August 2009

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• SCB – Gala “Anniversary” 2009

  14.12.2009 in Touring!

  Sporting Club Belvaux is a local artistic gymnastics club and these guys organize a large show on a regular basis. Stage design has been provided for the 6th or 7th time by myself and 2 colleges. Due to time restrictions and several budget cuts, we had to come up with a design that could be [...]

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• 10 Years – Cheers!

  26.10.2009 in Touring!

  Stage design for a local band celebrating their 10th anniversary. For this occasion the 10 musicians (11 during that time) invited all former members of the band to join them for one very special evening. An because that still wasn’t enough pain for the sound guys, several brass musicians and a percussionist were invited to [...]

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• U2 360°Tour 2009, Wembley Stadium, London, UK

  16.08.2009 in Touring!, Travel!

  or … I still haven’t heard what I was hoping for Last night I saw the 4th 360° Show on my personal 360°Tour in London. Amazing night! what a Location, what a band, what a crowd. Unfortunately “Mysterious ways” didn’t make it onto the setlist … again. This time I was standing at quite the [...]

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• U2 360° Tour, Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

  4.08.2009 in Touring!, Travel!

  Still looking for Mysterious ways. Everything about the lighting and the stage has been said in the previous post about the concert in Paris an Amsterdam. This was the first one, I was from the Front of Stage side. Quite a view … different experience again. More pictures on flickr: U2 Gelsenkirchen Set Complete Setlist [...]

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• U2 360° Tour, Amsterdam ArenA, The Netherlands

  22.07.2009 in Touring!

  Saw U2 for the second time on their 360° Tour in Amsterdam yesterday evening. After quite a stressful drive to the capital of the Netherlands, and the quest for the right train to the Stadium (thanks to the dutch guys who were so kind to help us out) we got there several minutes before the [...]

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• U2 360° Tour, Stade de France, Paris

  12.07.2009 in Touring!

  Just came back from Paris to se the first of 4 Shows of U2′s gigantic 360° Tour. Much has been said about the Stage, but words can’t describe that construction. Mark Fisher, the guys At Stufish and Willie Williams did something epic here. Even in a large Arena like the Stade de France, the stage, [...]

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• Hotel Cristall, Cologne

  21.05.2009 in Travel!

  The Hotel Cristall is a 3 star hotel in the center of Cologne, Germany. The location is hard to find by car but easily reachable by foot (as long as you find the Dom). It has no parking lot and available parking space on the road near the hotel is limited. Nevertheless, there are some [...]

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• Sophia & William Fitzsimmons @ den atelier

  21.05.2009 in Listen!, Touring!

  No 24 hours after having seen the hard-rockers of AC/DC in Cologne, I’m back at home and in my favorite club. Sophia are playing at den atelier with support act William Fitzsimmons. First of all, this man amazed me. He’s a gifted singer/songwriter who plays sad and slow folk songs, just he and his guitar. [...]

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• AC/DC Black Ice Tour – Cologne, Germany 19/05/2009

  20.05.2009 in Listen!, Touring!

  I had the great luck to get tickets for this AC/DC Tour (german stadium concerts were sold out in 77 minutes). They are one of the few bands that one has absolutely to see in your life (or theirs) comparable to the Rolling Stones or for british heavy metal fans maybe Iron Maiden, too. As [...]

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• Mac III

  4.05.2009 in Buy!, Touring!

  A few weeks ago I had the chance to lay my hands on a brandnew Martin Mac III for an hour. Here my first impressions. This fixture is big, and by big I mean enormous. The 2k was not a small fixture but this is definitly no kids playground anymore. The design is well done [...]

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