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... and many of you may ask yourself surely, who the hell is this?! But this is easiyl explained. Aviv Geffen is Israel's biggest Pop-Rockstar, and idol for young people in his country, filling stadions with 20.000 and more fans. He's practicing a soft revolution within his songs, some are  heavy, some desperate and some full of hope, - a hope, that one day everything will be good again. 
As the son of writer Jonatan Geffen, Aviv is encouraging the peace process between his country and the palestinensien autonomy districts. He is a patriot with all his heart, but he is against weapons and violence. That's why he refused the army service. On nov. 4 1995 Aviv appeared in front of thousands of people in Tel Aviv at a peace demonstration, where Rabin did a long speak. He stood only a few meters from Rabin away, when this man was shot by death. Aviv says, this has been the most dramtic moment in his life so far. And from that point he is a peace activist. Although he receives apro. 3-4 death threats every week, and can't leave his place in Tel Aviv without a body guard. By the way, his grand uncle was a man named Moshe Dajan.

Beeing 35 years old, Aviv has released already 12 albums in hebrean. Now his first CD in english is conquering the rest of the world. He stands for the problems in his country, He accuses himself and other's to be the fucked up generation, and he stands up for homosexuality. Reasons enough to go out and make himself a name in the rest of Europe, though he has start almost from the bottom again over here in small clubs. 
He ain't alone on this tour. His best friend, who he already formed another project named Blackfield in 2004, - Steven Wilson from (Purcupine Tree)  is giving him a  helping hand on guitar on this tour.

Now we got Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson here in Munich at the Ampere Club, which is well filled with aprox. 200 insiders, Blackfield and Porcupine Tree fans.And 
we get free T-shirts, CDs, posters etc. as a gift... wherelse to you get this....?!

Support comes from a new local band named Kintopp.

Kintopp this is  Martin (formerly in a local band named Campus) on guitar, Arne (Voc) and Jakob (Drums), whereby last one doesn't show up, out of whatever for reasons. So the other two are playing a duo performance of rather quiet, very melodic tracks, which ain't boring at all. It's this kind of music, where you lean back and just listen. It's like a river flowing peacefully through a spring landscape, and you just enjoy looking at it. Unfortunately due to time reasons, the show is restricted to just about 30 minutes. And the magic is quickly gone again. However, let's wait and see, what the future brings up for Kintopp. 


clips live in Munich
Unfortunately at this point, the audiance were still quite noisy, which you can hear in the clips.

All Infos at::
http://www.myspace.com/KINTOPP




And then Aviv Geffen comes on stage, with a heavy make up, dark and mystery....  

Another online mag said once, he seems like a mixture of Marylin Manson, Prince and David Bowie. And they are not too wrong about this. He is an andrygen, in some ways, very beautiful guy. His band is from his country too....

exept Steven Wilson, who steps on stage barefoot like always. beeing 40 years of age, he still seems like 21, and he still feels like that in some ways, as he said within an interview before the show. It is rather unusual to see him playing on Stage in such a small place. Because usually Steven appears with his band Porcupine Tree in venues with at least 2.000 fans and more. 

Of course it is Avivs Show in first place, we enjoy here. And you can feel, that he does his job with all his heart and soul. He sings soft, he screams and he whispers desperately his thoughts and messages. He plays the guitar and also the keyboard, or he just sings - however... ripping his shirt of at some point and jumping up the amps, always continuing singing...


Whereby he shares the vocals with Steven Wilson, who again proves once again, what a brilliant guitarist he is. Both egos fit together in a complete harmony.
And Aviv has definately a message, which is visually also shown with lot of peace signs round his neck and the guitar strip. But despite all, it is great entertainment as well. By the way, the setlist shows, that only about half of the songs are from Avivs solo record. The other half is Blackfield material.


* tracks are  Blackfield Songs

Whereby the highlight is surely the song 'End Of the World' and it's performance and the desperate furiously self accusment of the fucked up generation. It is truly a performance full of emotions, which the Aviv Geffen bands gives us for about 75 minutes including the encore. In fact, it is one of these concerts, where you can't get enough of, and you wish one more song again and again and again.... 


'The One'


'End Of The World'

Aviv Geffen is truly a strong personality, who is fascinating in his look, his aura and the way he acts...giving us quite a concert experience tonight.  But at all these positve aspects, he is surrounded by, there is only one little side effect in here... the actual hero for this audiance here is very simply - Steven Wilson - no doubt and no more comment on this....
http://www.myspace.com/avivgeffen

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