09.08.99
vatten festival, stockholm
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This gig was broadcast on Swedish radio P3, with some bits from an interview with Tom. The presenter talks (in Swedish, so I'm not sure I got it all right) about the history of dEUS, mentions the tensions that led to Stef's departure, and then says that Tom is looking forward to a break.

"It's necessary to, once in a while, just to take a break from that and ... so everybody can go their way. Maybe some people want to study, Craig got married, Klaas wants to go on a long holiday with his girlfriend ... you know, I mean, we're normal people. Most of us have girlfriends and it's very hard to keep those relationships alive when we're on tour. The hard thing is to keep a balance between going for it and trying to be a normal person, because you're not a normal person when you tour all the time. I mean, you are not a normal person, you're just part of a circus."

Another bit before the encore : the presenter says that dEUS have just played in front of the whole of Sweden thanks to P3 Live ("låtarna heter Instant Crash, .."), then that Tom was very happy to be able to do a Swedish festival, since that allowed dEUS to reach a new audience :

"I said to you that nobody knows us in Sweden, which is not far from the truth, because, when we played here, we played for 400 people, which is fine for me. But today, we played for 3,000 people. I saw some sceptical faces in the beginning - I didn't see them at the end. And that, when you feel as a band that you're, like, really conquering some new people, people that might as well have liked you from the very beginning, but just didn't have the channels to reach you. That's what I've always thought dEUS was about : okay, we don't make easy music - I don't think we make difficult music either."

SETLIST

Sister Dew
Little Arithmetics
Sam Peckinpah's Daughter
Suds & Soda
Magdalena
Instant Street
Roses
Put The Freaks Up Front
Hotellounge

Theme From Turnpike

 

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