Jon Pareles's review in the NYTimes was spot on, however, Melena Ryzik's description of the fans at the opening night was much different than my experience on the 2nd night. There was nothing particularly rarefied about the audience. The same kind of obnoxious long haired chubby hipster wannabe you might find at any concert parked herself in front of me and proceeded to fling her clairol scented locks into my face during a particularly raucus rendition of "geiger counter". I seemed to be stuck in a gaggle of obnoxious middle aged, doughy, overgrown frat boys who, from their conversations, were in the music industry. And there was a lot of drinking resulting in the inevitable puking youngster, just like any rock show. In short, it was a blast!
One could buy 2 tickets maximum, no minimum, for the entire run and Radio Activity was first choice, Man Machine was my second choice and alas not available, when I asked if Trans Europe Express was available amazingly they said yes, so I went for it. More on that tomorrow but I'm really glad I got to see Radio Activity live, all those weird tracks about tuning the radio and news snippets along with a lot of silence, quite a weird pop record. Afterword, they performed most of their other hits, including an incredible version of Autobahn, It was a great experience and I can't believe I get to go back again tonight for Trans Europe Express.
Set List Follows: We are the robots, Radioactivity, Radioland, Airwaves, Intermission, News, The Voice of energy ,Antenna ,Radio Stars ,Transistor ,Ohm sweet ohm ,Autobahn ,Trans Europe Express ,The model ,Man machine ,Numbers ,Computerworld ,It's more fun to compute ,Tour de France ,Tour de France Etape 2 ,Tour de France Etape 3 ,21st century ,Electropop ,Boing boom tschak ,Techno pop ,Music non stop
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