What can possibly be the reason? Not even Innocent X in Tilburg? And the reason why I´m making a new thread about this, is the fact that those songs were not played for a few shows already… why oh WHY?
I mean, it´s always nice to see that they can play Stories without the cello, but we´ve heard that song already a million in the Benelux, right?
In a world without internet, bands could play the same setlist over and over again and surprise audiences everywhere with the same unexpected treasure in the encore every night, because nobody knew what to expect. BUT thanx to the internet (and to these messageboards in perticular) we get spoilers all the time, one hour after most shows some nuthead already posted the setlist. And admit it: it´s hard not to peak.
So here´s what I suspect Therapy? might have thought (and forgive me my sarcasm): Okay, so we´re gonna do Loser Cop and Innocent X on our next tour. Wait a minute, since we played Dancin´ With Manson (and also Skyward and Punishment Kiss) on our last tour with Neil on drums, that means if we play the most unexpected gem (Animal Bones) we have played the whole of Babyteeth live. We´ll even throw in Meat Abstract a few more times, because we like it so much. And this is what we´ll do next: everybody will think that Innocent X is a regular in the set, and that we´ll play another Babyteeth cut during the encore, and then after a few days we will stop playing them! And on top of that: Long Distance seems to be the majority´s favorite of our last album (and our best fans are not happy with only Babyteeth, they´re the only ones that wanna hear our new stuff), so let´s not play that song in Tilburg, also! It´s gonna be hilarious, we´ll do Stories and Turn, and then some wanker on the Wall Of Mouths will start complaining about it! Great! It´s alway nice to see someone wining about his favorite band…
Okay, I could have told the above in two lines: When I got home yesterday after Tilburg, I had the feeling I went all the way to a Chelsea game where Kezman and Robben didn´t play! Isn´t Andy a Chelsea fan? Somebody tell him this, I know that our favorite band aren´t robots and that they have to please themselves also, but dropping all of Babyteeth is just outrageous…
I can go on and on about T?´s setlist-policy… but let´s end on a positive not: damn, those live versions of Die Like A Motherfucker and especially Perish The Thought are absolutely brilliant! And Isolation couldn´t have been better…
it really was a great show, but without Babyteeth songs you just know that a lot of people will be dissapointed (don´t deny it),
cheerz,
TW
Posted on Mon, 22 November 2004 at 11:31
