ブダペスト、9月29日
私は待つことができません
ブダペスト、9月29日
私は待つことができません
ブダペスト、9月29日
私は待つことができません
これは私の友達、サユちゃんの作った首輪です 
『激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇』のPVのゾンビ京くんです。
可愛いだね?
『激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇』のPVのゾンビ京くんです。
可愛いだね?
Finally, I have time to write a little review about Rammstein’s Budapest concert yesterday evening. Aside from being SUPERMEGAHILARIOUSLYAWESOME o(゜∇゜*o)(o*゜∇゜)o～♪
Anyway, these guys are pros in every sense of the word. But I shouldn’t rush ahead so fast!
The show took place at Hungary’s biggest venue (originally an arena for sports events) the László Papp Budapest Sportarena . I’ve never been to this place. It holds about 20 thousand people, with standing and sitting areas included during concerts. In other words, it’s huge!
More than that I was a little lost because I was attending this show alone. Partly because the ticket prices and mostly due to my friends not being fans of Rammstein, I went on my own. I was scared about what kind of people to expect there but I was pleasantly surprized: most of the fans were nice and behaved well. There was no pushing and pulling outside in the line, despite the fact that there were quite many people there when I arrived at around 6:20 pm.
I think due to the cold weather the security decided to let us in 10 minutes to 7 (originally the opening of the gates supposed to be at 7 pm). And even then there was no major pushing, everybody behaved. I noticed that there was an ominous amount of foreigners, mostly Germans, attending. Naturally, for them Hungary is an extremely cheap place, plus they were mostly hardcore fans who have been following the band around since they started. Actually, most of them were at the age of my parents which was a bit weird for me because I wasn’t expecting this kind of fandom. Mind you, I started listening to Rammstein 6 years ago but I was never too active in the fandom. I barely even have connection with them (^_^;)
Biggest loss for the evening was that I had to throw out my unopened bottle of Coke and the snacks I brought with me because of security measures. *rolls eyes*
But there were some buffets inside, so for double the price I bought another Coke and some pretzel, which I ate while walking around. I wanted to buy some souvenir, like a poster or a T-shirt because I always do but OMG was the shop expensive! So I bought nothing there. But I kept my ticket as remembrance.
Interestingly enough, many people who didn’t have money were taking pictures of each other in front of the merch stands. Weird.
Ten minutes to 8 pm I went to find my seat. I was sitting before a random guy (in his mid 30s I suppose) and we had a little chat about what we expect from the show. Then, right at 8 pm everything went dark and the opening band COMBICHRIST started. They weren’t as bad as I expected them to be, to tell you the truth.
I watched some videos on YouTube and I wasn’t impressed with them, but they’re okay live. Especially the two drummers. The one on the right side of the stage stood up on the drumset and was hitting the cymbals while simultaneously raping them (@_@)
They played about 5 songs (for only half an hour), the lats one was “Blut Royale”, they slammed everything around, and then they left the stage. Rammstein’s roadies quickly took their stuff off the stage and soon only a black curtain was left.
The whole stage appeared to be empty.While the roadies were busy onstage, me and a couple of teenage girls went to sit much closer to the stage on some empty seats. Mind you, I asked the security if it was alright and she was like “whatever if no one’s sitting there” so we just sat there.
It’s a pitty we weren’t allowed to stand up during the show, but still I managed headbanging just fine while holding onto the rail in front of me. The whole sitting section was shaking with people headbanging and stomping. Imagine if we all stood up...
At 8:45 the lights again went out, the ominous intro to “Rammlied” started to blast from the speakers, the black curtains parted, and Rammstein’s members began to cut (!) themselves holes in the fake (?) iron wall with metal cutters. Last one to appear was Till. He had this red plaid apron on top of his clothes, with a red collar like the one clowns usually have around his neck, his hair licked back, and naturally with a lightbulb in mouth. Hilarious.
Later on he got rid of these extras an appeared in tight fitting jeans and red combat boots.
The first song was “Rammlied”, followed by “Bückstabben” and “Waidmanns Heil” from the new album. And then they played “Keine Lust” from “Reise Reise.” I really lost track because there was so much fire on stage, but during one of these songs the two guitarists at the front and Till came out wearing flame throwers attached to their heads, breathing fire as they sang. There were also huge pillars of fire shooting up between Till and the guitarists, 3 on each side.
