Zurich show - July 30 (my 50th show)

I’m on a flight to Stockholm and I thought I’d share my latest concert experience with you all

We arrived to Zurich in the morning the day before the show. Took an Uber to our hotel (seriously I am soooooo happy Uber exists! And most times it’s even cheaper than public transportation if you travel with someone and not alone). We stayed in a hotel a few minutes walk from the venue but it was also pretty close to the city center from there. Just a 15 mins bike ride straight down the street. At first we were surprised the city felt so “worn down” as if we were in some old parts of Ukraine or Russia, but as soon as we got in to the Centre and the river it looked like a dream! So so beautiful. I think it’s one of my favorite cities in Europe. We did some sightseeing, met up with Mark and had lunches and later for drinks with my longtime Shreadnet friend Hazbi. We had not seen eachother for 11 years but as soon as we did it felt like not a single day has passed. We also made friends during this tour with P!nk’s pyro guy Kenn, such a sweet guy! Ended up drinking beers at this little sweaty Swiss bar until 3 am and just talked about all kinds of stuff.  

Since we had EE for Zurich we slept in and queued up around 11.30 am. We were 6th and 7th in line, right after our French friends😊 It was my 50th gig and everyone was excited for me and celebrated it with me as if it was my 50th birthday. You are all so sweet. Our Dutch, Italian and Swiss friends joined too and we hung out a little together before the EE line split us up. Just before we had to check in I went to toilets across the street and when I get back out Kid Cut Up walks towards me with these major DJ bags all super happy! We chatted for a fair amount of time and he told me about his journey to from when he started 20 years ago to today touring with P!nk. He was so grateful and so blessed to do this that I started to cry.
Back in line this NRJ radio girl was waiting for me apparently. Haha. The others didn’t wanna be interviewed or something I have no clue but I answered a few questions and just bragged the fuck about P!nk and how amazing she is! And when she asked me “how amazing is it that she is here in this city”, I almost said “Yeahhh Vienna is a beautiful city with many pink fans”. There was a long noticeable silence there before I answered that question😝

