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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Sir HC on April 23, 2004, 05:03:00 pm
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Anyone else going tonight. I will be there with some b-more folks.
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Debating whether to go.
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yes, i will be there. this is the show i've been more looking forward to than anything. the two times i've seen neubauten, in 1999 and 2000, they were incredible and played for well over two hours without one boring minute.
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i can't believe i missed this.
how was it?
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Blixa opened by saying this might well be the last time they ever tour the USA. They are barely breaking even from what they said. Brilliant show. I am not the one to say what they played, but they did go back to the early 80s for some of the tracks. 2 encores.
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Sounds great, I missed it for Gus Gus at St. Ex, who played Purple for me.
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POP MUSIC (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42190-2004Apr25.html)
Monday, April 26, 2004; Page C05 Washington Post
Einsturzende Neubauten
Amantra on the back of a 1983 Einsturzende Neubauten album read "Listen with pain -- Hear with pain -- Ears are wounds," but the German outfit, which played for a near-capacity crowd at the 9:30 club Friday, has given up using jackhammers and welding torches on concert stages. Instead, its engrossing, two-hour-plus performance was dominated by clattering grooves and blissful moments of sheer musicality.
Of course for a band whose stage setup includes chunks of ductwork, piles of metal and plastic pipes, air compressors, springs and sundry industrial containers -- singer Blixa Bargeld mentioned a pre-show trip to Home Depot -- musicality is a relative term. Therefore, if the Einsturzende Neubauten of the 1980s was the sound of a collapsing city (the band's name means "collapsing new buildings"), Friday's show -- the first of a three-week North American tour -- was the sound of the wind whistling through the ruins.
Highlights of the set, heavy on tracks from its excellent new album, "Perpetuum Mobile," included "Youme & Meyou" and "Ich gehe Jetzt," which came across as industrial-baroque, with Bargeld's chanting vocals (almost exclusively in German) fronting a parade whose beats were siphoned from machinery clangor.
Bassist Alexander Hacke tethered "Selbstportrait mit Kater" to a hard-rock orbit, while founding member N.U. Unruh (a k a Andrew Churdy) provided visual as well as sonic entertainment, banging every available metal object and crashing a string of empty gas cans across the stage. And if the audience was saddened to see it end sometime after 1 a.m. and five encores -- including a charging "Alles" -- they could relive the whole thing with a two-CD set of the show, for sale ($35) just minutes after its conclusion.
-- Patrick Foster