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Rambling Report Part 1: Hamburg 1 and 2
Dec. 11th, 2009 03:26 amWTF am I doing still up?! I'll never wake up in the morning. D: I met with the other Italian fan earlier, the one who was at the concert in Berlin, and now I'm not tired at all. I'll just post this entry I wrote earlier.
The Bela tour is over and, while I'm not suffering from the usual post-concert depression (yet), I do feel melancholy. But I'm very happy I decided to go to 5 concerts: there was no way the Berlin one was going to be enough, I knew that, after seeing one gig, I would crave more and, since Berlin was the last show of the tour, that would have certainly lead to a huge post-concert depression. :P
Quick tour summary: Bela is a total poser but, fuck, he's hot; Holly is one hell of a great bassist; I could see a hundred concerts without getting tired.
Ans here's the usualy report consisting of random memories. I can't assure that every memory belongs to the right concert, things start to blend together when you see 4 concerts in a row and don't write stuff down at once.
I'll start with the two Hamburg gigs. Pictures are on their way, I still need to touch them up in Photoshop.
6th December, Hamburg
- First of all: the Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket rocks. I found someone who had one at the first try and only paid 5 euros to get from Berlin to Hamburg. Beginner's luck, I suppose.
- I stayed at the A&O Hostel on the Reeperbahn just around the corner from the venue. The standards were much lower than the other A&O hostels I've been in, but it was just for two nights, so that's OK. Also, I guess those are Reeperbahn quality standards anyway. Check in was from 4 PM, so I just left my rucksack in the luggage room and went down to the club to see if there was already someone there. Of course 5 or 6 people were already sitting there, but I really didn't want to wait that long (I think it was around 2:30 PM), so I just walked past and pretty much stumbled into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darth_funk and kiviraat. Small world, indeed. We had a coffee together and spent a couple of hours just chatting in a bar with nice tiger and leopard print cushions.
- I went to the venue around 5:30 PM and there weren't that many people there. Too bad doors opened later than usual (at 8:00 PM, which is the time when the opening act usually starts to play. Damn Hamburg and its nightlife. :P)
- Across from the club there's a church, its bells ring every 15 minutes and at the hour there's a nice long melody. A church right in the middle of the red-light district must do anything to attract attention, right? ;)
- The concert was very good, I could see the band had improved a lot since Dresden (2nd show of the tour). I was standing in the second row in front of Holly and had a very relaxing concert up until "Tag mit Schutzumschlag", when a group of girls started jumping all around me. Meh.
- Bela had to mention Farin again, of course: before "1. 2. 3..." he played the usual "What comes after *insert ridiculous high number*", but the audience was smart and got all the numbers right, so he said something like "Nicht nur bei Farin Urlaub gibt es Abiturienten im Publikum."
- Olsen was talking back to Bela and Bela told him to shut up and said something along the lines of "Don't talk back to me, I'm the one who pays you!" And Olsen said "Yeah, but not much." And Bela: "It is much. In a parallel universe. Or in India, for example."
- Bela really likes having thousands of adoring fangirls in front of him. One of the Ansagen was "Könnt ihr mich sehen? Und gefällt euch was ihr seht?" *rolls eyes* Also, during "Ninjababypowpow" he grabbed the stage structure (no idea what's it called in English, I only know the Italian name because I actually studied it at uni) and started swaying like a stripper.
- The Bobotanz Ansage wasn't the standard one from the CD this time: Danny said something about someone doing some medical analysis and the doctor diagnosing they were a Bobo because he had found traces of tofu and cheap beer (Boheme) as well as traces of caviar and champagne (Bourgeois) in his faeces. Even Bela looked disgusted. XD
- Allow me to be a silly fangirl and say "OMG, Bela winked at me!" I'm perfectly aware he does that with half of the girls standing in the front, but it's still a nice feeling when he looks at you and you can actually see recognition in his eyes.
7th December, Hamburg
- I had a walk around in the morning, bought a red leopard print scarf (♥♥♥) at the Christmas market in Altona, went down to the harbour for a bit and went to the venue in the mid-afternoon. I ended up in the second row almost directly in front of Bela and it turned out to be a rather quiet spot, maybe because the club wasn't as full as the previous evening.
- While I was waiting outside, I could catch a glimpse of a photo shoot that was going on onstage as the security opened the doors for a while in the afternoon. I wonder where/when the pictures are going to be published.
- The opening act was a '50s/rockabilly band with a singer that looked like an elderly version of Elvis and two (TWO!) contrabasses. The contrabass players were totally crazy: one of them started playing standing on one of the amps and the other standing on the contrabass itself. Great.
