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So, I went to this concert...
Feb. 5th, 2010 12:43 pmIt's difficult to know how to start describing Rammstein live if the person you're talking to hasn't seen them. It's a bit like when you were about six, getting home after a particularly exciting school trip - or maybe a Pantomime - and your mum asking what it was like.
"Oh, Mummy!", you'd say. "It was great! There were these Germans with guitars and they played really really loud music and then there were explosions and then they put on masks with flamethrowers on them and shot fire all over while they played their guitars and then they pretended to fight and it looked like one of them was killed but he wasn't he just had a sparkly suit on so it looked like he was made of electricity and he had a tesla coil and then they had a tickertape parade with big industrial fans and then something blew up and..."
And through all this your mum smiles and nods indulgently right up until the point you get overexcited, wet yourself, and have to go to bed.
Thinking about it like that, I've not changed much in the last few decades.
I hadn't really rated the latest album from Rammstein (three stars on Amazon
, thanks very much), and so I kinda thought the fire had gone out of the group. As it was, live, they're just downright formidable: capable of taking what I considered to be a mediocre album filler track (Fruhling in Paris) and making it into one of the most remarkable performances of just about anything I've seen in years.
The other real pleasure in the show is in having no idea what they're going to do next. yes, we expect flamethrowers and explosions, but they can still both surprise and entertain with something completely off the wall. What's that he's doing now?, you wonder about the lead singer. Ah! He's spraying the audience with a giant robot foam cannon on caterpillar tracks. Well, I can honestly say I've not seen anyone do that before, or perhaps Now, what is that on his back? Oh! It's a pair of wings with a 20' span and they've got flamethrowers on them! Well, bless me.
Anyway, a good time was had by all and I discovered that Tai Chi is really jolly handy when the person standing next to you wants to engage in some of that violent dancing which the kids of today are so enamoured of and you don't particularly want them to.
"Oh, Mummy!", you'd say. "It was great! There were these Germans with guitars and they played really really loud music and then there were explosions and then they put on masks with flamethrowers on them and shot fire all over while they played their guitars and then they pretended to fight and it looked like one of them was killed but he wasn't he just had a sparkly suit on so it looked like he was made of electricity and he had a tesla coil and then they had a tickertape parade with big industrial fans and then something blew up and..."
And through all this your mum smiles and nods indulgently right up until the point you get overexcited, wet yourself, and have to go to bed.
Thinking about it like that, I've not changed much in the last few decades.
I hadn't really rated the latest album from Rammstein (three stars on Amazon
, thanks very much), and so I kinda thought the fire had gone out of the group. As it was, live, they're just downright formidable: capable of taking what I considered to be a mediocre album filler track (Fruhling in Paris) and making it into one of the most remarkable performances of just about anything I've seen in years.The other real pleasure in the show is in having no idea what they're going to do next. yes, we expect flamethrowers and explosions, but they can still both surprise and entertain with something completely off the wall. What's that he's doing now?, you wonder about the lead singer. Ah! He's spraying the audience with a giant robot foam cannon on caterpillar tracks. Well, I can honestly say I've not seen anyone do that before, or perhaps Now, what is that on his back? Oh! It's a pair of wings with a 20' span and they've got flamethrowers on them! Well, bless me.
Anyway, a good time was had by all and I discovered that Tai Chi is really jolly handy when the person standing next to you wants to engage in some of that violent dancing which the kids of today are so enamoured of and you don't particularly want them to.
