At 8pm it was finally time and Amy Mcdonald, for me surprisingly with blond hair, took to the stage together with her five great musicians. She started the concert with the title song of her current album, ‘Under Stars’. Already after the first song, Amy proved that she could speak a few words of German as well. She said in German that it is very hot in Berlin and repeated it in English and continued: “Too hot, for a girl from Scotland”. That’s why she always brought a bottle of water with her at the summer concerts, which she had fixed on the microphone stand. The audience appreciate the amazing weather and was in a great mood to work up a sweat. She thanked the audience several times for their great support and said she now wanted to see how loud the over 4,000 visitors can be in Berlin’s citadel. She said: “At the concert yesterday, there were only 2,000 spectators, and they were very loud” and asked if the Berliners could be louder.

She did see a few who did not participate, but it was all very good-natured. For the song ‘4th of July’, which is about New York, Amy was without a guitar for the first time during the evening. Otherwise, her guitar was with her almost all the time, and she changed it for almost every song. In the song ‘Leap Of Faith’, almost the entire audience clapped along loudly. This was followed by the folky-rocky ‘Poison Prince’. By now it was over 30°C but the atmosphere in the citadel was great. Amy said she was pleased that many fans wore shirts of hers, and she invited us to buy one more. For this, the year of the football World Cup, fan shirts were made in football style – with white for the German fans, blue for the Scottish! Next came ‘Automatic’, another great song from the current album. Amy and her band harmonized perfectly together and appeared to be in a perfect mood.