SETLIST

Dream Sequence #1
Sister Dew
Instant Street
Suds & Soda
Fell Off The Floor, Man
Everybody's Weird
Little Arithmetics
Lorre In The Forest (sung by a girl in the audience)
Magdalena
The Magic Hour
Roses
Let's See Who Goes Down First

Theme From Turnpike (with some lines from Hotellounge and Emilia's Big Big World ...)
One Advice, Space
Serpentine
Put The Freaks Up Front

Sam Peckinpah's Daughter

SUPPORT ACT : Das Pop

Because of the concert hall, this gig featured the worst sound I've ever heard. The concert was originally to take place at Den Atelier, a small venue, but for technical problems they had to go to another concert hall. I was among the ones who believed that the organisers moved the concert location to sell more tickets, but it seems that I was wrong, as shows this communiqué from Den Atelier :

"the dEUS show in Luxembourg or the Worst Case Scenario that failed to be an Ideal Crash

dEUS had already played our venue den Atelier twice in the past, in 1996 and 1997 and we happen to know theguys quite well by now. It has been a great honour nevertheless, when their agent phoned us up in November 1998 and said : ‘’Hi guys, dEUS will have a new album out by next spring and the band wants to play den Atelier on one of the first opportunities.’’ So, we said ok as that is an expression which is universally understood and got this date at the very beginning of the band’s European tour, on Thursday 15th April.

It has become common sense that the postman always rings twice. And that for sure happened on Monday, 12th April at 14.32 GMT+1. We have been given precious information that for reasons beyond our own control, the scheduled show could not actually happen in our own venue as planned. This is definitely NOT the kind of news to lower one’s blood pressure. The initial impact of the laserguided bombing was shortly followed by a terribly nervous gunfire-type rush of outgoing phonecalls to various aunts and uncles to just simply say hello and to get to know what other options we were left with in regard with this show.

Being serious promoters, it is our policy to never cancel a show unless the artiste does.

Quite simply, we had to move, so we did.

Thanks to flexibility of the City of Luxembourg, we have been diverted to the Hall Victor Hugo, aptly named after the rather miserable soundsituation in there.

Next steps : get in touch with the band on tour, clear the situation, the alternative band approves our alternative – we play !

This venue change caused cardiovascular victims among our staff, especially ‘Piisch’ (lights) and Petz Klein (sound). Fortunately, they succeeded in gathering plenty of people to give them a hand in building up the appropriate sound & light structures for a venue this size.

Radio 21 played their role in the media-promotion of this show more than efficiently and Belgians streamed in, after a mad drive from Brussels.

Just in case some may have been tempted by little arithmetics back at home, the reason for us to move the show was clearly NOT to sell more tickets. The supplementary production costs involved featured no particular financial interest to us whatsoever, otherwise we could already have switched venues with far more large-public-appealing shows in the past, but never did !

Back to dEUS (as finally that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it ?) and Tom Barman who confirmed that next time, it will be at den Atelier again !"