- The guestlist area was apparently full of St. Pauli football players and Bela kept making football jokes, also because there was a fan wearing a HSV jersey somewhere, who was the main target of said jokes (but Bela apologised after every single one, aww.)
- After Holly's usual "Keiner versteht mich, Alter!" during "Satan, Gott und das Glück" (which I love, btw), Bela hugged him and said "Sometimes men just need to be hugged. But it can lead to embarrassing moments, right Holly? Or is that a bunch of keys in your trousers?" Bela clearly misses the slashy moments he used to share with Wayne. ;)
- I really, really like Holly, his stage presence is much stronger than Tim's, who just stood in his spot in the background, said "Bass" once during the whole concert and that was it. I still miss Wayne, but I have to admit this Los Helmstedt line-up is very good. Even if I was bad and always cheered really loud for Holly (hey, I gotta support a fellow bassist) and only half-clapped for Gary. Oops. :P
- Danny said St. Pauli players were all a bunch of bobos and at the end added Maradona wasn't a bobo, but did a lot of "coco". Yay for lame jokes.
- A group of girls in the front shouted "Bela, du bist so schön!" in perfect unison and Bela said (more or less) "Oh, das ist jetzt eine Überraschung. Naja, danke, ich weiß." Poser. XD After a while the girls shouted "Bela, du bist immer noch schön!" And he replied "Natürlich bin ich immer noch schön, wisst ihr wieviel Botox wir Backstage haben?" And made such a ridiculous grimace that totally deformed his face and said "Every wrinkle was artificially recreated so that it looks authentic!" He also mentioned his "schöner, durchtrainierter Arsch". Poser, poser, poser. But man, it does look pretty well-toned.
- He was wearing a fringe shirt under his black and white jacket. Now please look at this photo I took: am I the only one who thinks of the film "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"? I could totally see him standing on the roof of a bus singing "I will survive". XD
http://www.doitcomics.net/ljfiles/priscilla_b.jpg
- During the usual "Könnt ihr mich sehen? Könnt ihr mich hören?" he said we couldn't not hear him, because they had spent a lot of money on the audio equipment. He then proceeded to repeat the same question without microphone and of course the crowd screamed again (I could actually hear his voice, he was standing quite close) and he commented "Shit, we spend too much money on it!" XD
All right, I guess that's enough for now, I'll try and get some sleep. Rambling Report(TM) about Leipzig and Berlin as well as photos will be posted soon.
The Bela tour is over and, while I'm not suffering from the usual post-concert depression (yet), I do feel melancholy. But I'm very happy I decided to go to 5 concerts: there was no way the Berlin one was going to be enough, I knew that, after seeing one gig, I would crave more and, since Berlin was the last show of the tour, that would have certainly lead to a huge post-concert depression. :P
Quick tour summary: Bela is a total poser but, fuck, he's hot; Holly is one hell of a great bassist; I could see a hundred concerts without getting tired.
Ans here's the usualy report consisting of random memories. I can't assure that every memory belongs to the right concert, things start to blend together when you see 4 concerts in a row and don't write stuff down at once.
I'll start with the two Hamburg gigs. Pictures are on their way, I still need to touch them up in Photoshop.
6th December, Hamburg
- First of all: the Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket rocks. I found someone who had one at the first try and only paid 5 euros to get from Berlin to Hamburg. Beginner's luck, I suppose.
- I stayed at the A&O Hostel on the Reeperbahn just around the corner from the venue. The standards were much lower than the other A&O hostels I've been in, but it was just for two nights, so that's OK. Also, I guess those are Reeperbahn quality standards anyway. Check in was from 4 PM, so I just left my rucksack in the luggage room and went down to the club to see if there was already someone there. Of course 5 or 6 people were already sitting there, but I really didn't want to wait that long (I think it was around 2:30 PM), so I just walked past and pretty much stumbled into
darth_funk and kiviraat. Small world, indeed. We had a coffee together and spent a couple of hours just chatting in a bar with nice tiger and leopard print cushions. - I went to the venue around 5:30 PM and there weren't that many people there. Too bad doors opened later than usual (at 8:00 PM, which is the time when the opening act usually starts to play. Damn Hamburg and its nightlife. :P)
- Across from the club there's a church, its bells ring every 15 minutes and at the hour there's a nice long melody. A church right in the middle of the red-light district must do anything to attract attention, right? ;)
- The concert was very good, I could see the band had improved a lot since Dresden (2nd show of the tour). I was standing in the second row in front of Holly and had a very relaxing concert up until "Tag mit Schutzumschlag", when a group of girls started jumping all around me. Meh.
