Third Gaslight Anthem show for me this year took place yesterday in Neu-Isenburg (or Eisenburg .. as the Sharks said) and so far it was the best Gaslight Anthem show I ever attended.
It already started with Chuck entering the stage together with the two Alex’s during the set of the Sharks to join them in a cover song.
Chuck’s set together with John Gaunt was great as always. I must admit I can’t get enough of him playing live, it’s always a pleasure to hear his voice.
The Gaslight Anthem started with „The Spirit of Jazz“ & „The Boxer“ and were in a very good mood. Brian was talking a lot and so we had to comfort their Merchguy Danny during the show who seemed to have had a bad day in Munich. Finally my wish came true and at the end of the main set Chuck Ragan joined them on stage for the 59 Sound. When they left the stage for the encore break Chuck stayed on stage and took his acoustic guitar, if I remember right this was the point where I started to scream slightly hysterical..
Brian and John came on stage and Brian told us that he and Chuck are working on some acoustic stuff that is going to be released on several 7 inch vinyls. He told us they’ll be going to tour with this next year September and that they are planning to include some other friends into that line up and will hit Europa with that (please let one of those friends be Dan Andriano aka The Emergency Room…that would be the best thing ever). Finally they played one of those songs „Good Night Irene“. Awesome, awesome.
Perfect last concert of the year for me. Still stoked with a little tinnitus on the right side. In case the setlist shows up somewhere I’ll post it later on.
Yesterday Gaslight Anthem had their first show in Germany for this tour and we drove to Cologne. Pretty easy decision as Chuck Ragan was one of the supporters and he alone would have been worth the trip.
Due to traffic jam we were too late for the Sharks (I only heard one or two songs of them) but right in time for Chuck who was accompanied by his violin player. It was a little bit strange when he entered the stage without his beard but I got used to it throughout his set.
Chuck Ragan, 26th of October, Cologne, E-Werk
Finally Gaslight Anthem entered the stage and they proved again that they’re an awesome live band. The seemed to enjoy the evening and played a two hour set. I’ll provide the setlist if it should turn up somewhere.
For my personal pleasure they played a very good mix of all releases and only like 4 or 5 songs from the new record. This may have been a problem for the part of the audience that only knew the new stuff (unbelievably I really met people only know „American Slang“.
I didn’t drop by the merchandise yesterday, but as I’ll see them again on 11th November I’ll do that for sure, not only to check out the Gaslight Anthem merch but the Chuck Ragan stuff as well (or I hope he has brought some T-Shirts with him)
Setlist:
High Lonesome
Boxer
Bring It On
The Diamond Church Street Choir
Old White Lincoln
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
1930
We Came To Dance
Stay Lucky
The Queen Of Lower Chelsea
Miles Davis & The Cool
Film Noir
Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
Great Expectations
The Spirit Of Jazz
I’da Called You Woody, Joe
Meet Me By The River’s Edge
Wooderson
We Did It When We Were Young
The ’59 Sound
She Loves You
American Slang
Say I Won’t (Recognize) (With ‚The House Of The Rising Sun‘ Snippet)
The Patient Ferris Wheel
Here’s Lookin‘ At You,Kid
The Backseat
The only thing missing: Chuck playing a song with Gaslight Anthem or Brian joining Chuck. I hope we’ll get that in Neu-Isenburg.
Wednesday evening I was in London for a warm-up show of Alkaline Trio. They played in a little venue called The Garage. This was my first UK concert and additionally I was pretty stoked meeting some of the members of the Alkaline Trio fanclub „Blood Pact“.
The opening bands have been „The Exposed“ & „Off With Their Heads“. I hadn’t heard of any of those before and „The Exposed“ had a pretty hard job as starters but had some good tunes. „Off With Their Heads“ were great and when they left the stage and the roadies built up the set for Alkaline Trio we we’re really warmed-up.
