Wake up on another time zone yet again so I get up and head out for a walk around Dublin.  Grab some breakfast and a Starbucks and have a poke around some of the stores in the Temple Bar area.  What strikes me more than anything is that some many of the the folks working in the stores seem to be from Eastern Europe, Dublin sure has changed a lot in that respect but I guess everything can't stay the same when you become part of the EU.   The Euro sure seems to have jacked the price of everything up here.   Stop off and see the Phil Lynott memorial bronze statue.  Lovely tribute and I was quite surprised that it was still relatively unscathed.

Get bored at the hotel so I hightailed it down to the venue and had some lunch and a good mooch around.  Went out to see some friends outside in the lines who had been lined up since earlier in the day.  A few of the fans had brought their Sparkle Tour books for me to sign which was really nice to be asked to do so.   Saw my old mate Mike from school in England and his lovely wife who I'd gotten set up for the show.  Hadn't seen them in a few years so it was good to have them here.

Saw Brian Wheat from Tesla outside the dressing rooms and chatted for a while.  Nice guy, was quite funny as he'd been talking to me a while and he thought that I was Doug Aldrich from Whitesnake....just as he said that the elevator opened and out comes Doug....."no, THAT's Doug"!  Thought that was pretty funny and so did Doug.  Spent most of the pre show just shooting reportage of the Lepps getting ready warming up.  Larry Mullen stopped by with his son to say hello to the guys and spent part of the show watching from behind Rick's kit.  Great show played to a full venue and the crowd was really revved up.  It had been the first Lepp gig in Dublin for quite some years. 

Ended up afterwards bringing my mate Mike and his wife backstage to hang out and we caught up a while.  My friend Elaine and her daughter brought me a bag FULL of lovely Mars Bars to help me along on my journey which was just lovely.  Notsure what the count is so far but I've scoffed a lot of 'em.  I have it written down somewhere...Ended up getting back to the hotel pretty late which wasn't that great as I had a 6am flight to Birmingham. Had a Mars Bar and went to bed.