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First time in Bulgaria for MP, I think.

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Phanerothyme has always been my favorite of the pop-era.
It’s pretty consistent and has unified/consistent songwriting + sound.

Only song I don’t like is B.S. (that tanzband guitar by Snah, oof). Other than that, 8 lovely + well-written psyche-pop-rock tunes reminiscent of The Doors, Love, Moby Grape etc.

A bit surprised to hear that Bent doesn’t like it much. I consider it vastly superior to both LTEC and IALC (LTEC lacking energy+direction, while IALC’s 2nd half features 3 of my alltime least favorite MP songs)

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Looks like Neigh is up in the international store now,
but not in the Norwegian store yet :(

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Thanks for the recording.

Damn, that version of PPPP is one for the history books

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Bag inspection at the airport, they took out the “Shock Me” 7″ I bought in Leuven, to do a cocaïne swab test only on the record.

Haha! I don’t blame customs tho. The first thing they thought when they saw the Kiss cosplay on the cover was probably cocaine

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Nice, more tour debuts

I’m guessing Laird of Heimly was played electric?
Hasn’t been anything acoustic so far this tour.

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The Alchemyst making its return. NICE

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An interesting tidbit about Saturday’s gig:

They played 0 – zero – covers.
Big contrast to Rockefeller 2023 where they played 4.

EDIT: And a big thank you to whoever uploaded their recording to Archive

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What a band! It’s so easy to take this band for granted when they’ve just been churning out great albums and even better tours for 35 years nonstop.

Last night was pretty awesome. Unlike in 2023 when this lineup felt a bit sloppy and under-rehearsed, they were a lot tighter tonight Songs from the new album mostly adapted really well live. A bit surprised they skipped Neotzar. But it was probably for the best since those 20 minutes gave space to some of the classics we got instead. I feel this was probably the most well-balanced setlist of the tour so far.

For those of you near the European cities they’re playing in April/May: MP are still alive and kicking

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Good to hear, Aki

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Has Dime’s Tracker changed in any way? I’ve tried it with various clients, but I get a Not Authorized error and can’t download. I want to listen to the current tour…

I don’t think the tracker has changed.
I was able to download the Bodø + Bergen gigs today.
I used the BiglyBT torrent client (had to switch from uTorrent because I was having problems with it)

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Now that is a way better setlist. Wouldn’t mind a huge chunk of this in Oslo

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A bit boring setlist, tbh. But makes sense when they only play 1h 45 min.

I’m guessing Verkstedhallen tomorrow will be longer and more exciting

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Regarding the video, there’s an interview with director Arild Osmundsen in Stavanger Aftenbladet. It also mentions that MP was supposed to make part of the soundtrack for one of his films “Underland”, which sadly was never made because of lead actor Vegar Hoels death, but parts of this music will be in his new movie “Alt skal bort”

https://www.aftenbladet.no/kultur/i/AvBp8E/ny-motorpsycho-video-er-spilt-inn-i-stavanger

I watched this movie earlier today. It had 2 normal MP tracks featured: Stanley and Waiting For The One (as end credits). They also contributed something called Alla Madre Improvisation for one of the more intense scenes in the movie. Post rock-y theme that built up to a lovely climax.
Nice easter egg for the visual clue as well

Nice little movie, if a tad overlong (then again my patience/attention span is fucked nowadays)

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Nice interview. I did however jump a bit in my chair when Bent called MP “bandet MITT”

Bent will also be guesting the NRK Stjernepose radio show Thursday Feb 27th.

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