Suzanne
12-05-06, 01:35 PM
Lovech. 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday. It's drizzling. The square is empty - only several policemen are crossing it from time to time. Several thousand music lovers are patiently waiting beyond the fences surrounding the square.
It's 8:00 p.m. The soaking rain doesn't stop. The cordon is opened and the Nazareth fans attack the square. Some 5,000 people occupy the best positions around the stage.
It's 8:30. Popular Bulgarian band Shturtsite are already on the stage and perform their first piece. Some 6,000 people are soaking wet, but in high mood.
A piercing scream of a Scottish pipe fills the square with its sound. All of a sudden the stage is bathing in light and the legendary musicians from Nazareth appear on it. As if at somebody's command all the umbrellas disappear. It's still raining, but the stage is better seen.
"Damned rain," lead vocalist Dan McCafferty bursts out.
The 10,000 people on the square are silent. They are enjoying the voices of their idols. If a social psychologists was present, he would say that we, the Bulgarians, were always like that - silent. We would never protest, no matter how prolific the rain was. In contrast to the Scots, who always have what to say when something is not to their liking.
12 p.m. Two hours after the start of the concert the musicians say "Thank you" and leave the stage. But the audience applauds them in such a way that they sing encores.
At the end : Good Bye! But only till the next concert in Bulgaria.
Isak Gozes
Special correspondent of Standart
www.standartnews.com
It's 8:00 p.m. The soaking rain doesn't stop. The cordon is opened and the Nazareth fans attack the square. Some 5,000 people occupy the best positions around the stage.
It's 8:30. Popular Bulgarian band Shturtsite are already on the stage and perform their first piece. Some 6,000 people are soaking wet, but in high mood.
A piercing scream of a Scottish pipe fills the square with its sound. All of a sudden the stage is bathing in light and the legendary musicians from Nazareth appear on it. As if at somebody's command all the umbrellas disappear. It's still raining, but the stage is better seen.
"Damned rain," lead vocalist Dan McCafferty bursts out.
The 10,000 people on the square are silent. They are enjoying the voices of their idols. If a social psychologists was present, he would say that we, the Bulgarians, were always like that - silent. We would never protest, no matter how prolific the rain was. In contrast to the Scots, who always have what to say when something is not to their liking.
12 p.m. Two hours after the start of the concert the musicians say "Thank you" and leave the stage. But the audience applauds them in such a way that they sing encores.
At the end : Good Bye! But only till the next concert in Bulgaria.
Isak Gozes
Special correspondent of Standart
www.standartnews.com