From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #373 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, May 1 2008 Volume 10 : Number 373 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] leuven money [PAUL RABJOHN ] [idealcopy] O.T: R.I.P Albert Hoffman [Ari ] RE: [idealcopy] leuven money ["Keith Knight" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:35:23 +0000 (GMT) From: PAUL RABJOHN Subject: [idealcopy] leuven money hi guys just a quickie , as i'm sure you're all dying to know how last night went. i didn't want to tempt fate and boast about it but , quite amazingly , my highly valued belgian customer base wanted a meeting the day after wire's first gig of the tour so i could go for free. imagine that. rude not to go really. venue was a nice art-centre type place in a small town maybe 30km from brussels. nice and easy to get to , about 500 capacity maybe (and they sold it out). my hotel is overlooking the stella artois brewery (which is in Leuven) so it seemed appropriate to have a few. too many in fact as my head aches. the guys did proabably the longest set i've seen since Astoria 88 , a very energetic performance with 3 encores. i half expected this to be the whole new album with just a few "send-era" tracks as oldies but that wasn't the case at all. (had a chat with colin after and this is all down to technical reasons , a lot of the Object 47 tracks don't lend themselves to being performed live). so i guess to paraphrase , the guys don't wanna sit on chairs behind a pile of gadgetry , they wanna rock. and jolly well did they rock too. obviously its funny seeing a new member on board but it sounded superb , none of the old tracks "sufferred" in any way from the different line-up and there doesn't seem to be any trouble getting it to be full of wire-ness. in fact it was bursting at the seams with it. ms fieldler doesn't go in for any foot-on-the-monitor shenanigans , just stands and plays , at some points almost bursting with concentration as she eyeballs the other band members. that's the 4th time i've seen her play live (moonshake , laika , polly's band) , all those acts were quite "spacey" whereas wire is very "compressed" but she dugga-ed away with no little aplomb. nice one. i guess you wanna know what they played. in the main set was maybe 5 or 6 new tracks (one EGL lead vocal) plus mr marx's table , i don't understand , agfers of kodak and comet from the last incarnation. also 2 oldies in the main set , being sucked in again and advantage in height. encores were ; #1 ; boiling boy / the 15th / 12xu #2 ; pink flag / 106 beats that #3 ; lowdown the 15th was absolutely sublime , audience went mad for that. i gather manchester is sold out. ooohh it's going to be good , can't wait for that one. hopefully see lots of you guys there , should be a great get-together. maybe someone could suggest a pre-gig watering hole (don't ask me , only my 3rd ever gig in manc) first ever gig i've seen abroad , great trip indeed. p ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: R.I.P Albert Hoffman http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/obit_hofmann ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:43:49 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] leuven money Thanks Paul, great stuff, and I'm even more hacked off now that I won't be making any of the currently announced gigs. Here's hoping for a date later in the year when I'm not on holiday! Good to hear that there's another EGL lead vocal - always good value. Another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of PAUL RABJOHN Sent: 30 April 2008 09:35 To: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: [idealcopy] leuven money hi guys just a quickie , as i'm sure you're all dying to know how last night went. i didn't want to tempt fate and boast about it but , quite amazingly , my highly valued belgian customer base wanted a meeting the day after wire's first gig of the tour so i could go for free. imagine that. rude not to go really. venue was a nice art-centre type place in a small town maybe 30km from brussels. nice and easy to get to , about 500 capacity maybe (and they sold it out). my hotel is overlooking the stella artois brewery (which is in Leuven) so it seemed appropriate to have a few. too many in fact as my head aches. the guys did proabably the longest set i've seen since Astoria 88 , a very energetic performance with 3 encores. i half expected this to be the whole new album with just a few "send-era" tracks as oldies but that wasn't the case at all. (had a chat with colin after and this is all down to technical reasons , a lot of the Object 47 tracks don't lend themselves to being performed live). so i guess to paraphrase , the guys don't wanna sit on chairs behind a pile of gadgetry , they wanna rock. and jolly well did they rock too. obviously its funny seeing a new member on board but it sounded superb , none of the old tracks "sufferred" in any way from the different line-up and there doesn't seem to be any trouble getting it to be full of wire-ness. in fact it was bursting at the seams with it. ms fieldler doesn't go in for any foot-on-the-monitor shenanigans , just stands and plays , at some points almost bursting with concentration as she eyeballs the other band members. that's the 4th time i've seen her play live (moonshake , laika , polly's band) , all those acts were quite "spacey" whereas wire is very "compressed" but she dugga-ed away with no little aplomb. nice one. i guess you wanna know what they played. in the main set was maybe 5 or 6 new tracks (one EGL lead vocal) plus mr marx's table , i don't understand , agfers of kodak and comet from the last incarnation. also 2 oldies in the main set , being sucked in again and advantage in height. encores were ; #1 ; boiling boy / the 15th / 12xu #2 ; pink flag / 106 beats that #3 ; lowdown the 15th was absolutely sublime , audience went mad for that. i gather manchester is sold out. ooohh it's going to be good , can't wait for that one. hopefully see lots of you guys there , should be a great get-together. maybe someone could suggest a pre-gig watering hole (don't ask me , only my 3rd ever gig in manc) first ever gig i've seen abroad , great trip indeed. p ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #373 ********************************