Iron & Wine

It should be clear by now that reviews aren’t really my thing. If you come to this blog and you like to read, you should somehow “reactivate” Sr. Cartmanez…
Iron & Wine played in Cologne as a full band this time promoting the new album “Kiss Each Other Clean” (which you will not find here, but Google is always a friend for something like that). As expected, the concert was beautiful and although the new album didn’t really do it for me I must say the new direction Sam Beam took with this LP is really fun in concert. Below you’ll find some videos I made. Pretty awesome versions of Teeth In The Grass And Boy With A Coin. Our german-speaking readers can also take a look at this review. It features some pictures, some videos including mine and somewhere the word “funkig” (Jesus Christ…).

Godspeed You!Black Emperor

[Space reserved for Sr.C. and his review, when he listens to the live recording. We accept donations for a good whiskey to speed up the process…]


Just a few words from me. The reunion of GY!BE was probably the most exciting announcement we got all year. I had seen them once again live in 2002, I think, but the memories weren’t that vivid anymore. The problem with concerts is that they are a one-time experience. An amazing one. Any mood you’re in in that particular moment or period, any emotion filters itself through the music for those 2 hours, leaving you sometimes excited, depressed, tired, confused. But the only way to relive that, would be to go back in time and watch it again. You stay only with the feeling. But I always found interesting how I found myself watching bands I’ve seen before. There’s always something different about it. Sometimes you see that you’ve outgrown something. Our taste in music is after all constantly changing shapes. Sometimes you get a new feeling to carry with you. Sometimes you will be strangely unaffected and the next day you’ll be listening to the whole discography of a beloved artist to find out why that was… And sometimes you will almost relive the original one. Which you think you have actually kind of forgotten. But GY!BE was a unique concert. Maybe due to the fact that it wasn’t a “new” tour. We didn’t have to listen to new songs and pay attention to what they’re gonna play next. That kind of a concert, if successful, gives you the opportunity to just build up on the old one. And get a new feeling from it, to have with you. Mixed with the new interpretations and emotions to make a new bundle. And given the mindfuck that this concert was, we got quite a nice bundle.
“Swirling your brain” would be a nice description. Really, to see that kind of music happen in front of you needs a word, that I can’t find. And I’m sitting quite long on that sentence.

You can download the high quality recording from Brussels from Archive.org.

The Unwinding Hours - Acoustic Tour CD (The Full Moon Updates)

The Unwinding Hours have risen from the ashes of the great Aereogramme. In their first album Craig B. and Iain Cook didn't forget our needs for haunted ballads and emotional outbursts with a scottish accent. Not only that (treat), but in their spirng tour they visited Europe with a mini-album in their bags. It continues the tradition of acoustic versions and b-sides during the tour like they used to do as Aereogramme. Turn down the lights, get your glass and if you're lucky enough to read this tonight go to the window and watch the full moon...

The Unwinding Hours, 06.04.2010, Werkstatt, Cologne

Mark Lanegan - Live At Leeds (The Full Moon Updates)

I was thinking about it the other day... What are really the most important concerts I have gone to? If you are a constant concert-goer and a music enthusiast, it's really hard to pick one. Or ten. So I'm gonna forget about that for a moment and just tell you that if you see Mr. Lanegan alone singing to an acoustic guitar is an experience you will never forget. I even think Sr. Cartmanez was looking for his whiskey when listening to him from my cell phone. Luckily for us, there was an acoustic CD from the same tour on the Merch-table from his performance in Leeds. It really doesn't capture the real vibe, but we must learn to live with substitutes, bootlegs and FLACs.
Enjoy.

Take a look at these. They're from Berlin, from the same tour.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAroy24#grid/user/2E4F0E87C5FD5E8B

Murder By Death in Thessaloniki

Yesterday Murder by Death played in Athens. Tomorrow they'll be playing in Thessaloniki in Block 33 (former Ydrogeios). Don't miss it. They are a hell of a band. Check out some videos from their Concert in Cologne last year. And then go buy a ticket.

And here's "End Of The Line".

Γ. Αγγελάκας & οι Επισκέπτες - 14.07.09, Μύλος, Θεσσαλονίκη / G. Aggelakas & oi Episkeptes - 14.07.2009, Mylos, Thessaloniki

Our days in the sunny side of the world were not that many, but thankfully we got to see one of our favorite greek artists live on stage. Summer breeze, some alcohol, good friends and great songs were the elements that added one more highlight in that great summer we had... We will probably come back with a detailed tribute to the artist himself, his current projects, as well as the legendary band "Trypes". Until then, YouTube is your friend. Below you will find a playlist with our videos from the concert. Only the first song is taken from another live-set, but the awesomeness of the song made it necessary to put on screen the whole 2009 live version... Visit our YouTube channel for better quality and for the High Definition Videos!

Special thanks goes to Marina and her incredible new HD Camera! (We must get ourselves one of those...)

"Βάλε φωτιά σε ό,τι σε καίει, σε ό,τι σου τρώει την ψυχή
Έξω οι δρόμοι αναπνέουν διψασμένοι, ανοιχτοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από γιορτή σε γιορτή
Ζήσε μαζί μου στον αέρα, στη φωτιά στη βροχή
Μας περιμένουν άδειες μέρες ραγισμένοι ουρανοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από πληγή σε πληγή..."

