The Gathering

22 Jul 2006 Burg Herzberg Festival, near Kassel (Germany)

Time table Saturday:

11.00 Liquid Scarlet
13.00 Wicked Minds
15.00 Hatfield & the North
17.00 Uli Jon Roth
19.00 Wishbone Ash
21.00 UFO
23.00 The Gathering
01.00 Hidria Spacefolk

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Burg Herzberg, the Festival of cool Hippies
Fantastic!
I already went there twice for Anekdoten (Sweden, friends of Paatos, remember the nice support act of Nov-Dec 2004 )

Here's the line-up of already confirmed bands:
Soft Machine
Adrian Belew & Band
Kraan
Hatfield & the North
Hölderlin
Psychedelic Monsterjam (Neumeier, Genrich, Schmidt)
TriPod
Fantasyy Factoryy
Wicked Minds
Space Debris

Adrian Belew solo, wouah! Since i'm a great King Crimson fan

Freak again
Peace & Love

Vince

and UFO and ULI JOHN ROTH!

so i will go !

who will also be there?

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thomas

Feedback, at last someone is posting under this topic, i thought it's been hopeless to see some fans there
i'll be there for sure, i've posted in January already, so it's long planned

who's coming from the other german fans?

only a few days left!!

hi vince!
great news to see you there!
i dont know about any other of the german TG circle will appear - but i think we two have the whole band for us alone.

ps: i will come with a good friend (maybe upcoming TG fan...) on saturday noon. Is your cell-phone number still the one with a ..87 at the end?

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thomas

TG will play a good 90 minutes there

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

great news!
I will also come with 1 or 2 friends and yes the cell # is still that one

enjoy and see ya!

Great news Burn, 90 minutes for a Festival rules

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thomas

@burn: will you be there?

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thomas

D-Day Minus 1

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thomas

Well I guess you saw me... I'm sorry I had no time to have a chat with you all... I went to the terrain after I was all done but the band following was already playing and I could not see shite in all the dark...
I saw you enjoyed it, I did it too
Maybe we'll have another chance to meet at Mera Luna? Otherwise we'll have to wait for September

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

@burn: sure we saw you
We didnt stay too long after the TG gig, i think after meeting the band in
the area we just stayed max. half an hour - we were tired.
So perhaps on mera luna... But its not sure that i will be there.

@all: it was a fantastic night there. Quite a strange crowd - i always thought
woodstock is long ago - but there i learned that hippies still exists
So,also for the band this evening must have been quite different to "normal" gigs - there were no TG fans (except for us 5) - so after the gig when they got out among the crowd there was no typical "being surrounded" by many
fans trying to talk to the bandmembers.
They 5 just stood together and had fun with themselves.

The gig was great! About 90 min - setlist the same as the hengeloo etc - except for cutting out BLD , analog park and souvenirs due to time limit.
The exact order i forgot... encore was Travel.
I think they made some new friends - a great performance and the crowd liked that. There were so many asking me about TG (i wore a TG shirt) wantig to know "who they are?", "where are they from?" , "Is it i new band - i never heared about them?"

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thomas

Well, people, anybody have some video?

Awesome, someone from the local press did some serious research on Herzberg festival:



Source: http://www.osthessen-news.de/beitrag_A.php?id=1126592

Have you ever heard of this "young band The Gathering from England" ??
Are they good? Is this their first tour (as they are such a young band...)? Can you recommend their music, I've never heard anything from them??

WOW It's really strange to see this... No comment's...

you could probably sue the paper for missinformation

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bah such kind of mistakes are often made I think...
But the band was very happy to have such reactions. Anneke told it to the audience something like " thanks a lot, we really didnt know what to expect fo this festival, but you are wonderful"

Well it's true it was more a hippie fest kind of

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Maybe i'm paranoid, yeah that's my problem
You almost have to be when you look like me

Not much to add about Feedback's excellent report, except that it's been a delight hearing these good old tunes that are
Eleanor, Strange Machines, Inuït and In Motion #1 (been a long time for this one )
Great to hear again "Liberty Bell" and "Probably built in the 50s" as well

We were really lucky to have an extra as "Travel" coz usually the band ends their open-airs gigs with "Machines" the 5 of us TG fans must have been really loudy frontstage
I did so much headbanging that today the nape of my neck still hurts, i probably get to old for that

Yes, it wasn't really the traditional public of Gatherers but like Feedback said, there were some people asking about TG, wondering about the music, the discography,...
e.g. these 2 (50 y. old) guys who came from an town between Kassel and Oberhausen and who have been going to Burg Herzberg Festival for the last 20 years, seems that have encountered the Third Kind that night
Same for these lovely 4 kids alongside with us who were really into TG's music

@ Burn: sure we recognized you with the now famous T-Shirt "Devin Townsend Band 2001 CANCELLED Tour"
I understand that U were busy coz you're the 6th live band member

@ Feedback and Jörg: a pleasure to see you again after Amsterdam 2005..., it's just a pity that we couldn't get in touch again in the end for sharing a last pint, must have been my friend Mario's thirsty of popping round to CD stands