Wall of Mouths

This will be fun, on the same bill as Mötley Crüe :D

It was back to Lokeren for me, a festival I regularly visit and had already been to the day before Therapy? performed to see Alice Cooper and the other metal bands perform on the Metal Day of the Lokerse Feesten. Last time they played at Lokeren was my first time seeing them and I remember a very great set with songs from Never Apologise Never Explain and One Cure Fits All (which worked surprisingly well live) I haven’t heard at other Therapy? gigs yet. A fully played out (I think) Rust with Andy standing close to the crowd with the lights shining on his face from below as he was giving it his all with his guitar is the image I remember best from that day (it was a pretty cool sight).

Yesterday wasn’t as great, but still well worth it.

It was a fun gig despite the rain, and the ‘fuck the rain!’ moment and Andy’s (more or less, probably) improvised ‘singing in the rain’ in reaction to it made even that worth it. After seeing The Mötley Crüe with all their fireworks and strange looks (not that I didn’t like their performance, though), I was again reminded of one of the many reasons I like Therapy?. They’re just guys who are pretty much themselves on stage and don’t try to be anything like stars, which is cool.

I liked the set, too, it was my first time hearing Epilepsy and Stop It You’re Killing Me live. I’m not completely sure if I remember correctly but I thought they also played Unbeliever, another track from Troublegum they don’t regularly (at least, based on the 11 or so shows I’ve been to) play, and I liked it very much. The boys didn’t let themselves be discouraged by the numerous Mötley Crüe fans who seemed pretty disinterested at the start.

The only small letdown was we couldn’t find Diamond Dave anywhere, Therapy? didn’t even have a merchandise stall of their own. At one point one side of the small merchandise tent had a few Therapy? shirts on it, but that was it, and no sign of Dave. Either it was limited this time around or I must have seriously overlooked something.

Next stop, Pink Pop Classic! Will be my first time seeing them outside Belgium, I just hope the Dutch don’t throw as much beer around as I’ve heard!

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

I’m not completely sure if I remember correctly but I thought they also played Unbeliever, another track from Troublegum they don’t regularly (at least, based on the 11 or so shows I’ve been to) play, and I liked it very much.

That’s correct, they played Unbeliever, I was very happy to hear Stop It You’re Killing Me again.
here’s the complete setlist:

Knives
Screamager
Epilepsy
Stories
Enjoy The Struggle
Isolation
Teethgrinder
Crooked Timber
Die Laughing
Unbeliever
Exiles
Rust
Potato Junkie
Stop It You’re Killing Me
Diane
Nowhere

I’d love to hear Lunacy Booth at the end of the set again… Pink Pop Classic maybe?

*sings* Shout-Shout-Shout -Shout At The Devil !!!!!! :D

Don’t think that will happen either, I’m afraid that’s one of those songs they’ll never play again… apart from that HMV gig.

Evilbeast wrote:

*sings* Shout-Shout-Shout -Shout At The Devil !!!!!! :D

I’d shout at my tailor and hairdresser if I was them…

yes yes, nice gig!…would have been a better gig without the rain…
unfortunatelly i had to control myself for not going to wild…especially with rust…damn that was hard for me…

but thumbs up for t?

p.s. An, well…you definenatly didn’t see us…and jan can it be, that you didn’t recognized who was saying hello to you guys, when you entered the bus?
well, well…

rocking roxy wrote:

p.s. An, well…you definenatly didn’t see us…and jan can it be, that you didn’t recognized who was saying hello to you guys, when you entered the bus?
well, well…

Judging by the hair, I thought it was a Motley Crue fan saying hello to me.

I jest. I did recognise you, but saying hello and maintaining eyecontact whilst trying not to fall down the stairs I was climbing proved harder than I thought it would be. Damn my inner ear!

nope, just trying hard not to end up balls-up at the bottom of that staircase.

Halen? Halen naast Diest?

Long time no posting for me but I’m back now :D

I liked the gig a lot, it’s always a bit strange to be the first band to play but I think they did a really good job.

Was great to hear Epilepsy, Unbeliever and Stop It… especially liked Neil’s drumming on Epilepsy.

i know s.o. who used to live in Halen :-) …and his brother lives in Loksbergen.
but it seems you don’t know each other…well, that’s what Robby says…