thanks to Pedro Pereira

At the time the show was supposed to start, Tom was still sleeping in dEUS truck... The other members had to shake him to wake him up, but he was not really in the mood to play. After some time, he grab his guitar and entered the stage.
...It's been some months since the show I'm writing about and the main thing I remember from it are the technical problems that happened and so it's easy to find out it wasn't exactly a brilliant show.
It's usually a bad sign for a show when you have to wait such a long time for the show to start (hey, I know the introduction of "Theme From Turnpike" is great, but don't exaggerate!) like this time, with Klaas looking very nervous trying to put everything in order, unless the band has a dedicated audience, which didn't happen in Sudoeste: half the people were impatiently waiting for the headliners, Suede (go figure!), and the other half (including some dozens fanatics like me!) was too tired (and covered with dust from head to toe!) to incentivate the band.
Anyway, they started with Suds & Soda, and the division in the crowd became more real than I could imagine: while the right front half of the audience was jumping and vibrating with the music (including me!), the left half was quietly doing whatever those people do (moaning? sleeping? counting 'till 1000?) while watching a dEUS performance.
The sound quality was horrible, to say the least, right from the start, Barman had to do "thumbs up" for quite some time before anyone could hear his voice! The band was very angry with all the technical problems, and the situation reached its peak when Craig decided to simply stop doing anything at all! It was an incredible demonstration of lack of professionalism by the (supposed!) technicians and the organisation (which, btw, misprinted the name of the band in the tickets as "deus" instead of "dEUS", a small but relevant detail for anyone familiar with the meaning of the band's name)!
By this time the show seemed closed to an abrupt ending but the band managed to get through the bad moments and the show reached its peaks in songs like Fell Off The Floor, Man (dust all over the place!), For The Roses and the always brilliant Hotellounge.
After the band left the stage, came the big disappointment for all the fans: NO ENCORE at all, which all bands had done before! For people like me, who were there at least 50% just to see dEUS for the first time, it was quite hard to cope with not hearing such masterpieces as Morticiachair and Secret Hell. I personally felt a bit "betrayed" by the band but looking back nowadays I realise they couldn't have done much more: no band wants to get back on stage just to worry about the sound being so awful! Maybe they showed professionalism by not continuing to "hurt" their music doing an encore but, hey, I just wanted a little bit more! :) Better times and better shows will come, for sure...
After the gig, they joined their fans and spent some time with them (as they use to do..)