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hey everyone, first batch right here !!! loud chaotic and in your face ! Great show http://www.motorpsychodelicclips.com/
Wow! Bernie, you've out-bernied yourself this time! Next you'll post the vids BEFORE the gig…
Thank you very, very much!
@Johnny_Heartfield HAHAHA ! i know…personal record this time ..;glad you noticed
@Suntripper : thanks…no good spot for the gopros so out of necessity but there you go..;and it kinda looks like people are recording on their phones
x bernie
First time seeing Motorpsycho after a gap of two years was intense! Opening with "NOX" reduced the following set to a mere afterthought, I felt. "NOX" itself climaxed in a claustrophobic, nightmarish, inescapable, almost unbearable vortex of noise, overwhelming all senses. Tomas was great in this last movement of "Nox". Later in the set they went deep another time during "Hallucifuge". While Vooruit is a magnicent venue and room, it was unfortunately ill fitted for this type of loud and heavy music, but it was alright directly in front of the stage where we stood. The band lost about half of the crowd over the course of the set (they started at 22:45 and played for 115 min). And what's with the moustaches, btw?
Shame if there was a bad sound on site, bernie's videos sound fantastic…
This being a festival with lots of loud bands, was it only MP's problem? Losing half of their crowds? Maybe NOX was simply too wild and intense for the stoner crowd…
@ supernaut: Losing half the crowd? Not bad, but CAN alledgedly did it better in 1970 – at their first gig with Damo Suzuki in Munich they lost almost everybody – only 10-15 per cent remained – or was it 10-15 people?
The sound generally sucked in the big hall, so other bands sounded shitty too (some folks could not bear to watch 1000 Mods like that).
I wouldn't overstate the fact that the hall emptied during the set, after all this was a fairly long set for a festival setting and it was quite late. A person who is somewhat interested in MP will use this festival occasion to check them out but he might not necessarily stay until the very end given the fact that this person has already seen many other bands earlier. So of course the MP-tourist will leave after about an hour. That's the way festivals work, you check out a band for a couple of songs and move on. In Antwerp, which was the bigger and more important event, they devoted the first hour of the set to material which was more appropriate for a festival so the casual festival tourist got his/her money's worth and a more streamlined impression of MP in 2021.
Fwiw, Electric Moon, who are a good draw for this crowd, also played an afterhours set starting late past midnight and overlapping with MP's set, so folks will have wandered over to the small stage as well. But of course MP being the headliner should be expected to manage to captivate the majority of the crowd. However, they are an aquired taste and their type of prog rock is probably too much to stomach for the average Stoner Rock fan, so yes, they managed to empty the hall
Does it matter to us? I don't think so…
NOX is over 40 mins of music without any understandable lyrics.
At the Rosendal performance there was 90 min non stop music where the vocals was more or less impossible to make any sense of.
MP is at the border of what rock music can be, there should be no surprise to anyone this concept don't appeal to lots of people.
At Rosendal the concept was music & dance – so not necessarily conceived for an ordinary "rock" audience, though probably everybody came just for that.
@ mikke:
– MP is at the border of what rock music can be, there should be no surprise to anyone this concept don't appeal to lots of people. – Yep, the concept is called "Ãœberwagner"
@johnny
fillmore reported they lost half of the crowd. But yes that's also a common and understandable side effect of festivals.
Since you mentioned it…: I was lucky with Damo. Times have changed obviously. We did a show couple of years back that drew maybe 60 people and only about 10-15% left. :mrgreen:
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