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Setlist:
Pills, Powders and Passionplays
Three Frightened Monkeys
This Is Your Captain
ÜberPilgrim
Core Memory Corrupt
Entropy
Patterns*
Sunchild**
Gullible’s Travails
Lucifer (Bringer Of Light)
Upstairs/Downstairs >
Bed Of Roses
Neotzar (The Second Coming) >
The Tower
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Fools Gold* Bent & Snah on acoustic guitars
** Bent, Snah & Reine on acoustic guitarsNotes:
– approx 2h 50mFrancesco
Yes, that was something. A great setlist of old and new stuff, perfectly framed by PPP and Fools Gold. Vocals pretty much on point as was the flow. You could tell they had a good time on stage. The sound was fine for the most part (I had a hard time hearing the guitars in some of the louder parts). The crowd was great as well (maybe a bit too much clapping but hey, the band encouraged it so who am I to nitpick). Lucifer took me a bit by surprise. I knew that it’s a great song but the energy in those guitar duels between Snah an Reine was incredible. Only one show for me this time but it was a great one.
Yes, my only show on this tour, too but what a great one!
The band started – like in Bern – with a six minute long improvisation. An ear witness told me that it was similiar with the Bern impro.
I compared it with the “Köln” track on Roadwork V: The Dresden impro is darker, gloomier. The guitar licks are much different.
I liked it that the band played six songs of the new albums (Neigh! and the self titled one) – If they don’t play the new songs now when else can I hear them?
The tour is almost over but the long songs (Gullible, Neotzar and Tower) are still played, even in the second half of the set.
Wow! I was wondering how this one could be so long given the setlist, that could be (part of) the answer. Hoping for a recording to surface!
From the band’s social media post:
“Dresden! That was The Bomb.
Thank you so much, we needed that! Nights like this are the reason we’re still out here doing this: All the toil is justified when the all becomes one and the music becomes a singular, magic entity like it did tonight. It is vital to sometimes be reminded of why you do what you do, and nights like this is why we’re still out here doing it. We first played this club 32 years ago, and it still is one of the best places we know. Thank you for this gift!”It is good to read such a statement from someone who was not at the concert…
The recording is on dime and it really turned out fine.
What a great night! Rather similar to Bremem, Beatpol (or back in the day Starclub) is rock-solid MP soil. In the club’s staircase hangs the (’95?) poster of the heroes we still have ….faded, yellow, brittle and old, but resilient as hell :)
15 minutes before the show, I thought: damn, this place looks sadly empty. However, the venue filled rapidly and judging from my attempts of getting a beer during the concert, it was sold out or at least close to it. Someone wrote about the audience before and I fully agree that the atmosphere and mood was splendid. My memory might be wrong, but I felt that the crowd was more enthusiastic than at recent shows and extraordinarily appreciative.
The way the set started was simply blissful perfection. After the gong-ladden (6-8 minute?) drone ambient intro, that unmistakable drum pattern cautiously sneaked in and you could really feel how the magic was instantly switched on and the room started to float when people recognized the first notes of PPP.
After that, quite a steam train departed. Lots of energy and really good sound (while getting a drink i noticed that the elevated spot at the bar had even better sound). If there were any issues in the mix, FOH handled them quite quickly.
Foot off the throttle with a great rendition of Entropy – nice to be remembered that it is a really good song. Patterns was really timid and intimate – i prefer the shoegazy electric version though tbh. After this smooth acoustic sideway spiral, GT definitely was a highlight! From previous setlists, I hoped to hear it and it was a blast!
Lucifer really unfolds with the physicality of the live situation. As many wrote before, the duelling guitars and how it relentlessly marches forward ist really amazing. It had the crowd all fired up and – my single minor complaint about the show – this would have been the perfect moment for a banger like sinful or kill some day. It would have blown the roof off Beatpol, as it probably did in Bremen and elsewhere. I admire that they (thankfully) deny themselves to become a nostalgia act, but a little fan service would have been really sweet.
After a rather jammy & instrumental set and the mid-tempo songs preceeding it, Neoztar was quite a tough cookie. A brilliant piece, perfectly delivered…..yet rather demanding and hard to dance to
Despite my personal dislike of the song, I must admit that The Tower works really well live.Nothing to say about “Fool’s Gold”. A classic concert closer. Not the big epic, but a wonderful goodbye!
see you next time!
P.S.: in the second half of the concert, between songs they had a lot of Schnaps from little bottles (Underberg?) I never took of note of that in the past haha
@marc
You surely meant: Hard to not to dance to :)@the conscience: of course, you can dance to any song if you really want to, but i think it’s harder than, let’s say, Go To California ;)
@marc
Yes, Underberg is the secret behind their silky smooth singing voices
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