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Posted: 2010-06-06 23:10:16
Short after "The Ettes" gig I knew that "Thievery Corporation" would come to Berlin. So I bought tickets for me and my wife very early.
On the day of the gig - wonderful sunny and warm day - we realized that we have forgotten to organize a Babysitter for our children this night. So we decided to let the children for 1 1/2 hour alone. Venue was only 10 min by bike away from us. They said this would be ok - because they will already sleeping. My wife was waiting until they were sleeping but I was already going to organize the tickets and a good place.
 So I arrived there 10 min before it should start - everything was relaxed there - a lot of people. I got my tickets at the ticketscorner - I also could deposit my wife's ticket there. So I was already in. Last time I saw "The Mars Volta" at Huxleys I could remember that the accoustic was not the best there. After getting a beer I positioned me directly behind the sound machine area - good look to the stage and hopefully the best sound. My wife came some seconds before the gig started. She was a little bit nervous about our children so every 5 min she was looking to her mobile if there is a message of them, but nothing happenend. After 1 hour of the show she was driving back to them.
 DJs Rob Garza and Eric Hilton and their guest artists made a great performance with a lot of media effects. They had a big video installation in the back, Rob and Eric built the center on the higher part of the stage, to the left and right were the drums and percussions and in front there was the bass, guitar (citar) players, the horns on the left side and the singers.
They changed almost after every song and so also the language changed. They sang in english, french, brasil-portoguese, spanish, rastafan-english. As I could find it out at internet the singers are:
Gunjan - brasil,
Lou Lou Ooldouz Ghelickhani - frensh,
Sista Pat and two rastafans - jamaica,
a female and male singer from - united states
They were doing almost all songs from the last record "Radio Retaliation", my favorite of all times "Warning shots" and "The richest Man of Babylon".
Before they were playing their last song after 2 1/2 hour, they were asking "young ladies" in front to come to the stage so that their were maybe 30 people on the stage groovin to the sound of "Comin from the top".
The show was wonderful but the sound was miserable.
Here is the setlist: a warning dub - mandala - lebanese blonde - shadows - until the morning remix - sol tapado - liberation front - originality - numbers - illumination - heaven gonna burn - la femme - 33 degrees - amerimacka - all that we perceive - hari krishna - exilio - vampires - heart is a hunter - blasting thru city - sound the alarm - assault on babylon - warning shots - [encore] - forgotten people - sweet tides - richest man - pueblo unido - coming from the top
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