Post edited 7:36 pm - 4 July 2009 by Garp1978
Post edited 7:41 am - 5 July 2009 by Garp1978
Post edited 12:03 pm - 5 July 2009 by Garp1978

MP performed in Berlin today at a pretty bad festival by a pretty bad radio station. My friend texted me the setlist as I didn't go after I heard that Maximo would play only 30 minutes. Kudos again to Antje though for getting me the ticket (it was a free show, but you had to get your tickets in Berlin in advance)

Setlist:

The kids are sick again

Girls who play guitars

Wraithlike

Apply some pressure

Books from boxes

Let's get clinical

Going missing

Questing, not coasting

Our veloctiy

Oi, sounds even worse than I expected and what my friend texted me. I guess I know the reason why MP didn't list this gig on here nor on their MySpace. I guess it was meant as a promo for the October-tour… Hope you could enjoy the show at least a bit

That leads to only one conclusion: Front row in October, so you don't get to see the audience behind you I guess my friend had some cocktails too, her messages got funnier and funnier throughout the day

Thank you unka, I wondered why they didn't play their new single and Velocity already, maybe one text message have gone missing or the cocktails are to blame

Garp1978 said:

That leads to only one conclusion: Front row in October, so you don't get to see the audience behind you

Yeah, but since they will open the doors an unbelievable 2 hours before the support comes on I'm not sure if I have the patience to get there even earlier.

OMG - a short video of the festival is online now http://www.energy.de/energyint…..index.html (do yourself a favour and skip to 6:20 immediately), there was nobody moving in the audience or clapping I feel for everyone who went there and the Park

Post edited 2:23 pm - 5 July 2009 by missfilly

Oops! I just cringed…

I guess this is what happens when you put the stage so very far away from the audience. How can you expect audience participation. Btw, is that some sort of runnway? Surprised Maximo could even see who they were playing too. The whole thing just looks dreadful. Hope the ££'s was worth it

This reminds me of the audience feedback they recieved when they supported The Police @ Twickenham. They're kinda just playing to themselves..

Edit: Thought they were doing well in Germany? Please tell me that this was just a one-off, due to the radio station, stage location or even the crowd not digging Paul's pale blue 1970's suit . I do hope i've made the right decision as i'll be going to 2 of the German dates in October..

I think you weren't even allowed to walk (or swim) right up to the stage. I didn't go into the water at all.

Paul did dance down the stairs and onto that runway a couple of times, maybe he wanted to be closer to the audience …

i still don't get why they booked any bands at all, as it seemed the only thing the audience really enjoyed was the radio hosts being stupid…

unka said:

i still don't get why they booked any bands at all, as it seemed the only thing the audience really enjoyed was the radio hosts being stupid…

Indeed. And they were sooooo embarrassing!!! It was like “Ballermann”.

Any ideas why it was called NRJ in the Park at all???