Heartland

I was there. São Paulo - 06.06.09
Great show again.

It was indeed a very good concert, the girls seemed to be in a very good mood (I think I actually heard Eldritch saying "It's good to be home" at some time). I just wasn't very satisfied with the sound mix. Maybe it was where I was standing (wasn't up close to the front), or maybe it's the local acoustics (Peter Murphy's gig a few months earlier had the same problem), or maybe it was the girls live sound (I hope not). They supposedly are pursuing the "quieter but clearer" policy for their gigs since I don't know, the early 90's but I still felt the sound was a bit muddy... Von's voice could be a bit louder (and by the way, he still has a darn good voice, he just doesn't use it all the time) and the Doktor was hitting a bit too hard I felt.

But as said before, it was a great gig, everyone seemed to be enjoying it pretty much (including the band and the nurse), and I have to mention that the lights were incredible! Specially during Flood and Giving Ground.... fabulous!

And as much as I love bootlegs, there was an absurd amount of cellphones risen to the air as soon as the lights went off. Must be a bit frustrating for the ones standing on the stage...

Guedzilla wrote:And as much as I love bootlegs, there was an absurd amount of cellphones risen to the air as soon as the lights went off. Must be a bit frustrating for the ones standing on the stage...

yeah, maybe they'll play better concerts if they know that no one will see them except that 2-3-4 thousands people but... everyone wants piece of andrew

Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing bootlegging, recording shows and putting them out for people who weren't there, not at all. It's just that, you're there, standing in front of ze favourite band of yours, just a few meters away, and watching the whole concert through a goddam 2-inch cellphone screen.

yeah, i know what you mean, but as you said, it's only good for those who wasn't there, not for people at the place.

@ Guedzilla - i feel your pain... especially when i think i've found myself a nice, strategic location from which i have a clear view of the stage when a mobile phone emerges out of the blue like some loony jack-in-the-box and ruins it. that's when i feel like sticking that phone in a suitable orifice of its owner (which is, i guess, a fairly excusable reaction given the circumstances )

but apart from that, mobile phonez rule!

(inconsistency ruuulz too!)

Then again, looking at the videos, the sound seemed pretty tight. Maybe it was really the place I was stading.

hey, eureka! there's solution if you don't want to see all these outstretched hands with cellphones and it's called: first row. kill 'em all but get there

blimey, why didn't i think of that?

LouLou wrote:... mobile phonez rule!

oh yes, cell phones and YouTube ... heaven knows where we were without them ...
and just now, as I'm listening /watching the Buenos Aires concert ... I really wouldn't want to miss it ... and there are not soo very many cell phones but a great audience, rather, to be seen ...

lachert wrote:hey, eureka! there's solution if you don't want to see all these outstretched hands with cellphones and it's called: first row. kill 'em all but get there

Hell, yeah. Rely on those behind you to record it for posterity, get up front and

exactly ...

and btw. thank you lachert for posting all these link to the vids here ...

Spent the better part of the evening watching the videos.Thanks,Lachert!!

1. Crash And Burn
2. Ribbons
3. Train / Detonation
4. Alice
5. Flood I
6. Anaconda
7. Marian
8. We Are The Same, Suzanne
9. Arms
10. Giving Ground
11. Dominion / Mother Russia
12. Summer
13. First And Last And Always
14. This Corrosion
(15. Never Land - REMOVED MOMENTS BEFORE THE GIG - WAS IN ORIGINAL SET LIST
16. Flood 2
17. Something Fast
18. Vision Thing
19. Lucretia (my reflection)
20. Top Nite Out
21. Temple Of Love

Lights were a suberb work (thanks Liz & co.)
Instead of the 6 smoke machines that were on the stage in 2006 this year uses only 4 - thanks for let us SEE them.
Sound was very very very good.
Really enjoy the concert.
The band mood was fantastic.
Specially liked the guittars (thanks Ben & Chris for the heavy solos)

There were 3 models of T-shirt (man/woman), 2 sticker models (1 given free as you buy a T) and a button.
Each T for US$ 25.00.

Oppening band stars at 09:10 pm, main gig starts around 10:15 PM end around 00:30.

Hope to see you all again in 2011 !

Head & Star rules!

I Still missing Neverland

guilhas wrote:(15. Never Land - REMOVED MOMENTS BEFORE THE GIG - WAS IN ORIGINAL SET LIST

It probably wouldn't have been the whole thing - like the condensed version of Floorshow - but, but...

Oh man. I would so love to see that live...

What show is this setlist for guilhas?

7anthea7 wrote:

guilhas wrote:(15. Never Land - REMOVED MOMENTS BEFORE THE GIG - WAS IN ORIGINAL SET LIST

It probably wouldn't have been the whole thing - like the condensed version of Floorshow - but, but...

Oh man. I would so love to see that live...

calm down, sit down and relax. they used to play Neverland (a fragment) but they not doing this recently so often.

Bartek wrote:calm down, sit down and relax. they used to play Neverland (a fragment) but they not doing this recently so often.

Oh, I know - I just want everything. I am so demanding...

Methedrome wrote:What show is this setlist for guilhas?

http://s478.photobucket.com/albums/rr14 ... 06%202009/

thanks, nick photos
how you made these shots from back? some kind of balcony, mirror or you were on the stage?

Thanks for the setlist, corrected everything ....

lachert wrote:thanks, nick photos
how you made these shots from back? some kind of balcony, mirror or you were on the stage?

stage side (left from crowd)

sorry for quality, someday i'll learn to take pictures in gigs.....

as soon as i can reduce the size of a two song video (lucretia/top nite out), i'll post the link here.