Despite the fact that I was sitting about 20 meters from the stage the flames were so incredibly hot that I could feel them just fine. I can’t even imagine what it was like to stand right in front of them, let alone on stage..
I’m not sure of the song order, but I think this flamethrower-thing was at the end of “Feuer Frei”. I really didn’t expect them to play such old time favorites as “Weißes Fleish”, “Feuer Frei” and “Links 2,3,4”. I kept my eyes peeled for the mosh pit and people weren’t really moshing to tell the truth. Mostly what they did was jump in unison or mimic marching to the beat with fists pumping in the air. And of course the whole arena roared with the lyrics, needless to say. It was so much fun just to be there. I could tell that the guys were also having fun on stage. Till and Flake were fooling around throughout the whole show. Flake climbed down repeated times, having his own little show of weird dancing. During “Ich Tu Dir Weh” he and Till had a pankration. Till “kicked” Flake around a bit, then took him to this bath tub on the left side of the stage. He pretended to hit him, and then, as he was lifted standing on a pillar with a flaming gas tank, he let the fire flown down, seemingly on Flake. Then the tub exploded three times. At the end of the song, Flake climbed out of the tub unharmed in a shiny silvery suit.
Like I said, I lost track of the songs, but there was “Benzin” at one point. Till pulled a real gas station filling thing (whatever it’s called), set its end on fire and then…a roadie came on stage and Till set his clothes on fire completely. He started running around, tried to run off the stage but the guitarists wouldn’t let him, Till kept hitting him with more fire, until the roadie collapsed at the right side of the stage. Some other roadies put the fire out with extinguishers. Of course it was just for show and the roadie too was unharmed. He walked off the stage smiling, assuring people he was really alright.
At this point I realized how much this stage setting with so much fire, smoke, and everything depends on trust: trust between the band members that they really won’t kill each other, trust between them and their roadies for the same thing, and this whole show was run so precisely that I’m still at a loss of words. They’re pros in the best sense of the word. And very experienced pros at that.
.I won’t go down song-by-song as this review is getting long as it is already, but I can’t leave out one thing: “Wiener Blut.” The song itself has its huge shock factor (those familiar with the lyrics will know what I mean, especially those of you who speak German). To top this all off, the stage was opened in the middle to look like an entrance to a cellar and Till was singing while ascending slowly and frighteningly from there. Towards the middle of the song, plastic dolls resembling little babies came down, hanging from the ceiling, with the ventilators blowing them around. At the end of the song these dolls exploded, one by one. The audience watched with quiet terror. The most shocking about this song is that it’s based on a true story...
To brake the ice, after “Wiener Blut” they played “Frühling in Paris” with two acoustic guitars and the stage background (which looked like having huge cuts and scar tissue in white) glowing red by the “cuts” as if to emphasize “der Frühling blutet in Paris” (“Spring is bleeding in Paris”).
And then came “Pussy”. The mosh pit looked like everybody was jumping at the same time. We all yelled the lyrics, knowing what this song was about, and finally, the huge fake penis made its appearance at the left side of the stage. Till climbed behind it and went back and forth from left to right before the crowd, with the penis spitting foam onto everyone close enough. And then 3 cannons of confetti appeared and let the paper fly everywhere, indicating that the main part of the show was over.
But what is a show without encore, right? And of that we had two last night!During the first encore they played “Sonne” and I almost cried. The whole stage was bathed in golden yellow, flames shot up in towering pillars and Till invited us to sing along as he held the mic out to the audience. At the second time when the lyrics go “hier kommt die Sonne!” I shouted so loud I bet the whole sector heard it. At that moment no one else was shouting the lyrics at where I was (^o^;) So typical of me to let myself be heard however accidentally.
“Sonne” was followed by “Haifish” from the new album and Flake climbed into a small rubber boat placed at the front of the stage by roadies. He went crowd boating! And the audience behaved so well! No one was trying to rock him out of the boat or to take a grab of him to pull him out, they just passed him along, hand-by-hand, while he was waving off to everyone. A girl threw her shirt at him which he really didn’t mind. XD Then he pulled a huge Hungarian flag from the bottom of the boat and waved it around as he returned to the stage. Before “hitting shore” again, he threw the flag into the audience. Someone caught it and waved it around happily. (In case you were wondering who was at the keyboards while Flake was crowd boating: it was Till.) What I adore about these old fellas is how much they help each other.
