Hi all! The gig at Rockefeller here the other day was pure magic! The boys played on and did a wonderful job in making my skin crawl.. Especially an i n c r e d i b l e extended, instrumental session during "Un Chien D' Espace" with a trancelike feel succeeded in doing this. They seemed in a good mood and i feel they have progressed since this spring. When i say that i mean that i feel Ryan's harmony parts and guitar playing is stil getting better and the experimental pieces of the music is getting better integrated into the songs. They even did some of "the wheel" which i haven't heard live since february '95. Great stuff.. now i'm only waiting for PJ Harvey for the next skincrawl... : ) greetings, -- ---------------------------------------------- Mats Johansen OK, I'll give it a try. Due to some financial troubles after my trip to Trondheim, I had decided not to go to Oslo, but I changed my mind in the last minute. Do I regret that? Haha, it was fantastic! Anyway, to the setlist, with some comments (mind you, I can only remember the order of the three first and the last songs played): Watersound (actually I didn't expect them to open with this one at Rockefeller, too, but everybody's happy as long as the song is so brilliant) Pasetoges (Fade To Grey? Fading To Grey? It's rock, and I'm looking forward to hearing it on record) Starmelt (I'm a little tired of that song now, so I didn't pay that much attention to it. Shame on me!) Psychonaut (maybe it was later in the set, I don't recall. The first few weeks after I bought Trust Us, I tended to skip it, but not anymore. It kicks! My Corvette!) Evernine (those who claim it's better when played live, are... er, not wrong. It was great, again) Feel (er, it feels so good to *hear* Feel again...) Radiance Freq. (Schmock! Like that! What can I say?) Other Other Fool (or Cherry Red Rose or whatever. It has a very easy-to-catch refrain, and I like it) Un Chien d'Espace (After this one me and me friends were just like, "Ohmygod!". It took off like, hm, a lead zeppelin, as Keith Moon might have said. In the middle part Snah started playing some spacy, 70ish and a little jazzlike piano, and after a while (as far as I remember) Bent started slamming his bass like mad, and soon they all started to play faster and faster, and then faster, and then faster and faster and faster, and faster (Oh, really?), and how they found their way back to the last verse, I don't understand. I hope someone writes a decent report from this gig, coz I'm almost speechless. Now they went offstage for the first time, I think) Superstooge (oh, I love it every time that bass riff starts. So did all the people around me as well. One of my friends (who was at his first MP gig, I think) remarked that he thought Bent was a better singer than Snah. Then it turned out that all evening he'd thought Snah was Bent and vice versa. Hahaha. How about that! I've said it before, Snah is getting better and better) The Wheel (as at Veita, Superstooge turned into this old favourite of mine, which I hadn't deared to hope for after they had played the monstrous Un Chien d'Espace. Once again, it was superb, and they played a short part that I didn't recognise from Veita, but my memory isn't too good, so...) You Lied (started off real fast, which was fun, and then it turned into Black To Come) Black To Come (really cool cover tune, I think, it sort of seems like this is the new Young Man Blues. I hope so. Anyway, they put Back To Source in there again, and it was almost perfect. Then offstage again) Vortex Surfer (unavoidably, and beautiful as ever. Did anyone notice something peculiar after the second quiet part? A lot of people, including me, missed the second BANG, if you know what I mean. Weird!) I hope I didn't forget any songs. Now. Did anyone record this gig? It really deserved it. And it certainly deserves a real report, so come on out there! It was all great, the band was having fun, the audience was enthusiastic, I was extatic, the sound was good, and the songs were from heaven. Say no more! Motorpsycho zijn de besten van den wereld, and that's official! Froskfiter __________________________ Dat is een erg mooie fiets. ______________________________________________________Back To Reports Page