Concert Reviews

DM is touring and most of their gigis have been re-scheduled. We will see them in December 2009 in Dublin and in February 2010 in Duesseldorf and you'll find reviews in due course right here!!!

Depeche's "Tour of the Universe" is in jeopardy as the band was forced to cancel quite a number of gigs. Frontman Dave Gahan is suffering from a malignant tumor, which has been operated on in New York recently. The concert in Duesseldorf/Germany scheduled for June 5th has had to be cancelled.

SECC Glasgow/Scotland, April 11th 2009 ULTRAVOX 2009 RETURN TO EDEN tour 2009 Midge Ure and co. are back in full force ULTRAVOX taking a bow in their native Scotland Dark yet melodic - ULTRAVOX! Midge Ure and his companions from ULTRAVOX gave it their all and they delivered beautifully. From "Vienna" to "Hymn" and "Perfect Stranger" they played many great classics without sounding dated or 80's. With three synths on stage, bass and e-guitar and even electro violin and both acoustic and e-drums on stage, there was enough variety in their performance to never get bored. The venue was very nice and calm and orderly yet wild. The evening didn't pass without technical problems here and there but ULTRAVOX are real pros. Their material sounded actually much better live than on record and sounded partially Gothik and dark-electro. It was a very energetic performance and well thought out - brilliant!

Just a few days and we will cover the ULTRAVOX homecoming gig in Glasgow for this very blog. In the meantime you can sit back and enjoy listening to a few interviews: Robert Goerl (DAF ) - German Sparks - English Paul Humphreys of OMD and One Two fame - English Deborah Rees from Safeconcerts.com

Shontelle from Barbados, whose song "T-Shirt" is currently at nr.77 in the UK charts, together with an excellent DJ warmed up the crowd for the New Kids ... Her voice was really good and her set was lively although a little long for my own taste. Both Shontelle and NKOTB mentioned the thrill of having a new president and the Dublin crowd cheered along. Barack Obama indeed could be the bringer of hope. NKOTB was supported by live musicians and a good looking stage production. They were certainly entertaining and good at what they were doing but I couldn't help but notice that the vocal ranges of the band has changed in the last 15 years since their break up back then and some songs just didn't sound good or fitted their current look as grown men. The dance routines were geared towards their mostly female audience and quite well executed. Songs from their new album "The Block" were more to my taste than their old stuff. All in all it wasn't as bad as I ha...

A new group called "Konzertberichte" has been found by concert-reviews.blogspot.com host Thomas Janak on the German social nerworking page WKW

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I just gave concert tickets for New Kids On The Block in Dublin to my girlfriend and the review will come in due course. They're playing the o2 in Dublin on January 21st 2009.

We have secured tickets for Depeche Mode in Duesseldorf/Germany (June 09) and Ultravox in Glasgow/Scotland in April 2009 - so cool!!

OMD kicked off last years' "Morality & Architecture" show here in Dublin and made a phenomenal return when they played the Ambassador Venue on September 28th 2008. The backdrops weren't anything short of fantastic and the band was in good spirit and really kicked ass. This years' show was even better than their 2007 gig. The set included songs from the mentioned album as well as the much loved hits "Tesla Girls" and "Sailing on the seven seas" from the 1991 "Sugartax" album. In the midst of their set a mixing desk blew and the front-of-house PA went dead, what resulted in a forced 20 minutes break. When OMD returned to the stage Andy said: "I hope you've all done your Christmas shopping because we're not going before we've played the entire set" - as the crowd cheered on OMD picked up speed straight away and they delivered beautifully. Brilliant *** Support Act "Cowboy X", consisting of three blokes...