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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
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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.
@ The Other Anders – Thanks. I just cannot wait! I'm sitting at home itching to leave the house and start the adventure … and the doors don't open for another six hours! Unfortunately there will be one (maybe two) support acts tonight, and the venue has an 11pm curfew, so I don't expect this to be a long gig. Thankfully I'll be seeing them in Köln too in a couple of weeks.
@ Halitosis If you're going tonight, maybe you can help with posting the setlist here later as there's a fair chance I won't know one or two of the tracks. And if you see a bespectacled tall guy in a light brown Magma T-shirt, come over and say Hi.
@Halitosis – I just looked up the capacity for this venue and it is indeed 800. I do know that in 2014 they played the Jazz Cafe, which apparently holds 420. From memory, the Borderline is smaller (I've been there a few times over the years), as is The Garage, which holds 600. So this might indeed be the biggest so far. To be honest, I should be surprised if it's sold out. It's a tragedy how little known they are over here. I was only just introduced to them a couple of months ago and I've been spreading the word as much as possible because MP are so far beyond pretty much every band out there (that I know of
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