Personally I got a immense thrill of of seeing a proper Kraftwerk gig. The first time I saw them was Leicester 92, a unique set with some very unusual variations (opening with the Robots, closng the main set with a supershort Music NonStop, ending with the Pocket Calculator/Dentaku medley, and the first Kraftwerk crowdsurfer), so to see the "full" presentation at Tribal Gathering was great. Some snobs may have been surprised to see Kraftwerk as old men (after all, they've been performing music now in one form or another for 34 years), or to see their repetoire as electo-pop, but back when it first came out it was the cutting edge of innovation. Anyway, enough of that, I though their performance at TG was the best headline festival show I've ever seen bar one (New Order @ Reading'98). And I've seen about 400 gigs to date. Right, back to the shadows to listen to "18" and be stunned by exactly how little innovation there is there. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Busby" <busbykg@hhs.bham.ac.uk> To: "kraftwerk list" <kraftwerk@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:14 PM Subject: RE: [Kraftwerk] festival moment On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, Shaun Vaughan <shaun@x1.ltd.uk> wrote:
Kevin Sounds like you had a miserable time.
No, not really - Kraftwerk's set made it all worthwhile. But other than that it was THUD, THUD, THUD, THUDding techno blasting out of show tents in a compound. After Kraftwerk's set, the choice was to stay outside in the cold (the temperature dropped a lot that particular night!) or be blasted with the metronomic music inside one of the tents. We chose freezing, but at least managed to find somewhere to sit the night out. Also, maybe it's normal practice, but the audiences were crammed in... I found the experience gruelling. But it was a good set by Kraftwerk, and no doubt I would have enjoyed the sets by Orbital and others, had it been possible to squeeze into the arena tents to catch a glimpse.
someone I know who was there that it was a euphoric moment. Having said that, another young scamp I spoke to one time said he was disapointed to see some OLD MEN on stage making bleeping noises!
Quite a few people left very soon after the start of the set. They expected "the godfathers of techno", not some weird electronic pop, I think. K _______________________________________________ Kraftwerk mailing list Kraftwerk@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kraftwerk