Best Friends & Fans over the world here is my report from The Olympia France 11.07.2005

 First many thanks to Danielle Vergne.

And very sorry to my friend Nicolas Favez that I didn't meet up with him.

Let’s start at the beginning. I arrived at 09u05 in Gare Du Nord Paris with Thalys then I took the underground to the Opera near the Olympia where I met Danielle. We then visited Pere Lachaise Cemetery to see Jim Morrison’s grave by Taxie.

Around 01u00 we went back to the Olympia and we talked a little bit, what happened next was amazing, a great surprise, Ryan Roxie was filming us at the front door.

After this I went to my hotel to check in and again by underground went back to the Olympia so around 17u00 to collect my laminate and money prop, we were with 13 people that also bought a special ticket.

Then we had our backstage tour.  We watched the sound check and they took photos of us on stage. This took about 1 hour; I also had a photo taken with Pat Novak.

So this was the end of the first session and they told us to come back for our ticket at 19u30.  I met Si Halley & Bill Crowe at this time.

We went in and listened to the support act Revenge, actually they were not so bad, and about 21u00 the big final, Alice Cooper is here!

Setlist: (Phantom Of the Opera intro Tape) / Department Of Youth (part) / No More Mr Nice Guy / Dirty Diamonds / Billion Dollar Babies / Lost In America / I Never Cry / Be My Lover / Woman Of Mass Distraction / Eighteen / Between High School and Old School / What Do You Want From Me / Is It My Body / Go To Hell / Black Widow Jam (Inc. Drum solo) / Gimme / Feed My Frankenstein / Welcome To My Nightmare / "The Piece" (Includes The Awakening / Steven / Only Women Bleed / Steven / Ballad Of Dwight Fry / Killer) / I Love The Dead (Band vocal only) / School's Out / Poison / I Wish I Was Born In Beverly Hills / Under My Wheels

After the show we again went backstage and waited about 15 minutes for the big moment, the meet and greet with Alice.

He was very friendly and signed everything that we had with us. I had a talk with him for about 7 minutes, after this I talked to Brian Nelson. I was very surprised, he was very friendly.

So we all went out of Alice’s room, it was now time to meet the band.  Chuck was very surprised from the photo's that he signed, Roxie spend most of time that I hadleft on me, I think we are good friends now.  I also met for first time Eric Singer and Damon Johnson, they were all great guys

 This was almost the end, we went out and I had a drink with my new friend from France, I want to thank her here for enjoying the whole day with me.

Thanks Danielle

Gunther