First I’d like to say hello to my old ‘friend’ X and new ‘friend’ Unbeliever. Used to write a lot of shit on the messageboard at the official site. X knows about this, right? After that board shut down I always refused to write on a new one, but never stopped reading, of course. But these days, with our favorite Irish noisenicks on tour in The Netherlands (6 TIMES! Still can’t believe it, and yes X, I actually do feel sorry for my Belgian friends) I could’t resist anymore (this sounds way too serious, by the way) and I wanna put my shit down again.
Talking about this tour; fucking amazing! Been to all 4 shows and guess what? Utrecht: 17 songs, Amsterdam: 18 songs, Rotterdam: 19 songs and finally Groningen: (there ya go, Ronald…) 20! So they premiered Wicked Man in Amsterdam, played it in Rotterdam the next day, but not at the other two. They did play Joey four times though (in Groningen it actually replaced Wicked Man in the encore). In Groningen they premiered the song Pretender talked about and it’s called ‘This One’s For You’ and it’s probably (actually there’s no doubt about it) the most melodic happy songs they’ve played in years (lots of ooooh-ooooooh-ooooooh-this one’s for you in the lyrics, get it?) I hate to compare a song to another song but (‘cause when you hear it for the 1st time it never sounds like that! Take Andy’s way of describing Bad Karma and Fat Camp on the official site for instance), but ‘This One’s For You’ kinda reminds me of ‘Lonely, Cryin’ Only.’ (Nobody’s gonna agree with me, it it noisier though). Enough about that song. The gig in Groningen without a doubt the best one so far (and not only talking about the show itself, but everything surrounding it, like travelling to the north of The Netherlands just to see some lousy band play, drink in fully crowded bars afterwards because they are open till morning in Groningen (It was TUESDAY, for God’s sake!). With saying I prefer this show to the other comes as a huge surprise for everyone who knows me, cause I’m from Amsterdam and ‘LOVE’ the Melkweg (Milky Way), the venue they played Thursday (and til now the only time they played Bad Mother). Enough for now, but I’ll probably post messages very regularly from now on (depending of course on my laziness and responds to this message), cheers,
Tightrope Skywalker
Posted on Thu, 19 October 2000 at 17:27