Prodigy, 03.03.2009, E-Werk, Cologne

Prodigy rocked the house on 03.03.2009 in Cologne and we were there to witness it. After five years of absence Prodigy return with a brand new album and the promotional tour. This was the first time I saw them live and I could say that they still deliver! The show was really powerful and the new album is pretty good. Prodigy will not change music like they did 20 years ago, but who cares? We can still dance our asses off...
Below, as usual, some photos and videos to get the idea.
The first one is a compilation of our own recordings. The second one is a YouTube playlist from the best (AND FULL) videos we could find.

Setlist
- World on Fire
- Their Law
- Breath
- (breathe dbstp)
- Omen
- Poison
- Warriors Dance
- Firestarter
- (action riff)
- Run
- Voodoo People
- Comanche
Encore
- Invader Must Die
- Diesel Power
- Smack My Bitch Up
- Take Me To The Hospital



Slideshow

OPEN ALBUM IN A NEW WINDOW

Pink Floyd - Athens, 31.05.1989

On the 31st May in the year of our Lord 1989 Pink Floyd set foot for the first and last time in the Olympic Stadium in Athens. An because God loves us every once in a while, there was a camera in the stadium, which recorded almost 90 minutes of this historic concert. Quality is pretty good, given that the video is almost 20 years old.

This is the whole setlist, unfortunately not all of it is included in the video...

Shine On You Crazy Diamond pts 1,2,3,5
Signs of Life
Learning to Fly
Yet Another Movie
+ Round and around
A new machine part 1
Terminal Frost
A new machine part 2
Sorrow
Dogs of War
On the Turning Away

One of These Days
Time
On the Run
Great Gig in the Sky
Wish You Were Here
Welcome to the Machine
Us and Them
Money
Another Brick in The Wall pt 2
Comfortably Numb

One Slip
Run Like Hell

Video:
ON RS. (Alternative file hosters will follow)
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3

Here is two tracks from the video, so you can get an idea...
Welcome to the Machine

Time

"Sorry about the rain, but it's a Radiohead gig..." - Berlin, 8. Juli 2008

A long overdue post. We didn't keep the updates as prompt as we hoped. However, here are the videos of this wonderful concert. A great setlist and an overall good appearance from the band. Many highlights, perhaps (looking back at the concert) the best were "There There", "All I Need" and "Where I End And You Begin" in the rain. And of course all the "OK Computer" tracks.


Setlist:

15 Step
Airbag
There There
All I Need
Where I end and you Begin
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
The Gloaming
Videotape
No Surprises
Jigsaw Falling into Place
My Iron Lung
A Wolf at the Door
Reckoner
Everything in its right place
Bangers
Bodysnatchers

1st Encore

Cymbal Rush
You and Whose army
Paranoid Android
Dollars and Cents
Idioteque

2nd Encore

House of Cards
The National Anthem
Street Spirit

And, as usual a series of photos and videos, for those who are interested.

Some Modeselektor Videos. Great support. Check them out!






Radiohead photosets:

Set 1
Set 2

An Some Videos:

Weird Fishes


No Surprises


Jigsaw Falling Into Place


My Iron Lung


Reckoner


Paranoid Android


Idioteque


House of Cards

Murder By Death - Cologne, 07.07.2008

A detailed review of this great concert will follow in the near future. I just need to be in the right mood and unfortunately that cannot happen right now.
Until then, fill two glasses with whiskey (the second one is for the devil) and listen to their albums one by one. (I'll make the start by offering number 1...
Then if you're drunk enough you can watch my videos from the concert. Audio is not very good, but they catch the mood of the concert...

Let the devil come. Let him come...

Slideshow



Photoalbum

Murder By Death

Videos

Rum Brave



Those Who Stayed

Berlin Grooves

This is just a placeholder for our impressions of the Berlin Radiohead Gig tomorrow which are set to follow until the end of the week.

Until then, enjoy. Greater things to come.

FOR THE ACTUAL POST CLICK HERE

Radiohead - Amsterdam, 1. Juli 2008

Setlist:

01 Bodysnatchers
02 All I Need
03 The Nation Anthem
04 15 Step
05 Lucky
06 Nude
07 Street Spirit
08 There There
09 The Gloaming
10 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
11 Idioteque
12 Faust Arp
13 Videotape
14 Just
15 Bangers and Mash
16 Everything In Its Right Place
17 Reckoner
Encore 1
18 House of Cards
19 Climbing Up The Walls
20 A Wolf At The Door
21 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
22 Karma Police
Encore 2
23 Super Collider
24 How To Disappear Completely
25 Planet Telex

Here's the recording of this wonderful concert (FLAC).
Credit goes to the original uploader and recorder Bunzing.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
(RS.com, you need all parts to extract)

Here are two slideshows from the concert.
(Direct links to the online albums for better viewing at the end of the post)


These are not our photos. Just a selection of images across the web. Credit to the original photographers.



Bodysnatchers




Lucky



Street Spirit



There, There



Idioteque





Bangers & Mash



Climbing Up The Walls



Jigsaw Falling Into Place





Super Collider



Planet Telex



Photoalbums

Radiohead Amsterdam

Radiohead Amsterdam 2

The Gathering - Live at Paradiso, 19.09.2006