July 9th, 2018, Chorzow, Poland

[Vezara]

Hi, sorry for skipping Leipzig, which is due next, but I need some information concerning the Chorzow show: When are GnR supposed to go on stage in the Slaski Stadion?
I will be driving from Serbia to Poland on the day of the gig, the trip will be around 10 hours. I need to know when GnR will hit the stage so that I can plan my departure. on the ticket it says 16:30, but I suppose that is when the opening acts begin...
I hope someone on this board is either from Poland or knows when the GnR will get on stage.
My friend is having his own gig the night before, so we are trying to find a compromise between maximum sleeping hours and getting on time for the show

[Sillything]

The Facebook event usually post this information. Have you looked it up?

[Lord Stan]

Wejście Early Entrance: 16:00
Wejście: 16:30
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown: 18:00
VOLBEAT: 18:50
Guns N’ Roses: 20:00

[Vezara]

Wejście Early Entrance: 16:00
Wejście: 16:30
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown: 18:00
VOLBEAT: 18:50
Guns N’ Roses: 20:00

Great! Thanks

[GypsySoul]

[Updates] July 9th, 2018 Chorzow, Poland @ Stadion Slaski

Guns N' Roses @gunsnroses
🇵🇱POLAND🇵🇱
#GnFnR #NotInThisLifetime Tour 2018

[Derby Greg]

I have a Golden circle ticket spare for tonight's show.

If anyone knows anyone who would like it, just make me an offer. Want it to go to a genuine fan.

I'm central Katowice.

GREG

[GypsySoul]

SHOW STARTED

https://www.facebook.com/mariusz.jedrusik.1/videos/1883341901729252/

https://www.facebook.com/dylevsky/videos/2211714398843622/

https://www.facebook.com/dariusz.czajkowski.16/videos/1889355147790798/

https://www.facebook.com/libra9/videos/10160575959900176/

https://www.facebook.com/sylwia.zarotynska.7/videos/2071285576238083/

https://www.facebook.com/100003072020228/videos/1637255346386850/

https://www.facebook.com/100011344219432/videos/794278457626954/

https://www.facebook.com/petermolnar70/videos/1847861721941999/ 

[GypsySoul]

GNR posted a GIF on their official twitter of Axl holding a sign that reads:
WELCOME TO THE POLAND BABY!!

Guns N' Roses @gunsnroses
Thanks for the warm welcome Poland...
#GNRinChorzow

https://twitter.com/gunsnroses/status/1016393648676769793  <-- link to GIF

Is 'THE Poland' like 'THE Ohio State University'?? 

 

[GypsySoul]

WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE!!!

[GypsySoul]

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE AWESOME Mariusz Jędrusik FOR STREAMING THE SHOW FOR US!!!  

https://www.facebook.com/mariusz.jedrusik.1/videos/1883341901729252/

[Michael]

Yeah, it was great for a change not to get stressed about changing links all the time...

SETLIST:

It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
Welcome to the Jungle
Double Talkin' Jive
Better
Estranged
Live and Let Die
Slither
Rocket Queen
Shadow Of Your Love
You Could Be Mine
Duff - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory/New Rose
This I Love
Civil War
Yesterdays
Coma
Slash - Johnny B. Goode/Godfather Theme
Sweet Child O' Mine
Wichita Lineman
Don't Cry
Used To Love Her
Slash/4tus - Wish You Were Here
Layla/November Rain
Black Hole Sun
Only Woman Bleed/Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Nightrain

ENCORE

Jam/Patience
Whole Lotta Rosie
Madagascar
The Seeker
Paradise City

[bolton]

Just came back in Hotel...Driving 12h from Serbia...
Show was amazing,for me better than Vienna last year...
Band sound tight,but Axl is real miracle...
Stadium was packed,but crowd (on seating area was borring and cold)...The worst security I ever saw...They made seating area death...
I think Guns n Roses is permanently the best rock band in the world...They played 3h 20min and did it amazing...
My Coma video...In first seconds you can hear some voice but after that everything was Ok
https://youtu.be/NbVqOBHK-6o

[allwaystired]

Just came back in Hotel...Driving 12h from Serbia...
Show was amazing,for me better than Vienna last year...
Band sound tight,but Axl is real miracle...
Stadium was packed,but crowd (on seating area was borring and cold)...The worst security I ever saw...They made seating area death...
I think Guns n Roses is permanently the best rock band in the world...They played 3h 20min and did it amazing...
My Coma video...In first seconds you can hear some voice but after that everything was Ok
https://youtu.be/NbVqOBHK-6o

I was at the front and crowd were pretty dull there too....no one around me even moving! Didn't stop me though!

