Oslo, Norway, Sentrum Scene 20.03.09

Eggi1 · 22 Mar 2009, 20:07

Eva wrote: Funnily enough Eggi had similar problems...

Haha,that was not funny

euphoria · 23 Mar 2009, 01:40

After having experienced it last summer, I'm hugely impressed they could stay on-stage even 60 minutes.

Eva · 23 Mar 2009, 06:47

euphoria wrote:After having experienced it last summer, I'm hugely impressed they could stay on-stage even 60 minutes.

Yep. I'm very grateful they didn't cancel the show. And very relieved (sp?) it wasn't anything worse. As Emma put it: We're "natural born pessimists", and we were very concerned when the first message about an illness came...

_emma_ · 23 Mar 2009, 13:54

f**k yes, I nearly got a heart attack myself when I heard this. Even though I'm a 100% atheist, all I could think was Please God Please Dear God Let It Be Just A Minor Thing And Nothing Serious.

And just to think that a couple of days before it I wrote:
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic. ... ht=#460807

I swear I didn't want to prophesy anything.

Anyway, what matters is that everything's OK in the end.
Oh and has anybody else mentioned that the lights weren't working properly at this gig? The big front lights just would't work. As result, I noticed that when Mr AE is backlit, he appears to have the cutest ears on earth. I noticed that before at the UTG video, but now it came across again.

eblis · 25 Mar 2009, 09:23

I though the show was the worst I have seen them do. I had high hopes for a great one since it as the first time i saw them indoors and in a great venue (I've seen a lot of good shows there). I have been told by people who kno the organizers that Andrew was puking right up to the start of the show and that their sound engineer had to return to England due to family matters - he was replaced by their monitor man who had never done that type of sound job. Explains a lot.

TheBoyNextDoor · 25 Mar 2009, 10:11

eblis wrote:t their sound engineer had to return to England due to family matters - he was replaced by their monitor man who had never done that type of sound job. Explains a lot.

Ok...that probably explains Stockholm as well then...

lachert · 25 Mar 2009, 11:06

TheBoyNextDoor wrote:
eblis wrote:t their sound engineer had to return to England due to family matters - he was replaced by their monitor man who had never done that type of sound job. Explains a lot.
Ok...that probably explains Stockholm as well then...

so what we'll do with the others?

Ralf · 26 Mar 2009, 10:35

I only heard negative reactions to this show. "Crap" and "wonÂ´t see them again" most usually.

_emma_ · 26 Mar 2009, 15:41

eblis wrote:I though the show was the worst I have seen them do. I had high hopes for a great one since it as the first time i saw them indoors and in a great venue (I've seen a lot of good shows there). I have been told by people who kno the organizers that Andrew was puking right up to the start of the show and that their sound engineer had to return to England due to family matters - he was replaced by their monitor man who had never done that type of sound job. Explains a lot.

Great first post, what class.

Why don't you write something now about the best shows you have seen them do when they were not sick?

Ralf wrote:I only heard negative reactions to this show. "Crap" and "wonÂ´t see them again" most usually.

Honestly sometimes I think they should've cancelled this gig. Because people who love them wouldn't complain and would just wish them to get well soon, and those who "had high hopes" would get exactly what they deserve.
By the way here's the proof that the decision to drop the 3 songs off the setlist was a quick one. Here's both setlists - the one that was stuck onto the floor as first, and the one that was put on it 10 minutes before the show actually started:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=1136129
(sorry, I'll never master the ability to embed photos here, so I just put them on this rough myspace account that I use for PMs only. Hope you can see them when you click the link.)

26 Mar 2009, 18:02

here they are, _emma_

before

after

larger versions: http://is.gd/p6c9

Eva · 26 Mar 2009, 19:20

I'm with Emma on this:

How can you critizise a show they've done when they were barely able to do so? Have you ever been critizised for delivering "crap" work when you've been seriously ill and still went to the office?
FFS, I've spent a lot of money to get there and in Oslo so I'm really grateful I haven't spent it for a cancelled gig.
If the soundman had to be replaced at all (where does this information come from?) that might indeed explain why the sound wasn't perfect where _you_ were. Nevertheless I'm astonished at the coldness and arrogance with which the "higher forces" that have led to this performance get ignored. If the soundman had to go home, as you claim, he didn't just leave because he was bored or fed up. He left his job because as _you_ say "there have been _serious_ family matters to solve".

