Almost
unbelievable, that this band, I'm talking about Dog Eat Dog of
course, are going for 15 years now. Not so much because of their
modern musical style, but rather what's up to their youthful
looks. At least from a certain distance, these boys still seem
like in the middle of their twenties. But I presume,they have
passed this age a while ago. Therfore the audiance tonight is
pretty young. And yes. Dog Eat Dog were here before Limp Bizkit
or Linkin Park, and the band is handled in the genre as the
pioneers of this cross over style. Cross Over in the sense of
Heavy Metal meets Rap and other fusion rhythm. Unfortunately
they never hit it really big worldwide. And the last album has
been released 3 years ago.
Hoever, the Backstage area is still dominated by the Free &
Easy weeks, where there is no entrance fee neccessary at all
events happening at the 4 venues. But due to the late showtimes
there is an increase of liquid sales expected. And at the
current indoors and outdoors temperatues this goes down well,
exspecially when the place, like this here, is so incredibly
packed, that people even stand outside the doors, trying to get
a glimpse towards the stage, when the headliner is on.
Before that, it's not that bad, when once again 2 supportacts
try to heat up the crowd, starting like usual at 8.30 p.m.
Number 1 is from Frankfurt, Germany and names themselves 'At The
Fairwell Party'
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This
boys obviously belong to the new generation of rockbands. I bet,
neither singer Dan, nor guitarist Benny, guitarist Fabi, bassist
Frank or drummer Buddy have reached 25 years old yet. Never mind
though. It's a fact, that this lot is going now since 2006, and
they have put out a debut EP and 2 singles. A full album has yet
to come along. Apart from that, I've been told, that the group
is handled as a hot newcomer tipp.And I truly can understand
what they mean by that. They play their material with so much
enthusiasm and pleasure to play, asking the crowd several times
to move more up front, so the set gets the right spice, as we
say so. The boys are playing their Rock'n'Roll with english
lyrics to put on a rather international touch.
Over all, not bad at all, although their music ain't anything
innovative or even new. But 'At The Fairwell Party' take every
effort to convince the audiance about their performance. They
can manage partly. So let's wait and drink tea. I mean, next to
a huge talent, you still need to be very active and busy, and
need a little luck as well for further success. |
http://www.myspace.com/atthefarewellparty
Number 2 are Jenson from Munich...
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these guys ain't going much longer than the opener, having
founded their band in 2005. But compared to the first act, they
have already one full album named 'Großstadtschmutz' out (the
title means in english 'Big City Dirt') So as you can see,
Jenson go for the german language, and they bring even a little
bit more selfconfidence onto their set. Meanhwile the venue has
filled much more with people. Maybe they also got some kind of
home advantage. I'm not quite sure. Jenson are: Florian Pfister
on vocals/git, then guitarist Nils Klippe from Munich, bassist
Stefan Blöckinger and drummr Manuel Weiss. And these boys go
for a straight german rock with some kind of humour. |
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does definately know how to entertain the audiance with witty
statements inbetween the songs, and he confesses, that he's a
huge Beatsteaks fan. Last time his idols were in Munich and he
was there to check them out, he was really impressed by a stage
dive of one bandmember from about 20 feet height. And now he
wants to copy this jump in here from the gallery. So let's go
for it, and our kamikaze pilot Flo jumps down not quite from
such a height, but still high enough, onto the audiance, who
carry him back to the stage. (you can watch this jump in the
second clip below.) |
No we
can't complain. I must admit, I do like Jensons show, musically
but also what's up to the entertainment aspect. And once again,
I realize, that checking out a rather new band, who I haven't
seen bevore live on stage, can't be that wrong. |
http://www.rockjensonrock.com/
Not so Dog Eat Dog, who I've seen several
times before in the past live on stage.
At
this point now, the inside of this venue here develops into a
fatal madhouse, where there is almost no escape anymore. (thanks
to the boss, getting me outta there and up to the gallery.
Otherwise there wouldn't be any pics shown at this page).
Halleluja, what's happening now is beyond of description. The
battle of Waterloo is Swanlake complared to the battering each
other down - of all these Die Hard Dog Eat Dog fans. Every time I
see such an action, I wonder, that there are no more injuries.
It's bad, I mean - really bad.
By the way Dog Eat Dog don't go for mineralwater or beer bottles.
It needs these typical huge bavarian beer glases,with at least 2
pints of lager in it to kill their individual thurst. |
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focus is certainly the sax player, who is rather unusual for
these hardrocking harmonies. |
No,
there ain't any doubt,- not having another new album in the
luggage, is certainly no disadvantage. This is party pure,
showing no mercy on anybody. And everybody is participating in this madness down there in the audiance. Enthusiasm gets beyond
controll.
The setlist is offering everything what the fan's heart
requests.And this fanatism is infecting the rest, even the few
people on the gallery.
It's amazing, that even girls take the challenge of a decent
stage dive as shown below. One of the beauties obviously has got
a crush on the bass player Dave Neabore (I know this guy from
somewhere before in the past) and hangs on to him like almost
drowned. To get it right, the security has quite a job to do
tonight..... |
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come to an end, although I myself probably couldn't listen to a whole
Dog Eat Dog CD from the beginning to the very end, I have
honestly to say, this here has just been brilliant. That's
it.... |
http://www.myspace.com/dogeatdogtheband |
