I don't think I've ever seen an interviewer ask him if he's happy for all this unrecorded stuff, almost half of his output now, to just get lost to time because he won't record it. He's rarely challenged about it properly and let off the hook with half-arsed soundbites. I have also thought about th...
But he could easily break even due to the change in recording methods. New music is essentially merch and brand awareness at industry level. Exactly this! Simply release the new music as a marketing tool where for example all direct download earnings is a bonus, then charge more from promoters, pla...
Another reason this tour for sometimes muted crowd response may be the omission of Dominion/MR that usually gets the crowd going for real. It has never been my own favourite, but it's hard to deny the effect it has on the gig atmosphere. Maybe not this tour for obvious reasons. My feeling now is it ...
Audience's only bursting into life for the big guns has been way of things at Sisters gigs for decades. True, but there's still a difference between, let's say, There's a door and Giving ground, to take a relatively unknown released song as an example. There will be a hell lot more people recognisi...
I wouldn't draw any general conclusions from this tour announced in the pandemic, many people are still not comfortable with going to concerts, even in liberal Sweden.
I liked this one, and especially the crowd I found very much into it with even lots of people back at the walls dancing to some tunes! Unfortunately I arrived a bit late (Wroclaw centre is just too damn nice to hang around in!) but enjoyed a lot what I did see (Show Me-Caligula-Black Sail is an impr...
I can't attend this unfortunately, very nice city otherwise!
I'm increasingly thinking our old linguist is once again behind the Live News page updates, every town including this one correctly written in the local language, which certainly wasn't the case a few years ago.
Listening to the "cleaned" version of Eyes of Caligula, very clearly hit material, I can definitely see it getting frequent radio time if released! A real earworm.
Very true re Genevieve and DDOI. On the album they can be produced so they sound very different to each other I suppose. Otherwise we could have a replacement for the Jeep / Det medley...
Now THAT would improve the setlist from very good to absolutely perfect
Note to all the things that look like sweets on the bar are not sweets. They're ear plugs. I think I styled it out when I popped one on and started chewing though
Good to have Heartland's best live reporter present
I think the live show has been hugely revitalised by these new songs. They can now tour for a good few years on the back of them. I also get the sense that they're not holding anything back anymore. Maybe Von is thinking of retiring and has a now-or-never thing going on, who knows? Maybe he was hol...
Very good interview, really! Thanks a lot :D Some more details about the "recruitment" than I remember having read before. Did you meet him last night as well? IMO there has been a big change in sound and setlist even from the time of the interview, would be interesting to hear him (or someone else)...
I loved it! Maybe not everyone's cup of tea with fairly quiet crowd, but I love the enthusiasm from ALL on stage and especially centre-stage of course. Andrew sang all the new songs strong. Venue was not sold out but SO much nicer than Columbiahalle in Berlin. Much less smoke make for more contact w...
There's a review here Wow, I really like this review! Because it's neither written by a fan (the new songs are not mentioned at all), nor by someone who has done tonnes of research, and yet is positively surprised about both the lack of smoke and Andrew's voice and actually thinks the band sound mu...