25.3.2009 - St. Petersburg

vicus · 11 Mar 2009, 23:16

hmmm...

sunshine · 25 Mar 2009, 12:22

Do we have nobody from St.Petersburg here?

lachert · 25 Mar 2009, 15:35

good show tonight, folks

242headhunter · 25 Mar 2009, 19:23

enjoy!!!

242headhunter · 26 Mar 2009, 10:35

How was it?

euphoria · 26 Mar 2009, 15:26

Judging by this thread combined with Google translate, they seem to have played for 80 minutes and Andrew smoked 7 cigarettes. I guess it's irresistible to be in a very pro-smoking country for once.

_emma_ · 26 Mar 2009, 15:52

Scardwel · 26 Mar 2009, 16:18

I'll keep this brief. Got a gig to go to.

Same setlist as Helsinki.
No support act and an early 20:15 start (thanks btw you-know-who for the text msg warning me about this

) which caught alot of people out. I got to the venue at 19:50 and maybe 250 people were there. It slowly filled up during the show and by the encores the crowd had more than doubled in size. Oops.
Nobody seemed to know Crash & Burn at all (alot of blank looks) but people started moving from Ribbons onwards. Songs from Floodland and F&L&A got the biggest reactions (Dominion/MR especially - no surprise there) reaching their peak for the encores, by which time a large mosh pit had formed.
There were some problems with AE's mic during the first number and again during Marian, but despite these glitches it was still a good show. Sound mix was good and clear, and the lightshow was of the usual high standard.
Funny bit during the gig:
AE had finally lost patience with his radio mic, muttering "bollocks to this, I'm going to find an instrument with a cable attached" at which point Chris tries to hand him his guitar! Von's face was a picture!

Oh and nice to see the legendary drinking habits of russian people are no myth!

lachert · 26 Mar 2009, 16:33

nice

thanks Scardwel

pikkrong · 26 Mar 2009, 16:38

Scardwel wrote: No support act and an early 20:15 start

and could you tell me what was the official doors' opening time (on your ticket maybe)?

Scardwel · 26 Mar 2009, 16:45

pikkrong wrote: and could you tell me what was the official doors' opening time (on your ticket maybe)?

What ticket?

IIRC the website said 20:00, but I wrongly assumed that was the time the support act started, but of course there wasn't any. I have no idea if there will be a support band tonight (or in Tallinn) or not. Sorry.
I think the early start was due the very long drive to Moscow straight after. The band packed up their gear and left straight after the gig.

pikkrong · 26 Mar 2009, 17:05

thanks! no support band in Tallinn, as I have heard. that's why I asked.

Ozpat · 26 Mar 2009, 19:01

A review!

Thanks for that; very nice and enjoyable.

ATOD · 29 Mar 2009, 08:00

For this moment I found only this (at least) not bad visual from SPb concert:
http://spblife-info.livejournal.com/22966.html

+ some good photos
http://darkside.ru/report/3704/

Enjoy.

7anthea7 · 29 Mar 2009, 09:22

So, what I said over in the Moscow thread? Here too.

Back in time · 29 Mar 2009, 10:34

ATOD wrote:For this moment I found only this (at least) not bad visual from SPb concert:
http://spblife-info.livejournal.com/22966.html

+ some good photos
http://darkside.ru/report/3704/

Enjoy.

Thanks for the information ATOD, much appreciated, but I still wonder if there is an English version, I tried Google translation but the result is almost weird as karaoke versions of Sisters songs posted in another thread.

ATOD · 29 Mar 2009, 10:43

Hm, i don't know how to use google translation, but the review at darkside.ru is mostly about everything, but not Sisters. Author wrote a lot of diffuse stuff about british symbols of 80-90's and not so much about recent Sisters gig. Anyway the main idea of this text is that it's a great band without any parallels to those "press", stereotype things. If you come to this gig don't think of any music style, atributes etc... just stay alive and have fun.
Well, that's how i understood this text)

Back in time · 29 Mar 2009, 11:04

ATOD wrote:Hm, i don't know how to use google translation, but the review at darkside.ru is mostly about everything, but not Sisters. Author wrote a lot of diffuse stuff about british symbols of 80-90's and not so much about recent Sisters gig. Anyway the main idea of this text is that it's a great band without any parallels to those "press", stereotype things. If you come to this gig don't think of any music style, atributes etc... just stay alive and have fun.
Well, that's how i understood this text)

ATOD · 30 Mar 2009, 20:40

4 videos from one girl who has recorded some moments of the show. It includes marian, anaconda, this corrosion, flood II.
At Marian video you can see huge problems with Von's mike:(

http://www.filefactory.com/file/af8gcfc ... _part1_rar

http://www.filefactory.com/file/af8gch1 ... _part2_rar

4jrgsport72 · 30 Mar 2009, 22:37

Thanks again, ATOD

numan · 02 Apr 2009, 05:46

and a few more pictures from SPb:

http://www.muzbilet.ru/articles_view.php?item=53-149