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about
80 min
vocals:
Tricky,
Francesca Belmonte
as
support:
Mykki Blanco, DJs Balzer & Hossbach
This is my
very short review of the concert:
First of all
I must say that I kind of "lost" Tricky over the
last years, because I
didn't like the albums "Knowle West Boy" and
"Mixed Race" very much. And
I haven't seen him live since 2008. So I was
really surprised how much
I enjoyed this concert!!! It got me back into a
Tricky-mood!!!
The athmosphere
felt surprisingly as good as in earlier year, an
intensive energy, dark
stage and long hypnotic versions of songs, for
example about 20 minutes
of Vent during the encore. The surroundings in the
(in)famous club Berghain
added to this dark industrial atmosphere, it was
really well fitting! I
experienced the "letting the audience on stage"
for this first time, and
I must admit it was really fun! Jumping and
dancing on stage and looking
down to the people in the audience - really a cool
experience! And even
though I and other people were standing really
close to Tricky, I think
nobody dared to touch him, like he was a god or
something. This brings
me to have to the negative things that came
to my mind after the
concert: Tricky himself seemed really distant, at
times even arrogant when
directing his band, who didn't look very
comfortable on stage. He himself
didn't look very healthy, totally skinny and his
eyes looked like he was
either sick, drunk or high or all together. He did
very few vocals, something
just some words, for 2 or 3 songs he wasn't even
on stage. So all in all
very absent, with body and mind. I haven't seen
him like this before! I
mean, he was never your ordinary rockstar on
stage, always coming across
a bit uncomfortable or shy, but this time it was
different. This was a
new side that I haven't seen before and it was
disappointing and even sad
to see. But apart from that the concert was great,
I really got lost in
the music sometimes and it reminded of older
concerts. Unfortunately I
can't remember the setlist, so here are just some
random songs that he
played, not in the right order and not complete
(if you have additions
or corrections, please let me know!):
Does It
Nothing's Changed
Valentine
Ace Of Spades
(audience on stage)
Nothing matters
'I sing for
the joker'
UK Jamaican
Overcome
Black Steel
Vent (long
version, audience on stage)
ticket:
photos (thanks
to Thorben):
Here
is a photo from the drummer Ross Harris (via
Twitter).
Here
is a video on You Tube with short clips of some
songs. Here is a (very negative) short review (in German).
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