And Flake is just adorable. He kept walking on a walk thing they have at gyms throughout the whole show, no stopping.
The very last last song was “Engel.” There was a girl in white with feathery wings standing by the bassist, Ollie, singing the background vocals, and Till emerged from the “cellar” with these huge metal angel wings attached to his back (like a backpack). He opened these wings and they were at least 5 meters wide, with flames shooting out at both ends for at least 2 meters. It was an incredible sight. With this song the show was over.
The band members came back on stage and all went down to their knees with a theater bow to the audience. I really loved how Till said “Szeretlek titeket!” (which means “I love you guys!” in Hungarian). Everybody cheered. Richard and Paul walked up to both end of the stage, probably throwing some picks, and I remember Christoph throwing one of his drumsticks out in the audience, and then somebody in the first row started shouting and he walked there and placed the second drumstick in the guy’s/girl’s hand.
That was really such an adorable moment. The autro song playing in the background was the keyboard version of “Stein um Stein.”
Honestly, when the lights came back on and people started to walk out to gather their coats and go to the toiler I couldn’t believe it was over. It was just so intense! Left a great impression in me that I won’t forget. Next time they come back to play in Hungary, I’ll be sure to buy a ticket and I’m going to try the pit since the audience wasn’t violent at all – surprisingly. There was some minor pushing at the very beginning of the show but otherwise there were no fights or the like.
And damn, they are just so FUCKING AWESOME!
Even if you’re not a fan or just like some songs, I suggest that if you have the chance to see them, don’t miss it! Hopefully I won’t have to wait another five years for their return.
Makeshift setlist (probably a few songs are missing and it’s not in order):
1. Rammlied
2. Bückstabben
3. Waidmanns Heil
4. Keine Lust
5. Weißes Fleisch
6. Ich Tu Dir Weh
7. Feuer Frei
8. Links 2,3,4
9. Benzin
10. Ich Will
11. Du Hast
12. Wiener Blut
13. Frühling in Paris
14. Pussy
Encore 1: Sonne, Haifisch
Encore 2: Engel
EDIT: I found the official setlist HERE
And some clear photos on Flickr
Anyway, these guys are pros in every sense of the word. But I shouldn’t rush ahead so fast!
The show took place at Hungary’s biggest venue (originally an arena for sports events) the László Papp Budapest Sportarena . I’ve never been to this place. It holds about 20 thousand people, with standing and sitting areas included during concerts. In other words, it’s huge!
More than that I was a little lost because I was attending this show alone. Partly because the ticket prices and mostly due to my friends not being fans of Rammstein, I went on my own. I was scared about what kind of people to expect there but I was pleasantly surprized: most of the fans were nice and behaved well. There was no pushing and pulling outside in the line, despite the fact that there were quite many people there when I arrived at around 6:20 pm.
I think due to the cold weather the security decided to let us in 10 minutes to 7 (originally the opening of the gates supposed to be at 7 pm). And even then there was no major pushing, everybody behaved. I noticed that there was an ominous amount of foreigners, mostly Germans, attending. Naturally, for them Hungary is an extremely cheap place, plus they were mostly hardcore fans who have been following the band around since they started. Actually, most of them were at the age of my parents which was a bit weird for me because I wasn’t expecting this kind of fandom. Mind you, I started listening to Rammstein 6 years ago but I was never too active in the fandom. I barely even have connection with them (^_^;)
Biggest loss for the evening was that I had to throw out my unopened bottle of Coke and the snacks I brought with me because of security measures. *rolls eyes*
But there were some buffets inside, so for double the price I bought another Coke and some pretzel, which I ate while walking around. I wanted to buy some souvenir, like a poster or a T-shirt because I always do but OMG was the shop expensive! So I bought nothing there. But I kept my ticket as remembrance.
Interestingly enough, many people who didn’t have money were taking pictures of each other in front of the merch stands. Weird.
Ten minutes to 8 pm I went to find my seat. I was sitting before a random guy (in his mid 30s I suppose) and we had a little chat about what we expect from the show. Then, right at 8 pm everything went dark and the opening band COMBICHRIST started. They weren’t as bad as I expected them to be, to tell you the truth.