- Bela had to mention Farin again, of course: before "1. 2. 3..." he played the usual "What comes after *insert ridiculous high number*", but the audience was smart and got all the numbers right, so he said something like "Nicht nur bei Farin Urlaub gibt es Abiturienten im Publikum."
- Olsen was talking back to Bela and Bela told him to shut up and said something along the lines of "Don't talk back to me, I'm the one who pays you!" And Olsen said "Yeah, but not much." And Bela: "It is much. In a parallel universe. Or in India, for example."
- Bela really likes having thousands of adoring fangirls in front of him. One of the Ansagen was "Könnt ihr mich sehen? Und gefällt euch was ihr seht?" *rolls eyes* Also, during "Ninjababypowpow" he grabbed the stage structure (no idea what's it called in English, I only know the Italian name because I actually studied it at uni) and started swaying like a stripper.
- The Bobotanz Ansage wasn't the standard one from the CD this time: Danny said something about someone doing some medical analysis and the doctor diagnosing they were a Bobo because he had found traces of tofu and cheap beer (Boheme) as well as traces of caviar and champagne (Bourgeois) in his faeces. Even Bela looked disgusted. XD
- Allow me to be a silly fangirl and say "OMG, Bela winked at me!" I'm perfectly aware he does that with half of the girls standing in the front, but it's still a nice feeling when he looks at you and you can actually see recognition in his eyes.
7th December, Hamburg
- I had a walk around in the morning, bought a red leopard print scarf (♥♥♥) at the Christmas market in Altona, went down to the harbour for a bit and went to the venue in the mid-afternoon. I ended up in the second row almost directly in front of Bela and it turned out to be a rather quiet spot, maybe because the club wasn't as full as the previous evening.
- While I was waiting outside, I could catch a glimpse of a photo shoot that was going on onstage as the security opened the doors for a while in the afternoon. I wonder where/when the pictures are going to be published.
- The opening act was a '50s/rockabilly band with a singer that looked like an elderly version of Elvis and two (TWO!) contrabasses. The contrabass players were totally crazy: one of them started playing standing on one of the amps and the other standing on the contrabass itself. Great.
- The guestlist area was apparently full of St. Pauli football players and Bela kept making football jokes, also because there was a fan wearing a HSV jersey somewhere, who was the main target of said jokes (but Bela apologised after every single one, aww.)
- After Holly's usual "Keiner versteht mich, Alter!" during "Satan, Gott und das Glück" (which I love, btw), Bela hugged him and said "Sometimes men just need to be hugged. But it can lead to embarrassing moments, right Holly? Or is that a bunch of keys in your trousers?" Bela clearly misses the slashy moments he used to share with Wayne. ;)
- I really, really like Holly, his stage presence is much stronger than Tim's, who just stood in his spot in the background, said "Bass" once during the whole concert and that was it. I still miss Wayne, but I have to admit this Los Helmstedt line-up is very good. Even if I was bad and always cheered really loud for Holly (hey, I gotta support a fellow bassist) and only half-clapped for Gary. Oops. :P
- Danny said St. Pauli players were all a bunch of bobos and at the end added Maradona wasn't a bobo, but did a lot of "coco". Yay for lame jokes.
- A group of girls in the front shouted "Bela, du bist so schön!" in perfect unison and Bela said (more or less) "Oh, das ist jetzt eine Überraschung. Naja, danke, ich weiß." Poser. XD After a while the girls shouted "Bela, du bist immer noch schön!" And he replied "Natürlich bin ich immer noch schön, wisst ihr wieviel Botox wir Backstage haben?" And made such a ridiculous grimace that totally deformed his face and said "Every wrinkle was artificially recreated so that it looks authentic!" He also mentioned his "schöner, durchtrainierter Arsch". Poser, poser, poser. But man, it does look pretty well-toned.
- He was wearing a fringe shirt under his black and white jacket. Now please look at this photo I took: am I the only one who thinks of the film "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"? I could totally see him standing on the roof of a bus singing "I will survive". XD
http://www.doitcomics.net/ljfiles/priscilla_b.jpg
- During the usual "Könnt ihr mich sehen? Könnt ihr mich hören?" he said we couldn't not hear him, because they had spent a lot of money on the audio equipment. He then proceeded to repeat the same question without microphone and of course the crowd screamed again (I could actually hear his voice, he was standing quite close) and he commented "Shit, we spend too much money on it!" XD
All right, I guess that's enough for now, I'll try and get some sleep. Rambling Report(TM) about Leipzig and Berlin as well as photos will be posted soon.
