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São Paulo, 03/03/06 (The Gathering)
For Mauricio Milk
After more than 5 hours of road to attend the The Gathering, no longer By Funchal, for return of the 20 hours, I came across myself with about fifty people who if in front agglomerated to palco and the opening band, the Ashtar Carioca still made its ticket of sound. The band leaves palco and a long wait marks the entrance of the fans in the excellent house of shows. I guaranteed my place to the front of palco well, where she would be the pretty one and more of the one than competent vocalista Anneke van Giersbergen.
Finally the Ashtar enters and presents one set of approximately one hour. The band shows to its sound with influence celta and the prominence goes for the stock exchange operator and the baterista. The guitarist demonstrates to unreliability and nervousness sufficiently, for the fact of its guitar to perhaps disappear many times of the mixagem.
After long it waits the guitarist of the The Gathering, René Rutten appears and mounts its set of effect. The excellent stock exchange operator, and new integrant Marjolein Kooijman, also comes palco and mounts its pedals and tests its instrument, as well as the guitar that Anneke goes to use. Hans Rutten and Frank Boeijen also make a small checagem of its respective instruments. This brief appearance before the show leaves the anxious and uneasy fans. Palco clean without much production, only the equipment and instruments, without no alegoria gave a special tone to the event, after all the band was the main attraction and deserved all the attention.
The lights finally are erased and the band goes up to palco to give beginning almost to the 2 hours of show. "Liberty Bell" (of the How record you the Measure the Planet) it echoes in the PAs of the Way Funchal and the first one and so waited show of the dutches of the The Gathering in Brazilian lands finally has beginning. Anneke van likeable and extremely charismatic Giersbergen as always, shows to extreme easiness in singing notes exactly most difficult. Little more than the 2000 fans gifts to the Way Funchal already agitate themselves and sing together with its ídolos.
"Even The Spirits Are Afraid" (of the Souvenirs album) is the second song and shows the new side of the band, already in such a way distant one of the gótico metal with which they estrearam in the world of music. After that, Anneke says the Brazilian fans that they have a new album give to leave and ask if all already had heard the new music that circulates in the InterNet. One "yes" vigorous leaves the pulmões of the púbico that already it yearned for for hearing "The Shortest Day", the first music of the album "Home" that must be in the shelves in next April. Excellent footprint to the living creature, the new album really promises. "In Between", also of the new album, a melancholic and emotional song follows the show and all are intent to the new creation of its favourite band.
"Analog Park" (If Then Else) with Anneke also in the guitars sample that the band, although constantly judged for the changes in its sound, keeps unbroken the weight in the compositions. It follows the show with "Saturnine" (If Then Else), "Probably Build In The Fifities" (How to Measure the Planet), "Broken Glass" (Souvenirs).
In "In Motion I", a small problem makes with that the band has that to stop well in the ready introduction and of the vocalista cries out one ' thank you "followed of laugh and one" sorry, something happened ". Nothing that ruins the brilhantismo of the charismatic group. Instead of intro with keyboards, René goes direct to the guitars and recommences the song. The fantastic "Eleanor" of the Mandylion, first album of the band with Anneke in the vocal ones, brings below the Way Funchal with a show of interpretation.
"the Noise Severe" (another powerful song of the new Home album) shows to the powerful and constant evolution in the sound of the dutches, with backing vocals of Marjolein, now followed of Souvenirs (of the album homonym). Anneke comes to the front and says that this would be the last music of the show (it will be that somebody believed). "Travel" (How you the Measure the Planet) it delights the fans in a long trip (without trocadilhos) and one more time standes out powerful and at the same time the soft voice of this "monster" of the vocal ones (in the good direction, he is clearly).
After to leave palco, with the shouts insanes of the auditorium, The Gathering comes back toward the bis. One of the waited songs more of the night echoes again with Anneke in the guitars. "On Most Surfaces" (only song of the album Nighttime Birds touched in the night.) arrebenta our ears in an interpretation more of the one than weighed.
In "Strange Machines" (Mandylion), the Marjolein stock exchange operator, exchange its instrument for a guitar to help to René with its riffs. The low one was touched by Frank Boeijen in the keyboards. The show arrives at the end with a long and emotive version of "Black Light District" (of the EP homonym), where the band improvises and shows its passion for music, with extraordinary weight and feeling.
The show arrives at the end and about 30 or 40 people they had remained in the Way Funchal in the expectation to see the members of the band or to catch a vane, at last. After many minutes of wait one by one we simpaticíssimos musicians they had come, they given its autographs to them, they had talked with all the ones that waited, had taken off photos and the patients, including this that writes you, they had left satisfied with the autographed ingressions, and having changed some words with the excellent dutch musicians of the The Gathering. It remains to wait for the next show.
Set list:
Liberty Bell
Even The Spirits Are Afraid
Shortest Day
In Between
Analog Park
Saturnine
Probably Built in the Fifities
Broken Glass
In Motion #1
Eleanor
The Noise Severe
Souvenirs
Travel
On Most Surfaces
Strange Machines
Black Light District