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Here's a list of songs they've played so far this tour (starting 16 September at Trondheim – up until 28 October at Zwolle), as far as I have been able to ascertain. This list might, of course, contain one or two errors or oversights. The count is 50.
1 A Pacific Sonata
2 A.S.F.E.
3 August
4 Bartok of the Universe
5 Cloudwalker
6 Coalmine Pony
7 Cornucopia
8 Critical Mass
9 Entropy
10 Feel
11 Flick of the Wrist
12 Fool's Gold
13 Go to California [3 min version, played in Cornucopia]
14 Halleluwa [excerpt in Spin, Spin, Spin]
15 Heartattack Mac
16 Hell parts 1-3
17 Here Be Monsters
18 Hey, Jane
19 High Time [i.e. Up 'Gainst the Wall]
20 I.M.S.
21 In Every Dream Home
22 In Our Tree
23 Into the Sun
24 Intrepid Explorer
25 Kill Some Day
26 Lacuna/Sunrise
27 Manmower
28 No Evil
29 On a Plate
30 Pill, Powders, and Passion Plays
31 Plan #1
32 Riding the Tiger
33 Ship of Fools
34 Spin, Spin, Spin
35 Stained Glass
36 Starmelt, Lovelight
37 Superstooge
38 Taifun
39 The Alchemyst
40 The Cuckoo
41 The Golden Core
42 The Tower
43 Theme de Yoyo
44 Un Chien D'espace
45 Upstairs – Downstairs
46 Vortex Surfer
47 Watersound
48 The Wheel
49 Year Zero
50 You Lied [i.e. Walking on the Water]
I hope some of you find this interesting or handy.
I have been keeping a list of all the tracks played so far this tour, but maybe missed a couple. The count I have so far is 48. I'll compare with Setlist.fm.
I have been keeping a list of all the tracks played so far this tour, but maybe missed a couple. The count I have so far is 48. I'll compare with Setlist.fm.
You people are great. A walk along the river sounds ideal. Please make yourselves known to me. I'm about 1.85m, balding, with glasses and i'll be wearing a My Sleeping Karma T-shirt for easy identification (see design below).
@Un.Chien.d.Espace – Thank you! I'll look into it. Usually I'd be happy to walk that distance, but at night in an unknown city I'm not so sure.
Here's comments a couple of friends made:
"I thought last night was so much better than the Garage [in London] gig last year. They seemed much more up for it, their energy was amazing. As a band for me they just make everyone else sound second rate. I'm still trying to take it all in really. I need a bit more time to put it all into perspective. I'm mostly delighted for them, they showed just how bloody brilliant they are and pleased also that we all had such a blast."
"Amazing gig..start to finish. Must go down as one of my best ever." [This from a guy who sees about 100 bands per year!]
@AtTheBorderGuy – Nicely put – I totally agree.
@tkm – I'm glad you thought their mood was better this year. I just wish the rest of the UK could discover this band and realise how brilliant they are. I'm living proof that it's not too late to become a psychonaut. I really hope they come back again.
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What can I say! Not sure where to start. How about un-fucking-believable! Putting it into words, kind of diminishes the brilliance of it, but I'll try.
That was one hell of a gig. Overwhelming to say the least. The sheer no-holds-barred committment to being in the moment, but driving towards an unknown but transcendent destination. Karnevil9 said it beautifully "they just take you on a journey with their mesmerising jams and the way they build their sound to this complete tripped out Nirvana!" Fucking awesome Рcannot wait for K̦ln.
Setlist? My lack of experience combined with my being very stoned last night means there would be gaps and question marks here except that someone already posted on Setlist.fm. However, I have added one question mark here because I thought there was one more track – but I could easily be wrong – I wasn't keeping count
ASFE
Intrepid Explorer
Dream Home
The Alchemyst
Upstairs/Downstairs
Ship of Fools
Stained Glass
?
The Tower
Bartok
The Wheel
Plan #1
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PPP
I believe they played for a little less than two hours. The audience was woefully thin, which I'm sure must have been disappointing for the band too, and might put them off coming here again. Nobody likes to play to only half-full venues.
Highlights: the whole freaking gig!
ASFE was a great opener. I was already psyched up for this so the energetic explosion of ASFE came on like a glorious late punk anthem and I was very, very close to pogoing (but at 55 my pogoing lacks the energy of years gone by
)Intrepid Explorer – my first experience of the Motorpsycho tripped out jam. This blew my mind – the wall of sound, building by increments of volume, attack, colour, shade, everything. Heaven.
Upstairs/Downstairs – Beautiful, jazzy, trippy. HORN!!!
Stained Glass – I remember it as very laidback and trippy and one of the more luscious and quietly gorgeous moments of the evening. I defintiely swooned.
The Wheel – This was the longest track of the evening (longer than Ship of Fools). And was definitely a serious highlight. Again with the slowly building wall of sound, Kristoffer's persistent keyboard pushing through the surface then sinking back down, while all four members added brick upon heavier brick. Glorious.
PPP – As Karnevil9 says, a much-needed chill-out. A calming, affecting, beautiful ending to the evening,
Loved Kristoffer's horn and keyboards throughout the gig. His guitar was ok Рmore functional than anything, adding a layer and allowing Snah more room to do his thing. I could have done with Snah being a lot louder in the mix Рbut that's a minor issue. Hopefully this will not be an issue when I see them next, in K̦ln.
Tomas was superb – unobtrusive, complimentary, playing with both power and grace.
Being in the presence of Bent and Snah was a bit crazy. In the very short time since I was introduced to Motorpsycho and started to immerse myself in the music and then become rather obsessive with the whole Motorpsycho musical Weltanschauung (as I understand it with my limited experience), these two gentlemen have quickly become mythic figures of my imagination. To actually be there and see them in action was such a high.
This goes down as one of a number of remarkable gigs for me. I'd have to say Hawkwind and Neil Young and Crazy Horse are the only two other acts I can recall seeing play like this. Uncompromising in their dedication to creating a transcedent high not through the precise recreation of superb studio recordings, but through their interpretation as forces of energy, holding as fast as possible to the moment, to the immediacy of the live event. It's sad I never got into this band earlier, it really is. But then again, I'm so fortunate that I've now found them and that I was able to see them at all.
