dEUS in Nighttown

[Kevin]

dEUS and Nighttown are a perfect couple. In the past, the band did some really good shows at this venue and yesterday was no exception.

The venue is quite different than Paradiso which means there was no room for the visuals of VJ California. But I must say I didn't miss it at all. Everyone was focussed on the band (so no more dolphins!). dEUS played the 'regular' setlist. Tom decided not to leave the stage to come back for an encore. When it was over, the band cheered so hard I was quite sure they'd come back for another one. Unfortunately DJ Aldolino was too eager and started playing his records straight away..bummer!

Arthur and I did an interview with Craig before the show. He talks about being back with dEUS, his work with the Frames and his knowledge of 'multimedia'. We'll put it online soon...

Some people are in for a surprise today because dEUS are not having a day off. Off course we'll be there too and you'll read/see/hear more of it on http://www.dEUS.be !

greets,

Kevin

[jyves]

People please, more of this stuff !!!

What else can I say, absolutely everything was perfect yesterday.
True, the setlist was almost the exact same as in Amsterdam, but they played the songs with an energy that just wasn't there on Tuesday.
The guys obviously enjoyed themselves a lot. Tom was all rock'n'roll, making funny comments all the time, interacting with the crowd (when a girl at the front asked Tom to talk "en français", Tom went "Vous êtes en Hollande, little lady, s'il y avait des Russes je devrais parler russe ?", she must have burnt red with shame), he sat down on the edge of the stage to sing Magdalena, he did it hip-hop style during W.C.S., ... Danny was just Danny, the SSS fit much better into place than the day before, Tim made second voices more often than usual, and even Craig (Craig!) did silly little dances.
And the best part is that the sound balance was incredible, you could hear all instruments distinctly, every single detail, everything.
As for the songs, the new version of Hotellounge is terrific, particularly its intro & outro, and cutting the rough edges only makes it more beautiful, though I wouldn't say it's better than on the album, just different. It would be great if they played both versions, keeping the original one (in its extended live version including a cover at the end) for the encore. They also revisited W.C.S. quite a bit, and I enjoyed it much more than the W.C.S. they played during the Ideal Tour, that one was far too quiet. Tim adds some guitar madness to the new version. They played a veeeeery tight Suds & Soda, the violin intro was longer than usual cos the band wasn't ready, no pause before the final part of the song, just loudness, loudness, loudness, loved it. For the first time, I liked The Magic Hour (it's definitely not my favourite song), I closed my eyes to let the music sink in, it was great, should have tried that earlier. The SSS's rendition of Little Ghost wasn't bad at all, much more convincing than the day before (blame a bad balance at Paradiso), I was a little disappointed, though: during the rehearsals the white woman couldn't help bursting out laughing in the middle of the song, I wanted her to do it again during the gig, sometimes perfection has its drawbacks If You Don't Get What You Want is a terrific song, not really original but it's catchy and a sure single for the next album.
And Kevin, you're damn right, it's way better without the videos. You get a decent lightshow and it's easier to get into the atmosphere. I missed the applause when the dolphin finally catch the bait, though

Wonderful, thank you Tom & the others.

[jyves]

And Danny got his birthday celebrated by the crowd (or was it on Tuesday?) and he said that Tom got himself a new girlfriend in Amsterdam. She's called Aline. After the rehearsal, while Tom, Danny & Klaas were relaxing on the street outside the Nighttown bar, Craig went to the hotel with one of the Sissy Spacek Singers (the one with a blonde dye), and he was happily kissing her at the bar before the gig. Perhaps his silly dancing on stage was some kind of Scottish nuptial parade.

[heyte]

Yeah, it was great.
I can't compare it with other shows because it was my first live-experience with dEUS. S&S was nice in his new version but I think S&S is a holy song, don't touch it...but the violin of Klaas was perfect, love that guy. His sound= 40% of dEUS.

Hotellounge was very surprising, the acoustic guitar was playing and nobody in the crowd recognised it. Everybody thought: it this a new song? And suddenly the normal guitar playing was started and whole the crowd start to recognize the song at the same time, really funny.

Few 'bad' things: Sometimes you couldn't hear Tom sing well enough + the crowd at the back were talking that much that I thought: what are you guys doing here? listening to a concert or talking? Hate such people
Third bad thing: No t-shirts for men.

greetz

[jyves]

Few 'bad' things: Sometimes you couldn't hear Tom sing well enough + the crowd at the back were talking that much that I thought: what are you guys doing here? listening to a concert or talking? Hate such people
Third bad thing: No t-shirts for men.

Mmh, Tom's voice problems only lasted for the first few minutes of the gig, it's true that when Via kicked off, you could hardly hear him. But the rest of the gig was fine as far as I remember (& I remember vividly).

About overcommunicative people : not surprising considering Nighttown has 3 bars in the concert room. Tom complained about it in Amsterdam too. He told me he preferred the Portuguese crowd because they were really hot during the loud songs and completely silent during the quiet ones. As for the Dutch crowd : "oh you know how the Dutch are, it's blah blah blah all the time" and he imitated a cackling duck

And there were t-shirts for men, the sleeveless white/red ones with dEUS written in blue (size up to XXL). Pretty sexy stuff. Got one

[Guest]

all i can say is that it was a big shame that craig was there as he was being an idiot after the show.....im sure it wasnt a complete waste of time to come all the way from london as it was a good show and we were right at the front and tom sat on the stage infront of me; that was cool...but i know a few people (ie my friends and i) who would like smething really awful to happen to craig

[CT]

Ilona uit Ede:
nog een keer een concertje bezoeken?

Chiel & Thijs

[SpiderGrinder]

all i can say is that it was a big shame that craig was there as he was being an idiot after the show.....im sure it wasnt a complete waste of time to come all the way from london as it was a good show and we were right at the front and tom sat on the stage infront of me; that was cool...but i know a few people (ie my friends and i) who would like smething really awful to happen to craig

ahahahahhahahahaahha and tom was acting like a whore, he was kissing such an ugly girl eewwwwww i bet that wasnt his gf hehehe
but the show was great and danny looked gorgeous as usual.
the magdalena song was lovely with tom sitting in front of us