I gave a cheer for the "meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie" line in Trans Europe Express, that was a nice moment. In fact that was my favourite bit of the show, the visuals for that were fantastic.
― Neil S, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
I heard you!
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
Couple more pics, from last night
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8086/8454815967_2e71fd414e.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8454814659_9fac7dfde3.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8455909742_36c4926b77.jpg
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 February 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Hate that Flür piece for the Quietus, it hits all the buttons that reading his memoirs ("I Was A Robot") installed - self-justification by dismissing others (Hütter ánd Schneider, now that the latter's left he's apparently on his side), his 'eye' for young girls that became increasingly uncomfortable to read... I put it away halfway through, even though there's lots of interesting stuff on the band and the music itself in there.
― willem, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
it used the design from the recent reisssue below, and had lots of swooping shots of the stylised train going across intersecting railway lines. It really made use of the 3D and looked lovely in black and white. I'm a sucker for anything train related!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c8/Trans-Europe_Express_2009.png/220px-Trans-Europe_Express_2009.png
― Neil S, Friday, 8 February 2013 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh and a tip, for anyone who's going to the remaining shows- avoid paying £5 for a can of lager by bringing your own, there were no bag searches last night at least.
― Neil S, Friday, 8 February 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
That's me, W@d3y and Neil S standing up in Mare's Nest's top photo!
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
And there's a lady sitting down just to the right, clearly thinking: "Shut up pontificating you bellend!"
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, no way!
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Just a quick question to those there last night, did they play "Transistor" live or was it a playback like "Voice of energy"? It's one of my favourite Kraftwerk pieces just because it's so different to almost anything else they have produced, and evocative of the first time I heard it (in the back of a car, half asleep on a motorway at night, counting the lights until we reached home). I never thought they would play that song live, ever, and I was just wondering. Thanks in advance.
― Rob M Revisited, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
I dont know why but that track gives me a 60's Star Trek vibe
― frogbs, Friday, 8 February 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
Never mind what the show was like, where can we see a picture of Doran's handknitted Autobahn jumper??
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Friday, 8 February 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
this ^
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
There's one on my FB. If I link to it here will you be able to see it?
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
upload it here http://imgur.com/ and use the bbcode url to post it here
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/87Ooi8X.jpg
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
If I'm generous to myself, I look a bit like one of the less foxy members of Cannibal Corpse there.
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
ok that rules
― willem, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
It does, I saw the guy with the Man Machine one you mentioned, that was fantastic too.
― MaresNest, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hah I totally didn't notice that re the photo, good spot Doran!
― Neil S, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I saw someone who wasn't you wearing one at Supersonic last year.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Are you sure it wasn't me? I've got a massive beard and look about ten years older since becoming a dad. Either way I was at Supersonic wearing mine last year.
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. The guy was, and don't take this the wrong way, much thinner than you. His beard was about the same length as yours in that picture too.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
The cheeky fucker. Bitin' my style.
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
But not my biscuits.
I think it might also have been a round neck and not a v neck.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
To be fair, it's not a difficult pattern to work out with graph paper. The Neubauten one is taking a lot longer.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Friday, 8 February 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Collapsing New Jumpers
― Mark G, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Disappointing lack of shouting at the mention of David Bowie tonight.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Friday, 8 February 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
cos I wasn't there
― Neil S, Saturday, 9 February 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
I believe you're right. There was a couple doing a lot of ketamine next to me though. And, weirdly, the title track of TEE seemed much shorter last night with the whole album seeming to last about 25 minutes...
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Saturday, 9 February 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
good they're mixing up I suppose. Not sure ketamine would be my drug of choice for KRaftwerk, but there we go.
― Neil S, Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
He had ecstasy as well and he said that his work mate had failed to bring him an LSD infused fruit pastille as promised but they seemed to be having a very good time.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
on thurs night i saw a 40s-ish guy in the toilets turn to someone else and say "i've nicked some of my mum's codeine, i'm flying, this is perfect," only to get a disgusted look and an "i don't know you mate" in return, lol.
― jabba hands, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
A small amount of codeine sounds perfect. I had a tramadol that I'd been saving for Autobahn.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
Recordings are beginning to filter out already, crazy.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
I actually really liked the little solos they all did at the end of Music Non Stop, it's probably too much to hope for that they might ever go further down that route again.
John Harris's review in the Guardian came out with the old "are they really playing anything?" rockist nonsense, sigh...
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't he hear Ralf fucking up the chorus of Man Machine?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Unfair on Harris, who loves them.
Also, I don't think it's unfair to ask - in passing - what they're actually doing. It's certainly not a rockist question. Am seeing the Mix on Weds, and saw them at RFH last time, and at RFH I spent a big chunk of the (brilliant) show wondering if they did anything on stage, aside from the occasional Ralf vocal. Doesn't make the show any less spectacular if they don't – and it's their presence (and the fact they obviously rerecord material for touring) that makes it a Kraftwerk show more than their actual participation.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
OK maybe I was unfair, it's such a predictable thing to say though. Anyway from my vantage point at the front I could see there was plenty going on, although it's difficult to work out quite what they're specifically doing. They all have foot controllers that were getting heavy use, anyone know what they're for?
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
"Yes, considering how little happens on stage, there are passages that rather drag. Of course, it's not entirely clear if much is actually being played."
The statement does belie what I'm sure Harris knows, that the four-men-at-desks-engaged-in-ambiguous-activity is a deliberate subversion of the notion of "performance"
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
They are definitely playing something, Ralf is playing his Vocoder. There was a lot of filtering and triggering going on, and Henning Schmidt looked like he might have a Kaoss pad in his podium. I didn't detect much playing of the important melodies and like Matt says, there was a lot of foot-pedal/expression pedal action going on throughout. The only question mark for me is what the video guy Falk Grieffenhagen might be up to.
― ジー・ニュー・マイ・ブラッディー・バレンタイン・リッコード・カインダー・ブローズ (MaresNest), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
But he looks fucking fantastic doing it, like he could push a button any second and vaporize the audience.
― ジー・ニュー・マイ・ブラッディー・バレンタイン・リッコード・カインダー・ブローズ (MaresNest), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
It doesn't really matter to me whether or not they're doing anything - as I say, their presence is the performance. But it's not an unreasonable question, and them pushing some buttons doesn't mean there's any actual outcome from the button pushing (a la Chemical Brothers).
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
I agree that it doesn't matter but judging on the three separate performances, they are controlling the sound in some senses like a sound engineer or DJ would. Also certain sections are clearly played live as there have been small mistakes each night.
― Doran, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't watched it in a while, and it's possible the set-up is different now, but I'm pretty sure you can see some of the stuff they're playing (or not) from certain angles on the minimum-Maximum DVD.
― Position Position, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Compared to the first time I saw them, they look a lot more like they are playing something. Saw them in Brixton in 2004 and I think they were using laptops at the time (i thought they could have been IMing each other). At least this time round it seemed like they are playing synths or keyboards.
― Moon Fuxx (Jill), Saturday, 9 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
Chris & Cosey, Jim from Earl Brutus and Daniel Miller (I think) are here tonight.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
say hello to jim from me mr doran ..
― mark e, Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
oh, and jim is from the pre new now .. f&ck the past ..
― mark e, Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link