Yesterday night was my second Revival Tour concert. This time in Cologne, where it should have originally take place in the Gloria but was re-scheduled into Live Music Hall. The positive part of this was the fact that we were not seated, another one that the WDR Rockpalast was going to record the concert and therefor it will be shown in Television in the night from Sunday to Monday for 3 hours.

As we were not seated the connection to the band / musicians was much better and I believe they enjoyed it more than they did enjoy Wiesbaden. The cameras for the TV were sometimes a little bit bothering .. but this can’t be helped I guess…and it’s they price we pay for being able to sit back Sunday night and see the concert again.

Funny for us (not for the musicians) was the fact that first during Dan Andriano’s set a string on his guitar broke. It totally turned him over, but luckily the crowd was great, helping him getting back into the song and least but not last Dave Hause who directly came out on stage when this happend to support Dan for the rest of the song. Two more broken strings happend to Chuck yesterday night, so it seemed to be the night of broken strings. A little weird was the fact that more than one person in the crowd called for „Radio“ from Alkaline Trio during Dan’s set, which means they either don’t know that Matt is singing that or they thought Dan would do it too. Dan explained that he would not play songs of Matt while he’s not there, but that they’ll return in November for an Alkaline Trio show and that they are going to play „Radio“ there. He then played „Emma“, a song that Matt wrote but Dan is singing (the only one btw.) supported by Dave (who was doing a really good job on this…maybe the crowd should have asked him for „Radio) telling us that Matt named that song after Dan’s dog.

Brian Fallon was, as always, very funny to have on stage. Besides the fact that he’s really chatting with the crowd all the time, he offered the choice between another song and doing breakdance. Needless to say we got both.

The Rockpalast has already the first video up (59 Sound) and some interviews. You can check them out here

The Setllist

All

1. Nomade by Fate
2. Me and Denver
3. Great Expectations
4. Prague

Dave’s Set

1. Time will tell (with Dan)
2. Pretty Good Year (with Chuck)
3. Pray for Tuscon
4. Resolutions (with Jon)
5. Jane
6. Melanin
7. Trusty Chords (with Chuck)
8. C’mon Kid (with Dan)

Chuck’s Set

1. It’s what you will
2. Let it rain
3. Cut em down
4. Nothing left to prove
5. You get what you give
6. For Broken Ears (with Dave)
7. Fixin to Die
8. Between The Lines
9. Meet you in the Middle (with Brian)
10. The Boat

Dan’s Set

1. Every Thug needs a Lady
2. Annother Innocent Girl
3. Hollow Sounds
4. It’s gonna rain all day
5. Hurrican Season (with Chuck)
6. This Light
7. First Eviction Notice
8. Blue Caroline (at the end with Dave)
9. Emma (with Dave)
10. Crawl (with Brian)
11. From this Oil Can

Brian’s Set

1. Black Betty and the Moon (with Ian Perkins)
2. I witnessed a crime (with Ian Perkins)
3. Ladykiller (with Ian Perkins)
4. The Diamond Church Street Choir
5. Old White Lincoln
6. The Boxer
7. Here’s looking at you kid
8. Blue Jeans & White Shirts

All

1. American Slang
2. On the Bow
3. California Burritos
4. The Bridge
5. I was a Prayer
6. 59 Sound
7. Revival Road