| The gig at the 2000 Decibel
Festival in Bengtsfors (Sweden)
Audience: 250
Length: 45 min
Cold, cold, cold, cold, hot, hot, cold, cold,
cold and some cold. That should about sum this day up quite good.
It was hard to believe that it's late may here in Sweden right
now, the temperature didn't rise above 10 degrees C all day, but
it was below that most of the time. That's not the way it's supposed
to be here now. The day contained rain, sun, hailstorms, so I
guess you could call it a rather varied weather. But the common
thing about this day was the cold anyway, it's been a long time
since I froze this much.
Well, from time to time you got a bit warmer from some of the
great music that was performed on this festival. We watched a
band called Friendkill who had a very familiar drummer, those
of you remembering when Jonas just had his first baby probably
recognise the name Conny. He stept in for Jonas a couple of times
when he had the baby. And this was one of his bands. They where
really great, you should really check them out.
But other than this it was really a big wait for the evening.
My complements to the festival crew though, who really took good
care of everyone involved all day long.
There were a lot of familiar faces around, as always when Beseech
are playing we met Urgluf and Deus Miseratur two dedicated Beseech
fans.
Well on with the day now...after a brief visit at the hospital
with one member and filling up empty stomachs time was getting
close to soundcheck. We got to our designated dressing room which
was really warm and cozy and felt very welcome after the chilly
day outside.
When the band who played before Beseech was all done the frantic
mess of getting everything on stage began, guitars, basses, drumstuff,
keyboards and everything else was hailed on to the stage rapidly,
there's not much time between bands on festivals so everything
has to be smooth. And as always they are, under the supervision
of soundengineer Robert everything got set. You can really tell
that this band has been around for a great while now, everyone
knows exactly what to do.
The soundcheck went well with the help of the very competent crew
from the festival, which were very pleased to work with a band
quote "who really can play". Although it was kind of
hard to do a soundcheck when Cans was performing on the stage
next door at the same time.
Well, back to the dressing room to wait for the moment to go on
stage...
At 22.50 this evening the massive intro was heard from the speakers,
this newly composed intro really made the ground tremble under
our feet, really massive!
Then Beseech burst into Fiction City and we were on our way to
the hot section of the day. Beseech made a great gig once again
although some were concerned with the cold, it's not easy to play
when your fingers feels like ice-cream bars. But they sure played
and the crowd was sure into it. After a while we'd just forgotten
about the cold.
The set worked really well with a good mix of new and older songs,
as always Manmade Dreams is a massive crowdstarter and I really
appriciate the guts they have to play the more slower songs at
a festival like this. Some may not like it but I think most of
the people in the crowd this evening did, Lottas performance with
Friend Emptiness is just awesome, kicking Erik off stage and using
it all to her self. It sure gives me the goosebumps anyway..
After some confusion from Erik, Beseech finished off with Voices
just before closing off with Bitch, as always dedicated to a former
girlfriend.
Due to lack of time we didn't get to hear the ABBA cover this
evening, but I'm sure it'll be on at the next gig in Gothenburg.
After some socialising we packed up the cars and went off for
home. This meant being home at 5 in the morning for my own sake.
And I wasn't alone....I had the nice company of a massive cold
which is why this report is a bit later than usual. But here it
is anyway.
We'll be back again after the gig at Belsepub in Gotheburg on
june 4:th.
Do check out the photos and videoclips from this gig below. The
sound is not that good but anyway.
/Morgan
Playlist:
Fiction City
Souls Highway
Manmade Dreams
Friend Emptiness
Drama
Between the Lines
Forever Falling
Higher Level
Voices
Bitch
Videoclips:
|
