On a wonderfully sunny day last weekend (Sat 7th June) not far from Dublin in Southern ireland, tens of thousands of rock fans made their way to Punchestown Racecourse in Naas for one of the most anticipated gigs of the year.

I was lucky enough to be one of them. Bon Jovi were headlining, Razorlight and Kid Rock were support, how could this fail? The answer is it couldn't, Kid Rock was superb, Razorlight a little subtle in their perofrmance but great non the less.

Of course Bon Jovi stole the show(they show as much energy in their performances now as they did when they first appeared on the scene), giving us a trip through their back catalogue and few nice covers thrown in for good measure, a female fan jumping Jon mid-song couldn't slow things down either, all in all after two encores we all left on a high that has taken a few days to subside.

(my only fault was that organiser had too few people maintaining order at bus queues and there were a few instances of Crowd rage as people jumped lines etc)

But this was a concert that many will talk about for years to come and many like myslef will sit on a winters night and stare at the cowboy hat they bought for the day and wonder when they can justifyiably wear it again.

Here's hoping Garth Brooks dusts his off and there's my opportunity.

Phil Allely

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You wear that cowboy hat with pride Spike.

PS: There is a Mansized meet in Belfast in October if you are interested...

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Will do, yeah a Belfast meet sounds good, I'll keep a look out for it.

cheers for letting me know.

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