Italy: veni vidi vici, comme on dit.
8 08 2008It all started the way we like it. Nice flight. Nice design hotel. Excellent diner all together. Sambucca para mi. Grappa para los otros. And everybody happy. Follow my eyes.
A little bit of luxury, is, I guess, getting trendy. And well deserved after the United Kingdom and their festival hospitality.
dEUS are growing up. Are, in fact, grownups. And it shows. They are a gang. A little family. Cruising around and facing all realities.
It is obvious between them. And it is now obvious when shit happens behind their will and control. All the Torino city micro-waves must have been turned on at the exact moment they went on stage… and the power went away. As we all know, Italians like to cook. Again and again. So did the power too. Disappeared. And not the gentle way. And again… and again. 4 times before they called it a day. But it was… a magical evening. They kept playing. Even acoustically. Singing their guts out. You could have heard a bee passing over the festival field, that’s as quiet as the audience was. To live the moment. To live through the moment.
It doesn’t take away the frustrations those kinds of gigs leave us with, but, I’m glad I was there to witness this moment of shared illusions…and disillusions.
Memory of a festival…as Tom named a song quite a long time ago. Check « In a bar, Under the Sea ». For your pleasure, also. Again and again. Again.
Ferrarra didn’t have the magic it had two years ago. And as you’ll hear on this pod it is still extremely vivid in some of the musicians minds and memories. But does magic knock on the same door twice? We double billed with Interpol. And that may be the reason.
Roma, la bellissima, was what it had to be: a gigantic party. It’s always nice to see people getting of their chairs, forgetting who they are and who they pretend to be (don’t forget: we’re still in Italy – where looks…kill) …and dance the night away. So they did. And so will we.
Let’s get the ghetto blaster, put a nice Jorge Ben…or Polly Jean Harvey, if you feel lucky.
Italy, thanks for those shared moments.
And keep cultivating good taste. And the food. And the weather. And the culture. It doesn’t hurt.
But fix that damn fairy electricity.
So, this Podcast is based on Torino’s events. Open the MP3, you’ll hear.
But, on this one, you’ll also… see. In fact, as I’ve been sitting right now on a tour bus for 10 hours (and seven more to go !), I thought about trying something new… and opened my iMovie window thing….
I tried (don’t forget, I’m a soundman – and thanks for the tips dear Klaas), don’t know if I succeeded in telling a story based on images (first time ever), don’t know if I’ll do it again (it takes bloody ages), but I hope you like it. The first edited movie I’ve done while on tour. Some kind of a Vodcast.
Isn’t it what the new generation calls this?
Thank you for reading, listening, and now watching this space.
And thanks dEUS, again (4 times… ha ha ha) for their music…
and friendship.
See you soon,
Vp.
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It looks like Tom was Photoshopped into that second photo.
Woow, again 2 really really nice podcasts and vodcast, the backstage-part is quite revealing, seeing everybody shaking at Rage
I know it’s quite late, but congratulations for the Wechter-concert, my friends and me really liked it! We made a sort of drawing to put in the air, a beautiful portret of Mauro with his beard, but unfortunately it was quite dark so nobody saw it. I took a picture of it and tried to add it to this message, but that didn’t work… Anyway, the drawing is hanging above my desk, so while studying I can think of that beautiful Werchter experience and dream away… Keep up the good work and see you all at Vorst!!
I was so looking forward to read something about dEUS italian tour! The last 2 podcasts/vodcast are great! Thanks for all your hard work…thanks for giving us a chance to feel so close to them through your words and your images…
(I must say you definitely succeeded in telling a story based on images! …considering also that I am in one of the pictures you uploaded ! so a big enormous universal thank for this!) Is there an email address where I can send some pictures I took during the concert?
I saw a picture of Klaas taking a picture of Tom and Alan on the beach in Vama… Any chance Klaas’ picture will be in the next pod?
I love you, come back.
2 years ago Ferrara has been magic for us too, trust me! The best gig I’ve ever seen in my life, honestly…
this time dEUS sounded excellent too, but time was adverse…anyway…it’s been an excellent appetizer for their autumn’s coming back