Our second show since our two year break and this was was a very good one. It was set up by the local college radio station KölnCampus and we were scheduled to play with The Gaslight Anthem from New Jersey, a band I never heard of before. But when I was listening to the songs the had on their Myspace site I knew we were in for a good one.Great thing about this show was that I was able to go there on my own two feet, the "Blue Shell" is in walking distance to where I live. So I arrived there at around 6.30 pm and met up with my guys. We soon were introduced to the Americans and after some small talk the guys were putting up their stuff on stage. The only thing different was that we had to stay inside an allowed range of noise. So we were not allowed to play louder than 103 db. That was good for some laughs during soundcheck because the sound guy was running around with some device where he could see how loud we got.
Well, things worked out, we were all set and ready to go out and that's basically what we did. We rocked the house. A lot of our friends showed up and created a very nice atmosphere. Although we had minor problems with out of tune guitars we pretty much got through with our set without any huge mistakes. Which isn't normal for us, but this was the 2nd time in a row. Maybe we are really getting a little better after all these years. We even had people screaming for encores. Although that might have been our friends who just wanted to be nice to us.
The Gaslight Anthem then took the stage and those guys rocked. Their singer Brian is playing the same Fender Telecaster model as Bruce Springsteen and when Batman pointed that out to me I had to admit that he was really right when he was saying "That guy is playing that guitar for a reason". They really sound like a punk-fueled version of Bruce Springsteen. Great stuff. Wonderful melodies with an edge. Raw, yet beautiful. And they are wonderful fellows. I had the chance to talk to Brian for a long time after the show and I was in the city with the guys today as well since they had a day off. Great people. They are on tour through Germany for the next month. If you get the chance, go see them. You won't be disappointed.
06.Sep.2007 20:00
AZ (Ger) Aachen
07.Sep.2007 20:00
Lintfabrik Kontich (B)
08.Sep.2007 20:00
Area 51 Skate Park (NL) Eindhoven
10.Sep.2007 20:00
Bosporus Grill (GER) Münster
12.Sep.2007 20:00
Zucker Club (Ger) Breman
13.Sep.2007 20:00
Nexus Braunschweig (Ger)
14.Sep.2007 20:00
Störtebeker Störtebecker (Ger), Hamburg
15.Sep.2007 20:00
secret show not available
16.Sep.2007 20:00
Schaubude (Ger) Kiel
18.Sep.2007 20:00
AZ Conni Dresden (Ger)
19.Sep.2007 20:00
K4 Nürnberg (Ger)
20.Sep.2007 20:00
Alte Mälzerei Regensburg (Ger)
22.Sep.2007 20:00
AJZ Bielefeld (Ger)
24.Sep.2007 20:00
JUZ (Ger) Mannheim
25.Sep.2007 20:00
KTS (Ger) Freiburg
26.Sep.2007 20:00
Juha West (Ger) Stuttgart
27.Sep.2007 20:00
Cafe Cairo (Ger) Würzburg
28.Sep.2007 20:00
FZW Dortmond (Ger)
29.Sep.2007 20:00
TKELLER Gottingen (Ger)
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