October 25, Berlin: In Flames!

In Flames in Columbiahalle (Berlin) am 25. Okt. 2008 – Last.fm

Before I delete:

Setlist IN FLAMES

01. The Chosen Pessimist
02. I'm The Highway
03. Vanishing Light
04. The Mirror's Truth
05. Insipid 2000
06. The Hive
07. Satellites & Astronauts
08. System
09. Pinball Map
10. Delight And Angers
11. Disconnected
12. Colony
13. Cloud Connected
14. Dead God In Me, The Jester Race, Behind Space (Medley)
15. My Sweet Shadow
16. Come Clarity
17. The Quiet Place
18. Only For The Weak
19. Move Through Me
20. Alias
21. Trigger
22. Take This Life

There's mainly three things that kept me from writing a proper review: a) I was distracted from In Flames in a very nice way by Seb, who called me during "Satelites And Astronautes" (one of my all-time-faves) to share a cigarette outside. As I really wanted to meet him and as he had sth. for my man I of course hurried down from our spacy spot with the best view imagineable on the gallery to Seb. So I heard System and Pinball Map from outside. Big loss? Maybe. But worth it.

Secondly I was not successfull in nicking Tom's or Martin's setlist as usual (with handpainted bombs to indicate the pyros), as they both had them in their computers. So I just nicked this list above from an internet board, without guarantee and without the chance to memorize memorable events.

And third I had other things in mind I had to tell Bea, but that's a different kettle of fish...

Maybe I have to credit Tom again, as this was a very special IN FLAMES show with a special mood for me. It already began when he played Sigur Ros as background music during the change-over. And of course he did the brilliant sound again. In which the ballad-esque of the current setlist of In Flames shone through pretty well. So everything began very moody - but In Flames write ballads to dance to, and that we did!

Anders delivered the special announcements again - should it be Berlin which In Flames would remember because of the public or should it be Cologne or one of the other cities? He's the one to give the rockstar necessities the ironic turn which makes his announcements outstanding. And you could see that he was fiddling all the time between songs or when the strings-guys were having their go behind stage together with Biffen. We were already afraid that he had a cold and had to take bronchodilators or something. Biffen said no, he was simply drinking. Well, but not only. Later in Metal Hammer was revealed that he played "Connect Four" with Biffen! Ha!

By the way, GOJIRA ruled, I'm already fixed and got the cd to listen to more of them! So much for one of the concerts of 2008...

Video of the Day!

NECROPHOBIC doing "Blinded By The Light, Enlightened By Darkness" live on Close-Up Boat:

Veranstaltungstipp - Kult-Metal

Wer nächste Woche noch nicht weiß, was er machen soll, dem sei diese Show hier empfohlen:

Ein paar Stichworte dazu: Marco Hietala ist heute der Sänger von Nightwish, TAROT gibt es aber schon viieel länger. Als deren alte Garderobe mit den Spandex-Klamotten abgebrannt ist, haben sie in Finnland einen nationalen Feiertag ausgerufen ;-) Nein, aber mit aktuelleren Klamotten ist die Musik auch besser geworden, also: hingehen. Ist sonst sowieso nix los in HH die Woche...

all apologies...

Dear reader! Now I'm back - back not only physically but mentally as well. Back from an overdose of Finland. Nah, not really. First a trip to Tuska Metal Fest in Helsinki, then two days at home doing laundry while it's raining cats and dogs outside. In the end I was so frustrated I visited the filthiest launderette of Hamburg St. Pauli to get my clothes dry again! Subsequently I joined another Finnish travel party named Children of Bodom on their tour de force. I'll post the funny sidestories of that here during the next days, but in the correct chronology. So don't look back in anger and view the archive during the next days...

Beer for breakfast

Just back from a warm and sunny trip to Hellsinki/Finland. Warm - yes! It' was a bit warmer than in Hamburg and much warmer than we expected. We already started with a shock in Hamburg in the early morning: Our friendly driver didn't know by then that Gluecifer have split up. So we were pretty close to an accident even before we got on the plane. The Finnair flight was nice and normal - and announcing 1168 km to go.
How could I forget that those few kilometers sometimes mean a change in culture? *grin*

So we were warmly (again) welcomed by our host for the next few days with an ice cold Lapin Kulta. And it was close to impossible to become sober on the whole thursday... So being in Helsinki started to feel like a smooth hangover without being drunk the day before - almost surreal. We stayed in Tikkurila, or, as Pekka Kasari (see below) told me "the place where the most (in) famous night club of Finland is". Well, the suburban kids running around on the streets at night didn't look like they're old enough to enjoy it themselves...

We spend most of the thursday in Kallio at Janne's new job - em, bar. At "Saloon Arizona" we learned to know nice people like "Space Pekka. actually we're four Pekkas here who come to the saloon regularly". Nice, weird alcoholism.

Well, I have my theory on drinking alcohol & Finland, but I doubt I have enough time for that right now.

There at Saloon Arizona the next funny thing happened on the tv screen while we were drinking and talking: A kind of TV reality soap (well, literally) cleaned up the CCPC studio of good old mate Sande. Hahahaha! First I wasn't sure if it really was Sande on the screen, maybe because of the huge guy standing beside him. Two days on I was introduced to him - hey Pasi. Nico marvelously managed to stay outside of this tv thing.

The friday the famous Tuska Metal Fest started, and I skip the review of all the bands and most of the circumstances here, go to the Web magazine if you wanna read who played how. 'kay, it's in German, I know...

Well, it was too much fun, all in all!