Nice review thanks, would love to have gone to that gig but i was away when the tickets came out and then they were stupid money on ebay. Still im glad i caught them at Brixton a few years back, not just for the music, but for the great characters in the audience also! I'll never forget a small guy in his 60s dancing completely out of rhythm with a smile on his face. That gig seem to attaract every type of fan. I would of liked to have gone to the brixton gig afterwards at midnight just to see the difference in set and people. Did anyone go to both, was there differences? Cheers
2009/7/4 <[email protected]>: > Very brief would be: Fantastic! > > A bit more would be: > > For those who saw the Minimum Maximum tour (or have subsequently seen the > DVD) the set up and the set were similar. > > Some things were total like for like - start with Man Machine, end with Music > Non-stop, I think the set might have been something > like this > > The Man-Machine > Home Computer > Tour De France > Autobahn > Trans Europe Express > Metal On Metal > Neon Lights > Show Room Dummies > The Model > > The Robots > > Numbers > Computer World > Vitamin > Radioactivity > Aéro Dynamik > Music Non Stop > > Might not be fully accurate, my memory's terrible, I did this by looking at > the Minimum Maximum track list, knocking out what I > don't remember them playing (not sure about Home Computer), rearranging into > the 3 spits and adding Show Room Dummies which is the > one thing I remember them doing not from Minimum Maximum - maybe other peepz > can chip in and correct, it was great to meet list > members Robin and Dan there, maybe (almost certainly) they recall better. > > I saw Minimum Maximum at The Apollo in Manchester, the sound there was > tremendous, at this gig from where we were (right at the very > front!) it was not as good but same ballpark. I believe from friends in > seated areas further away / less central that it wasn't so > good there, one bunch got cheap, last minute seats where they said it sounded > terrible and they couldn't see the screen but were > lucky that they moved to stand elsewhere and the stewards were very chilled > and didn't move them on. Others were just an awful long > way from the stage. > > I guess this is understandable as the Manchester Velodrome isn't meant as a > gig venue. From where we were the show was great and > the gig was definitely run well with no long queues etc. I'd be interested > in whether Kraftwerk agreed to play the gig for > Manchester International Festival before the gig got placed there or if that > was a big part of them playing as you might expect. > > So apart from the odd song what was different to MM? Well first there was > the replacement of Florian. Obviously this is something > we've seen before but (apart from it being one of the founder / life of the > band members) the difference was it was someone who > looked way younger than the others! To me this lacked a bit of gravitas but > my girlfriend liked it ;-) > > The videos used were also same as MM but with one big difference. At the > entrance you were given 3D specs and all the stuff after > Robots above had been redone in 3D. And I've got to say it was awesome. I > live very close to an IMAX cinema and have seen plenty > 3D stuff there but though the screen was smaller here it seemed better, at > times the stuff that was on the screen behind them not > only seemed to come out the screen but when placed in front of the band > seemed to obscure them. How dey do dat? It was brilliant. > > Possibly the highlight of the night though came early on when, during Tour De > France, members of the British national cycling team > took to the Velodrome track. Us Brits are quite fond of our cyclists at the > moment as they are about our most successful sporting > team, dominating the Beijing Olympics etc. so they got a mega reception and > everyone got the Kraftwerk significance (I think / > hope!). But best of all for me I was stood near enough the stage to see that > Ralf was totally buzzing - you'd expect that but he > had a massive smile on his face as he called the names of the cyclists out > and he grinned away and nearly danced throughout the > track! > > Top night, maybe the one shame was that the Steve Reich piece that supported > was pretty much lost in the size of the venue / people > anticipating what was to follow. > >
