Post by Barrow-wight aka MELLON on Jun 14, 2005 22:49:03 GMT
Ps. I am reposting this review from the Soulfly boards ... hence my references to what was posted there ! 
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Back from Chemnitz ... Btw. I quite enjoy touring places that used to be "East Germany" (and there are many opportunities to combine this with attending gis / or vice versa) - what a change !!! Plus during the times of GDR Chemnitz was actually named Karl Marx Stadt ...
Anyway, the venue (http://www.talschock.de/) turned out to be a highly alternative small place a bit out of Chemnitz - which is not that important piece of information if I didnt have to walk back to the hotel : LMAO it took me some 50 minutes or so .. I arrived there at 1 AM ... I must have been a bat in former life for I never get lost, not even at midnight in a totally alien place and without a map).
Well, not that I didnt attemp to a) "wave" a taxi, b) order one via mobile.
The a) failed simply because no taxi was willing to stop - I guess they did not exactly discriminate e.g. based on sex, for they did not stop no matter who waved at that locality. But I still thought they were bastards and they should pay for it (e.g. some decently looking citizen might puncture their tyres, scratch the car, or stuff like that). Be it as it may, I really felt socially excluded. ;D
As for the b) it didnt work any better : it was quite a struggle for I can hardly see digits in the dark, plus I had to figure out all the codes (for my mobile it was int. call + long distance) ... and when I finally got the right taxi person, she of course a) did not speak English, b) maintained that no such thing like "Chemnitzalstrasse" ever existed in Chemnitz. I also thought she was a bastard who should pay for this and hanged up. However as I was walking back to the city centre I realized, that she may have as well be right for Chemnitzalstrasse may in fact be already out of Chemnitz ...
Back to the gig : The Talschock place is tiny highly alternative place (looks like they have mostly punk and hard core gigs there): inside it actually looks a bit like CBGB apart for the "narrow bar bit". The audience was extremely young (majority in their early 20 I would guess ... which brings me to a note posted elsewhere RE Souly Army - yeah, there are new/young followers who actually listen to Soulfly !) and evenly distributed among punks, metal heads and anarchists ... with one face, myself, falling nowhere ... LOL.
There was one bad thing : Strict ban on cameras !!!!!
And since I was front line again, there was no chance for me to take a shot ... the security were after every single flash they saw !!! ... Pity, but on the other hand there was too much smoke during the Soulfly gig (especially the beginning) that even the "fixer" had to crawl with a torch in his teeth to be able to see
anything at all ... plus it was dark anyway, plus - being frontline - I was constantly sprinkled with tonic, water and other stuff from the security guys ... they just made every effort that people were happy and properly watered in the non-air conditioned space full of cigarette smoke, lol... at the end I was just soaking wet ... ;D
Given this situation I just put my glasses off and enjoyed the mosh! One would never believe what riot can few people cause !
The support band were Betzefer (http://www.Betzefer.com/) ... I never heard them before - they were really good; it appears that they shall have 2nd (?) album out soon and I will definitely check it out. Their current CD "Down Low" can be ordered from amazon.de and amazon.co.uk ... Plus I have checked their site (new one is under development) and realized that I will see them again in Leipzig / With Full Force fest ... As to the style - hard core / metal core ...
Whatever ... they were really good and apparently there were people in the audience who knew most of their stuff. As for the setlist, it basically followed the Down Low album plus there were some things from the newly prepared CD.
Check them out if you have chance to !!!
Soulfly
Few introductory remarks:
The show started with the Prophecy, followed (if my memory doesnt fail me) by Living Sacrifice - so far the sound appeared a bit unfocused to me (my impression was that Betzefer had better, more "dense" sound) ... yet it greatly improved with / from Seek ‘N’ Strike !!!!! The whole concert was really great ... For Moses they had brass instrument added, a guy was invited on the stage for drumming stuff, there was somebody else singing Bleed (yeah, I think this was this thing) ....
The setlist as I rougly remember it : (again : whoever was in Chemnitz, please correct / add the list !!!!)
Prophecy
Living Sacrifice
Seek ‘N’ Strike
Downstroy
Jumpdafuckup
Bring It
Defeat
Front Line (? , new thing)
(Flamenco Guitar)
Refuse/Resist
Wasting Away (Nailbomb)
Porrada
(Tribal Drumming)
Bleed
Moses
I and I
Back To The Primitive
Born Again Anarchist
To sum it up - the 4 hours on the train (Prague-Dresden-Chemnitz) was worth taking !!!! For me it was a real treat to see Soulfly and also Betzefer playing small venue !
I have tickets for Berlin gig next week (in the time of ordering I wasnt sure what the work situation will be like so I booked two different dates for the case I would fail having time to go ...), Soulfly/VR/Black Sabbath in Prague, and Noc plna hvezd open air fest in Trinec ... Given some newly emerging deadlines at work I may not be going to all but I will do my best to do at least one more on top of the Prague gig, which is not a problem for it represents no travel for me.
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Note to Soulfly2001: Yeah, the price of 28 Euro for a t-shirt is a bit too much ... though I guess it helps pay for small venues like Talschock, so I got one (+ Betzefer t-shirt).
Ps. No shots from Talschock ... just from Chemnitz ... I think you may be impressed with some clouds I took ..
;D
And then some down-to-earth shots:
Waiting for the connecting train in Dresden and having breakfast in the building site:
_________________
Back from Chemnitz ... Btw. I quite enjoy touring places that used to be "East Germany" (and there are many opportunities to combine this with attending gis / or vice versa) - what a change !!! Plus during the times of GDR Chemnitz was actually named Karl Marx Stadt ...
