"I mean, their playing 90% the same songs of the 1981 tour - and still all their concerts are sold out. People who go to a Kraftwerk-concert know what they will see - no new songs, but 'new designed' old songs - plus a new stage since 2002 - and still people go crazy. The 1997 Linze concert was the best concert I ever visited. It was simply magic. It's like a favourite film you have - you watch it again and again, know every scene, every sentence. That's what Kraftwerk makes so different, so timeless, so unique." (new to the list btw) Essentially that's what I felt after seeing both shows last Thursday. To be honest I don't really care whether they play any new material. It was great to hear them paying homage to Detroit with the UR mix of Expo 2000 - (Henning(?)_ looked like he was really enjoying that track), although I do think that the reworking of Airwaves leaves a little bit to be desired amongst other contemporary material being released today. Kraftwerk have moved into a different area of musical appreciation, in that their music will, as always, sound timeless. Given the surroundings of the concert on Thursday, it was much more like a classical music concert and this feeling can only have been enforced by the sheer crispness of the sound. Man Machine and Tour de France sound so perfect together, the first a warning to the Nietzschean ideal of ubermensch, and then Tour de France, epitomising the ultimate synthesis of man and machine together. And then we get Autobahn....irony and humour have never been put so beautifully in contemporary music.