There seemed to be some technical problem and Alkaline Trio entered the stage pretty late. They took the stage to „The End“ from „The Doors“ which aroused a very awkward feeling in some people as thoughts of the band splitting up seem to be quite regular. To my great pleasure they didn’t start with „This Addiction“ but with „Armageddon“ which was a really good opener for the show. The setlist was different from the previous European shows:
01. Armageddon
02. Clavicle
03. Emma
04. Dine Dine
05. We’ve had enough
06. Mercy Me (für Rosie)
07. I lied my face off
08. Time to waste
09. My friend Peter
10. She took him to the lake
11. American Scream
12. Sadie
13. Blue Carolina
14. Private Eye (für Matt Steinke – Guitartech)
15. Crawl
16. Goodbye Forever
17. This could be love
18. Radio
Due to the fact that they were already a bit late they skipped the encore break and played on without leaving the stage at all. Curfew was at 11.00 p.m and they had to stick to that which may explain why „Queen of Pain“ which was on the setlist didn’t get get played. I hope there will be a chance to hear this live for me sometime.
The band made an awesome show, one of the best I’ve ever seen from them. Matt Skiba talked a lot to the audience and they seemed to enjoy the time as much as we did. The UK audience was different to the German or Belgium audiences from the European show. They pogoed a lot which was great. I will definitely take the London concerts into my plans for upcoming shows from now on!
I had a really nice time and I have to thank CJ, Scott & Nina for spending it with me. It was nice to meet you all and I hope it hasn’t been the last time we met for such a concert!
To my great pleasure I had won a ticket for a festival called Rocco del Schlacko which took place near Saarbrücken. I had never heard of that festival before and the only reason for travelling there was originally the fact that The Gaslight Anthem were going to perform there.
Rocco del Schlacko is one of the smaller festivals with about 25.000 people. The line up for Friday included Bad Religion and The Hives after The Gaslight Anthem and so this promised to be a great evening.
Indeed it was. The sound was extremely good (never had such a good sound at a festival) and the bands seemed to have fun as well. The only problem was the area the festival is taking place. The ground was quite dusty so it was hard to breath in the front rows or in the circle pits…
Nevertheless I stayed there for The Gaslight Anthem and this was the first time I saw them live and I was more than impressed. After Pearl Jam definitely one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen!
They played a bunch of songs of the new album and some of the classics from the 59 Sound and to my great pleasure a cover of Pearl Jam’s s“State of Love & Trust“. Absolutely awesome and with closed eyes it was hard to believe that it wasn’t Eddie Vedder standing there on stage. I would have never believed that this is possible but Brian Fellon made it happen… Thanks for a great show…now I’m pretty stoked seeing them again in Cologne and Neu Isenburg this year!
The pictures have been taken with the iphone again…so poor quality…
3oth of June was so far the highlight concert date for this year. Pearl Jam in the Wuhlheide in Berlin. A very emotional concert as it was 10 years Roskilde. Therefore Eddie made a very emotional speech after the beginning of the 2nd encore break. As always a very good concert, great show and long set…fanastic evening. Personal highlight: BLACK
I was quite sick when I flew of to Dublin for the first European show of Pearl Jam in 2010. But with lot’s of medication I somehow survived that day. I can not remember much (due to the medication) but I still know how stocked I was when they started the show with Long Road…so here’s the setlist:
Long Road
Once
The Fixer
Why Go
Corduroy
Severed Hand
Amongst The Waves
Even Flow
Unthought Known
Nothing Man
Lukin
Not For You
Down
Got Some
Comatose
Arms Aloft
Do The Evolution
1st encore:
Just Breathe
Given To Fly
Of The Earth
Porch
2nd encore:
Small Town
Better Man/Save It For Later
Kick Out The Jams
Alive
Yellow Ledbetter/Cowboy Song
The picture is taken from the band’s official flickr account..
My first concert in Trier and I was quite happy that it was an Open Air concert that day. First opening act was Tim Van Tol and after him followed The Ghost of a Thousand. Whatever the singer of the later had consumed before the show..I can not recommend that stuff. He was totally freakin‘ out.
After we survived the spooky singer of The Ghost of a Thousand finally Hot Water Music entered the stage. They are an incredible good live band and no matter who is singing both have an extraordinary voice.