Anyway, the venue (http://www.talschock.de/) turned out to be a highly alternative small place a bit out of Chemnitz - which is not that important piece of information if I didnt have to walk back to the hotel : LMAO it took me some 50 minutes or so .. I arrived there at 1 AM ... I must have been a bat in former life for I never get lost, not even at midnight in a totally alien place and without a map).
Well, not that I didnt attemp to a) "wave" a taxi, b) order one via mobile.
The a) failed simply because no taxi was willing to stop - I guess they did not exactly discriminate e.g. based on sex, for they did not stop no matter who waved at that locality. But I still thought they were bastards and they should pay for it (e.g. some decently looking citizen might puncture their tyres, scratch the car, or stuff like that). Be it as it may, I really felt socially excluded. ;D
As for the b) it didnt work any better : it was quite a struggle for I can hardly see digits in the dark, plus I had to figure out all the codes (for my mobile it was int. call + long distance) ... and when I finally got the right taxi person, she of course a) did not speak English, b) maintained that no such thing like "Chemnitzalstrasse" ever existed in Chemnitz. I also thought she was a bastard who should pay for this and hanged up. However as I was walking back to the city centre I realized, that she may have as well be right for Chemnitzalstrasse may in fact be already out of Chemnitz ...
Back to the gig : The Talschock place is tiny highly alternative place (looks like they have mostly punk and hard core gigs there): inside it actually looks a bit like CBGB apart for the "narrow bar bit". The audience was extremely young (majority in their early 20 I would guess ... which brings me to a note posted elsewhere RE Souly Army - yeah, there are new/young followers who actually listen to Soulfly !) and evenly distributed among punks, metal heads and anarchists ... with one face, myself, falling nowhere ... LOL.
There was one bad thing : Strict ban on cameras !!!!!
And since I was front line again, there was no chance for me to take a shot ... the security were after every single flash they saw !!! ... Pity, but on the other hand there was too much smoke during the Soulfly gig (especially the beginning) that even the "fixer" had to crawl with a torch in his teeth to be able to see anything at all ... plus it was dark anyway, plus - being frontline - I was constantly sprinkled with tonic, water and other stuff from the security guys ... they just made every effort that people were happy and properly watered in the non-air conditioned space full of cigarette smoke, lol... at the end I was just soaking wet ... ;D
Given this situation I just put my glasses off and enjoyed the mosh! One would never believe what riot can few people cause !
The support band were Betzefer (http://www.Betzefer.com/) ... I never heard them before - they were really good; it appears that they shall have 2nd (?) album out soon and I will definitely check it out. Their current CD "Down Low" can be ordered from amazon.de and amazon.co.uk ... Plus I have checked their site (new one is under development) and realized that I will see them again in Leipzig / With Full Force fest ... As to the style - hard core / metal core ...
Whatever ... they were really good and apparently there were people in the audience who knew most of their stuff. As for the setlist, it basically followed the Down Low album plus there were some things from the newly prepared CD.
Check them out if you have chance to !!!
Soulfly
Few introductory remarks:
- They have young followers (as noted earlier)
- They are more hard core than I would expect (than were last time I saw them in Prague 2004, than are their albums)
- Max seems to have his voice just in the right condition (RE earlier posts "what happened to Max" or something similar)
- Marc Rizzo is unbeliavable ... does anybody know what his fitness routine is like ? Geez he didnt stop jumping and rotating around for the whole gig !!! Quite impressive.
- They played mostly Soulfly stuff, 2 things (as I remember) from Dark Ages (clearcut hard core to me), 2 from Sepultura and 1 Nailbomb ... those who were also in Chemnitz please correct me !!!
- What else ... oh yeah : Max hair ... yeah, to change the hair cut may actually be a good idea ;D
The show started with the Prophecy, followed (if my memory doesnt fail me) by Living Sacrifice - so far the sound appeared a bit unfocused to me (my impression was that Betzefer had better, more "dense" sound) ... yet it greatly improved with / from Seek ‘N’ Strike !!!!! The whole concert was really great ... For Moses they had brass instrument added, a guy was invited on the stage for drumming stuff, there was somebody else singing Bleed (yeah, I think this was this thing) ....
The setlist as I rougly remember it : (again : whoever was in Chemnitz, please correct / add the list !!!!)
Prophecy
Living Sacrifice
Seek ‘N’ Strike
Downstroy
Jumpdafuckup
Bring It
Defeat
Front Line (? , new thing)
(Flamenco Guitar)
Refuse/Resist
Wasting Away (Nailbomb)
Porrada
(Tribal Drumming)
Bleed
Moses
I and I
Back To The Primitive
Born Again Anarchist
To sum it up - the 4 hours on the train (Prague-Dresden-Chemnitz) was worth taking !!!! For me it was a real treat to see Soulfly and also Betzefer playing small venue !
I have tickets for Berlin gig next week (in the time of ordering I wasnt sure what the work situation will be like so I booked two different dates for the case I would fail having time to go ...), Soulfly/VR/Black Sabbath in Prague, and Noc plna hvezd open air fest in Trinec ... Given some newly emerging deadlines at work I may not be going to all but I will do my best to do at least one more on top of the Prague gig, which is not a problem for it represents no travel for me.
_____
Note to Soulfly2001: Yeah, the price of 28 Euro for a t-shirt is a bit too much ... though I guess it helps pay for small venues like Talschock, so I got one (+ Betzefer t-shirt).
Ps. No shots from Talschock ... just from Chemnitz ... I think you may be impressed with some clouds I took ..
;D
And then some down-to-earth shots:
Waiting for the connecting train in Dresden and having breakfast in the building site:
] ) ... and cigarettes .... 
? Not sure about this one
