any good? :D or :smt076 ?
i didn't really enjoy the new album too much :roll: but i'm going to go and see them live in helsinki when they get here in march and it would be interesting to hear any comments so far...
Well, I haven't been to a show in person, but I have an excellent DVD of their KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas show from last month (thanks to b.clark for making/sharing this).
I'm afraid I'm not an experienced "d.moder", but I think it was a very good performance. They surely put a lot of emotion and effort into their show. It got very wild at times. And they seemed to mix up the songs a lot ? not just new stuff.
I'll close with saying it was certainly entertaining. Again, I know nothing about them when compared to The Cure, so if I'm wrong and you end up going to a terrible show, please don't be mad at me! :oops:
it's promising to hear that one could maybe expect to hear a good mix of songs. i'm not that big "d. moder" either and in any case i'm afraid it's going to be a bit of a nostalgia trip for me - not the best attitude to go to a show yes i know but cannot help it with this one...
(actually i'm slightly afraid of d. gahan's performance: i mean all that jumping&waving of hands and those 'hey!' and 'yeah!' yelps he likes to do... he always makes me feel somewhat embarrassed for some reason... :roll: :oops: )
At least I *think* it's a good mix. :oops:
Ron has an audio show from November on his page. Have you checked that one out yet?
And yes, there's lots of jumping and waving. :-D Maybe that's what I meant when I said it gets "wild". It's a bit of a blur now, but sometimes they get absolutely crazy! Definitely much different than a Cure show... :shock:
thanks i hadn't noticed that show on ron's page for some reason, i must have been blind... :oops:
anyway i have nothing against a little bit (or even more) of jumping&waving in general, it's just my personal problem with a certain d.g.'s way of jumping&waving like a... well, just have to live with that i guess :wink:
lol! the jumping and waving. its something that grows on you I guess.
Its was more anoying in the mid-90's with that long hair. I just coulnt get used to it bouncing around the way it did.
Put it in a ponytail or else! :-D
glad to know that someone shares my pain :D :wink:
yep the hair.. with that combined to the amount of sweating that he usually does... i mean please... i find it really hard to visually enjoy it at times... but still, i can probably survive the hair but those repeated "yeah!"s drive me crazy...
my wife was there at the berlin-show (she's also going to see them in the "waldb?hne" in berlin), she said it was a really good show and the were in great shape
curiosa frank
thanks for info frank
i'm looking forward to seeing them then... :D
:smt006 marika
i'm going to Bratislava show (11 June) and i'm really looking forward...i've got tickets almost three months :D
i'm a little bit behind with any sort of report since the show was about 6 weeks ago... :oops:
but anyway, a very decent performance - although the new stuff doesn't really strike me that much. AND yes, there was enormous amount of jumping&waving of course, i was in the front beside the catwalk so i saw it all maybe a bit too well at times - and definitely a bit too many "yeahs!" there :roll: but hey, it was nice to be jumping&waving yourself with 'never let me down again'! ;-)
marika
saw them in Rome last month....
what an amazing perfomance... i enjoyed the whole show (every single track was played very good but Precious, a little bit slow) and liked very much the stage (with all those moving screens).
I das in front of Dave Gahan at 3 mt (+ or -)... what an unbelievable person!!
it actually gives me chill when i think of this concert :)
I was in Bratislava (Slovakia) 11.6.2006 and it was amazing, because I've never seen DM live before.
Quote from: charlotte sometimes on August 19, 2006, 14:53:26
...because I've never seen DM live before...
ah, i forgot to say that was the first time for me,too !
funny, i was actually a first timer too. always somehow managed to miss them until now.
but i have to say that i do feel that i really should have seen them earlier, during violator or something like that. SOFAD at the latest. it was a good show of course but still a bit too much of a nostalgia trip for me now - so probably not the band's fault, just my problem...
