Someone’s posted a couple of audience camera videos from WGT on to YouTube. Second Shot and Moscow Idaho. They look pretty good for cameraphone vids. Hopefully we’ll have some of the real ones ready soon, Keith’s editing them right now.
March @ YouTube
We’ve just uploaded a very rare CX video to YouTube for you all. It’s the first ever promo video we ever shot, way back in 1985 for the March single. Check it out here!
We’ve got tons of old videos in the archives back here, if there’s enough interest we’ll upload some more… so do let us know!
More pics from WGT
Some amazing pics of CX at WGT here. Best ones yet I think.
Wave Gothic Treff
I’ve been out of touch for a couple of days while playing the WGT festival in Leipzig, Germany. This is a great festival, but it’s not open-air like most places. Basically for four days they take over every venue in the city and run non-stop concerts and parties. We were headling the Kohlrabizirkus venue on the last day of the festival, in other words, the top spot.
There were around 25,000 – 30,000 people at the festival, but the Kohlrabizirkus only holds around 4,000. That meant that it was filled to capacity several hours before we were due to go on, with hundreds (possibly thousands) of people getting turned away at the door. Even when it was sold out, the line of people outside trying to get in stretched all the way down the street!
I was seriously nervous seeing that as you can imagine, especially since we hadn’t played in five years, apart from the couple of warm-up shows in the past couple of weeks. But once we got on stage it was… incredible. We had a new light show set up for this one, with an 8 metre by 2 metre LED light wall that we had programmed for the songs. It was blindingly bright, but amazing to see. The audience went nuts from the beginning, and by the end the entire place was dancing and screaming for more. I even ended up crowd surfing…
We did a three camera video shoot as well, so you’ll get to see some of it once we get to editing some footage. For now, here’s a pic of Volker during Nightfall…
Rock & roll, eh?
And just look at those LED lights behind us…
backstage @ WGT
Some candid backstage shots from Bob:
Soundcheck in the morning. Those LEDs were HOT. The crew were great, one of the easiest and best soundchecks we’ve ever had.
Outside the venue before the show. It had already been sold out nearly an hour before, but people were still queuing in the vain hope of getting in. Unbelievable.
That red ribbon round my neck holds the key for Cubase, which is the software that runs our drum tracks and some of our synthesiser sounds on stage. Without that key the show grinds to a halt, which is why it’s on a bright red ribbon and never leaves my side.
amsterdam
We just played Amsterdam. We were stunningly good, even if I do say so myself. Twice as good as London, if not more so. We had Slack, and lots of it. The audience loved it too
Now it’s 3.33 am and I’m in my hotel room still buzzing. Paul & Andy are in the bar and Volker & Bob are crashed out – they have to get up at 5 to get planes.
If this keeps going Leipzig should be a hell of a show next week. *Cross fingers*
amsterdam pics from City Baby
more pics from Gotham 8
Some nice pics from Gotham 8 from Wildblanket. I especially like this one:
some pics from the London show
london show
So we played London last Saturday night…
I was feeling pretty nervous about this show, we haven’t played in five years, and every time we played London in the past it’s been pretty horrid – London venues tend to not be of the highest quality in my experience. The fact that this was to be a festival with us halfway down the bill didn’t help much.
Luckily sound on the day was to be provided by my good friend Bob so that was a big plus right away. Unfortunately he didn’t have anyone to assist him, which was ridiculous, so the poor man was running round like crazy trying to do everything. Making it harder was the fact that the main band had several tympani (!), and various assorted orchestral style percussion as well as keyboards; the second band on the bill had a traditional git/bass/drumkit setup; and we had everything DI-ed! So completely different setups each time…
So anyway, after some soundcheck confusion, things got underway and the first couple of bands played. The first band, Karma Deva, were actually pretty good – if I hadn’t been running around talking to fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts (no, I’m not making this up) I’d have enjoyed them greatly I’m sure.
Didn’t see the second band because we were getting ready to go on, but eventually we took the stage… and I think I can safely say we blew the place away. Terry the lighting guy had been setting up some nice scanners and smoke machines, and really pulled out all the stops for us, so we looked good. The sound which had been very boomy in soundcheck settled down nicely and really poked.
Andy’s Guitar Rig system sounded fabulous on its first outing. It was funny to see the stage filled with amps from the other bands, and him just playing through his laptop. And still sounding louder than they did! I’m very happy with this system now, I totally recommend it.
Ironically the only problem we had was Volker’s Lexicon guitar FX unit doing something weird – so much for hardware being more reliable than software! I think we might go software based with his setup soon too, though having said that I’m really starting to like the new Line6 stuff…
I don’t have any pics yet, but I know some people took some. Will post them later when I get them.
Next Friday it’s Amsterdam, then on to Germany…
Set list this time:
- Nightfall
- Into the Heart
- Twice as Good
- VALIS
- Datakill
- War Against Sleep
- Satisfy Me
- Moscow Idaho
- Kneel to the Boss
Anyone who was there and wants to post a review in the reply, please feel free to do so!