Kraftwerk

Nah, no winds no piano, just the melody kinda repeated, bit of an afterthought really. I can imagine Ralf thinking, 'how am I going to render this hippie nonsense?'

Going again tonight and getting the butterflies thinking about it now, could get used to this, kinda envious of Doran's residency...!

Great pics and feedback from the gig, folks! Top stuff.

after seeing last night and how amazing it was, now have the rest of the week to get excited about Man Machine plus i'm seeing a performance of George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique beforehand at the RFH which is nice and thematically linked and its basically going to be the best day ever

ah fuck the BBC just called me middle aged: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21315793

gotta laugh a bit at the piece from Flur on the Quietus today...doesn't seem bitter at all!!

"Mostly middle-aged" tho. I am so jealous of all you people btw

youtube started throwing up tons of grade A live kraftwerk for me about three weeks ago, including captures of the Düsseldorf shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QHkkM0_g4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWsQgmq-fNs

lo-fi audience recording of January's Radio-Aktivität. the big disappointment is that News & Transistor aren't live at all, just them playing short excerpts straight off the record -- but Airwaves & Antenna are fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LobKHcGaMuo

the Flur article is hilarious

http://thequietus.com/articles/11330-wolfgang-flur-kraftwerk

Indeed, it is! Especially the comments on the bands outfits!

ILX Screenwriters Presents 'It was all Yello: The Coldwerk Sessions'

For Jill or anybody else. Just met a friend who got in tonight without an advance ticket, he pitched up at six and queued at the left hand entrance at the front, he said it was no trouble at all. So there *is* a system in place.

[starts to emit a high-pitched keening noise]

urgh why am I torturing myself by reading this thread?

Lovely to meet Neil S of this parish at KW tonight. Spotted Andy McCluskey of OMD stood behind us and a guy with a knitted Man Machine jumper that put mine to shame...

Oh God, even better Radioland was so, so fucking lovely.

Spotted Andy McCluskey of OMD stood behind us...

― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Thursday, February 7, 2013 11:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's become a bit of a talking head for these shows, hasn't he? Not that it surprises me at all!

The sound in there was amazing. So excited to hear bits coming from all around me. it was so clear. We were unfortunate enough to end up standing next to a couple, where the guy was giving a running commentary to his girlfriend all night, but I guess that's what happens to me at most London gigs.

HOLY FUCK

that was quite good

radioland was heavenly

http://thequietus.com/articles/11330-wolfgang-flur-kraftwerk

Indeed, it is! Especially the comments on the bands outfits!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 7 February 2013 19:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aww, that last paragraph..

Great to meet you too Doran! The show was so awesome. Loved the retro-futurist 3D stuff, and as others have said the sound quality was amazing, seemingly achieved just by hanging some curtains around the hall.

It was even more enjoyable than night 1, the Radioactivity songs came across great, even the 'playback' ones had moving 3D text, I was smacked in the face with an 'ü', people were ducking. Felt like a better crowd too, lots of genuine appreciation, somewhere in the middle the applause and whooping threatened to spill into an ovation and the band were all smiling at each other, it was fab.

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.

I heard you!

Couple more pics, from last night

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8086/8454815967_2e71fd414e.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8454814659_9fac7dfde3.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8455909742_36c4926b77.jpg

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.

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.

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

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.

That's me, W@d3y and Neil S standing up in Mare's Nest's top photo!

And there's a lady sitting down just to the right, clearly thinking: "Shut up pontificating you bellend!"

Hah, no way!

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.

I dont know why but that track gives me a 60's Star Trek vibe

Never mind what the show was like, where can we see a picture of Doran's handknitted Autobahn jumper??

this ^

There's one on my FB. If I link to it here will you be able to see it?

upload it here http://imgur.com/ and use the bbcode url to post it here

http://i.imgur.com/87Ooi8X.jpg

If I'm generous to myself, I look a bit like one of the less foxy members of Cannibal Corpse there.

ok that rules

It does, I saw the guy with the Man Machine one you mentioned, that was fantastic too.

Hah I totally didn't notice that re the photo, good spot Doran!

I saw someone who wasn't you wearing one at Supersonic last year.

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.

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.

The cheeky fucker. Bitin' my style.

But not my biscuits.

I think it might also have been a round neck and not a v neck.

To be fair, it's not a difficult pattern to work out with graph paper. The Neubauten one is taking a lot longer.

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