a dEUS tour diary

Brussels-Haarlem: 230km x2, 5h on the road

[Edited 09.09, 04:20 - added a mp3 and the setlist]

dEUS - Serpentine - Patronaat, Haarlem, 07.09.2005

Patronaat is a brand new venue in Haarlem, a lovely town some 20km west from Amsterdam. Nancy (the only person I could convince of coming along) and I arrived at 19.25 and found that there was nowhere to be seen there… Panic: we could hear 7Days playing, had the band started earlier than I thought? We finally found a doorbell (looks as great as the rest of the venue) and a very friendly girl from the crew told us at the door that the show would kick off at 9. Off to the town centre then.

Men’s room with a view… The brand new toilets are as greatly designed as the rest of the brand new venue. There are no mirrors: the sinks are right in front of the windows. Must be fun to walk by the venue and look at the people checking their hair.

An intimate night for dEUS, their friends and families. Perhaps too intimate, as there was no feeling of being in a crowd, and the place looked empty….. The ‘real’ fans were on the front row, and included three (ex-)dEUS webmasters and their friends
But the sound was amazing, this venue is a winner! Thumbs up for Vincent, the band’s sound engineer, too….

Mauro stole the show at the end of Turnpike. I’ll probably upload that one.

This isn’t the exact setlist. They didn’t play Roses, Suds & Soda, Assault on Magnus, Little Arithmetics or Include me out, probably because the tiny, selected crowd (about 70 guests) wasn’t exactly a big drive for the band

Setlist:
01 Pocket Revolution
02 Instant Street
03 Cold Sun of Circumstance
04 Jigsaw You
05 Magdalena
06 7 days, 7 weeks
07 Stop-Start Nature
08 Fell Off The Floor, Man
09 If You Don’t Get What You Want
10 What We Talk About
11 W.C.S.
12 The Magic Hour
13 Nothing Really Ends
14 Nightshopping
15 Theme From Turnpike
16 Bad Timing (first try - Tom’s guitar amp died)
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17 Bad Timing
18 Sun Ra
19 Serpentine (mp3)
20 The Real Sugar

Tomorrow: Haarlem. Sold out
On Friday: reviews, more pics, some mp3, and I’ll sleep.
Now: my bed. Some people have a job

If there’s one thing I am skilled at, it’s promises. I make them all the time. The more unrealistic they are, the more likely I am to make them. A regular one since 1999 has been “I’ll do a big update of W.W.W.C.S. (3Rd dRAFT) very soon!”

Erh. We’ve all seen that. Pocket Revolution will be in (some) Belgian stores this Friday, and all over Europe on Monday (officially). And my good old dEUS site is years behind. I had an excuse last year - I worked with Arthur on deus.be, that kept me busy a little. But even so, that’s no reason there should be errors everywhere on W.W.W.C.S., dead links aplenty, pages that are so old you have to shake off the dust everytime you open them…

So perhaps I won’t update hotellounge.com anymore. Perhaps I’ll just place a big “ARCHIVE MODE” sign all over it. Hey, that’s a promise I can probably fulfill! But here’s one thing I am going to do. I am going to travel across Europe to see this band I love. I’m 25, becoming a little more serious about life (a little), and I might not have the chance to do this any other time later.

This little blog sucks as far as design is concerned - no point in trying to make something pretty in just one day, when I could have built a fantastic, definitive, interactive dEUS site over the years.

But this little blog is gonna move. If I really do this (16 dEUS dates all over Europe, possibly more), that’s an experience I wanna share. Feel the love

Jyves.

PS: this could just be another promise.