Chuck Ragan took the singer of Jupiter Jones on stage for two songs and during the concert he announced that the band is going into the studio to record a new album. Good news!
Setlist
1. A Flight And A Crash Play Video
2. Remedy Play Video
3. Wayfarer Play Video
4. Trusty Chords Play Video
5. Kill The Night Play Video
6. Rooftops Play Video
7. Paper Thin Play Video
8. Giver Play Video
9. The Sense Play Video
10. We’ll Say Anything We Want Play Video
11. Swinger Play Video
12. Better Sense Play Video
13. Choked And Separated Play Video
14. Jack Of All Trades Play Video
15. Alachua Play Video
16. Our Own Way Play Video
17. Old Rules Play Video
18. It’s Hard To Know Play Video
Encore
19. Free Radio Gainesville Play Video
20. Poison Play Video
21. No Division Play Video
22. Turnstile Play Video
The last European show (festivals excluded) took place on 4th of June in Antwerp. No question we were going to drive up to it as at this point I was thinking that this would probably be the last show for the whole year in Europe.
The TRIX is a quite tiny venue with no security and no control at the entrance. A pity I didn’t know that before, otherwise I had brought my camera with me and not only that terrible little mobile phone. But that can’t be helped afterwards.
The show was good, but finally it could not be overseen that they seemed to be happy that the tour would be over soon.
Setlist
Private Eye
Armageddon
Emma
Dine, Dine
We’ve Had Enough
Mr. Chainsaw
In Vein
Mercy Me
Crawl
Off The Map
This Addiction
Snake Oil Tanker
Sadie
Blue Carolina
Nose Over Tail
Stupid Kid
97
Fine
Angelfuck (Misfits Cover)
Radio
And again a show of Alkaline Trio. This time in Berlin in the legendary SO36.
Opening act was Three Chord Society and I ended up in buying their CD and getting it signed by the whole band. Alkaline Trio seemed to be in a good mood when they entered the stage. Strange was the fact that Matt Skiba had a black eye. I didn’t realise that until after the show when the whole band took some time to chat with the fans, take pictures and sign stuff. No questions that I didn’t ask …..
Setlist
1. This Addiction
2. Armageddon
3. Emma
4. Dine, Dine
5. This Could Be Love
6. Warbrain
7. Mr. Chainsaw
8. Dead On The Floor
9. Snake Oil
10.Crawl
11. Off The Map
12. Private Eye
13. My Friend Peter
14. Sadie
15. Blue Carolina
16. Two Lips Two Lungs and One Tongue
17. Nose Over Tail
18. Stupid Kid
19. 97
Stuttgart was the first tour date of Alkaline Trio in Germany 2010. They’ve never played there before and I hadn’t been in that venue before. The location is an old train station at the borders of Stuttgart and has quite it’s own charm.
We arrived there quite soon as we had departed from work early (knowing the traffic in that direction). It finally turned out that the supporting act Three Chord Society was stuck in traffic and therefor the whole concert started half an hour later. At the entrance I was quite anxious because of the few people standing there but it seemed to fill up after the supporting act even though it was not at all sold out. As this was my first official ALK3 tour date in 2010 I was surprised that there were only that few people and the decision to host a German Alkaline Trio page was made that evening (alkaline-trio.de).
The security didn’t allow flash lights ( I understand that it’s not nice for the band… but that venue was really dark ..) but did a good job during the evening. For the first time during the European tour the band did the role switch for Fine & the Misfits cover (really thanks for that) and they seemed to have a good time… and so did we…
Setlist
This Addiction
Armageddon
Emma
Dine Dine
This Could Be Love
We’ve Had Enough
Mr. Chainsaw
Dead On The Floor
Snack Hash Oil (Snake Oil Tanker)
Crawl
Off The Map
Private Eye
My Friend Peter
Sadie
Blue Carolina
Another Innocent Girl
Nose Over Tail
Stupid Kid (auf der Setlist stand Clavicle)
97
Encore:
Fine (Derek: Bass, Dan: Guitar & Vocals, Matt: Drums)
Attitude (Derek: Bass & Vocals, Dan: Guitar, Matt: Drums)
Radio
