Review by SueW:
With 6 gigs in 9 days, 4,000 miles to drive and 10 different hotels I won’t have much time for full reviews so this is just a few of my thoughts about the gig.

It was a long 17 hour drive from Nuremburg to Spain but the Spanish scenery was beautiful (not so much France!).

This was a massive annual festival over 3 days. I got there at about 7pm and didn’t expet to get anywhere near the front but most people were gathered round the middle so I stood in the second row just near Kasim’s microphone – perfect!

The first band was a swing band which was a bizarre choice but were very popular with the crowd. Within 20 minutes of them leaving the stage, Blue Oyster Cult were on stage as this festival kept to time!

I’ll post the set list when I’ve listened to my recording but it was quite a standard festival set. They started with The Red And The Black and then went into The Golden Age Of Leather followed by Burnin’ For You (I always think that’s a very Rundgren-esque song). They also sang Cities On Flame, Then Came The Last Days Of May, Godzilla (but without the Kasim showreel part) and their final song was (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

They didn’t play an encore as the swing band and Twisted Sister both did.

Kasim had bad sound problems (with the sound in his ears) for several songs and even changed his soundpack at one point. Also Eric changed his soundpack as he was having problems too.

The music was very loud at the front (the festival was in a massive area) and we could all really feel every note of the bass and drums!

Kasim didn’t sing any of the ‘aahs’ in Reaper tonight (he did at the German gigs).

When they played it was about 28 degrees so they all looked quite hot on stage.

The crowd really liked their set, especially Reaper, Godzilla and Burnin’ For You. There were a few people at the front in BOC T-shirts.

Buck watched some of Twister Sister from the side of the stage as Dee Snyder pointed him out.

I’ll post my photos next week when I have more time!

Roll on Bochum, Germany on Saturday!

The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
Tonight Kasim Sulton plays the fifth gig of a 7 gig Blue Oyster Cult tour in Europe.

The gig tonight is at the Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria, Spain.

On Tuesday evening Blue Oyster Cult played a gig in Nuremberg, Germany so they would have had a 17 hour drive to get here but thankfully they flew it.