Het Depot, Leuven, Belgium8th May 2009
The Neon Judgement
Founded in Leuven in 1980, Dirk Da Davo and TB Frank have returned to their home base at Het Depot, a former movie theatre / television studio refurbished into a concert hall a couple of years ago. And at the same time they presented their new CD ‘Smack’, filling the 10-year gap since the previous album. (Pics of the show also at http://www.drieduizend.be/)
Music & Performance
A bit as expected the stage setup was quite barren with the synth battery and Dirk Da Davo on the left- and TB Frank with guitar on the right-hand-side, filling the background with a video screen surrounded by a LED curtain showing the same image of the video screen but due to its low resolution it gave a image-stretching effect that gave a good result for the equipment used.
But on with the show… opening with the title track of the new album 'Smack', most of the album was covered in the first 6 tracks starting a block of older material with 'Nion', 'Fashion Party', 'Chinese Black' and more of the so-called “classics”. With the rest of the gig going on without much surprises and special acts it was a wait until the final encore where Dirk Da Davo stepped away from the synths and joined TB Frank on guitar for a “one point zero” version of 'The Great Consumer', a re-take from a song brought earlier in the set - also from the new album.
Setlist
01. Smack
02. We Are Confused
03. Leash
04. I Cut Loose
05. The Great Consumer
06. Nion
07. Too Cold To Breathe
08. The Fashion Party
09. One Jump Ahead
10. Chinese Black
11. Factory Walk
12. Concrete
13. TV Treated
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14. Awful Day
15. Miss Brown
16. Tomorrow In The Papers
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17. On My Own
18. The Great Consumer (v1.0)
Rating
Music: 8
Performance: 8
Sound: 8
Light: 9
Total: 8.2 / 10
All pictures by Peter Smets (http://www.fstop.be/)
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