Here we go, leaving out all special bits you guys added, so don't be angry when stuff you made bold isn't bold anymore, emoticons are gone and all that, it's enough work to post it on here as is. In chronological order, page 1:
Tidal wrote:Zottegem 07/07/07
Ribbons
First and Last and Always
Crash and Burn
Flood I
(First half of) Dr. Jeep
(Second half of) Detonation Boulevard
Still
Giving Ground
We Are the Same, Suzanne
Dominion
Summer
(First half of) On the Wire
(Fragment of) Teachers
(Second half of) On the Wire
Alice
Anaconda
Flood II
This Corrosion
Lucretia
<pretend to leave>
(ENCORE:)
Top Nite Out
Temple of Love
Vision Thing
(end of gig)
Whew! Mr. Green
It's 4:00 AM as I am writing this, so I can't really give my full comment on this, I'll do that tomorrow morning. But I can say that I've learned a few things during my first concert ánd first Sisters gig ever;
1-the Sisters are invisible
2-my eyes see better than my camera Embarassed
3-the HL effect rules! Laughing
Weebles wrote:Tidal wrote:
1-the Sisters are invisible
2-my eyes see better than my camera Embarassed
3-the HL effect rules! Laughing
Agreed on all counts (well apart fae the eyes/camera thingy) Wink
Bartoszek wrote:good to see you had fun. thanks for this quike review
"1-the Sisters are invisible " We are not worthy! Laughing
Obviousman wrote:Goddamn We are not worthy!
Was absolutely dead after yesterday's gig. So much energy, wow We are not worthy! Hardly saw anything of the gig, but my personal highlight must've been On the Wire (obviously), though everything absolutely rocked! Quite possibly one of the favourites amongst the gigs I attended We are not worthy! I'll get back to you guys with a better review later on when I've got more inspiration, but you can catch the theme from this one already I suppose.
RE the invisibility: The smoke machines were running overtime indeed, saw nothing during the first couple of songs but the mike stands Laughing We are not worthy! Just as I like it, as the matter of fact Mr. Green
Oh, and I got a plectrum, which just landed on my arms as I was trying to catch some breath when the gig was about over Laughing I didn't mind We are not worthy!
Was naturally amazing as always to meet everyone, talk to new persons, talk more to persons I already knew a while, saying hello to as much people as possible, everyone was just stunning We are not worthy! Hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did, and hope I didn't miss anyone Laughing
Respect wrote:Was indeed a great show, although I thought it to be rather short.
Great: seeing some hl'ers in real life. Smile
Also great: got a poster of Rock Zottegem signed by the Sisters.
Ghostrider wrote:what i saw, i'll post later on.. got some footage.. i'll try upload laters
energy was sweet.. loads of movement in the pit..
i'll post more when i'm well awake tonight...
dinky daisy wrote:A Short report from the right - as opposite of left - side of the stage.
Ribbons
After the intro, a loud and clear beat of the Dok. 'Welcome to the hospital', Eldritch said. Dok gave no s**t but pumping iron and steam, as it should. Started off with Ribbons, where things got technically wrong with the mic or so; Eldo lost his way, but you already noticed that his willing was powerful. His voice was crispy fine after he changed the mic - or something else.
First and Last and Always
The whole audience got excited and so did the Girls. Eldritch danced like the speed-fed patient he can be now and then - to be seen in certain videos.
Crash and Burn
A Crash and Burn indeed, great to see the crowd go nuts on a song that never been published officially; it's a sign that people don't take the Sisters as 'that ancient 3-album band'. In fact, all that post-Vision Thing material is part of some 'never made' fourth album.
Flood I
Great light, great Eldo can smoke. His moves were fine, his lyrics got lost, but who cares if Von is howling, grinding and whispering in a PA-set that can bring it like crispy snow? Great!
