16th May ‘09: We've finally finished with Munich but, before we go, here is a snap of a Namibian roadblock. The 50cc Piaggio engine was gunned, fruitlessly, outside the catering tent.. At 8am this morning, passing Giessen on Germany's A45, I send Crazy Sandra a text. ‘Give me twenty minutes,’ she replies, and turns up at a motorway services, en route to her second Metallica gig this week. She wants to arrive in Oberhausen - only 20km from AC/DC’s destination of Gelsenkirchen - for 12pm, to be first through the gates at 5pm. Being as close to the stage as possible, it appears, is a priority for nutters. Oh, consider your ears, I earnestly beseech. Although outwardly in control, she must be mere weeks away, now, from a comfortable stint in an asylum. After a bit
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