Hello people, we just got back home, and I really didn't have the nerves to try and find an internet cafe in Burgas let alone spend any time in one. However, here is "what Eva has to say":
- Setlist identical to Porto 2008
- Burgas is very hot in the summer!!!
- "only" the second crappiest sound ever: Greenfield 2006 is still the leader, but Burgas comes close. The problem: Huge bass speakers on the sand just in front of the stage, facing a barrier which wasn't the usual "fence-like" thing, but solid metal. J.J. either is totally deaf or has done the soundcheck with headphones, cause otherwise he would have heard that there was a bass overkill, as the metal barrier happily vibrated along Dr Avalanche's drumming. And no, it wasn't the festival's equipment, cause the band playing before The Sisters were mixed perfectly well. On my recording it sounds as if The Sisters had a live drummer, and a bad one at that...
No, it doesn't sound good. But never mind...
Gig was absolutely ace, great atmosphere in the audience, band in a splendid mood, Von's voice on top form, and the best location for a Sisters gig I've ever seen!!! (it really deserves three exclamation marks). Ok, I have missed Belga Beach 1993. Black Sea in our back, Sisters rocking away in front of us - awesome!!!
Hello to everybody we've met, known and unknown,
to the audience, who really knew what The Sisters are about, they knew the songs, and had as much fun as we had. Totally different atmosphere compared to Porto. As if Bulgaria and the people from Romania, Greece and wherever they came from were far more ready for this experience than people in Portugal or Italy are. No offence meant, just the atmosphere was far better here.
Bulgaria, or Burgas as we (Eggi and I) haven't seen any other part of the country yet, deserves a chapter of its own in this review, but I'm tired. I loved the town and the people and the cats and the food. But I really, really have to learn the alphabet and some basic Russian to be at least a tiny bit prepared for the languages in middle and eastern Europe. It is
so embarrassing visiting a country were you totally depend on the locals speaking English or German. Some of them did, but I felt like a total idiot trying to figure out what dishes a restaurant serves and finding myself pointing on pictures in the end...
Bottom line: I want more Sisters gigs in the center-to-eastern parts of Europe...