Day 5 (show day) Durban.

Today I had a lot of time to kill having done yesterday what I had planned today. This morning I took some time out to walk to the Ushaka marine world http://www.ushakamarineworld.co.za/ it is am absolutely stunning aquarium with a lot of interesting fish as well as a number of large sharks. Whilst I was there three divers appeared in the shark tank, one set about cleaning the windows whilst the other two used their sticks to keep the sharks away. Perhaps this could go down as one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. I found out that my handling contact for the flights was coming to Durban and would be around in the afternoon to check all the arrangements after the fun and games on the arrival. I spoke to the tour manager and he was good enough to allow us to come back stage and see how the show runs. We were picked up at 5PM and were driven to the Moses Mabhida Stadium; with a flash of the drivers ID we were in the backstage car park and up to the tour office by 5:15. As were early for the 6PM move day meeting we went to the hospitality for a very nice dinner with the band and stage crew. The move day meeting went quickly and we had an hour and a half to kill so the production crew issued up with “access all areas” back stage passes and we wondered around. The concert as usual was brilliant although part way through the crowd were shouting for a particular song so he cut to it, the crowd thought this was brilliant, what they were unaware of though is that to get there he jumped forward two tracks in the set and he has a rule of not going back. The crown had therefore cheated themselves out of 10 minutes and two songs!!!. Once the concert finished we went back to the production office and were told that the transport back to the hotel would not be for another hour so we sat outside and watched them tear down the set. The concert finished at 10PM and the entire stage set will be broken and packed by 3AM when it will be driven to our next venue in Port Elizabeth before we arrive tomorrow afternoon. Moving this small tour (80 people) is a massive logistical exercise. I now have an access all areas unescorted backstage pass for the entire world tour, The music business can we quite sexy and I am sure that if some of the people I knew 20 years ago knew what I did for a living now they would be shocked and a little jealous!.