THE BOY IS BACK IN TOWN - Friday 19/08/2005

Our plane landed in Dublin at 07:00 in the morning, so we had all day. We walked in the town and we liked Dublin very much. You could see eveywhere people with Thin Lizzy T-shirts... it was great!! After 17:00 the boys from the band started reaching Bruxelles pub...next to the statue... it was then when I saw Gary for the first time in my life!!! It was so nice to meet Zoli, Zara, Eric and many other fans from around the world (USA, Holland, Sweden, Spain, France, Hungary...) At 18:00 the unveiling ceremony started. Phil' s mother, Philomena couldn' t hold her tears when she was speaking to the fans.. It was fantastic for us to watch Gary Moore, Philomena Lynott, Brian Robertson, Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Darren Wharton, Eric Bell and Brush Shiels standing next to Phil' s statue..... very big moments.... The statue is fantastic!! Incredible! You could see from old people to babies posing for a photo with it! You can see more photos here

THE BOY IS BACK IN TOWN - Saturday 20/08/2005

In the morning, we took a walk in Grafton Street and we saw the statue again. We managed to get into Westbury hotel, we met Scott, Robb and Eric on the first floor and we took some great pictures with them, they were very polite and friendly with us. We went to the Point theatre at 13:00 and we were almost the first fans. We got inside from the back door and saw Gary and Robbo on stage doing the rehearsals for Emerald and Still in love with you. Gary was giving directions to everybody, even to Downey, for how they should play. Robbo was playing great! Finally, after some minutes someone asked us to leave... At 18:20 the doors opened and we were in the very first row at the centre of the stage!! There were a lot of cameras around, so a DVD release is very possible in the future. At 19:00 the support bands started playing, most of them were not so good and I was expecting from them to play some Lizzy songs, but they didn' t... I think that they should...it was Philip Lynott' s night, after all... Then, Philomena spoke for a while, asking from the fans to sing "Happy birthday" for Phil and we couldn 't hold our tears... Brush Shiels alone did a song for Phil after Philomena..... and then ........ The moment that I was waiting since 1987 was becoming reality in front of my eyes ....... Gary holded his guitar and started playing!!! And it was not on video!!! Play list 1. Walking by myself 2. Jailbreak 3. Don' t believe a word (slow + fast versions) 4. Emerald (with Robbo) 5. Still in love with you (with Robbo) 6. Black rose (with Gorham) 7. Cowboy song (with Gorham) 8. The boys are back in town (with Gorham) Encore 9. Whiskey in the jar (with Eric) 10. Parisienne walkways (Gary started it with some lines of Old town and finished it with the melody of Happy birthday) What a concert!! ( a little bit short - 75 minutes) I think that the best moments of the show were the songs with Scott (especially Black rose), Gary seemed to enjoy it very much with him, cause Robbo couldn 't play so well... Eric was very good, too... Brian Downey on drums and Jonathan Noyce (Jethro Tull) on bass made a tight rythm section.... The crowd was fantastic, many years have passed since Gary played at such a crazy crowd.. I 'm sure!! And his guitar playing.. Oh, God!! Reminded of the '80s hard rock years... I wanted a big finalle with everyone on stage and some words about Philip, but ... never mind .. it was fantastic! You can see more photos here

THE BOY IS BACK IN TOWN - Sunday 21/08/2005

In the morning we met Philomena outside the Westbury Hotel and when we told her that we travelled from Greece and we have a tribut band, she invited us to her house! So, we took the bus and after walking in the rain for about half an hour we reached her home "White Horses". She was very friendly and we had the chance to see many interesting things (Phil 's private items)... gold records, drawings..... Philomena even let us hold Phil' s bass guitar! We told her our plans about the Thin Lizzy tribute band and she was very excited! She was so kind to drive us with her car to St. Fintan 's cemetery, where we saw Phil 's grave... Well, this was one of the best weekends of our lives!!