Ever since Thomas attended his first ever gig in 1983 he wrote reviews about his experiences. Over the years this developed into adding interviews with artists and writing for various music magazines. This blog has it all from A-ha to ZZ Top, enjoy
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The Station was packed (as it should be) and I was very much looking forward to the Depeche tribute gig. DEPECHE – TAKE NOTE: this is how you should do it!!! The last time I enjoyed Depeche Mode’s music was probably their 2009 single ‘wrong’ before it all went really wrong indeed, for my ears anyways. Depeche’s catalogue is filled with gems that one hardly ever gets to hear especially the early songs and this is where the Devout did their homework. The trio was amazing and the songs were performed incredibly accurate sound wise and Devout’s set included belters like ‘A question of time’, ‘Stripped’ ‘Shake the disease’, an awesome rendition of the Vince Clarke penned ‘New Life’ off Depeche’s debut album ‘Speak and Spell’ and The Devout even played ‘the hit that Depeche never plays’: ‘People are people’ as well as many tracks off the ‘songs of faith and devotion’ album and in the acoustic part that Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore always performs during a concert, The Devout’s versio
01.11.1991, Kongresshalle Frankfurt: KRAFTWERK „The robots“, „Autobahn“, „Tour de France“, „The model“, „Computerworld“ „Music non Stopp“ ... the list of hits of the cult band from Düsseldorf is really remarkable and after nine years of stage absence the “Robots” once more embark on a tour. The Kongresshalle (Congress hall) Frankfurt was sold out. The show was scheduled for 8 p.m. and the tickets cost DM 38,50,- (quite a lot back then) Shortly after 8 p.m. strange electronic noises echoed from the speakers still with the lights fully on. The sounds lasted for almost 15 minutes. Then they stopped: Showtime: “Ladies and Gentleman, Madame’s et Monsieur’s, Meine Damen und Herren: Die Mensch Maschine (The man machine)” ... After this introduction from the „Voice of energy“ Kraftwerk started the gig. Hutter, Schneider und co. „lifeless“ as usual. The futuristic stage featured the whole Kling Klang Studio as well as four 5meter wide screens on which a video sequence was shown simultaneously
Gary Numan is arguably one of the most charismatic and one of the weirdest performers simply because he has an awesome voice and writes great tunes but where he starts to sing within any given song seems abrupt and out of sync but let’s just settle for unconventional, which is an awesome thing to be. Gary and the musicians he recorded with in his early career had the band name ‘Tubeway Army’ and eventually it became Gary Numan and Tubeway Army and then just Gary Numan, and while most of the musicians from the Tubeway Army days continued to record and work with him, I personally always felt that the music changed after the abandonment of that distinction ‘Tubeway Army’. It could be argued that Numan always was the principle songwriter within that unit, when I listen to the first ‘Tubeway Army’ album by the same name and ‘Replicas’ released in 1979 as Gary Numan & Tubeway Army it has a distinct magic in it and an identifiable musical flavour. Over decades Gary Numan has released
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