Setlist surprises - What's your favorite year?

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All the songs off Reptile House, Camden Electric Ballroom 1983. First time I'd heard them live.
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Husek wrote:The Most important thing in Leeds'11 was the cupcakes not the setlist :lol: :lol:.
You mean the girls giving out the cupcakes (assuming they were the same ones giving out the postcards in Glasgow).

That and the fact that we could actually hear Von's voice for the first time in almost a decade.
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1992

Keyboards, More Comfortably Numb / SKOS, Fix.
Loreley mud - happy days!

1998

New songs, settled line-up, album on the way, Everything looking up after the post-93 break and the not-very-good 97 shows.
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1993:

Silver Machine medley in Loseheim was a nice suprise :P
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1992 Hasselt:
Comf. Numb/SKOS
Sister Ray

2003 A'dam:
Burn

2008 Tienen:
Good Things

2010 Lokeren:
Rain From Heaven

Anytime:
On The Wire.
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Drsisters wrote:1993:

Silver Machine medley in Loseheim was a nice suprise :P
Losheim. One of the worst days of my life ... with a Sisters' gig that could have been ... anything.
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It will be in the next century. When they drop Det Boulevard and play Very Far Parade
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Robson wrote:It will be in the next century. When they drop Det Boulevard and play Very Far Parade
No way! Train(or Jeep)/Detonation Boulevard it's just part of the show.
It's the perfect after-ribbons song.

Far Parade will be added to setlist without drop anything!
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Husek wrote:The Most important thing in Leeds'11 was the cupcakes not the setlist :lol: :lol:.
You mean the girls giving out the cupcakes (assuming they were the same ones giving out the postcards in Glasgow).

That and the fact that we could actually hear Von's voice for the first time in almost a decade.
After i've wrote the original post, i've remembered all the fascination that some HLers have for the Cupcake Girls. :lol:
Btw, take this. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n57/ ... 111084.jpg

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Sister Ray/Louie Louie/Ghostrider at Pukkelpop 1992.
There was quite a long pause before they came back out for the encore and some people missed it.


And talking of Sister Ray medleys, has anyone noticed a few lines from Cher's "Gypsy's Tramps & Thieves" in Rendsberg 1997?
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Dan wrote: And talking of Sister Ray medleys, has anyone noticed a few lines from Cher's "Gypsy's Tramps & Thieves" in Rendsberg 1997?
Looks like:

http://tours.tsom.org/medleys/19970720sr.htm
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bearskin wrote:All the songs off Reptile House, Camden Electric Ballroom 1983. First time I'd heard them live.
Sorry to confuse - got a bit exuberant - not ALL the songs off the EP were played... what I meant was that hearing the songs they played from the EP was a highlight, as it was the first time I'd heard them played live. Wish they still did Valentine.
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Husek wrote:After i've wrote the original post, i've remembered all the fascination that some HLers have for the Cupcake Girls. :lol:
Btw, take this. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n57/ ... 111084.jpg

It's a gift from hellboy69 :innocent:
Thanks. From that photo, I think it may have been different girls at Glasgow. (Which I suspected anyway. Probably cheaper to hire locals than bring them on tour. Can't remember what accent they spoke with but the fact that I suspected they were locals suggests they probably had Scottish accents.)
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Wien concert 2011:
1.Opening Kiss the carpet
2.Second position in setlist:First and last and always
3.Great Vision thing
4.Andrew in great mood
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Ozpat wrote:1992 Hasselt:
Comf. Numb/SKOS
Sister Ray

2003 A'dam:
Burn

2008 Tienen:
Good Things

2010 Lokeren:
Rain From Heaven

Anytime:
On The Wire.
I so agree with this list!
Apart fom the Amsterdam one as I wasn't there...

And I'd like to add this one to the list:
Jolene at the end of the Dour gig in 97. The boys coming back one more time, barechested and all... very rock, very cool and very unexpected!

Dan wrote:Sister Ray/Louie Louie/Ghostrider at Pukkelpop 1992.
There was quite a long pause before they came back out for the encore and some people missed it.
Indeed, weather wasn't too good either that day. When the regular set ended and there was no sign of them coming back on again, lots of people started leaving.
And then Sister Ray started... the looks on many of our faces was just priceless. Good times indeed 8)
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Ozpat wrote: 2010 Lokeren:
Rain From Heaven

Anytime:
On The Wire.
Exactly. But No time to cry in 2010 was also a big surprise. I even liked the way they played it (in contrast to some other "new" versions I don't really care about e.g. Floorshow).
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Floorshow in broad daylight at Crystal Palace 1993, supporting Depeche Mode.

unexpected, and awesome ;D

2nd in the list is probably Kiss the Carpet, opener, 9th June 1997, Brixton
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