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2010-10-16
DE – Bochum - Zeche |
| One of my alltime faves is on tour again, stopping by near me, on my birthday, on a weekend (ok, does not really count in my case)… what a fabulous combination of coincidences ;) Such birthday downright needs to be celebrated! Sounds like a great party, right? Yeah… ;) :: pics :: Anyway, this
Saturday started almost perfectly with a bday cake brought to
my bed, some action till noon with my beloved nephew and family,
bday guests in the afternoon with some great presents and then…
it was already time to head for the Zeche
Bochum with my party-ally Wiebke (Hotel666.de).
With a super
early kick off Swedish support :: BREARDFISH
:: entered stage and started to rock; 70’s tinged
Prog Rock as its best. With their most recent effort Destined
Solitaire they for the first time did not release a concept
album. But, only one song was played from this one. Two songs
came from each Sleeping In Traffic 1 and 2 respectively.
The audience met the band with reservation at first, but with
every new song people got into the music and released BEARDFISH
with a warm and welcome applause when the last tone of Green Waves
was gone. Yes, I liked the bearded men ;)
Obligatory
change-over, but no time to grab us a beer, as we did not want
to lose our place in front of stage ;) Finally, lights were turned
off and :: PAIN
OF SALVATION :: jumped onto stage with the intro
of Remedy Lane in the background, kicking off with
Ending Theme. Funnily, we were just listening to this album
in the car ;) Anyway, great beginning; this album is much popular
and everybody knows the songs. Right after the Swedes went through
their entire history (only One Hour By The Concrete Lake
was not considered). Atmosphere and mood were on a fabulous level
in a twinkling of an eye. Singer Daniel Gildenlöw once again
showed is great entertaining abilities, took neither himself nor
the band too serious. Sound wiz Fredrik Hermansson was the first
one teased, then the Swedish audience received its just deserts
and then he put attending fans on. Hahaha… yes, it was funny,
indeed. At least drummer Leo was left dry this time (as he was
not during the Greece shows). But I missed his drum solo. Oh,
no… erm… there was a drum solo… but not by Leo
all alone, everybody was involved *laughs* Before The Perfect
Element got played a line of toms were put on stage with sticks
for everyone. PAIN OF SALVATION is always good for a surprise!
No show is like the next one. However, the guys rock and joke
and a pure blast on stage, as well as the crowd has. Linoleum
is the perfect track to rock your soul off the body. After a look
back into the past a trilogy of new songs from Road Salt
– Ivory follows (No Way, Road Salt, Of Dust)
for which the stage gets decorated with banners and a pulpit from
which Daniel can “preach” now. Looks like a wobbly
matter this set-up ;) Oh, btw… another question got answered.
The bass player is… Per Schelander again. At least for the
tour. POS are still in need of a permanent bass player,
I would have a suggestion… ;) Way too fast the show was
over and the band vanished. One and a half hour is nothing for
a PAIN OF SALVATION show. Really. Five minutes of screaming,
shouts and chants and Daniel came back to please us with an encore,
Leonard Cohens Hallelujah. What more to say? Once again a grandiose show, a great evening and a likewise bodacious birthday. I so love this band! As the band promised, they took a shower and then came back to the merchandise to sign everything wanted (also my LP) and chatting with the fans. Unfortunately the Saturday disco closed in quickly with terrible music and heaps of kids getting drunk till midnight… *grrrr*. I wish there would have been a better surrounding after such show…
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