Absolutely the only minor complain to a truly exceptional show though. Will give a proper report in due course...if any one is interested!

[allwaystired]

Also set list above is a bit wrong- johnny b goode wasn't played. It was a jam I didn't recognise...

[jarmo]

It’s So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Chinese Democracy, Welcome To The Jungle, Double Talkin’ Jive, Better, Estranged, Live And Let Die, Slither, Rocket Queen, Shadow Of Your Love, You Could Be Mine, You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory/New Rose, This I Love, Civil War, Yesterdays, Coma, Band Intros, Slash Solo (Godfather)/Sweet Child O' Mine, Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell cover), Don’t Cry, Used To Love Her, Wish You Were Here/Layla/November Rain, Black Hole Sun, Only Women Bleed (instrumental)/Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Nightrain

Encore: Jam (Melissa)/Patience, Whole Lotta Rosie, Madagascar, The Seeker, Paradise City



/jarmo

[bolton]

Just came back in Hotel...Driving 12h from Serbia...
Show was amazing,for me better than Vienna last year...
Band sound tight,but Axl is real miracle...
Stadium was packed,but crowd (on seating area was borring and cold)...The worst security I ever saw...They made seating area death...
I think Guns n Roses is permanently the best rock band in the world...They played 3h 20min and did it amazing...
My Coma video...In first seconds you can hear some voice but after that everything was Ok
https://youtu.be/NbVqOBHK-6o

I was at the front and crowd were pretty dull there too....no one around me even moving! Didn't stop me though!

Absolutely the only minor complain to a truly exceptional show though. Will give a proper report in due course...if any one is interested!

Give us your own review...
Polish people are pretty cold...
In Vienna crowd ere pretty wild

[Vezara]

What a night!!!! I thought people were over exaggerating when they say that a concert on this tour is the best in their life but they are not! GnR blew me away!!!!
I too drove from Serbia, there is something like a 1000km in one way, but it was worth every km and more!!!
I love going to concerts, but going to a concert of your favorite band means you know all the words to every song... I was jumping around the whole time, singing every song... I`m sure Axl was very proud of me! I think the people around me thought I was either a lunatic or on some heavy and high quality drugs, but I didn`t care The polish crowd seem to have a temperament of a mix between cold Russians and and strict Germans I`m joking, in my country people react in a different way. As long as no one stopped me from dancing and singing along, I was OK.
I was under the impression that the band were playing and singing from a slightly lower tone, helping Axl not to strain his voice too much. They made sure he could rest his voice whenever he could, which meant he sounded amazing through the whole show. He kind of needed to warm up his pipes for the first few songs, he was amazing from the beginning to the end.
Slash played with such character, he was playing for the whole 3.5 hours. Fortus was right there beside him, he is such a great team player. The band sounded really really tight. This is the fourth time I`ve seen GnR, and they sound better every time!!!
If anyone has an opportunity to see GnR, please take the chance. Right now they are in top form, you will be pleasantly surprised!!!!
This is another dream come true!!!!

[poorlakers]

Ax is a driven man - When "they" go on tour, or record a album he gives it his all.

[HBK]

  MADDY 

[PermissionToLand]

Seems like they finally turned Axl's fucking mic up, you can actually hear him over the guitars!

I was under the impression that the band were playing and singing from a slightly lower tone, helping Axl not to strain his voice too much. They made sure he could rest his voice whenever he could, which meant he sounded amazing through the whole show. He kind of needed to warm up his pipes for the first few songs, he was amazing from the beginning to the end.

I grabbed my guitar to check, it's the usual Eb tuning.

[Vezara]

Seems like they finally turned Axl's fucking mic up, you can actually hear him over the guitars!

I was under the impression that the band were playing and singing from a slightly lower tone, helping Axl not to strain his voice too much. They made sure he could rest his voice whenever he could, which meant he sounded amazing through the whole show. He kind of needed to warm up his pipes for the first few songs, he was amazing from the beginning to the end.

I grabbed my guitar to check, it's the usual Eb tuning.

Thanks for that, I have no way of checking that out . You are right about turning the mic up. I was amazed by how much Axl`s voice was louder than usual (compared to earlier concerts, 2006, 2010 and 2011). On earlier concerts, Axls voice was at the similar level of the guitars (blended into the guitars), but in Chorzow I don`t know whether it was a matter of an acoustic stadium or different mixing settings, but it sounded really good. The sound was not too loud, yet you could distinctly hear every instrument...

