.
Other websites:
MLUKFC.com has a thread of reviews and photos of this gig here.
SafeConcerts.com has a number of reviews of this concert here.
Comments posted by fans on mailing lists and messageboards include:
"The sound was spot on, very loud but VERY good and appeared to be well mixed, at least from where I was sitting."
"The run of songs from Deadringer through to Paradise and then AFL justs gets stronger and stronger IMO. A few fluffed lines laughed of again in Deadringer and Blind As A Bat, but they really don't matter, they prove that Meat is human and more importantly they prove how relaxed he is on stage at the moment."
"This was an absolute fantastic show in my opinion."
"A little shaky to start with but things soon picked up, and once they'd sorted out the bass spikes coming out from the speaker directly in front of us things were alot calmer ... during Lemon the heavy bass drum "boom" was loud enough to feel the shock wave hit you!"
"The band sounded fantastic as usual."
"Kudos to Meat for still including Blind as a Bat. I personally think this is one of the most difficult songs to sing from Meat's back catalogue and if he wanted to play things safe he could pick something a lot easier from Bat 3 that's for sure. Together with BFG those are my favourite tracks from Bat 3 and I'm sure many agree. Although he slightly messed up the words in Blind as a Bat he pulled it off in my opinion. The ending bit they have included since 2007 is great. What a great song to hear live."
"I have to say you couldn't hear Meat sing for the first three songs but he got better and better as the concert progressed, and the encore was out of this world."
"Meatloaf is by far my favorite singer of all time, but I do have to say - sometimes the band seemed visually a little subdued. Normally you've got Paul running up and down the stage like a madman, but on this occasion all the guitarists were really static. Once over I couldn't help but feel something could have been up? Saying that though they still sounded great."
The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
The address of the venue is Monarchs Quay, Liverpool, L3 4FP and the website can be found here. Apparently the venue holds 10,000 people and has parking for 1,600 cars. There are also 22 VIP boxes with 12 seats in each at the venue and the stage is 60 feet wide by 40 feet deep and is 6 feet high.
The concert tonight starts at 8.00pm and tickets (from this link) are £28.50 ($56) to £48.50 ($96) plus charges. Currently seats are available in the sixth row of the front side block. The venue also offers a VIP package for £172 ($340) which includes a champagne reception and buffet plus an aftershow party until midnight. A Meet and Greet with Meat Loaf (but not Kasim) is also available before the concert for an additional £150 (about $300).
Meat Loaf 2008 Casa De Carne Tour
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