Well, I still decided to write a couple of words about Berlin.
Apologize to them who have already read my so-called review in Dominion list
and also appologize for putting it first to this list not to our cosy Heartland. I just had to read or delete all 120 messages from my mailbox - that's why I had to open my mailbox at first.
Actually tonight I took a look here without logging in (because in this case I couldn't see later which messages are unread and I was too tired to read all new ones).
Well, the trip to Berlin was really awful - instead of 26 hours (not 25 as I said before) we were on the way 30 hours. Mostly because of the Polish-German border...
And the weather in Berlin wasn't friendly at all.
But everything else was just great.
I mean the live but not only this.
I havn't been so close to the stage on Sisters gig before.
I was in the first row (to be more exact - I wasn't in the middle but straight next to this place were Starling used to stand almost all the time and the other 2 - also Von - appeared quite a lot).
Sulpher was better than I dared to hope.
Maybe it's not the best comparison but it remained me Nine Inch Nails (their harded tunes), Rosetta Stone (in their more electronic albums) and so on.
Aggressive and emotional.
But I think a Sisters support band should not insult Sisters fans
Sisters were great - sounds banal? But what can I say if I felt so?
I think "Slept" isn't bad at all and I was really impressed when they made the acoustic version of "I Was Wrong".
To be true I have never been a fan of all kind of unplugged lives - on the contrary.
But this was really impressive
Also the new version of "Lucretia"
The gig was so suggestive that my wife told me before that meanwhile she worried about me - she stood a couple of steps farther and it seemed to her sometimes I would lost my mind
Yes, both times before encores I clapped and behaved like mad because it seemed to me people didn't act active enough to bring them back.
Now I think it wasn't so and people really wasn't passive.
Maybe it was me who was so upset by this show
And now - the fashion news.
As you may already know - Von is almost bald and he wore his "Chicago Police" jacket and "People's Republic Of West Yorkshire" shirt. If my memory serves me well, it was a green one.
He spoke less than in Hildesheim last summer but it doesn't mean he was passive or something.
Well, so much about the gig.
As I told, weather was nasty (cold and windy and a little snow) but everything else was nice.
My hostel was quite near to Columbiahalle (only 2 stops by undrground) - so it was in the middle of the city but to my great surprise somebody bred ducks and geese behind the window
But the best surprise was an exhibition of Kazimir Malevich we discovered absolutely accidentally in Deutshe Guggenheim
Before leaving Berlin we took a look into a book&CD shop and I couldn't stop myself and bought the "Thank You" tribute to Sisters.
Well, I think it has been discussed here already.