Obviously it has been an _unlucky show_ for all parties and it wasn't by anybody's choice. The band (Chris) gave an explanation onstage and later this explanation was given even more precisely here, in order to allow people to understand why the performance was shorter and not perfect. It seems to me that some people simply don't want to understand, cause they lack the tiniest bit of sympathy.

But you know what? One fine day you'll all fall off your high horses.

_emma_ · 26 Mar 2009, 20:04

The world is cruel Eva, cruel and full of boyfriends who expect you to do blowjob or go anal on the day when you have you period.

lachert · 26 Mar 2009, 20:10

_emma_ wrote:The world is cruel Eva, cruel and full of boyfriends who expect you to do blowjob or go anal on the day when you have you period.

jesus christ!

Eva · 26 Mar 2009, 20:38

_emma_ wrote:The world is cruel Eva, cruel and full of boyfriends who expect you to do blowjob or go anal on the day when you have you period.

Emma, you lost me...

7anthea7 · 26 Mar 2009, 20:54

_emma_ wrote:The world is cruel Eva, cruel and full of boyfriends who expect you to do blowjob or go anal on the day when you have you period.

That may a bit TMI for the boys...but you are so right...

Seriously, though - it's just boggling how people will make their first post to slag off the band. WTF??? If they've been lurking, have they not bothered to read anything at all? And if they've come here for the very first time and registered and all just to give real fans grief...don't they anything better to do with their time?

Feh.

AnnKristin · 26 Mar 2009, 21:27

I totally agree with Eva, and Emma made me laugh

I travelled through half of Norway just to see the gig, and am really grateful that they managed to play. I had a wonderful evening, and would go to Leeds and London to see them there if I only could... The sound could sometimes have been better, but does it really matter?

despair · 27 Mar 2009, 13:34

Ralf wrote:I only heard negative reactions to this show. "Crap" and "wonÂ´t see them again" most usually.

That's good, so hopefully we can have a better audience next time, with people who actually know how to appreciate the efforts done by the band. Clueless gothkids (I overheard several conversations) were overrepresented IMO, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's this kind of people who had high expectations finally going to see "the godfathers of goth" or whatever.

6FeetOver · 27 Mar 2009, 15:05

eotunun wrote:Vegetarians do eat fish, don't they?

Right, because, as we all know, fish are the "vegetables" of the sea, and/or merely decorative, eh?

NO, Jums, vegetarians don't eat any animals, period. Good grief!

6FeetOver · 27 Mar 2009, 15:07

Scardwel wrote:
eotunun wrote: Number one: The Doctor. Number 2: ??
Chris Catalyst.

I didn't know that.

6FeetOver · 27 Mar 2009, 15:11

Heartless wrote:
eotunun wrote:
Quiff Boy wrote:t'was gastro-enteritis
In 06 it was appendicitis.. Hell, Chris, take care of yourself..
Hold on ye lot.
Maybe it's just his body complaining about a lack of meat

Lemme know when you're on your 4th heart attack, so I can snicker gleefully.

Heartless · 27 Mar 2009, 15:46

SINsister wrote:
Heartless wrote:
eotunun wrote: In 06 it was appendicitis.. Hell, Chris, take care of yourself..
Hold on ye lot.
Maybe it's just his body complaining about a lack of meat
Lemme know when you're on your 4th heart attack, so I can snicker gleefully.

That's hopefully still 40 years to go until I'll suffer the first one

Then again, our ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt is also the best example for cigarettes not killing people. Chain smoking since a few decades and even now that he is over 90

So I guess it's always a bit of a gamble what one does to his/her body.