First of all, London was great. It is extremely fun and we managed to see the ten most touristic places in 3 days and my wife and I (well, my wife a bit more than me) did some shopping.
Anyway, you don't care much about that so I guess I'll just skip the story to yesterday, dec 6. The day of Al in London. First my wife and me went to the Charles Dickens museum and after that we went into one of the largest CD shops in London, the HMV. We already been there (bought some Family Guy stuff) but this time we went inside if we could find Weird Al somewhere in the millions of CD's. Obviously, I went looking in the rows with Rock/Pop but I couldn't find him. My wife was smart enough to go and ask and the guy was like, who?. My wife (Anya) typed in Weird Al Yankovic and there was a list of CD's and where they could be found. The shop-guy walked with us and guess where Weird Al can be found??
Yes.. at the obviously logical Spoken Word-section.. Odd..
After a quick food injection (Burger King) we went to the underground station close by The Forum (which is not weirdalforum). When we came there was a extremely long line waiting for the entrance. I didn't have tickets (somebody promised me tickets and I should be on the Guestlist). So, Anya and me walked up the ticket-pickup thing and there was a very irritated lady with metal on places where nobody would figure there could be metal (as in, pierced thru... her head). She was really unfriendly and kind of annoyed. She basicly told me. You are on the guest list, so wait on the normal line and check inside if you are on the guestlist. WTF?
Lucky I found Ludovica64 .. well, she was the first in line so I talked automaticly to her. After a hug and after the excitement, she tried to get in contact with somebody about the entrance. Didn't work. She scared me a little bit with a sudden scream "STEEEEVE". He was just walking by to go inside somewhere. At some point, people came out and I asked him if they could check if I was on the list. It took forever, so finally I decided to requeue to the angry-lady-cassier to hopefully get more info. Well, besides she went even more angry it didn't help. Around that time, the VIP people could get in so I grabbed the chance to ask again to somebody from the inside. Finally they really checked and I was on the list and could go in, right after the VIP people went in. Ok, fair enough..
So, I went in.. convinced again that I was on the VIP list or guest list or whatever and finally I received a bright green ticket with aftershow stamps. Great.. Appearantly, I didn't have to go thru body check so I walked inside in the nice room where Ludovica was front row. So I just stood with them and reserved a place for the Isreal-fans
We stood there and crowd came in. Funny enough that Steve was standing with us the entire time (well, with Ludovica but I was there). Just talking about things, really nice. We actually learned something from Steve about The Forum.
After a long wait and several tests the show started around 8:10pm but it immediatly went wrong. First they started with the theme song but the CD stopped (or whatever, it stopped). They restarted it so we figured, ok.. weird.. Al came on stage and we heard the first notes of the Polka. But almost immediate they stopped!! Afterwards I've heard that there was no countdown for Jon so he didn't start while Al did start. So, basicly they played 3 notes and then stopped. At that moment, they cannot restart (for several reasons) so the Polka wasn't played at all. Al made some jokes and the guys where also laughing a bit. Then they continues with Franks 2000" TV which was perfect.
Al was already feeling a bit sick which was also hearable when he was singing. The higher notes he couldn't do always and towards the end of a song, his voice became worse. But he managed to do it. They followed the playlist like the way they did in America, so I won't tell specials about that. Despite the fact Al was noticable sick in his throat, he did all songs and in the long medley, his voice regained strongness and from that it sounded great. With Wanna B your Lover Al put his leg over Ludovica and then went into the audience. Really awesome to see.
Steve did his famous "trow-a-bassguitar-in-the-sky" on Smells like teen spirit and Steve and Ruben were joking around a lot. I couldn't see Jim very good and Bermuda is, as always, kind of hidden.
For me the show was kinda like in the USA, except I didn't see the Starwars guys yet. Also Santa Clause came on stage during "Fat". In general it was a very great show.
Afterparty was upstairs so we all went there (again, we were checked over and over again if we could do that). We waited and then I decided to go and see the T-shirts. When I was there, Ludovica asked me about a photo and I didn't understand why.. but Jon was behind me and after a better look he recognized me. So, I introduced him to Anya and we talked. Then a guy named Danny Cummings came to Jon. Appearantly, he's percussion player on the Dire Straits so we had a nice talk about drums.
At some point, I saw Jim and Ruben, but I couldn't get to them to talk. Al came out last, still feeling a bit sick I guess. He did the usual authographs and then went away suddenly to give authographs to the fans outside. Aww, I didn't talk with him. So, I followed Jon to go backstage to Al so I could a little bit talking with him and a few photo's. So, I talked with him too but only a very small time. Tomorrow probably more, because both me as the band have more time.
I went outside and using the last underground and last train I came back at the hotel around 1am. Al has at least one fan more now, Anya is now fan too
Some pics:
My friend Jon and me
Al and me
Anya and Al
Thursday more
Got let in at about 10 to 7 and sensibly they seperated the people who were upstairs and downstairs. Got frisked and the guy didn't even bother looking in my pockets where my camera and phone were so makes you wonder was it just food and drink and obvious weapon shaped things they were looking for? One of the security people said that some people were bringing in whole lunchboxes of food for their kids and some people were bringing in fast food! I think in the end they let in people with sandwiches. Not your normal Forum customers I guess 
I hope he comes back again soon too! x