Our VIP EE check in went smooth, we got the pillow case, power bank and some other stuffs and they put the wristbands on us, checked our bags, scanned our tickets, marked our tickets and we walked in slowly and all went smooth until the “gates” to the pit area. I mean EE was first in, we were calm as hell, we held our arms up and showed our wristbands, half of us go to one gate, the other half to the other. The other gate got through normally, at our gate the guy wanted our tickets too. Again. Everyone’s tickets were in the goodie bag we got since we already showed them three times and scanned them. And they said we didn’t need em anymore. So our gate got PACKED and everyone started panicking and running to the gate next to it cause we saw the other line get through. I stood on the other side from that gate that got through, the third gate. Which no one went to. The guy just stood and looked at everything so I walk up to him, of course rushed like all of us, had my ticket in my hand and showed my wristbands and wanted to start running like everyone else (this time about 30 people easily already got through to pit and to center catwalk so it sucked really), anyway this guy puts up his elbow in front of my face so his whole underarm hits my nose up pretty hard. I walk back to the gate that was fucked up cause it was the closest and that guy had realized he did wrong asking for tickets again, so he let everyone with wristbands through. So I got through there but I’ve never had issues anywhere like this. Ever. My friends were already at the barrier and held spots, but we got the spot little more center right than center. Which everyone was a bit disappointed about at first but I tried to see it the positive way that we were all together and doing a show with our Swissis and Frenchies, fucking finally! But then as soon as I sat down I got even more upset with the guy and then it turned into tears cause I was pretty shocked to get a smack across my face like that. Maybe unintended but it felt like they were so rude and unfair so I just fumed and needed about 15 mins alone lol. Anyway as soon as I calmed down I walked over to talk to him. And I told him and some girl there what I thought about all this and how bad I thought he treated me. He was new and I think he said he was a summer worker, and his first day and said all he wanted to do was his job. Cause he stood at the “ausgang” to the pit and even if the pit was empty then he wasn’t allowed to let anyone through. Fair enough. Sorry I don’t know the word ausgang. He also apologized for punching me and we hugged and he was shaking. I’m happy I decided to get it together and make peace with it because I was this close to leave in that moment of heat. We waited inside at the barrier in the sun with beers champagnes and snacks from 4pm to 7pm. So much fun!!!! Eva came and said hi and had a hug party with us. She gave us a bunch of guitar picks. Bang bang Romeo didn’t play, kid didn’t play. I swear when Vance Roy came on at 7pm I thought I’d fall asleep. No offense but damn. Maybe it was the sun and beers that made me tired. After him Kid came up and woke us all up! Sooooo good. Love love love! By this time two girls that stood behind us pushed in at our Swiss friend’s spot. He had been to toilets and we all chill always and everyone knows their spot so we thought they just sat there and chilled. Like between us fans we always know what’s what and it’s always a fair amount of respect between us. Like a lot(!). But I felt like something was wrong with these two. They stopped “hanging out”, and distanced themselves from us - compared to before one of them fed us with fries and ketchup. And they got guitar picks from us and yeah all that random fun stuff you do at shows. I told Jeff to ask them what’s up and that I hope they weren’t nice to just stab in the backs, and that I won’t have to throw up the fries back at them, cause he’s not snapping as fast as I am if they’d say something stupid. They said they’re not moving anywhere it’s our spot now. And bam I’m there fuming. Security came and they spoke their language and then I said fine I want to speak with someone that knows English and this guy comes and seriously best ever cause the Swiss one took their side and just said “I don’t know English I don’t care”. So this English speaking guy listened to us and then started with asking them to see their wristbands and tickets and they failed right away cause they had no wristbands or the right tickets and moved back by themselves, haha. So back to upset mood for another 30 minutes cause I don’t have that happy button I wish I had lol. Wait, maybe this was before Vance Joy haha. Yes it was cause I’ve been all happy from Kid and P!nk and all the way until today Jeff had snuck in a paper bag piece for me so I could make a sign😭 Frenchies and everyone was cheering for me to write something so I wrote “50th show. Thank you thank you thank ”. It was the right timing cause earlier I didn’t feel like writing anything. Like my brain was empty somehow. Or full of thoughts about all of this. I donno. As soon as P!nk came on there was a light breeze on the air. Soooo nice after such a hot day! We started partying and I felt so excited when GTPS started. She seemed to be in a super mood too and so were we! During Who knew she saw me and smiled and then lost the words for a fair amount of seconds lol and said she got distracted by my shirt that looked so nice (I tweeted a pic of me in this pink sequin shirt I had put on in honor of my 50th show so maybe she saw it then - also I’m not really a glittery sequin person otherwise🤣). That was a funny moment, haha. One of my favorite moments was during Just give me a reason, and this cute little girl, sitting on her mamas shoulders, was on the screen singing along with P!nk and knew all of the words. So cute! I cried during For now again and then damn during 90 days but knew it was time to show the sign after so I tried to wipe it all off but my face was WET. Haha. Everything was sooo beautiful during these two songs 😭💖 She came out and saw my sign and said she knew it was my 50th show and then she said I made her fuck up the song earlier cause my shirt was so pretty. So I ask her if she wants it *winkkkkkkk* and she flirted back and said yes but not now we’ll get to that later *wink* 😳 I’m just waiting for her to call me her new  boyfriend so that that crazy French guy can suck it and fuck off. Seriously the latest updates on him are sick as fuck if anyone wants an update I’ll share it in thinking thread not here. And what’s happening meanwhile? She says “I love you Dani”. And it took me like 30 seconds to understand what just happened🤯 She said my name god damnit. Damn i must be the biggest spammer in the world😭🤩😍🌪 haha.
And then after another song she came down to the crowd and Jeff and I got hugs and kisses and I’m not joking if it felt like time had stopped. It meant a lot to me the moment we said thank you to eachothers eyes and I held her hand until she went up the stairs again 👯‍♀️BFFs! She told Hazbi his pink eyeshadow was amazing (everyone keeps asking who made her upset in the video, but nope no one it’s just her impressed face ha😜🥰). I am here was amazing and River omfg she gave 100000% of herself it was ELECTRICITY coming out from her body I swear. And Hustle Hahahaha I swear I felt like these girls that pushed in earlier got hit by them words cause when I talked to them I kinda used the same phrases P!nk uses about not taking shit and all that, haha. After all the fun party songs she did Glitter and just as she got on stage the rain started and it was all just so beautiful 😭😭😭😭 After show we met up with the dutchies and had dinner. Jeff and I was supposed to share a shrimp pizza and falafel plate but I think I ended up having both dishes and he had ours beers. They all talked a lot about Den Haag show and sold it all pretty damn well that my arguments were basically shit (usually I have good arguments for all of my decisions) but damn we woke up the next day with their words still echoing in our brains.

The next day I spent in bed drinking 15 coke zeros and crying happy tears. 50 is just a number obviously but the fact that we have been soooo fortunate to have her touring for sooo many years, and so many places, and still going strong after 20 years. I mean going STRONGER than she’s ever been! All of that. And all the fun and happiness and love! And then all of the beautiful people - our Shreadnet family and we still all coming together. We all talk about how old and sore we gotten. And some of us have kids coming to the shows now too. I mean GUYS we made it 😭💖I told Jeff I don’t think I know anyone of our Shreadnet friends that has dropped off and lost interest. We’re all still here more or less, and it’s fanfuckingtastic of us and her to keep us all together like this. And all the new cool and super sweet fans! There is SO much love here we need everyone to join and this world will be even better place 😭😭😭 and then a tonnes of crazy many messages and comments and tweets on the videos of us with P!nk made me so overwhelmed. Ok well I was exhausted too. 8 pm it started to itch in me and I was ready for dinner🤪lol! During the day we got out for breakfast and booked Den Haag, the last show. I guess #yoln applies to the way we choose to live life, when we can😝💖