(First half of) Dr. Jeep
(Second half of) Detonation Boulevard
Could've been better, but since this medley can't be rewarded with prizes at all, a fine moment to lit a cig or wipe the sweat from your face.
Still
Von likes the people, and he likes his own party.
Giving Ground
One of the best editions ever heard. The intermezzo has a piano sound, as discussed somewhere else. The intensity could've been ripped from Exxile on Euphoria, Visions at the Forum or any other hot boot - you don't own, of course.
We Are the Same, Suzanne
People who don't know this song think it's the intro to Lucretia.
Dominion
This brings a smile in the smoke, i swear. Also Chris was smiling when all these hands were raising and all these mouths were shouting DOMINION. Global warming? Live Earth? The Sisters did their part by not bringing a sax, you know.
Summer
A Summer celebrated in deep green. The show is now proved as a right dissolving flavor of light, smoke and sound. Although i still miss that feeling of a sound that absorbs you even more (now and then that karaoke feeling of a Dok and two guitars is too much), it's a nice trip.
(First half of) On the Wire
(Fragment of) Teachers
(Second half of) On the Wire
That is working.
Whispers and 'heeehs' and Vons moans crawl over the peoples head and don't stop at the first row.
Alice
Our own Ace of Spades. We all liked it, don't we?
Anaconda
Trashy speedmetal meets Mad Max in smoke, The Sisters are a 21st century groove machine. It's the nonsens of Suicide, the speed of Motorhead and the howl of Iggy. Can't believe it, do you?
Flood II
What lyric sheet? Just repeat 'Like the sea' and 'Flood' some more.
This Corrosion
Why sing the right lyrics? The head is full of chemics, innit Eldo? The 'In times like these...' phrase forgotton - oops. Celebration of chrome!
Lucretia
If Sisters was Abba, this was Dancing Queen. A great semi-end, vocals close to the record. Von did even say something like 'you are a good audience' or so. (or earlier in the set, i don't recall it exactly). Thank God it's rock n roll, so-
Top Nite Out
It is, mister.
Temple of Love
What must i say? If the crowd is ok, if Eldo has the right attitude, then the Dok and the other girls never disappoint. Another shade of greatness.
Vision Thing
This could've been 1991. Energy, loudness, meanness, gift, sick humor and a bow from a bold Andrew Eldritch. Thank you, mister.
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fields wrote:Hi, Im Dtsom´s Friend, and ive just arrived at home in Spain, and what can I say??
It was my second Sisters show ( the first one was La riviera , madrid 2006) and Zottegems was 100000 better.
The Sound was very good and also the performance, and what to say about the audience?? was full of people of this forum, that i met, and was great
Greetings
Obviousman wrote:Another review avail on the usual places Very Happy
dtsom wrote:wawwww!!!!!!!
after my disappointing about lorca I must change my mind!!!
what a show!!! superb perfonmance and superb sound a bit of problems whit the mic during ribbons and a couple of feedback but everything else REALLY ROCKED!!!!
a lot of fog(bur normal if a gig takes place in a big tenth)
i need to relax!!! highlighs for me GIVING GROUND, LUCRETIA AND TOP NITE OUT
was fantastic to see a lot of heartlanders there(SORRY FREDERICK MY PHONE WAS OFF BATERIES)
i was at the end of the gig in the mosh pit and it was really wild
I REALLY ENJOYED!!! We are not worthy! We are not worthy! We are not worthy!
Trans Europe Express wrote:Good a-noon everyone,
Great show last night ..... smoke-machines were doing overtime, Laughing
Sound was great except for Ribbons, pit was totally WILD.... Twisted Evil
More dates this year..... please .
TIdal wrote:Ah, here I am again. Awake after sleeping from 4:00 'till 11:00 Mr. Green
I got myself some footage with my camera including a full length clip of Top Nite Out and some fragments of Giving Ground, Dominion and Suzanne. And some utterly ruined pics.
