Rhiannon
I am a Darkstar
So...since there are some concert reports in the German part of the forum...I thought I'd write an English language one too... I guess there probably weren't too many from the English forum at the concerts, right?
Anyway my friend and I went to the Berlin one, we had arrived early in the morning after taking a plane from London so were already a bit tired, but the concert was so great... It was the first time either of us had been to a concert in Germany so it was also interesting to see if it would be different than in England - I've also been to concerts in Canada, France, Russia and Ukraine before. My friend noticed that the Germans were quite well behaved compared to English audiences, ha ha! There was no beer spilt on the floor or drunk people being idiots...both of those things are normal at concerts in England I'm afraid! Also he said the toilet was very clean - usually in venues in England they are pretty horrible. So...a nice impression! We thought the venue was quite nice too.
Anyway...we didn't have a very good view while the opening act was on (and we arrived a little late), she did have a lovely voice and played the piano well but her songs were not the greatest (her name is Vic Anselmo). We managed to get nearer to the stage for Lakaien so had quite a good view of them. It seemed like Alexander V looked right at me a few times but I've probably got that wrong. I'll copy the playlist that someone wrote in one of the German concert reports, because I wouldn't remember it exactly:
on your stage again
over and done
fighting the green
in to my arms
who' ll save your world
where you are
gone
immigrant
europe
forest
six o' clock
one night
blue heart
return
mindmachine
overpaid
through the hall
colour-ize
reincarnation
along our road
so you can see it was pretty long and they did play quite a lot of older and some not so well-known songs too. Apparently they don't often play Forest, but that was really AMAZING live. I absolutely loved that. Reincarnation too. And there are several of my favourites on that list, so I was pleased. Well, they were all great, and both Veljanov and Ernst Horn seemed to be in a good mood. At one point the cello player went over and started teasing Ernst H and playing with his keyboard, so Ernst H then started to play it with his foot... hee hee it was funny to watch them. The guitar player was pretty crazy too.
Veljanov did move about the stage quite a lot so he was very close to us some of the time too. He has a slightly eccentric air about him. I'm not really very good at writing reviews of concerts, I have to admit
Afterwards we managed to meet Queeny and Nachteule from here, so that was great too. I'm very glad we made the effort to travel to Berlin and I hope I'll get to see more Lakaien concerts sometime.
Anyway my friend and I went to the Berlin one, we had arrived early in the morning after taking a plane from London so were already a bit tired, but the concert was so great... It was the first time either of us had been to a concert in Germany so it was also interesting to see if it would be different than in England - I've also been to concerts in Canada, France, Russia and Ukraine before. My friend noticed that the Germans were quite well behaved compared to English audiences, ha ha! There was no beer spilt on the floor or drunk people being idiots...both of those things are normal at concerts in England I'm afraid! Also he said the toilet was very clean - usually in venues in England they are pretty horrible. So...a nice impression! We thought the venue was quite nice too.
Anyway...we didn't have a very good view while the opening act was on (and we arrived a little late), she did have a lovely voice and played the piano well but her songs were not the greatest (her name is Vic Anselmo). We managed to get nearer to the stage for Lakaien so had quite a good view of them. It seemed like Alexander V looked right at me a few times but I've probably got that wrong. I'll copy the playlist that someone wrote in one of the German concert reports, because I wouldn't remember it exactly:
on your stage again
over and done
fighting the green
in to my arms
who' ll save your world
where you are
gone
immigrant
europe
forest
six o' clock
one night
blue heart
return
mindmachine
overpaid
through the hall
colour-ize
reincarnation
along our road
so you can see it was pretty long and they did play quite a lot of older and some not so well-known songs too. Apparently they don't often play Forest, but that was really AMAZING live. I absolutely loved that. Reincarnation too. And there are several of my favourites on that list, so I was pleased. Well, they were all great, and both Veljanov and Ernst Horn seemed to be in a good mood. At one point the cello player went over and started teasing Ernst H and playing with his keyboard, so Ernst H then started to play it with his foot... hee hee it was funny to watch them. The guitar player was pretty crazy too.
Veljanov did move about the stage quite a lot so he was very close to us some of the time too. He has a slightly eccentric air about him. I'm not really very good at writing reviews of concerts, I have to admit
Afterwards we managed to meet Queeny and Nachteule from here, so that was great too. I'm very glad we made the effort to travel to Berlin and I hope I'll get to see more Lakaien concerts sometime.