het is hier wel heel erg stil geworden, zeg.....
om in ieder geval weer even een topic met het woord
Vandaag er achter te krijgen, zal ik dan maar wat posten...
Maandag 6 augustus Skinny Puppy in Tivoli gezien...
was m'n 2e keer (eerste keer 2004 in Paradiso).
Het was een stuk rustiger kwa publiek en dat kwam de sfeer ten goede. Niet zo massaal, maar gewoon gezellig, niet al te druk.
Niet dat Skinny Puppy geen volle zalen trekt (ze gaan al mee sinds 1982), maar op een (onlogisch voor een concert) maandagavond in de vakantie met meerdere (dure) festivals er vlakbij (zelfs in hetzelfde concertgebouw... 3 dagen later was het Summer of Darkness festival)
was het toch lang niet uitverkocht.
Show was te gek en de setlist ook (veel oud werk). Het geluid van Tivoli daarentegen is ronduit Kwalitatief Uitermate Teleurstellend.
Ondanks dat toch wel opnames gemaakt.. niet zo goed als de opname van 2004, maar het geeft een goede indruk van de sfeer en het concert zelf...
voor de liefhebbers...
de torrent van mijn opname is te vinden op
www.dimeadozen.org (wel ff aanmelden) of anders kun je mij mailen....


Als veldvulling hier nog even mijn Engelse verhaal over dit concert die ik bij de torrent heb gezet....
Skinny Puppy
Tivoli, Utrecht, Netherlands
August 6th 2007
Sharp MD-MT15/Skytronic Mic > Delta 1010 > Soundforge > WAV > FLAC
My second Puppy show and after 2004 I was prepared for anything.
The venue was Tivoli in Utrecht. A pretty small venue for an act like
Skinny Puppy but, to my surprise, it wasn't even sold out.
It gave the show a very different atmosphere than the one in Paradiso in 2004.
Much more the 'small club' idea. I liked this very much.
This was the first show of the European leg of the tour (only 8 shows in total)
Before Skinny Puppy we had to go through Otto von Schirach, some guy from Miami
with a show which reminded me a bit of Atari Teenage Riot I saw as a support-act for
Ministry in 1999. A guy with a zorro/Robin kinda outfit and a laptop screaming and shouting
and sampling. later on it became more absurd when 2 monsters entered the stage and a kind of battle enfolded. He seems to be a good friend of the puppy guys and there are probably people out there who like it. I, for myself, was glad it was over.
About 30 minutes later Skinny Puppy entered the stage
The show was more theatrical and horror-based (and less politic) than the last couple of tours. Off course lots of blood, weird costumes, but not as heavy as the show in 2004.
Ogre started with his well-known shadow-act and appeared after Anger onstage.
During the show he kept playing with the screen, a bit too much behind the screen to my liking.
When they came back onstage for the encore, Ogre gave flowers (he had been fooling around with during the show) to a girl in the audience. The girl came onstage and started dancing on Far Too Frail. When she wanted to leave she was pulled backstage by some roadie. About a minute later a guy (probably her boyfriend) jumped onstage and ran to where the girl disappeared. A couple of seconds later they both came back running and jumped into the audience, just escaping a goon who tried to catch them.
(video of this event is included)
Recording issues:
This time it wasn't a trouble-free recording. Various things disturbed this one.
This recording was made about 20 meters (65 feet) from stage, during the first 2 songs at the sidewall, but after that in the middle, right behind the soundboard.
The sound of the venue is not very good, least to say.
The drums were way too heavy in some parts of the music and Ogre and Kevin sometimes were almost not audible (Ogre signalling several times to the soundboard guy).
This and considering the fact I was further away from the stage than last time, it isn't the best recording I've made. Still not a bad recording considering the circumstances.
Other things that spoiled a 'perfect' recording:
1. During Rodent a guy bumped into me and the mic I had pinned on my jacket fell and
hang on its wire. During this the sound sounds a bit muffled and you can hear me putting
it back.
2. During the pause between the show and the encore a guy started talking to me.
He kept on talking when Skinny Puppy was already back on stage and started to make
sounds. I told him to 'shut up' ;)
Because of this I dismissed the crowd-noise part before the encore.
You can still hear us talking during the first seconds of the encore.
3. Because of switching MD's Fascist Jock Itch is cut in the end and Haze at the start.
4. It seems the first MD disk I used had a few technical errors.
I edited them all out and they are (almost) not audible anymore.
To be complete here are the songs I had to work on. See if you can find
the spots where I had to cut away a millisecond or so ;)
01 - Intro/Anger (twice)
02 - Ugli
04 - Dogshit
07 - Rodent (including mic-drop)
11 - Dig it
16 - back on stage/improv
Videos/photo's
I've searched the internet for pictures and videos and other stuff related to this show.
included are:
- 3 Skinny Puppy videos (Youtube converted to DivX)
- 2 Otto van Schirach videos
- several picture-sets
- 3 reviews taken from Last FM, 2 Dutch, 1 English
credits are given where possible.
Also included is INC-made coverart.
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Setlist:
01 - Intro/Anger
02 - Improv/Ugli
03 - Improv
04 - Dogshit
05 - Tormentor
06 - Politikil
07 - Rodent (mic drop)
08 - Pedafly
09 - Warlock
10 - L'Immortal
11 - Dig it
12 - Amnesia
13 - Hardset Head
14 - Fascist Jockitch (end cut)
15 - Haze (intro cut)
encore
16 - back on stage/improv
17 - Far too Frail
18 - Blue Serge
enjoy and seed!
INC