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Skambankt FansiteSo, at the end of the tour (for me) two concert in Copenhagen – yeah! You just gotta experience the Danish audience once, or so I was told. *g* Getting there in the Kaizermobil, then a litte speed-sightseeing, then to the Vega. There I was completely surprised, I had expected something different, like people getting in line hours before the concert and a huge crowd in front of the place half an hour before the doors opened. OK, there were some people there, but not nearly as many as I would have expected. Which was good for us, of course. *g*
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Berichte
5.10.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Vega, Kopenhagen)
Wednesday, October 5th, 20054.10.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Modernes, Bremen)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005OK, at some point in time there had to be a “stupid” concert. And today was the day – but it definitely wasn’t due to the band. They were giving all they had, as always, and the concert could have been one of my greatest shows. If the audience had been interested in what was happening on stage… but nobody cared. This was already obvious during Geoff Berner’s performance. I was in second row, and behind me – nothing. OK, maybe 10-20 people were standing there, but all the other people in the audience were sitting somewhere in the back, out of sight. Terrible! At least there were some “hardcore-fans” there, so we could do something to heat up the atmosphere (we even managed to get the first row to clap along, ain’t that great? *argh*), but the rest of the audience consisted of the worst and most boring people I’ve ever seen, at a concert, at least. If someone feels offended by that – good, this is exactly what I wanna say. *grr*
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3.10.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Tivoli, Utrecht)
Monday, October 3rd, 2005The night in Utrecht started in a funny way – we had no idea where to go. OK, we had a street name, but Utrecht isn’t THAT small… So we were just going the way we thought should be about right, we only had a tiny map with very few street names on it, and soon we were completely lost. I stop by the side of the road to take my own look at the map and realize that we were exactly in the street we were looking for! And exactly in front of the house we were looking for. And just standing on a parking spot anyway. Unbelievable. *gg*
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2.10.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld)
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005Somehow it’s always the same thing – the longer I’m on tour, the later I get to the shows… This time we got such a nice dinner that we couldn’t really get away from it and took much longer than we planned. But well, to make up for that we found the club without any problems and thus arrived about 10 minutes before Geoff Berner started – perfect, what else could you want! So there was just enough time to say hello to everybody and then the concert started.
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1.10.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Gebäude 9, Köln)
Saturday, October 1st, 2005Now, what the hell was that?!? This was somehow different. No idea WHAT was different, but it was definitely good. =;-)
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30.9.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg)
Friday, September 30th, 2005Waah, and now the tour really started. So I will just ignore all the work and the chaos of the last week, and it didn’t even matter too much that I needed about three hours for the 150 kilometers to Heidelberg. So I arrived at Karltorbahnhof together with Shirin and two friends who were converted to Kaizers-fans at the last Heidelberg concert – and the club was packed! =:-o Last time, there was hardly anybody there, and this time it was so crowded you could hardly get in the front and people were standing outside in the hall because the concert hall was packed and they couldn’t get inside. Totally crazy, where do all those people come from? Wow!
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29.9.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Backstage, München)
Thursday, September 29th, 2005This report is a little difficult for me, actually. Just because the concert was great as always and in no respect worse than any of the other shows of the tour, but well, I was in a very bad mood and grumpy and frustrated. This means I loved the show while it was going on, but afterwards, everything was stupid – including the concert, of course. So I’m not sure if I can write an good and objective report, but I’ll try.
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25.9.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (X-tra, Zürich)
Sunday, September 25th, 2005Zürich lies exactly on the way back from Bern anyway, but honestly, it didn’t really matter to me, I would have gone to that show anyway even if it had been in the complete opposite direction. *g* The special thing about this concert was the complete contrast to the show before – yesterday they played in front of no more than 300 people in a “living room”, today suddenly in a huge hall that has room for 1800 people. I guess there were about 800-1000 people there, and it even looked quite crowded, as they were smart enough to close the gallery. =;-) And the contrast to the Bern concert was really impressive. While it was basically impossible yesterday to stand on the barrels, it was impossible today to somehow touch the ceiling, even by throwing the axe handles up into the air. While it was (almost *g*) possible yesterday to hand over a beer from the stage to the front-of-house, I didn’t even SEE the front-of-house from the front of the hall. And so on, I could enumerate more points but… you get the picture.
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24.9.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (ISC, Bern)
Saturday, September 24th, 2005So, let’s go to Switzerland now! Pretty close to where I live actually, but because of some bad stuff like road toll and Swiss Francs I hardly ever go there – so I’ve never been in either Bern or Zürich up to now. So I first did a little “speed sightseeing” after arriving in Bern, and it turned out you can cover all the important sights in only one and a half hours. And it’s a beautiful city, I liked it a lot!
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15.9.2005 Kaizers Orchestra (Batschkapp, Frankfurt)
Thursday, September 15th, 2005Well, the way from Berlin to Frankfurt was loooong. About 600 km too much, I would say… *argh* Really exhausting. Theoretically, I had gotten enough sleep, but well, a tour is always tiring, and I was completely spent. But well, I did arrive in Frankfurt in time. And even though I had feared it would be very hard to find the club (I’ve been to Batschkapp once before – and it took me forever to find it; and to find a parking space then…), everything was perfect, found it at once, and there was a parking space very near-by, what else could you possibly want? (Well, except for the parking space right next to the bus that was also still available when I came – but no, I didn’t want that one. *lol*)
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