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Pearl Jam, Bologna, 14 September 2006

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Pearl Jam’s Bologna concert was extremely hot. By the end every single piece of my clothing was saturated.

The setlist:

Setlist: Small Town, Do The Evolution, Animal, Severed Hand, Given To Fly, World Wide Suicide, Save You, Even Flow, I Am Mine, Marker In The Sand, Green Disease, Daughter/(It’s Ok by Dead Moon), Alone, Whipping, Present Tense, Comatose, Porch

1st encore: Black, Better Man, Life Wasted, Alive
2nd encore: Bu$hleaguer, Why Go, Baba O’Riley (by the Who), Indifference

Highlights included Bu$hleaguer, Present Tense, Baba O’Riley and Indifference.

Here are some photos:



The instructions for the bus to and from the concert area

The support band My Morning Jacket

Some local fans handed out photocopies of the Italian version of It’s Ok by Dead Moon, a tag often added to Daughter. Eddie only sang the chorus in Italian.

Eddie pointing to someone in the first few rows of the crowd

Matt during his Even Flow drum solo

Stone on guitar and Boom on keyboards

3 guitarists: Mike (lead), Stone (rhythm) and Jeff (bass)

Sweating near the end of the concert

Eddie with the George W Bush mask during Bu$hleaguer



The bastard with the tambourine and the person next to him (out of shot) pushed their way through to the front row. They didn’t have fan club wristbands (so they weren’t let in early) yet they still got to the front. And he got a tambourine! When the guy next to him was pushing through I told him to f*** off. He promised me he wasn’t pushing-yeah right!

The band members line up to bow at the end of the concert

The Bologna concert ticket

Bologna, Italy

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The first of Pearl Jam’s Italian concerts was in Bologna on 14 September. To get to Bologna from Bern I had to change trains in Milan. Passing through the beautiful Alps, the weather changed from partially cloudy in Switzerland to overcast and rainy in Italy. There was no passport inspection on the train, a great contrast to any Turkish border crossing.

Swiss Alps

At Bologna train station I met my cousin Graeme. We stayed in a chalet Centro Turistico Citta’ di Bologna. At EUR 65 a night it was good value but in an out of town location. Other Pearl Jam fans staying their included Finn Perttu and 4 Icelandic folks.

As I was in Bologna primarily to see Pearl Jam I only had a short while the following morning to see the city.

Graeme, Perttu and myself in front of a sculpture, Bologna

G’day From Verona!

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Verona is a really beautiful city. I have some brilliant photos of the town and also from Bologna’s intense Pearl Jam concert but I probably won’t be able to upload them until I return to Turkey next week.

Tonight it’s Pearl Jam’s concert in the ancient Arena and then tomorrow Graeme and I are off to Milan.

The pizza, pasta, espresso, tiramisu and gelati are all delicious!

Hi From Bologna!

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I am writing from the home of spaghetti bolognaise. Unfortunately I won’t get around to eating any. Yesterday I met cousin Graeme at the train station. He is travelling with me (but not attending the concerts) for the rest of the tour.

Last night’s Pearl Jam concert was very intense and hot in the crowd. I again was second row general admission on the right (Stone’s) side. It was so hot and sweaty all my clothes, including my jocks, was saturated. When I tried to take my t-shirt off after the concert it was stuck so hard to me that I ended ripping it in the process!

After the concert a Finnish guy and I couldn’t find the correct bus stop to our accommodation out of town. A bus driver going on the same route but in the opposite direction especially drove us to our destination after his shift had finished (at around 1 am in the morning). What a legend!

That is all for now. I hope to upload some more photos (I have some brilliant Bologna concert shots) when I get to Verona.