Review by Daniela Korba:
I got to Bremen one day before the show, so I had 1 day more in Bremen and I could enjoy the Friday without travelling. :-)

I waited with a few friends patiently at AWD-Dome until the doors opened at 6.40pm and we went to the front.

CC opened at 7.45 pm and she did very well. It seems to me she was very relaxed and I enjoyed her opening-set! I am glad she did the opening-sets in Germany, so we could enjoy her singing lead-vocals for around 25 minutes. It was a pleasure to watch and hear her sing.

After CC left the stage and little changes for Meat's show, the main-show started and I and the people around me had fun from the first second onwards. Meat was in a good mood, the band as well. Everyone on stage had a lot of fun from the beginning until the last song "Gimme Shelter". Kasim, Randy, Aspen and all were laughing and smiling and it was just fun and a great night. Difficult to describe for me but there was really action that night on stage.

It seems to me everyone was happy. It was brilliant, can`t say more.

This time Meat introduced the band during "Gimme Shelter" - except Randy. Randy played an accoustic-solo before and Meat introduced him after that.

The setlist was a little bit shorter than in Dortmund, but I donīt mind at all.

For me it was one of the best shows ever (the best so far!!!) - and I will always remember my 1st Meat Loaf-show in 1993. So these 2 shows are my favorites -and I will never forget it.

I have to say: Thank you for a brilliant night - Kasim, Randy, David, Aspen, John, CC, Mark, Paul & Meat.

Comments from fans on various messageboards and mailing lists include:
"The guys were great and all had so much fun! :-)"
"Dead Ringer was really fab with CC, Aspen really did a good job with IACBTMN."
"Meat often missed his singing part or just didn't sing at all. When he sang, he just sang phrases, not the whole song and it was often wrong - textwise and voicewise."
"Bat Out of Hell was one of the best we'd ever heard!!"

Other websites:
Meat Loaf's official website MeatLoaf.net has a thread about this concert here and MLUKFC.com has a thread here.

Many thanks to Bjorn Paree for all the photos on this page.
Click here for 7 more pages of photos of this gig by Bjorn Paree.

Kasim with Bjorn Paree:

The venue (taken from the KasimInfo.com Blog that day):
Tonight Kasim Sulton plays the 5th concert on the second European leg of the Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell III Tour. The concert is at the AWD Dome in Bremen, Germany. This is the final concert in Germany on this leg of the tour. (Bremen is in the north of Germany).

The concert tonight is at the AWD Dome which used to be called Stadthalle Bremen (it is now named after a financial company) which was built in the early 1960s. The venue is not dome shaped but was probably given that part of its name as there is already an AWD Arena (in Hannover). Since its $50 million refurbishment in 2005 it has been expanded from seating 3,500 to 14,000, although tonight's concert is mainly a standing concert.

The concert starts at 8.00pm tonight (3.00pm in New York City) with doors opening at 6.30pm (1.30pm NYC time). One complaint lots of fans have about concerts in Germany is that certain fans are allowed into the venues early (due to their "connections") so that when fans who have queued up outside for 3 or 4 hours get inside most of the front row or Bat Cave has already been taken.

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell III Tour