The Darkness @ New Backstage 22.02.04

Hiya,
I know that it is early but for those who are interested tickets for The Darkness are now on sale: 22.2.04 (Fasching Saturday) at New Backstage (so tiny gig with 300 standing capacity) 22,70€ a ticket.
Eventim has tickets (well I've just got mine from them). lalalalalalalalalalallaa
Katrina
PS won't the Germans think that they are in Fasching fancy dress though?

Online at the http://www.backstage089.de/ website they say 1000 capacity.

Therefore you can take 3x so long to buy your tickets...

Best see them now - they'll be gone by summer next year (or one more album) methinks.

Ah will be going - me and my poncey heavy metal mates. Spinal Tap dudes!

With the amount of kit they have it won't be 1000 in there, I saw the Datsuns there and it is very small, seemed tiny to me. They will probably have this year's Christmas UK number 1 as well. I got my tickets quick because it will sell out.
See you there
Katrina

There are two backstages. One IS tiny. And they are NOT next to each other. Check your bearings... would hate to see you going to the wrong venue... whichever it really is!

You're probably right about the size of the stageshow they'll be lugging around - maybe just the band and the roadshow will fit in!!!

The New Backstage isn't that small - probably 4-5 times the floorspace of the Atomic Cafe - but probably small enough to be packed out for this concert. It was quite tight in there when I saw Supergrass.

Where's the other Backstage? You're not thinking about the one that closed, are you? That one was somewhere near Donnersbergerbrücke or Hackerbrücke.

I'll be getting Herr Indoors to do the technical bit (finding out how to get there). I only do thinking when I get paid to
Katrina

Hello all! Any ideas if this is sold out or not? And is the venue big on searching people, or could you slip in with a MD player for a bit or recording easy enough?

Cheers!

Backstage is on friedenheimerbrücke.

Ive not yet been there and seen anyone be searched, although there are lots of security guys around, I dont imagine you'd have any problem.
Saying that, Ive never been there for a gig but at other places where Ive been to gigs such as Muffathalle, georg elsner halle and zenith I have also not been searched or had my bag searched...

I advise people to make use of the cloakroom at backstage unless you want all your coats etc to be covered in unidentifiable black tar like stuff by the end of the night.

Oh, and slightly off the present subject but in the summer in the beer garden at backstage you can get a maß of beer for 2 euro!!

Cool, cheers!

i might just leave the old technology at home for this one, as i'll no doubt be singing like a twat the whole way through.

Who is going (because I am)?
Katrina x

i was zipping through viva last night and saw this weird video and thought, who put that dude on the air. worse music i had ever heard. sadly, was the darkness. maybe they have someting better to offer?

Or maybe you've got wonky ears? Is another possibility?

i am pretty open-minded about other music forms. maybe the single they chose to go public with was not my taste. perhaps they have something else which i might like better. or not.

this was deadly. but what's with all the people putting in earplugs? don't they know have the fun of a rock show is in not being able to hear for the next few days?

anyway, class gig with every song ending in a crescendo of riffing, soloing and the obligatory drum 'ful-la-dum'. Justin being carried throught the crowd on a bouncers shoulders soloing away had to be the highlight me thinks. Anyone who didnt have a big stupid grin on their faces by the end of the night just dont like music...or are probably german.

Not being able to hear is something that becomes less attractive when you are over 30 years of age and actually have a career.
The gig was good apart from nearly being punched in the face by a man in an acrylic sweater. The bouncers got him and chucked him out though so no harm done.
Katrina

Did the bouncers throw him out for nearly punching you in the face, or for wearing an acrylic sweater?

hey chris, you'll start wearing earplugs too when your ear doctor tells you you have hearing loss. in my case it's called otosklerosis and is a genetic disorder very common in women between 25 and 40, but not limited to the female population.

one morning last year, i woke up to an extremely silent room and realized i had this slight ringing in my ears (you know that ringing you have after a night of partying at a disco). then i noticed over a period of days and paying close attention that this ringing was always there. it never went away. some day i'll hear so poorly that I'll have to get surgery to correct this. in 98% of cases, the hearing can be salvaged.

ear plugs are my best friends! i have multi-colored ones with weird tie-dyed patterns.

(sorry, didn't mean to be so serious!)

Interesting Elf - was diagnosed with a potential Acoustic Neuroma between Xmas and New Year - my symptoms are similar to yours, but only in one ear - thankfully the acoustic neuroma was discounted (it's a brain tumour and would have meant brain surgery), but no diagnosis has ever been settled on, and in many cases apparently never, ever is - I'll be a little hard of hearing in my right ear forever it would seem. Could be worse tho - I would rather have that than a brain tumour. I can honestly say that I've never been so scared in all my life as when the doctor came to give me my results - I knew full well that bad news could be VERY bad news... Anyway - I don't ever wear ear plugs, but maybe I should?

erm, it was just a little bit of light heartedness. sorry to hear (no pun intended) of everyone's aliments.

but thing's could always be worse, you could own an acrylic sweater for example.

He also had bad hair and let us face it, if I'm going to get into trouble for battering someone, it won't be for someone with bad hair and an acrylic sweater!

x

uh wait a minute. i'm wearing a cheap H&M acrylic sweater.! did you say something? hello.

Evil thought

Acrylic sweaters would burn pretty well if you doused them with vodka and then lit them.

/Evil thought

What a waste of vodka!
It would melt well and cause lots of pain though. In fact acyrlic is a potential dealth trap. Fact.
x

Katrina - Ow, that really hurt.
Acrylric Sweater Dude - Oh, I'm sorry, I'll get you a drink
Katrina - <plots and schemes> Yes please, I'll litre of vodka and a lit cuban cigar please, no hard feelings!

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Acrylic Sweater Dude - Aiiieeee, my skin!!!