Me and my dad arrived at the site at 16:10, my friend being forced out of the plan because his parents wanted to go on vacation fast. It was a sunny and nice day, perfect for the gig. As the day progressed I found MadameButterfly, Never Land, Radiojamaica, Ozpat, Obviousman, Arf and more Heartlanders sitting in a group, which I joined soon afterwards. We talked quite a bit and sometimes went to check the other bands. They were not very good (except Freebee, he got my respect), mostly a lot of unneccesary noise.
It became late and more people arrived at the rather small festival site. I think about 40% had come solely for the Sisters, I liked that.
This being my first Sisters gig ever, I really can't comment properly on their performance. I can say that there was a lot of energy indeed, the crowd really knew the lyrics of all pre-'93 songs, which surprised me a bit, and the crowd really liked the Sisters. Best part was when the tension ran high at "empire down.... empire down.." and then an enormous blast-off with "I HEAR THE SONS OF THE CITY AND DISPOSSESSED!!! GET DOWN!! GET UNDRESSED!!!!" the crowd went totally mad.
This was my first Sisters gig so my first impression was that the songs sounded more bland than the CD/LP versions, they were less characteristically that certain song. The sounds were just guitars and drums, but the melody of each song wasn't as clear as I had hoped them to be. I sometimes even failed to recognize which song they were playing until plusminus 15 seconds had passed...
There were huge amounts of smoke and flashing light (the Sisters were invisible, as said before), which I had predicted but not that they would use the two together... I managed to get myself in front of the stage about 5 rows from the stage, which turned out to be the perfect spot since I would have been squashed by moving people in the rows closer to the stage (as I'm sure RadioJamaica can tell you, he was there Razz)
After Admiral Freebee, who was rather good I'm inclined to say, the crowd had to wait about 20 minutes of agony watching the stage being trandformed to fit the Sisters' needs. Us just standing there and my back aching more and more as the time passed from standing upright all the time.
Then the sisters came on stage, in a huge cloud of smoke (I first expected them to sneak unstage hidden by the smoke and start playing whilst invisible to surprise us, but we managed to spot them nevertheless) Ribbons was a clear opener, the song being widely recognized. I somehow had anticipated them to use Ribbons as an opener (I somehow recall seeing a previous playlist that matched this one? Correct me if I'm wrong).
Then , First and Last and Always. I was hugely mistaken because of the initial beats, which made me think it was Alice. Until the crowd started singing "First and Last and Always..." Embarassed I really didn't recognize it.
C&B and Flood I on the other hand were rather recognizable and got the crowd a bit looser.
Dr Jeep strangely turned into Deto Boulevard midway past which surprised me but seemed to fit well anyway. Crowd screaming "BANG BANG".
After Still, Giving Ground brought a good thrill to the crowd, nobody knew it (Laughing) but they liked it anyway and the characteristic synth riff of the song had been transformed into a guitar riff, which the crowd liked. Lots of red light.
Suzanne was well known and brought back calmth among the crowd, pink light again.
Dominion was very well recognized and sung along by the crowd, a rather enjoyable live version of it was played.
Summer had a very interesting trick with the lyrics Razz The lights really did change into blue when Andy said "another shade of blue" and into yellow at "another shade of yellow" then into orange and red mimicing a sunset at "sunset yellow". Nice trick.
Then, On the Wire! The crowd went nuts, very good live version of it, and fun to hear this pre-FALAA song played live. Midway through Andy started singing "some girls wander by mistake into the mess that scalpels make, are you the teachers of my heart we teach old hearts to break" but he finished On the Wire shortly afterwards.
ALICE!!! Best recognized by the crowd, everybody sang along, crowd really liked it, good live song.
Anaconda! Never expected that such an old song could become such a stonking rock track, the Sisters went mad on this one and blew the crowd away. The roughest track of the gig I'd say.
Flood II; the crowd had no idea what to sing along(haha, losers Razz) but that wasn't really a problem as Andy just repeated "She says.. anytime, raise your arms...Flood!" over and over...
