Some nice pics from the Whitby show, courtesy of Davefish…
pics roundup
The gug_ru LiveJournal community has a list of places where you can find recent CX pics. I want to post some more here, but until then check out this list.
Rodney appears in the new Pet Shop Boys video
Rodney (accompanied by CX live mixer Bob & merchandising person Cathryn) is in the video for the new Pet Shop Boys single Integral! You have to watch carefully, but you’ll see him flicker past near the end. Here’s a still from it:
Davina’s pics from WGT
Just put up a new photo album from WGT, taken by the very talented and wonderful Davina. It’s also Davina’s birthday today, so a very happy birthday from all at CXHQ to you!
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.
more pics from Gotham 8
Some nice pics from Gotham 8 from Wildblanket. I especially like this one:
some pics from the London show