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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 same place as in Gelsenkirchen 2 weeks ago. Great view, great feeling.
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 after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
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 support act. This time it was Snow Patrol who were better received by the audience than the Kaiser Chief’s were in Paris (I guess it’s the French’s fault 
)
While standing on the stage left side in Paris (close to the outer ring) and having a good view on Adam Clayton, I had seats for the show in Amsterdam. Due to the fact that we were sitting basically under the arena’s ceiling, I had a whole different experience. The visual effects and the looks of the lighting work very differently if you are far from the stage. Not in a bad way, just a different experience.
Still no “Mysterious ways” for me, I hoped they’d play the song, due to the fact that it was the 2nd show day in Amsterdam and it often was on the 2nd setlist for a city … but not this time.
More pictures on flickr: U2 360° Tour Amsterdam Set
Complete setlist after the break.
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. Buy his records (or download them on iTunes, whatever)
Sophia were great, the place was less crowded than their last gig in Luxembourg, but this time it seemed that only the fans where there, and less people who showed up without knowing anything about the band and the music. A circumstance that pleased me, an it felt like the band liked it too.
All in all a great concert evening, very different than the night before.
Tags: atelier, concert, fitzsimmons, folk, sophia
Hey there … as mentioned before, I assisted the “Providers – Coverband” at their concert at the St. Joseph church in Esch-sur-Alzette tonight. The local church organizes a festival concert style evening once a year, as far as I know for the fourth time this year, and it is the third time the providers play this place (3 in a row! yeay! ).
The setup for lights is quite easy because the place looks gorgeous even before we capture the stage. The architecture in itself plays for us and makes nice looks a real no brainer. Due to the fact that the stage is set before the altar, we can change between a real impressive big look, by lighting the complete altar space or fade the whole scenery out and create a nice warm cozy look on stage.
One thing is though that the space on stage is rather limited, so our musicians have to cuddle on stage 
. To make this cozy sitting room feeling even more realistic, we setup several old fashioned TV Sets on Stage, a nice place to show our usual big screen visuals.
The crowd was amazing, quite cold at the beginning of the show, but really on fire as soon as the setlist switched to some upbeat songs.
Tags: arkaos, church, concert, LED, Licht, Photography, providers, Tour, video
Hooray! I believe this might be my final breakthrough.
I worked for a local company this weekend, on a larger music event featuring One Republic, Sunrise avenue, Revolverheld and more and today someone posted me a link, with the comment “you’re on youtube”.
Well he was right, sec 0:28 the black shadow like thing with the cam
One more important thing struck me though. Why are people paying an entrance fee, to finaly watch the whole event on the display of their crappy mobile phones? Taking a few pictures is one thing but what I saw there … wicked … I’m getting to old for this world
After spending half my weekend in a marvelous Audi Q7 (I love that car!) on my way to the Fury farewell show I spend half my evening on the way to a Coldplay show yesterday. Thanks to the mother of all traffic jams followed by the mother of all parking lot searches I missed the support act (does anyone know who played?) and was even close to missing the show. (Evil german roads!)
What a show! They had every show effect available on the market! ALL of them!
Moving curtains to start smooth, lasers, awesome video spheres, a 4-Barco Cluster, moving grids and last but not least the most impressive confetti lunch (actually it was more of a continuous never ending rain) that I’ve ever seen. But without all the bells and whistles, there was not much Coldplay left. Sound was close to awful and a 90 minute show might be enough but I felt like something was missing.
Positive thing is that I didn’t like the new album before the show and now can’t stop listening to it. Well done guys.
Maybe they are pushing the show part to much, maybe I’m too much in love with club gigs, maybe I was ina bad mood because of the freaking traffic jam. Doesn’t matter, if you have the chance to see them, buy a ticket!
I spend my weekend in Hannover, to say goodbye to one of the coolest Bands I know, or knew. After more than 20 Years the Furys will leave us but won’t retire yet. The last show was quite emotional even though the setlist was quite the same as for the rest of the tour.
We saw a whole set of the greatest Fury Hits, an unplugged Set in the middle of the crowd and a crowd-surfing, overweight german TV Star.
Won’t forget these days, and I never thought I would!
One more thing. The king is dead, long live the king. It might be Fury in the Slaughterhouse’s end, but there was also a reunion. Hannover needs at least one decent Rockband and therefore Terry Hoax are back together.
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