This Corrosion; didn't recognize it at first (I thought I heard Under the Gun somewhere in between of the songs, don't remember when) because the typical melody wasn't played; they played it as a rock song. Crowd: "Hey now hey now now, sing this corrosion to me,.."
Lucretia was the second best one of the night I'd say. Really got the crowd connected to Andy and the crowd and Andy seemed to know how to work together; silence during "Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me..." and screaming during "WE GOT THE EMPIRE" and "I HEAR THE SONS OF THE CITY" . Very well played.
Then the Sisters left. Crowd disgruntled, whistling and screaming for more. Most of us knew they were going to come back anyway, but I kept think by myself "please do Top Nite Out please do Top Nite Out please do Top Nite Out please do Top Nite Out please do Top Nite Out !!!" and my plea was heard as Chris and Ben stormed back on stage to give us the one and only op Nite Out! Very Happy Of course this was the best song of the night- best live song I've ever heard. Crowd went insane.
The quality of the songs increased greatly after the Sisters had come back onstage, with Temple of Love and Vision Thing sounded just perfect and exactly what the crowd wanted. When they finally left after a long Vision Thing with a lot of Shalala, the crowd was satisfied and most knew that if was over and were happy with it.
Pics soon!
radiojamaica wrote:dtsom wrote:
i need to relax!!!
Laughing We are not worthy! Laughing
Oh yesss, we had another one...
... and I've got the bruises to show for it.
I hardly remember anything from the gig itself, but it was hot, steamy, wild & groovy baby Very Happy
The pit was the most lovely place to be knocked down in and I have seen a lot of that floor, but there always was some kind of angel that helped me up again (big thanx go to Diego, Christophe & everybody else!)... that's what moshpits are all about We are not worthy! Cool We are not worthy!
Nice place there, Zottegem. Sisters T-shirts all over town, so nice to see that!
The pre gig thingy was just the best too. Smoothtalking to lots of good folk, drinks kept on coming, a likkle smoke with Debs and we all witnessed the reïncarnation of the sun It wasn't me... We are not worthy! We are not worthy! We are not worthy!
Ooh what a night... and to embrace our dearest couple Libby & Joery during the encores was really the icing on the cake. This is it: the good life!
They didn't go techno, they didn't go back in black, but they rocked like a mofo on speed and what else to add than this: lay me down that long white line... and then it's done!
cheers to Z for getting me home in one piece and to Never Land & Robbie for getting my shirt back to me after the gig.
Yeah, I lost my shirt, I lost my ganja & I lost any sense of direction'n'sanity in there... but I wouldn't have it any other way. And I got the shirt back Very Happy
Also funny was to see a bit of The Datsuns and the Sisters iron shop was already on stage... it must have bee there the whole day!
Dem Sisters, they do like to share Mr. Green
Wow peepz, I feel good! I thank you We are not worthy! Cool We are not worthy!
Planet Dave wrote:Cheers for the reviews, it's all excellent to hear. Cool We are not worthy!
Koen - I trust your judgement implicitly - so I'm chuffed to hear that The Girls can still cut it. Our fearless leader! We are not worthy!
(but isnt it a bummer when you lose your stash in such circumstances Surprised Laughing )
Okay, so, NEXT time they play a festival in Belgium (you do get the good gigs We are not worthy! ) I'll make more effort to come over.
My Dominion wrote:Arrived home at 5 o'clock in the morning back in The Netherlands.
It was GREAT Exclamation
What can I say more Question
Again a gig that stands as a rock.
Here some pics ...... and more to come......
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Greeting to all the people of Heartlanders that I have met on the festival.
radiojamaica wrote:Planet Dave wrote:
Cheers for the reviews, it's all excellent to hear. Cool We are not worthy!
Koen - I trust your judgement implicitly - so I'm chuffed to hear that The Girls can still cut it. Our fearless leader! We are not worthy!
