Aug. 11, 2006 Festival du Bont du Monde, Brittany, FR

Set List
Intro (Shine it All Around)
Tin Pan Valley
Seven + Seven Is
Black Dog
Morning Dew
Going To California
Friends
Freedom Fries
Four Sticks
Gallows Pole (with In My Time Of Dying as intro)

encore
The Enchanter
Whole Lotta Love

by Eowyn
This year I had the pleasure of seeing Robert at the Festival du Bout du Monde, in Brittany.

Robert’s concert was due to start at 9.30h, but me, my hubby and a friend were there at 5 pm, just to make sure we would have the front row, right in front of him. Yes, it’s a teenager thing, but who cares? And Robert is worth every effort, isn’t he??

The Festival started with a Goran Bregovic and the Orchestra of Weddings and Funerals, from Serbia. This is the guy who writes the songs for Emir Kusturica’s movies. The band was very good, but by the middle of their act we realized that the crowd was not “too friendly”. Everybody was pushing and moshing and trying to get to the front no matter what.

I was a bit nervous because I hadn’t seen Robert in a year and I started to get really exited when I saw Justin backstage.

Finally the other guys ended their show (don’t get me wrong, they were really great, but I was there to see HIM) and the roadies started to move the instruments and install the red carpet. And my knees started to shake real bad… We were so close to the stage that I thought I would smell the incense! I didn’t though, because there was no incense this time.

When they started to play that trance version of Shine it All Around, all of my body was shaking, not just the knees…

And then they entered the stage, playing Tin Pan Valley. And then HE entered the stage. And I felt in Heaven!

I wasn’t in Heaven for long, though, because by the time sung the first “Like This” the crowd went totally mad! The rest of the concert was a huge fight with that crazy mob! We just enjoyed a small percentage of what we might have if it wasn’t for those totally crazy and totally drunk young guys who couldn’t care less for who was on the stage or what they were playing. All they wanted to do was jumping and fighting and get to the front just because. Our bodies hurt for a week!

Anyway, Robert and the SS were GREAT, as always! Robert was just BEAUTIFUL, in jeans and a white T-shirt, with his beard and his long curls. All of them seemed very happy. They all smiled a lot the whole concert, and Robert talked a lot in French.