This year’s March I traveled to Atlanta to visit my friend Nina who’s living there with her husband & her little daughter.
There wasn’t much travelling over the country but at least 3 days are remarkable. 19th March we had tickets for the concert for Alkaline Trio at the Masquerade in Atlanta. My first concert ever in the States and as I had so far only seen Alkaline Trio in Germany I was quite curious in how far the concert would be different from one in Europe.
The Masquerade is really a cool venue and it didn’t seem totally sold out but it was quite filled. The crowd was absolutely great and everybody sang with the band who were in a really good mood as well.
The picture is a crappy shot I took with the iphone ..so of very poor quality 🙁
The setlist for the concert was:
This Addiction
Armageddon
Emma
Dine, Dine
We’ve had enough
Lead Poisoning
Mr. Chainsaw
Dead on the Floor
Fatally Yours
Crawl
Off the Map
Private Eye
Blue Carolina
Continental
100 Stories
Sadie
Nose over Tail
97
Fine
Angelfuck (Misfits cover)
Radio
and something they only did at the US shows was that they sold a poster designed by Heather Gabel which is limited to 900 copies and of which one is attached to my working room wall right now. I had to buy a second bag for my flight home to transport it to Germany but it is worth it.
On 23rd of January there was a special show of Alkaline Trio in Cologne. The band was on promo tour for the upcoming record release of „This Addiction“ and played a show in the „Luxor“ in front of 400 people.
When we entered the venue we didn’t know if there would be a support band or not but finally there was a German support named „Lo Parker“ opening the evening. The Luxor was quite crowded but not sold out and Lo Parker did their best to activate the audience.
When the Trio finally entered the stage they directly started with „This Addiction“ and afterwards a very drunken Matt Skiba said hello and explained the audience how it is to drink a campari at Cologne Cathedral at 5 a.m in the morning (with temperatures quite some points below 0). He explained that this would be the first show 2010 and the first show playing some tracks of the new record and we should forgive him if not everything would be perfect.
We didn’t mind at all and the audience was able to keep up with the lyrics so nobody seemed to care if Matt could remember them or not. A quite awkward moment was a little fight between Dan Andriano & Matt Skiba on stage when Dan yelled at Matt but they seemed to have balanced that until the end of the show, even though Dan wasn’t able to hide the fact that he was quite upset for the rest of the evening (which can be easily seen in the pictures of the concert).
Totally a funny and great evening.
Setlist:
This Addiction
Fatally Yours
If We Never
Time To Waste
In Vein
Cringe
Skeletons
Dine Dine
We’ve Had Enough
Dead On The Floor
Private Eye
Old School Reasons
Crawl
Stupid Kid
Off The Map (gespielt wurde: Blue In The Face)
Peter
This Could Be Love
Radio
