Procol Harum • Bad Krozingen, Germany

August 2010 : some preliminary photographs

The town is easily reachable by train, and the gig is about eight minutes' walk from the station,
through parkland. If you're coming by car, you'll be driving on the B3, which is a good omen

There are posters everywhere. Asia's concert, a week before Procol's, attracted patrons from the neighbouring
countries of France and Switzerland. The Harum show will have even more widespread clientele

Here's the stage, set up for a previous event; we don't expect the tables to be there for Procol's show

So it will look more like this

This is the view from the edge of the stage

The building in the background (above) would be a good place for hardcore fans to meet ... it's a moment's walk from the stage

Make a note of the name

Inside, it's elegant in a somewhat clinical way; worth remembering that Bad
Krozingen is a spa town, not a very rock-n-roll place 364 days of the year

Its very logo lays emphasis on the curative waters; every other building seems to be a clinic, a kursaal, or other therapeutic
establishment, and the public -- to judge by appearances -- is largely there for reasons of health, good or otherwise

Everything's very well signposted with typical efficiency; everywhere light, no darkness to engulf you

The only exotic birds are these specimens of übertopiary

Charming in their way, no doubt

There's a river running through ...

... whichpasses just a few yards behind the stage. All in all, then, a bucolic, hygienic venue:
just the sort of atypical place where we've seen Procol Harum so often in the past

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