Tonight was the first concert in Berlin since 1984. And it was a great return. Barney and Hooky were both very talkative. Barney started with something which could be an excuse for the disastrous last concert in Berlin (Apr. 8th 1984) which ended up with the promise to "never, ever come back to Berlin again". At the beginning of tonight's concert Barney said it was good to be back in Berlin after such a long time and that "It isn't your fault. In fact it isn't anybody's fault". That was really nice. Barney was talking all the time, so I cannot remember everything. But he made some jokes about the footballmatch England-Germany and TBTHOG was anounced as "a song dedicated to David Beckham". A dedication which lead only to a grumbling reaction of the german audience. On Hookys speakers you could read "Fünf Eins" (5 - 1), which is the result of the last match between the two teams. But he said that Germany has won it's match yesterday, and that he is sure that Germany will beat England again, . So.... we'll see...
Setlist
- Crystal
- Transmission
- Regret
- 60mpH
- Close Range
- Atmosphere
- Ceremony
- TBTHOG
- BLT
- Temptation
- True Faith
- LWTUA ("the last song you will hear tonight ... but it's a cracker")
encore: (Barney said something like: "We never do encores, but tonight we will make an exception")
- Rock TS
- BM (announced as "Blauer Montag", the german translation of Blue Monday)
(I'm not quite sure about the order and maybe I missed one song, I'm still dancing. So maybe someone can add his/her impressions.)
After all, it was a brillant concert and I'm really happy that I saw them again after the RobbieWilliams bull****-gig in Cologne.
Have a good night!
It was summer / now it's autumn
