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Depeche Mode "Touring The Angel", Live @Parken in Copenhagen

What else to say then: WOW!

I was looking forward to this evening for quite some time, as i got the tickets already last year in september with alot of luck as the stupid website selling the tickets went down cause of not being able to handle the load. I have a really good memory about Depeche Mode and totally relate it to my sisters listening to it in their room besides me, i can recall that they played People are People (Some Great Reward, 1984) up and down. Ever since i was somehow following their path and specially when i got more into the 80ies stuff during ..yeah.. well, not so important :)

Anyhow, this was really a great concert and more then natural to see with my sister. We got there around 7 o'clock and it was pretty cold so we decided not to go up to our seats yet and stay in the cold, but warmer then outside, entrence to get a beer where we met some of my sisters old student buddies. After a warmup with a coffee we went upstairs and regret not having been up there before as it was really warm up there to our suprise. Up there means where we were sitting.. quite far in the back but a great view over the entire scene/stage and down to the crowd. The warmup band, The Bravery, started to play at 20 and gave a good show. Reminded me quite a lot of the Cure even if it was abit more rock in it but the singers voice is very similar i thought. They were nice but already stopped playing after 30 minutes, so it was a short warm up and we had plenty of time to cool down as Depeche Mode didnt entered the stage before 21:30. Starting with a short intro and then going straight to their new Single "a pain that i am used to" from their new album (which is really nice btw! Detailed tracklisting below). To that time the stadium was packed, even if there were still some seats available but its was an amazing view from the top. Only thing is that we maybe sat a bit too far away from the stage, so it was nearly impossible to take pictures and without the big screens at the sides hard to see whats going on (at least in detail). Totally annoying was the guy who hold the camera! I might be bit conservative but this MTV-Generation thing was too much for me, he constantly changed the perspective and so fast that it was impossible to follow what he shows now and see any details of Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore or Andrew Fletcher at all and i thought that this was the main reason of having the big screens around the scene so that also people who are not in front lines can see the "emotions" in their faces. But again, i might be a bit conservative.. sure is just that the guy had fun testing his new camera with all the great effects. Not only fast cuts, also mixing the colors and other nice in-built effects so that it was like a videoclip. Thank you, You are fired!

The atmosphere was really good and intense and the lightshow fitted very well to the music i think and gave it a nice extra touch, also the sound quality was statisfing i think even if i there were some people complaining. At least there where we were sitting it was really good sound, maybe thing to complain is that it was hard to understand what Dave was screaming in the mic when trying to motivate or communicate with the audience. They played both old and new tracks, but turely i enjoyed more the old ones.. i guess mainly because i am not so familiar with the new album yet. Somehow i hoped that they would play Masters and Servants as i really love that one, but when they played Personal Jesus the audience was totaly freaking out and the entire stadium was singing it along and everybody was standing! It was several times that i got goose-skin, seeing the lights, the crowd waving, the entire stadium singing and clapping. All in all a fantastic and very memorable concert i must say.
If you have a chance to see them somewhere live, do it! Its more then worth it and the new album is also very worth a try if not even to buy it. We are talking about some true legends of the 80ies here, who still are able to keep up their standards. Thanks for that.

Here the tracklisting of the songs being played: A Pain That I'm Used To
John The Revelator
A Question Of Time
Policy Of Truth
Precious
Walking In My Shoes
Suffer Well
Damaged People
Home
I Want It All
The Sinner In Me
I Feel You
Behind The Wheel
World In My Eyes
Personal Jesus
Enjoy The Silence
Encore:
Shake The Disease
Just Can't Get Enough
Everything Counts
Never Let Me Down Again
Goodnight Lovers

PS: Too bad that Judit wasn't able to join us, she would have loved it too i am sure, i was thinking so much about her during the concert.

posted by Christian @ 03:45