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Now
it's 2002, and here are some real reviews from the depths
of my dML archive :
REVIEW
BY JYVES
(with comments 'cos some parts were pretty funny)
Hi
dEUS freaks !!!!!!
Waow !!!! What a gig !!!! People runnin' into the crowd everywhere
to watch our Tom singing and crying and whispering and gutiaring
like our national local god !!!! Wonderful although I was
feeling sick (now I know I must avoid festival food). I had
never seen dEUS before, I won't miss any future concert in
Belgium, I think. Waow. And as bonus to my pleasure, I was
able to get a place two meters away from the bAND. So that
I was the first to see Tom walking thru the backstage and
he saw me as I was pointing him for my festival comrade, so
Tom saluted (21st century widsom: that's "greeted")
me with the handsign of the Devil (two fingers up, you
know what). Nice.
About the setlist, I don't really remember the playing order,
but it began with A Shocking Lack There Of followed by their
last single, Fell Off The Floor, Man. Then it was a marvelous
version of Opening Night with Tom repeating tens of times
the "I miss your opening night" (21st century
widsom:"On this your opening night" - what a pathetic
fan I was) phrase. Mass hysteria began with Suds &
Soda with everyone crying "Friday, friday, friday, friday
..." (like me) and much less people singing the lyrics
by heart. No pogo, no jumping as everyone was sticked to everyone
:). They played Gimme The Heat then and it was really awful
because dozens of people were slamming (21st century widsom:
that's crowd-surfing) above the real fans (21st century
widsom: i.e. people like me, who didn't even know the lyrics).
I couldn't enjoy the song because I spent most it avoiding
muddy shoes. Fucking stupid guys. Gimme The Heat is one of
their most ... uh ... emotionally charged (?) titles and I
would have liked just to close my eyes and let me bring away
from reality ... Then they played (For The) Roses (mass hysteria
vol. 2). They announced their last song which began with a
now well known sample ... after about 30 seconds, Sam Loewy
(the dancer in the Turnpike video) came on the stage with
his friends. 12 persons were on the stage then ! Crazy !!!
It was a really magic moment and the song dured (21st century
widsom:should say "lasted") not less than 7
minutes. Here too, huge slamming moves. dEUS left the scene
but they of course came back with Serpentine and at a moment,
there was a short silence in the song and Tom said : schhhh.
Really impressive to see this crowd stopping any noise. The
song was really quiet and nice.
I was really surprised to hear this new techno sound (21st
century widsom: at the time, anything sounding vaguely electronic
got pigeonholed as techno) for dEUS as Klaas really often
uses his sampler. So he made a loop with Tom singing I miss
your opening night and some other effects. I like this. There
was a sixth member playing on a second battery and also playing
the Moog. I think he was Dirk Belmans from Gore Slut, but
I'm not sure. (21st century widsom: you're bad at name-dropping.
He was Piet Jorens)
But the best set was Beck's one who performed a really impressive
show. He's getting really interesting. If you can, go see
him !
Bye
Jyves
(21st century widsom: in about two minutes you'll feel silly
about those comments you've just written)
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