Diehard fans hold vigil at door of Rolling Stones’ Montevideo hotel

About 100 diehard Rolling Stones fans have camped out outside the doors of the Montevideo hotel where the band is staying while they count down the minutes until the iconic rock group will perform on Tuesday for the first time in this capital.

Adults of all ages, young people and even children are in the group crowding around the doors of the Hotel Sofitel where the Stones ensconced themselves after arriving in the Uruguayan capital on Tuesday from Argentina, where they offered three soldout concerts.

Gaston Conosciuto one of the fans told EFE he had arrived from the Argentine city of Mar de Plata after being unable to get tickets to see the Stones there.

“It’s a band that you can’t stop seeing. We think it’s going to be one of their last shows or tours through Latin America and we can’t let this opportunity go by,” Conosciuto said at the doors of the hotel.

He said he just wants the band “to put on a good show, knowing that it’s the first time they’re playing in Uruguay and perhaps also the last.”

Leonardo Housepian, from Uruguay, is another of the legendary rock band’s fans waiting at the hotel door to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts, and he told EFE that tomorrow at the concert he expects to experience two hours “of a lot of emotion.”

Some of the fans arrived with their families and spent the night in their van waiting for the concert.

Lucia Richino, a 27yearold Uruguayan citizen, told EFE that “I still don’t know if I’m going to see them” on Wednesday, adding that she’s loved the music of the ancient rockers since she was a teenager.