Verona, Italy – Electric Storm

Today’s second outdoor show saw a vibrant crowd go wild in Verona’s famous Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, in the city’s largest piazza, the Piazza Bra. Completed around 30 AD, it is the third largest in Italy after Rome’s Colosseum and the arena at Capua, although the current two-storey façade is actually the internal support for the tiers; only a fragment of the original outer perimeter wall remains. Even so, it could barely contain the marshalled excitement of David’s Italian fans as they greeted every number with unrestrained enthusiasm.

The threatened thunder and lightning failed to materialise, but was replaced by the electric atmosphere of a supercharged crowd, who reacted to numbers both old and new with equal enthusiasm, A Boat Lies Waiting perhaps being worthy of particular mention.

The full list was…

First Set: 5 A.M.; Rattle That Lock; Faces Of Stone; Wish You Were Here; A Boat Lies Waiting; The Blue; Money; Us And Them; In Any Tongue; High Hopes.

Second Set: Astronomy Domine; Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5); Fat Old Sun; On An Island; The Girl In The Yellow Dress; Today; Sorrow; Run Like Hell. The encores were again Time/Breathe (reprise) and Comfortably Numb.

After today’s triumphant show, the tour team have to break everything down and reassemble the huge stage down the road in a completely different type of venue in Florence, so please spare a thought for unflappable Production Manager Roger Searle, for whom these shows are the culmination of many months of meticulous planning.