I watched some videos on YouTube and I wasn’t impressed with them, but they’re okay live. Especially the two drummers. The one on the right side of the stage stood up on the drumset and was hitting the cymbals while simultaneously raping them (@_@)
They played about 5 songs (for only half an hour), the lats one was “Blut Royale”, they slammed everything around, and then they left the stage. Rammstein’s roadies quickly took their stuff off the stage and soon only a black curtain was left.
The whole stage appeared to be empty.While the roadies were busy onstage, me and a couple of teenage girls went to sit much closer to the stage on some empty seats. Mind you, I asked the security if it was alright and she was like “whatever if no one’s sitting there” so we just sat there.
It’s a pitty we weren’t allowed to stand up during the show, but still I managed headbanging just fine while holding onto the rail in front of me. The whole sitting section was shaking with people headbanging and stomping. Imagine if we all stood up...
At 8:45 the lights again went out, the ominous intro to “Rammlied” started to blast from the speakers, the black curtains parted, and Rammstein’s members began to cut (!) themselves holes in the fake (?) iron wall with metal cutters. Last one to appear was Till. He had this red plaid apron on top of his clothes, with a red collar like the one clowns usually have around his neck, his hair licked back, and naturally with a lightbulb in mouth. Hilarious.
Later on he got rid of these extras an appeared in tight fitting jeans and red combat boots.
The first song was “Rammlied”, followed by “Bückstabben” and “Waidmanns Heil” from the new album. And then they played “Keine Lust” from “Reise Reise.” I really lost track because there was so much fire on stage, but during one of these songs the two guitarists at the front and Till came out wearing flame throwers attached to their heads, breathing fire as they sang. There were also huge pillars of fire shooting up between Till and the guitarists, 3 on each side.
Despite the fact that I was sitting about 20 meters from the stage the flames were so incredibly hot that I could feel them just fine. I can’t even imagine what it was like to stand right in front of them, let alone on stage..
I’m not sure of the song order, but I think this flamethrower-thing was at the end of “Feuer Frei”. I really didn’t expect them to play such old time favorites as “Weißes Fleish”, “Feuer Frei” and “Links 2,3,4”. I kept my eyes peeled for the mosh pit and people weren’t really moshing to tell the truth. Mostly what they did was jump in unison or mimic marching to the beat with fists pumping in the air. And of course the whole arena roared with the lyrics, needless to say. It was so much fun just to be there. I could tell that the guys were also having fun on stage. Till and Flake were fooling around throughout the whole show. Flake climbed down repeated times, having his own little show of weird dancing. During “Ich Tu Dir Weh” he and Till had a pankration. Till “kicked” Flake around a bit, then took him to this bath tub on the left side of the stage. He pretended to hit him, and then, as he was lifted standing on a pillar with a flaming gas tank, he let the fire flown down, seemingly on Flake. Then the tub exploded three times. At the end of the song, Flake climbed out of the tub unharmed in a shiny silvery suit.
Like I said, I lost track of the songs, but there was “Benzin” at one point. Till pulled a real gas station filling thing (whatever it’s called), set its end on fire and then…a roadie came on stage and Till set his clothes on fire completely. He started running around, tried to run off the stage but the guitarists wouldn’t let him, Till kept hitting him with more fire, until the roadie collapsed at the right side of the stage. Some other roadies put the fire out with extinguishers. Of course it was just for show and the roadie too was unharmed. He walked off the stage smiling, assuring people he was really alright.
At this point I realized how much this stage setting with so much fire, smoke, and everything depends on trust: trust between the band members that they really won’t kill each other, trust between them and their roadies for the same thing, and this whole show was run so precisely that I’m still at a loss of words. They’re pros in the best sense of the word. And very experienced pros at that.
.I won’t go down song-by-song as this review is getting long as it is already, but I can’t leave out one thing: “Wiener Blut.” The song itself has its huge shock factor (those familiar with the lyrics will know what I mean, especially those of you who speak German). To top this all off, the stage was opened in the middle to look like an entrance to a cellar and Till was singing while ascending slowly and frighteningly from there. Towards the middle of the song, plastic dolls resembling little babies came down, hanging from the ceiling, with the ventilators blowing them around. At the end of the song these dolls exploded, one by one. The audience watched with quiet terror. The most shocking about this song is that it’s based on a true story...
