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@kjesso: Great report on your blog. So nice to read it in nynorsk.
I think it is amazing how they keep exploring The Tower, instead of playing the festivals safe with oldies but goodies. Most bands surely would play it safe, as they look upon the festivals as showcases. But this band? Nope. You're always welcome to join the caravan, but this is right where we are, right now. Take it or leave it!
Again, what's not to love?
Another perspective:
2 out of 8 songs were oldies (and goodies, I'd argue) = 25% of the setlist.
These oldies took up 50/120 mins = 42% of the playing time.
And as we all know: 42 is the meaning of life. Case closed.
Great, Krist Rampage! Thanks for the report.
This has not happened before, has it? I mean, that they alternate between two associated band members/guests (Lo & Reine) inside the touring cycle of one album?
So far this album has been played by the following lineups:
Trio – Norway fall '17
Lo – Europe fall '17
Trio – "Eastern"-Europe spring '18
Reine – Oslo / Holland spring '18
Trio – Russia spring '18
Trio – Norwegian summer festivals '18 (Did some of these contain guests? Please remind me!)
Lo/Kvernberg – Molde Jazz
Reine – Holland / Germany(???) summer '18
Makes you wonder who might join them this week, yes! Another dimension added to the ever changing and evolving organism that is Motorpsycho.
I L O V E I T!
@mefisto: Have you got/do you need the complete souvenir? Did you do the whole tour, or was Brussels your last? I remember regretting turning back home after Münster…
Is everyone here aware of the fantastic documentation of the 2006 BH/BC tour that amazingly enough still is available on Øyvind Brandtsegg's webpage of documentation for his master thesis?
In my collection, these recordings serve as:
ROADWORK 3.5 – Spacedogs and other assorted jam songs1) Un Chien d’espace [30:54] – Brussels, May 7th 2006
2) Sancho Says [6:14] – Halden, April 27th 2006
3) Un Chien d’espace [34:52] – Darmstadt, May 14th 2006
4) Triggerman [9:53] – Rimini, May 11th 2006
5) Un Chien d’espace [21:41] – Rimini, May 11th 2006
Leipzig was not part of this tour, but notice that Brandtsegg, while probably not aware of it, has picked soley classic MP venues/cities in regards to where the far-out stuff usually occurs!
Agreed, the Cologne concert the day before was very good, and better than Bizarre setlist-wise and playing-wise.
Cologne had "Theme de Yoyo", "Sinful, Wind-borne", Upstairs-Downstairs, and "Pills, Powders + Passion Plays", while Bizarre had "Nothing To Say". The "Supertristano/Black To Comm"-segment was longer in Cologne.
There were also a few other very apparent differences:
Club vs festival (although, Cologne was part of Popkomm)
Devoted audience vs casual
Indoor vs outdoor
Nighttime spot vs daytime spot (in fact both concerts were played within less than 24h)
Air condition vs sun/30° C
1,5h vs 1h
Cologne was also filmed, at least parts of it. Together these two concerts could serve as a very good illustration of the different extremes band and audiences alike can experience from just one concert to the next, and also help explain some of the reasons for being a Psychonaut!
Yes, for some reason it has grown on me over the years. Bizarre because of the huge stage, the hipster horn section, the erratic setlist and the sitting audience waiting for KoЯn. And wonderful for the same reasons, plus the music is well played and the whole thing is well filmed. I get the same kind of pychedelic feeling as when watching vintage stuff from the 70s. Maybe I should have written "wonderfully bizarre"…
@ Punj Lizard – Thanks! Well, after all it is a Bernie's Basement video, so I speculate that he filmed the whole concert, like he uses to. Just imagine a Bernie's Basement series of LPs with Blue-rays included… What a treasure that would be… It could be its own series, or part of the RW series. Oh boy, if only I was in charge of this! You'd see one RW from each tour, plus (as) complete (as possible) archive releases in a separate series on a regular basis. The Norwegian National Broadcasting company NRK must (hopefully) still have all their radio recordings stored away somewhere, as the release of Oslo March '97 might indicate (AaDAP box). I would start with Roskilde '93 and and Oslo Sentrum Scene '94, both of which are mind-blowing. Then go on to Rome '94, which was recorded by radio and filmed by audience. Should be possible to restore, and would have been a natural addition to the Timothy's box, just like the great Groningen '93 dvd included in the Demon Box 2014 reissue. So here my series would rectify that omission. Then I'd go back to NRK with Oslo March '96, Stavanger '98, and then dive into the recordings from Swedish National Radio (SR) – I think they at least recorded them in '98 and '00. From NRK there is also Roskilde '99, Oslo '01, as well as Øyafestival '06, which is a Blue-ray waiting to happen (BH/BC reissue material?!). This is only from the top of my head, there is probably stuff I forget – oh yeah, that wonderful and bizarre Bizarre Festival '02 filmed by Rockpalast would become an instant classic as well. And then there is probably stuff we never heard about, just waiting to blow our minds and budgets, should Someone decide to grace our humble lifes with it…
RW5 – Which concerts?
We already know the origins of Sleepwalking+Lacuna/Sunrise, Manmower (video here), and Köln/Un Chien. Left to figure out is Ship of Fools and Taifun.
I have checked against surfaced audience sources from the fall tour.
Turns out Ship of Fools is from Leipzig. Maybe they knew it was the one they were looking for, maybe they stumbled upon it while going back for Lacuna/Sunrise. This is the third time Conne Island and Leipzig is represented on a RW. The Other Other Fool on RW1 is from Leipzig, as is The Bomb-Proof Roll & Beyond on RW4. Must be something in the water!
Now, as you might have noticed, Taifun begins with the outtro of Ship of Fools.
It was played directly after SoF during eight concerts:
Amsterdam, Oct 24.
Sint Niklaas, Oct 26.
Zwolle, Oct 28.
Zagreb, Nov 2.
Livorno, Nov 4. – No
Cologne, Nov 8. – No
Leipzig, Nov 9. – No
Trondheim, Dec 9. – No
Audience sources of four of them have surfaced, and it is neither of them. This leaves us with four possible concerts, as listed above. If I had to bet, I would place my money on Sint Niklaas based on the assumption that they found this one while going back for the extraordinary version of Manmower. It also makes sense from a mixing point of view. (Fewer sources to prepair and combine).
Ship Of Fools – Conne Island, Leipzig, Nov 9. 2017
Sleepwalking – Conne Island, Leipzig, Nov 9. 2017
Lacuna/Sunrise – Conne Island, Leipzig, Nov 9. 2017
Manmower – De Casino, Sint Niklaas, Oct 26. 2017
K̦ln РStollwerk, Cologne, Nov 8. 2017
Un Chien d´Espace – Stollwerk, Cologne, Nov 8. 2017
Taifun – De Casino, Sint Niklaas, Oct 26. 2017?
Anyone here who does not need the 2CDs/Blueray, and who would want to sell it for a modest price similar to the price such a release would have, had it been released separately? I ask because of a special situation. Any help will be greatly appreciated, also just the CDs including cover.
Edit: Not relevant anymore
Someone saw Ship of Fools and decided to film the rest of the concert. The trio on fire in Russia!