[jarmo]

slash_chorzow180709 by gnrtour, on Flickr

dizzy_chorzow180709 by gnrtour, on Flickr

frank_chorzow180709 by gnrtour, on Flickr

duff_chorzow180709 by gnrtour, on Flickr

richard_chorzow180709 by gnrtour, on Flickr



/jarmo

[cineater]

Some nice color in those pictures. 

[HBK]

Great Shots J.

Thanks

 

[allwaystired]

Apologies for the delay – here’s my review!

Obviously the gig was fantastic – the best musically of the NITL shows I’ve seen. Axl seemed particularly on form, and I honestly couldn’t possibly fault the vocals. I’m sure there are those that could scrutinise crappy phone footage and tell me otherwise, but that’s of no concern to me. To my ears it sounded incredible. The band seem tighter now than they’ve perhaps ever been – Fortus seems to compliment Slash perfectly. In any other band jaws would be dropping at Fortus’s playing – he’s that good now.

In terms of energy, the show was also off the scale. What’s noticeable though is how much the energy levels ramp up on the ‘new’ material. (By ‘new’ I mean CD tracks, Shadow and recent covers). It’s like the band ignites. To my ears It’s So Easy and Brownstone could be played in their sleep by their band…but the focus on intensity on the other stuff is something else. Madagascar was truly remarkable – probably the best time I’ve seen that played since the shows with Buckethead. Axl seems to be making Slither his own now, and to these ears The Seeker, disliked as it is by many, still seems to be a perfect fit for the band, delivered with a lot of passion.

The downside was the crowd – I was surrounded by people who barely moved for the whole show, and I was at the front, standing. It was fairly off putting, until I realized that it didn’t matter, and went off into a world of my own. I feel sorry for people really – the way they grab their camera phones and stand behind them anytime a riff they recognise is played – they seem so un-engaged with everything. I’d hate to be like that, and just feel lucky that I feel what I feel during concerts.

What concerned me however, and this is not really the fault of the band, is the relentlessly nostalgic attitude of the crowd. EVERYONE is decked out in AFD shirts, or shit reprints of old tour shirts. They are all dressed like 1988 – bandannas are everywhere. These people don’t dress like this in everyday life; it’s as if they are attending a mass-participation themed evening. There’s no acknowledgement that times have moved on – they want it to be that year, and the band to look like they did back then. I find it very peculiar. It also feeds into what they want to hear – AFD tracks in the most part. I was shocked at how no one seemed to know even Illusion material, let alone CD stuff or any of the covers.

With this in mind, it really struck me how, outside of forums, there is so little demand for new material. In fact – it’s the reverse. The people that attend want and demand nothing but AFD material, and would probably feel short changed if the band were to perform new material, as absurd as that sounds to people like me. Given the money associated with touring, one does wonder why any band of a certain age would invest time, effort and money into creating something that no one is asking for……
It’s to the bands credit that they don’t especially cater to these people (there are actually LESS AFD songs in the set than earlier in the NITL tour) and continue to tackle the likes of Coma, despite the muted reception it receives. It would be easier, and better received, for the band to do 90 minutes, play AFD and leave. I feel that by not doing that GNR are still fighting being a nostalgia act – despite the fact the crowd wants them to be.

Really though – this is all background. Performance wise, this is flawless stuff. It’s better than it has any right to possibly be. The crappy crowds, the life-suckers feeding on nostalgia, the bores who want this band to be something they never were, and those that want to use them as an accessory to their bizarre need for self-validation. None of them matter – they come and go. When the next bands in town, they’ll alter their t-shirts and dress sense accordingly. That hearing a searing, aggressive version of Shadow doesn’t move them to even applaud is irrelevant to those that can lose themselves so fully in the beauty of something like Estranged (which gave me the same goosebumps as it did all those years ago as a nerdy kid in his bedroom).

I honestly hope every single person that finds their way to this forum gets the same amount of enjoyment out of a show as me. I really do. It’s like a dose of energy that keeps you going for weeks.

This band means so much to me (far more than it probably should, if I’m honest) and I felt as excited, thrilled, elated, moved and touched by this concert as I’ve ever felt with GNR. They’re still the reason I’m the person I am. They’re still the reason you want to be in a band. Still the widely and wildly misunderstood master songwriters. That I got one more chance to see them perform this way is something I’m hugely grateful for. And fucking hell do they still keep some serious ass on that stage!

[Lord Stan]

Great report, thanks

I was airborne to Moscow (Mockba) during the gig. Not the very greatest option. Partly price, partly just bad management by me