Hi all. Yesterday I was at Anathema's gig in Madrid. I can resume it as "A natural disaster" concert. Let me to explain this...
The concert was at "Copernico nova club" a little club for 1000-2000 persons crowd. Its height is 6 meters, and I think it was the main responsible of the bad sound of the show.
The gig began with a spanish support band. I don't remember their name (anyone can help me?), but they did their work well. They sounded very progressive, like Dream theatre style, but mixed with a Nightwish style. The female singer sang nice & powerful, and the band play with a very powerful and compact sound too. They play 4 of their songs, and two covers: radio hit "Going under", and a personal progressive vision of Flashdance main theme "What a feeling". But the general sound was bad. It was a great ball of distortioned sound
Anathema's setlist was something like this, may be I'm forgotting some song or the order is not correct:
Shroud Of False
Fragile Dreams
Balance
Closer
A Natural Disaster
Pressure
Release
Panic
One Last Goodbye
Temporary Peace
Flying
Judgement
Empty
Angelica
A Dying Wish
"Comfortably numb" Pink Floyd Cover
It was a short setlist I think, and they played some of the songs very fast.
At the beginning of the concert they had a lot of problems with the sound. I imagine that Vincent couldn't hear his voice or his guitar. He sang only few words of "Balance", because he was gesticulating with his hands all the time to show the sound engineers something was wrong.
There was problems with the sound the next songs too, but it was ok after 5 songs more or less. But the general sound was bad, because the club was a bad place for concerts, like I've said before. I think vincent voice was too low...
During ALL the show you could hear a crispy noise, like shortcircuit or cooking fried chips and the engineers could't fix it.
And now the most surprising thing... Two or three songs before the show ended, Les took one of his keyboards with his hands, put it over his head, and SMASHED IT OVER THE STAGE!!!! The keys flew in all directions. Wawwww!! It was like a Hendrix-Who's Townshend-Nirvana moment!!! :-D I think not only the crowd was surprised, Anathema's crew and musicians too. May be Danny would confirm this. After that orgasmic moment, the crispy sound desapeared
I've to say that Lee Douglas sang with Vincent in "A natural disaster" and other song (I don't remember which song now). She's a nice girl with an incredible warm voice.
It was the first concert I've seen with no encores!! at the end of Comfortably numb Anathema disapeared and never came back. You've to know that these days in Madrid all the concerts MUST end at midnight, It's shit dude... Anathema only could play about 1 hour and half, more or less, because all the sound problems and the a bit long show of the support band.
I think they want to play more. Vinnie said it a couple of times, but dude, the time was up The few time they had is the main reason of they played some songs really quickly.
Well, bad sound and a lot of problems, but Anathema tried hardly to do a good show... Vinnie said at the beggining of a song, after stop it once 'cause the sound problems "Thank people... Where gonna play this song, If god let us play it, of course" or something similar
As you see, it was "A natural disaster" concert or I'd said "A Murphy's classical disaster". If it can be wrong, it'll be worse
See ya, and I hope next gigs will be better.
The concert was at "Copernico nova club" a little club for 1000-2000 persons crowd. Its height is 6 meters, and I think it was the main responsible of the bad sound of the show.
The gig began with a spanish support band. I don't remember their name (anyone can help me?), but they did their work well. They sounded very progressive, like Dream theatre style, but mixed with a Nightwish style. The female singer sang nice & powerful, and the band play with a very powerful and compact sound too. They play 4 of their songs, and two covers: radio hit "Going under", and a personal progressive vision of Flashdance main theme "What a feeling". But the general sound was bad. It was a great ball of distortioned sound
Anathema's setlist was something like this, may be I'm forgotting some song or the order is not correct:
Shroud Of False
Fragile Dreams
Balance
Closer
A Natural Disaster
Pressure
Release
Panic
One Last Goodbye
Temporary Peace
Flying
Judgement
Empty
Angelica
A Dying Wish
"Comfortably numb" Pink Floyd Cover
It was a short setlist I think, and they played some of the songs very fast.
At the beginning of the concert they had a lot of problems with the sound. I imagine that Vincent couldn't hear his voice or his guitar. He sang only few words of "Balance", because he was gesticulating with his hands all the time to show the sound engineers something was wrong.
There was problems with the sound the next songs too, but it was ok after 5 songs more or less. But the general sound was bad, because the club was a bad place for concerts, like I've said before. I think vincent voice was too low...
During ALL the show you could hear a crispy noise, like shortcircuit or cooking fried chips
and the engineers could't fix it.And now the most surprising thing... Two or three songs before the show ended, Les took one of his keyboards with his hands, put it over his head, and SMASHED IT OVER THE STAGE!!!!
The keys flew in all directions. Wawwww!! It was like a Hendrix-Who's Townshend-Nirvana moment!!! :-D I think not only the crowd was surprised, Anathema's crew and musicians too. May be Danny would confirm this. After that orgasmic moment, the crispy sound desapeared I've to say that Lee Douglas sang with Vincent in "A natural disaster" and other song (I don't remember which song now). She's a nice girl with an incredible warm voice.
It was the first concert I've seen with no encores!! at the end of Comfortably numb Anathema disapeared and never came back. You've to know that these days in Madrid all the concerts MUST end at midnight, It's shit dude... Anathema only could play about 1 hour and half, more or less, because all the sound problems and the a bit long show of the support band.
I think they want to play more. Vinnie said it a couple of times, but dude, the time was up
The few time they had is the main reason of they played some songs really quickly.Well, bad sound and a lot of problems, but Anathema tried hardly to do a good show... Vinnie said at the beggining of a song, after stop it once 'cause the sound problems "Thank people... Where gonna play this song, If god let us play it, of course" or something similar
As you see, it was "A natural disaster" concert
or I'd said "A Murphy's classical disaster". If it can be wrong, it'll be worse See ya, and I hope next gigs will be better.
