Parlotones, The - Munich 2010

Backstage, Munich, Germany
21st October 2010
The Parlotones & Fiction Plane

On this Thursday we met in Munich in front of the Backstage to have a look at the South African Band THE PARLOTONES and their support FICTION PLANE.



Fiction Plane

FICTION PLANE is an Indie Rock Band, which was founded in London under the name SANTA’S BOYFRIEND in the year 2001. In the course of their career, they were already support for bands like THE POLICE, SNOOP DOGG, STING and THE BRAVERY, played at numerous festivals and had even their own European tour. In 2010, they published their current album ‘Sparks’. http://www.fictionplane.com/



Music & Performance
In time at 7:30 PM, Joe Sumner (vocals, bass / Son of THE POLICE front man Sting), Seton Daunt (guitar) and Pete Wilhoit (drums) appeared on stage. Just - as later the singer of THE PARLOTONES - Joe Sumner appeared in a black sports jacket with an orange tie. With their music, they made the quite well filled hall dancing together and created a successful start into this evening with their presentation… The mood reached its first climax and the joy for the appearance of THE PARLOTONES always getting closer now rose. After half an hour everything was over and the band was awarded with considerable applause.

Rating
Music: 7
Performance: 7
Sound: 7
Light: 5
Total: 6.7 / 10




The Parlotones

The South African Indie Rock band THE PARLOTONES exists since 1998. In their native country, the band is already a multi Platinum-Act which already endured an often sold out 18-month world tour. They are known as the biggest Rock band of South Africa where they already performed at Live Earth. In Germany, the band from Johannesburg became known the this year with the ARD-song for the football world championship ‘Come Back As Heroes’. The title is out off their in 2009 published album ‘Stardust Galaxies’. http://www.parlotones.co.za/



Music & Performance
Finally, after a short rebuilding break, Kahn Morbee (voice, guitar), Neil Pauw (drums), Paul Hodgson (guitar) and Glenn Hodgson (bass, piano, background voice) appeared on stage. They immediately began with the song ‘Live Design’ which is to be heard currently also in a television commercial. From the very beginning, they had the fans in their hands primarily caused by the captivating voice of Kahn Morbee. Everybody sang, danced together and clapped. Every time they played a ballad you could see many luminous lighters and the mood reached one climax after the other. With the world championship song ‘Come Back As Heroes’ there were not many listeners who did not join in the singing. But some time, everything has an end and the band left the stage under blustering applause and after the additions. The evening had exceedingly succeeded and was very diverse. For every fan something was present - no matter whether like rock or quiet ballads …



Setlist
01. Life Design
02. Only Human
03. Bird In Flight
04. Giant Mistake
05. Stars Fall Down
06. I‘ll Be There
07. Welcome
08. Sun Comes Out
09. Come Back As Heroes
10. Remember When
11. Fly To The Moon
12. Dancing
13. Overexposed
14. Beautiful
15. Push Me To The Floor
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16. Brighter
17. Fight Back
18. Baby Be Mine

Rating
Music: 9
Performance: 8
Sound: 9
Light: 6
Total: 8.3 / 10



All pictures by Erika Knepper (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.myspace.com/antecanis)
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