To brake the ice, after “Wiener Blut” they played “Frühling in Paris” with two acoustic guitars and the stage background (which looked like having huge cuts and scar tissue in white) glowing red by the “cuts” as if to emphasize “der Frühling blutet in Paris” (“Spring is bleeding in Paris”).
And then came “Pussy”. The mosh pit looked like everybody was jumping at the same time. We all yelled the lyrics, knowing what this song was about, and finally, the huge fake penis made its appearance at the left side of the stage. Till climbed behind it and went back and forth from left to right before the crowd, with the penis spitting foam onto everyone close enough. And then 3 cannons of confetti appeared and let the paper fly everywhere, indicating that the main part of the show was over.
But what is a show without encore, right? And of that we had two last night!During the first encore they played “Sonne” and I almost cried. The whole stage was bathed in golden yellow, flames shot up in towering pillars and Till invited us to sing along as he held the mic out to the audience. At the second time when the lyrics go “hier kommt die Sonne!” I shouted so loud I bet the whole sector heard it. At that moment no one else was shouting the lyrics at where I was (^o^;) So typical of me to let myself be heard however accidentally.
“Sonne” was followed by “Haifish” from the new album and Flake climbed into a small rubber boat placed at the front of the stage by roadies. He went crowd boating! And the audience behaved so well! No one was trying to rock him out of the boat or to take a grab of him to pull him out, they just passed him along, hand-by-hand, while he was waving off to everyone. A girl threw her shirt at him which he really didn’t mind. XD Then he pulled a huge Hungarian flag from the bottom of the boat and waved it around as he returned to the stage. Before “hitting shore” again, he threw the flag into the audience. Someone caught it and waved it around happily. (In case you were wondering who was at the keyboards while Flake was crowd boating: it was Till.) What I adore about these old fellas is how much they help each other.
And Flake is just adorable. He kept walking on a walk thing they have at gyms throughout the whole show, no stopping.
The very last last song was “Engel.” There was a girl in white with feathery wings standing by the bassist, Ollie, singing the background vocals, and Till emerged from the “cellar” with these huge metal angel wings attached to his back (like a backpack). He opened these wings and they were at least 5 meters wide, with flames shooting out at both ends for at least 2 meters. It was an incredible sight. With this song the show was over.
The band members came back on stage and all went down to their knees with a theater bow to the audience. I really loved how Till said “Szeretlek titeket!” (which means “I love you guys!” in Hungarian). Everybody cheered. Richard and Paul walked up to both end of the stage, probably throwing some picks, and I remember Christoph throwing one of his drumsticks out in the audience, and then somebody in the first row started shouting and he walked there and placed the second drumstick in the guy’s/girl’s hand.
That was really such an adorable moment. The autro song playing in the background was the keyboard version of “Stein um Stein.”
Honestly, when the lights came back on and people started to walk out to gather their coats and go to the toiler I couldn’t believe it was over. It was just so intense! Left a great impression in me that I won’t forget. Next time they come back to play in Hungary, I’ll be sure to buy a ticket and I’m going to try the pit since the audience wasn’t violent at all – surprisingly. There was some minor pushing at the very beginning of the show but otherwise there were no fights or the like.
And damn, they are just so FUCKING AWESOME!
Even if you’re not a fan or just like some songs, I suggest that if you have the chance to see them, don’t miss it! Hopefully I won’t have to wait another five years for their return.
Makeshift setlist (probably a few songs are missing and it’s not in order):
1. Rammlied
2. Bückstabben
3. Waidmanns Heil
4. Keine Lust
5. Weißes Fleisch
6. Ich Tu Dir Weh
7. Feuer Frei
8. Links 2,3,4
9. Benzin
10. Ich Will
11. Du Hast
12. Wiener Blut
13. Frühling in Paris
14. Pussy
Encore 1: Sonne, Haifisch
Encore 2: Engel
EDIT: I found the official setlist HERE
And some clear photos on Flickr
DIR EN GREYの-I'll-のカバーです
アーチスト: misa２６時
大学の友達と一緒にデパートへ行きました。
この写真で ADIDAS ストアのショップウィンドです:
新しいい STAR WARS のトラックスーツ。
京さんへ...
本当に 素晴らしいだね?
この写真で ADIDAS ストアのショップウィンドです:
新しいい STAR WARS のトラックスーツ。
京さんへ...
本当に 素晴らしいだね?