Heartland

Tickets:
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1E0060A3ABC63599

Roll call
@flowers_to_burn

setlist with thanks to @flowers_to_burn

Doctor Jeep/Detonation Boulevard
Don't Drive on Ice
Ribbons
Alice
Summer
Dominion/ Mother Russia
I Will Call You
We Are The Same Susanne
Quantum Baby
Eyes of Caligula
More
But Genevieve
I Was Wrong
Here
When I'm On Fire
On The Beach
Temple Of Love

encore

Lucretia, My Reflection
This Corrosion

In for this instead of Portland. Should be... interesting.

Still a few hours for the doors to open ... ... Anyway, wishing you lots of pleasure, fun and joy tonight !!! ... ...

Despite our airline’s best attempts, we are here. Thanks to an 11 hour flight delay, we were up at 4am to catch our rescheduled flight, so tonight will be a very sleepy gig despite a nap. I’m too old for this sh*t.

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:36 Despite our airline’s best attempts, we are here. Thanks to an 11 hour flight delay, we were up at 4am to catch our rescheduled flight, so tonight will be a very sleepy gig despite a nap. I’m too old for this sh*t.

11 hour delay credit to your perseverence, sleepy or otherwise I hope tonight is a fkng belter

Planet Dave wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:40 11 hour delay credit to your perseverence, sleepy or otherwise I hope tonight is a fkng belter

At first it was delayed for an hour. Then for five hours. Finally rescheduled for this morning instead. My American partner lives too far away to have made it worth driving out and then back again for it, and the airline comped a room for the night and food at least. Between the SLC pre booked costs it wasn’t worth not coming, but faaaaaark.

This tour is worth it. But ask me again later and I might say differently.

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:56

Planet Dave wrote: ↑18 Oct 2024, 22:40 11 hour delay credit to your perseverence, sleepy or otherwise I hope tonight is a fkng belter

At first it was delayed for an hour. Then for five hours. Finally rescheduled for this morning instead. My American partner lives too far away to have made it worth driving out and then back again for it, and the airline comped a room for the night and food at least. Between the SLC pre booked costs it wasn’t worth not coming, but faaaaaark.

This tour is worth it. But ask me again later and I might say differently.

Oh hell ... but still, it is astonishing how refreshing only half an hour of sleep can be ... ... check it out ... ...

Yeah we napped, it was just exhausting. Great night. Standard setlist with DJ/DB intro and Lucretia and This Corrosion for encore. Sound was fantastic. They were high energy, ditto the crowd.

The crowd was great! Loads of people do know the newer songs, a lot sing along, and the response is on par with some of the older stuff. So yeah, go off, Midwest and thanks for the fun night out in the furthered East place I’ve been on this continent so far!

Got a ton of footage but it’ll be a few days until I can upload it.

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑19 Oct 2024, 05:20 Yeah we napped, it was just exhausting. Great night. Standard setlist with DJ/DB intro and Lucretia and This Corrosion for encore. Sound was fantastic. They were high energy, ditto the crowd.

The crowd was great! Loads of people do know the newer songs, a lot sing along, and the response is on par with some of the older stuff. So yeah, go off, Midwest and thanks for the fun night out in the furthered East place I’ve been on this continent so far!

Got a ton of footage but it’ll be a few days until I can upload it.

Glad you got a great gig after the travel nightmare.
By all accounts this is one of the best tours in years.
Hope they can maintain this form when they hit Europe in the spring for the All Wires Red tour.

Erudite wrote: ↑19 Oct 2024, 08:38 Glad you got a great gig after the travel nightmare.
By all accounts this is one of the best tours in years.
Hope they can maintain this form when they hit Europe in the spring for the All Wires Red tour.

We added this one very last minute just because it’s such a great tour and kinda a ‘sod it, we’re close enough, let’s go’ . It was def worth doing, the crowd were really into it, new and old material went over well.

