REVIEW BY JESSY

The show in Hamburg on Tuesday: dEUS entered the stage at 21.30 I think and after a few seconds I could sense that it was going to be a great evening. I saw them at 2 clubshows in April and those gigs were really different from the gig they gave at the Markthalle (which is a really nice venue!) in Hamburg! Their general mood seemed to be fantastic and it was! When he had walked in Tom said "The last time we were here in Hamburg it was 45 degrees", and before he even said it everybody seemed to know he was talking bout the HURRICANE festival in June. I was proud to be one of those who knew what EXACTLY he was talking about (cause they played a great show there). They started off with "Instant Street" and it sounded really fresh somehow. Tom was smiling all the time and Craig seemed to be enjoying the whole thing ,too. The performance in general was riveting to me, but to be honest: the 1st song I really really enjoyed was "SAM". Great that they played it - apart from the usual stuff. "Magdalena" was unbelievably beautiful as it always is. "Let´s see.." sounded really energetic to me ears, I liked it a lot. A lot of power to it. Craig again sang those lines from Built To Spill("I wanna see the movies of my dreams") in the end of "Hotellounge",just as he did at Beach Rock. Man, it sounded so good. Made me shake. "Freaks" unfortunately again didn´t sound very good. It loses some of its energy when they play it live . They need more (good)voices there, I guess. I could only guess Tim was singing by looking at him , seeing his lips move. A pity. How about 2 Craigs there? He sang really beautifully on the "Magic Hour" which nevertheless seemed to be faaaaaaaaaaaaaading as they left the stage for the 1st time. Of course Klaas returned, starting off "Turnpike" and doing his typical kind of dance. I love this song! Some woman jumped on stage and did a strange kind of dance at Craig´s feet and later around the guys. Tom seemed to enjoy it, while Tim was doing amusingly weird things with his guitar, that I can´t describe. But you know what I mean. On top of that dANNY walked in. He wore a skirt again and sunglasses. He came in like gOD himself, dancing like only a ´cool cool rocket´ does. So slowly. I had a great laugh at all this. Later he even played the bass while standing in the crowd. Also there were those lines from the Prodigy again ("No no good... I don´t need nobody.."), sung by Tom.. "Fell off the floor" continued that mood. Tom´s dancing & gestures got weirder and weirder. Some great minutes passed by and they left again. Klaas returned first again and they played "WCS". I enjoyed it especially when Tom said "Are you listening you fool...?" and all the people shouted back "YOU MAGNIFICENT LIAR!!" I was taken by surprise. A lot of people really wanted to hear "Eisbär" but they played the greatest version of "Everybody´s weird" ever with a special guitar-disaster. Marvellous! Unfortunately they didn´t return for some more songs. I guess they are very exhausted, which was proved the next day in Halle on wednesday: (to be continued)

Jessy

SETLIST

Instant Street
Sister Dew
Little Arithmetics
Sam Peckinpah's Daughter
Suds & Soda
Magdalena
Let's See Who Goes Down First
Roses
Hotellounge
Put The Freaks Up Front
The Magic Hour

Theme From Turnpike
Fell Off The Floor, Man

W.C.S.
Everybody's Weird