(but isnt it a bummer when you lose your stash in such circumstances Surprised Laughing )
Okay, so, NEXT time they play a festival in Belgium (you do get the good gigs We are not worthy! ) I'll make more effort to come over.
Hiya Dave, thanx for the nice words man & I' d love to welcome ya inna Belgium for the next one We are not worthy! Very Happy We are not worthy!
And that green stuff... well, I should have left it in Debs' hands. Don't know what I was thinking when I asked it back, because she would have taken much better care of it. After the gig we sooo wanted to light one up (and there was only enough left for one J), so yeah, that was a bit of a bummer Laughing
On the other hand, by that time there was little blood left in my beerstream and a good drag of that J might have caused some serious 'spinning', if you know what I mean It wasn't me...
... and I was high on energy anyway Cool
radiojamaica wrote:Thanx for the pics MyDominion! Now I can see mista Catalyst was also there. I hadn't seen him at all... those foggy bastardos Laughing
stefan moermans wrote:hihihi
great gig indeed it was and even better to loose it in the pit with all you guys (and ladies). Was really great to get to know you (the old guy (zeno Wink ), chistophe, frederic, radiokoen, debs, tidal, wim rafke and all the rest : hope to see you soon some time. Not only a top nigth out, but also an top afternoon kinda thing.
We are not worthy! We are not worthy! We are not worthy! We are not worthy!
radiojamaica wrote:I hope someone recorded it & is in a sharing kinda mood
Elise wrote:radiojamaica wrote:
I hope someone recorded it & is in a sharing kinda mood Mr. Green
I hope so too Koen !
What a great gig it was ! We are not worthy!
I'm still totally overwhelmed...it was absolutely brilliant ...
Andrew is still like a god on stage , his voice very powerful , his looks still fantastic !
Ben & chris are great guitarists and it's clear to see that they love playing in this band .
( We've met Ben and spoke with him for a short while , he's such a very nice guy ! )
Dr.Avalanche and nurse were in great shape as well Very Happy
The band wasn't invisible to me (o.k. , there was lots of smoke , but I think that's fun ) I was second row from the front on the left side ,
having a hard time sometimes because the crowd went absolutely mad , almost during the whole show , but I was able to see it all really well .
Also very nice to meet a lot of you heartlanders out there !!
And of course we were very lucky with the weather .
Had a great day & a top nite out !
Can't wait till the next gig...
paul wrote:Nice to see so many of you people again!
I had a great time !
cheers,
Paul
christophe wrote:Where to start?
You people probably want to know how the gig went, I think most of that is been said by people who clearly have more knowledge about music than I do. Yes I only enjoy listening to it, me don’t care if they play the wrong note or use the wrong amplifiers, me was there to see a band that I really like perform and party with them, and that folks, That I did.
7-7-07
No I want tell you about my day, the atmosphere during the afternoon and evening ware the most friendly I can imagine, all the people who I met ware brilliant, I’m not going to name names in fear of forgetting someone. But it was one big wave of the heartland effect.
The crowd during the gig was in a mood you rarely see them, the first rows anyway.
I do want to say there ware a few people deeply missed, but we are going to fix that in the near future. Very Happy
Pictures and more will follow.
Christian wrote:ust returned to Cologne, tired as hell. Cheeeeers to everyone I've met. It has been great to see the usual suspects again + some new faces!
Kiss We are not worthy! Kiss We are not worthy!
Later...
Obviousman wrote:radiojamaica wrote:
cheers to Z for getting me home in one piece
Cheers! Hope the rest of your drive for the final bit went better than trying to take off here Laughing
Glad to see all these other good reviews, spread the good vibes Cool
Tidal wrote:As promised, my pics. (Did I mention they were ruined?)By the way, can anyone give me advice on how to link a video file? I really need to post a vid...
And I changed my avatar. Yep, that's me.
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