Quantum Baby is an absolute banger. And Kai with ToL just makes it so much fun again.

I hope they maintain it too. I had fun last year too but this is something else. von:

Pleased to hear you had sufficient joy and pleasure last night after that horror of a trip down there, flowers_to_burn ... ...
Here's the first and so far only video to find - Quantum Baby & Eyes Of Caligula ... ... thanks to some wild idea

Thanks, I uploaded that before bed but forgot to link it before passing out.

Summer:

Eventually some video from a newer song ... *sigh ... ... what a great sound ... ...

So this one is from you as well ... ...
Such a happy crowd after the second track already ... must have been a wonderful show again ... ...

Yup, I’m uploading on hotel WiFi between jaunts exploring and the yt app suuucks, I’ll add them into a playlist at some point too to make it easier.

The crowd really was great for the new stuff, mine don’t even really give an idea of how much. It really was a great show! I kept some of the response in the videos for reference but I had to take breaks between most songs because I’m short and my arms got tired.

Oh hell, I hope you got home safely and without further troubles ... and no hurries ... ...

For now we've still got this one from you ... ...

Hmmm, Von's beginning to skip verses, I hope he can keep his voice/health for the rest of the tour

Full show

Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.

100% better than any gig video I filmed, your efforts are massively appreciated, cheers!

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.

They look good and the sound is wonderful (most of the time) ... ... I'll add a few more of them to the page ... ...

Thank you so much for all the effort ... ...

Planet Dave wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 09:39

flowers_to_burn wrote: ↑23 Oct 2024, 08:20 Playlist of all the ones I got in full, of varying quality as usual.

100% better than any gig video I filmed, your efforts are massively appreciated, cheers!

The audio shifts annoy me.

No worries, happy to contribute!

Belated summary: Salt Lake City knows how to party. Big crowd, very responsive to opener Blaq Audio. Range of young'uns to us 40+ ers. Sister's new material is definitely more well known than last year's tour, from my limited experience anyways. The crowd was enthusiastic across the board, some more into the older stuff still (silent tip of the hat to the excited dude you can hear yelling YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH a lot in some videos), but the newer stuff got a lot of folks dancing and singing along, and some folks who didn't know the new songs asked others. I wish I was less exhausted for it (eff you, United air), because the energy was so good, but it could have been worse: a younger woman behind us fainted in between bands. The venue was hot, crowded and a lil muggy by that point, and she also seemed kinda nervous so she may not have been used to such big events. Everyone around her made sure she was okay, checked in on her throughout, and she seemed fine when we spotted her while leaving, so all's well that ends well at least, I hope.

I haven't got any of the recent (2019 on) tour shirts until this one. None have grabbed me besides a bootleg one I saw outside the 2019 Mexico City gig but had no cash for at the time. But I really like the Scar... one, it's a better design imho, and the quality isn't the worst (ringing endorsement right here).

Though still on it's debut run, Quantum Baby has been well received. It's killer live. The fog machine showed up to work early and earned an employee of month badge. Chris still hasn't actually moved at all since SF, and at this point I am convinced that he accidentally got left behind after a show somewhere and what we see is in fact a Madame Tussauds 'seconds' wax model Von bought cheap off a bloke he met in a pub and wheels on stage moments before the lights go up (lighthearted jest only). This tour has really felt different from my previous experiences of them live, which only began in 2012 for reference. Von was in good spirits again for this one, his vocals are better on some songs since the last tour overall; and he clearly adores Kai, affectionately hugging them during the intro of More. We got a little snark at the start of I Was Wrong, as a treat . This lineup's iteration of ToL is so effing good. The newer songs sound fantastic. They're really enjoying themselves, they obviously work well together technically and onstage, and for me it's culminated in live experiences that have overall been great energy across the board this tour: from the venue sound quality/mixing at the 3 shows I've been at, to the songs and everyone involved; even the crowd's responsiveness at every one so far - frankly, the shows have just been really effing fun to be at/part of.