a dEUS tour diary

Brussels-Haarlem: 230km x2, 5h on the road
(I’ve written this before)

dEUS - Via - Patronaat, Haarlem, 08.09.2005

Today, the difference was big. There was a crowd. Patronaat was packed, the hall as well as the balcony, people everywhere, that was way cooler than yesterday. Except that the Dutch are tall and my friend Fax (who drove most of the time) isn’t. And that it wasn’t a private try out for a bunch of privileged people, but I prefer to be in the middle of the sweaty pit anyway

And Pocket Revolution was already available today at Patronaat, at € 19.90 for the CD or the double LP (which looks amazing, really does Don Lawrence’s artwork justice).

Among other cool things, Tom said right before Include Me Out that “this is a new song, from our new album which you normally haven’t heard yet, so if you sing along, you’re guilty”. But that’s nothing compared to the utter coolness of ending the main set with Assault on dEUS (that’s Assault on Magnus, but played by dEUS), and then coming back to play an amazingly executed Bad Timing, and then 4 songs whose title starts with an S. Sun Ra was so amazing and really, the ending of the song just begged for Suds & Soda - and Tom shouted to Klaas to get ready for it. Griiiiiin

Then they surprised everyone after The Real Sugar by playing Via, which Tom introduced as an old song they haven’t played for a very long time, even though dEUS did play it in 2002, but who remembers that eh?

Anyway…. 2 hours and 8 minutes. 23 songs. I can’t believe it. This concert left me with the very, very strong impression that this might just be the beginning of their very, very best tour to date. I wanted to take a photo of the big stupid smile on my face, but the battery ran out (stupid: I had a replacement one in my car). Talking of gadgets: I think my iPod is actually burning inside. It’s off the mains, it’s very very hot, it smells of burnt plastic and the screen says it’s charging, even though that’s science fiction. Technology…

Setlist:
01 Pocket Revolution
02 Cold Sun of Circumstance
03 Magdalena
04 Little Arithmetics
05 What We Talk About
06 Instant Street
07 Fell Off The Floor, Man
08 Stop-Start Nature
09 The Magic Hour
10 Include Me Out
11 W.C.S.
12 If You Don’t Get What You Want
13 Nightshopping
14 Theme From Turnpike
15 Assault on dEUS
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16 Bad Timing
17 Serpentine
18 7 days, 7 weeks
19 Sun Ra
20 Suds &; Soda
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21 The Real Sugar
22 Via (mp3)
23 Nothing Really Ends

Tags: Netherlands

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