I had a nightmare of a journey as my plane was badly delayed (I ended up checking into my hotel 10 minutes before my taxi to take me to the venue was arriving!) so I was amazed that I still managed to get my “usual” spot okay! Despite having a great view, this was my least favourite of the ten concerts that I’ve seen on this tour. It seemed to me that the concert was going well until Meat Loaf had a drink of lager and then it went downhill from then onwards.

As I couldn’t see the trolley on stage, I thought that they had changed the morbid beginning to the concert but sadly it was wheeled out.

They didn’t use the billowing curtains (flames) tonight in Do It but the hand-waved masks were being moved all over the place which was dramatic!

As I said in my review of Kasim’s set, it seemed to me that when they started Life Is A Lemon, the sound wasn’t loud enough but I wasn’t aware of that much more during the concert.

Tonight during Lawyers, Guns and Money Meat Loaf threw a load of money into the audience (earlier in the show he’d picked up something from the side of the stage and put it in his pocket and I’d wondered what it was). I doubt that it was real money but I may just stand in the middle next time just in case!

At some point near the beginning of the concert Meat Loaf toasted us all with some water. At the beginning of the next song, he decided that water wasn’t good enough so he drank half a pint of lager (I think). I’m not sure if Belfast lager is extra strong or if he’s on medication or whether this was another symptom of his rant on MLUKFC earlier today, but it seemed to me that after he’d drunk that, his behaviour became quite bizarre at times.

The other thing that struck me was that Meat Loaf was on stage for two and a half hours and yet they cut out two songs (I’d Lie For You and Forever Young / Two Outta Three Ain’t Bad). As they didn’t obviously extend any song, there was far more chat than at the previous concerts and personally I go to hear music and not to hear Meat Loaf waffling on.

In Testify, CC came on stage playing the guitar(?) from Paul’s side of the stage so I didn’t even see her until Meat Loaf started singing. Once again, that part seemed too quiet to me (I don’t think I’m being subjective but it did sound better when Kasim played that part - although I can see why they want her involved more in the concert as, other than in Life Is A Lemon, she mainly just sings background vocals at the back of the stage). CC then joined in singing the verses with Kasim and Meat Loaf.

You Took The Words Right Outta My Mouth was good tonight as the audience were clapping and singing before Meat Loaf even got to that part! However when we were lit up, he claimed that we were the worst of the three Belfast nights! He said that on the first night, we had created a crack in the ceiling, on the second night we had extended the crack but tonight the crack was closing up!

I really do hate that part of the concert now as, not only do they light up the audience but they have started showing the crowd on the screens too! I was told that at tonight and Saturday’s concerts I was shown (that’s both cameras busted now!). I have discovered though that if instead of singing “You took the words right outta my mouth, it must have been when you were kissing me” you actually sing “I wish they’d turn those flaming lights out, I pay to see Kasim not for him to see me” then nobody can tell the difference!

As I tend to get near the front (if I can) it’s difficult to appreciate all the lighting effects but certainly Kasim’s lighting in Did I Say That is really impressive! The whole stage seems to bask in a purple light and then Kasim (and the others I guess) are lit up and that really suits his colouring.

Paradise By The Dashboard Light tonight was probably the longest of the UK tour so far (unfortunately) and I think I’ll just skate over one of Meat Loaf’s comments during it. For the first time, when Kasim was standing on Paul’s side of the stage, he went and sat on Mark’s piano stool and it was obvious that they were having a good old chin-wag! In fact one thing that has struck me throughout a lot of these concerts is how Kasim usually talks to all the band at one point or another…they all appear to be enjoying playing the concerts.

They had the same writing on the screens as at Sheffield for the introductions, although earlier in Paradise when Charlie had help Meat Loaf put his jacket on, Meat Loaf said that Charlie does that out of the goodness of his heart and then a line came up on the screen that in fact he gets paid a lot of money for doing it! Understandably, probably being politically correct, there was no Rule Britannia nor Union Jacks tonight.

Although it was my least favourite concert, I did still enjoy it and it was worth the thwart journey to get there. It was also a guitar pick-heavy concert tonight for Kasim as he ran out at one stage!