I don't know if at the shows you've attended has been the same but especially on "I Feel You" , "Personal Jesus" with those "rock-intro" the Olympic Stadium here in Rome seemed just to be...falling!
great! there was more than 50.000 people completely gone mad when those song was played.
and what about "photographic" ? and "enjoy the silence" and all the other songs..
definitely one of my favourite show,maybe because i've waited for long time to see them live :)
yes, 'i feel you' was one of the "huge ones", sure!
but they didn't play 'photographic', unfortunately. i think we got 'i just can't get enough' but none of the other really "ancient" songs.
hmm, and maybe the crowds were a bit too passive in this show that i attended, so that also affected my experience a bit. i was there among the first rows but even there it was a bit too calm, i think... some people just standing and staring...
(what i meant with 'nostalgic' was that it was mainly the old songs that struck me, the new stuff didn't really leave any special impression. so it was a bit of a "roller coaster": at some points you were 'woww' and then a few minutes later 'ok, maybe not so great..' - now THAT would never happen on a cure show! ;) )
anyway, definitely on the positive side and of course it was great to see them live, finally.
i recorded small video clips from the show with a small pocket camera and since i was up front i got some quite nice shots - i was planning to upload some here in case anyone would have liked to get a glimpse of the show (although it' would have been only mpeg-1 quality of course). but unfortunately something went wrong there and the sound got completely destroyed on the video clips :( it's really almost impossible to recognize the songs so it's not worth uploading any... sorry about that!
i just took some pictures,
nothing more... i knew my camera is not that good recording video... so i used it just for pictures :)
i didn't read..have you been at an indoor or outdoor show? :)
that was an indoors arena show - it was in march so no possibilities for outdoor gigs around here then, unfortunately.
i was going to go over to stockholm in july to see them on the stadium (together with muse!), but sadly i couldn't make the trip after all... i'm sure it would have been something worth seeing.
i wonder if anyone was there...?
a friend of mine saw both indoors and outdoors dates (he has attended the Milan shows [indoor] ,where they recorded the dvd and the Rome show [outdoor]) and although in the first show they recorded the dvd and they were in great shape, he told me that he preferred the outdoor show because you could live the show better..
i saw them 7 (!) times this year!
friedrichshafen
zurich
london
nürnberg
interlaken
locarno
nyon
3 indoo, 4 outdoor... every concert was unique! with its own story... 4 times photographic!! doesnt matter two!! great versions of home and in your room!! precious... ah, i dont like that song live...
the second band i saw that ofetn in one year! the other one was of course... the cure!! 16 times in 1992!!!
Saw them twice on this tour. On dec 05 in NYC, great concert, at a great city.
Then in May 06 in my country, Mexico. And this was by far the best show I've been this year.
70 thousand people at the concert!!!! Just listen to the recordings of live her now. Awsome!!! :rocker
One of the best showmans is Dave. And off course the best song in both gigs was Never let me down :D :D
Regards...
AR
oh yes...
Dave is ,of course, one of the best showman ever...... :rocker
I went to one show in Mexico City. Had to spend the night outside a record store to get my ticket. The day of the show I got to the stadium on the third song after a bad day at work, missed She Wants Revege, so I got very drunk! The setlist was no surprise after checking the other setlists, not very much could be seen from my seat, the show allos vey little deviations, maybe 40% of what you hear is actually being performed, but being with your friends listening to the music that brings you back to your youth is great! Loud thurders during Personal Jesus, and the rain pouring during Never Let Me Down Again. The way the rain looks through the lights, the crowd waving during the climax of the show, gave me an amazing feeling...Leave in Silence was the one that thrilled me the most, but would have preferred Blue Dress instead of Judas.
Quote from: Purple Orchid on August 29, 2006, 17:41:10
maybe 40% of what you hear is actually being performed,
i can't agree...
they're playing a lot of "music" you hear... i know if for sure, they don't use so much "tapes" ...just some effects..
i saw dm live on the 1st of august and they totally kicked ass!
i love them!
but their last album sux, indeed..
2 pop & 2 industrial..
i hate such stuff!