dEUS @ Vorst Nationaal Bxl, 02-03-06

Support act Snow Patrol will soon be forgotten. Quality musicians but tunes without any edge.

Then dEUS. After the very good concerts some months ago @ AB and l'Atelier I was waiting to see how they would conquer Vorst which is one of Belgium's biggest concert halls (around 7500 persons?) and not a very suitable place to connect with your audience if you don't have this stadium-like attitude including grotesque movements etc... but they managed by rocking as they never rocked before and it became one more great concert during the come-back Pocket Revolution tour.

Setlist:
Pocket Revolution
Stop-Start Nature
One Advice Space
Instant Street
Fell Off The Floor Man
Via
The Real Sugar
Worst Case Scenario
Theme From Turnpike
Roses
Assault On Magnus
Sun Ra
Rock Chick
What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)
Little Arithmetics
Nothing Really Ends
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Bad Timing
If You Don't Get What You Want
Suds & Soda (Sabotage)
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Hotellounge

Great mixture of old and new.
Pocket Revolution and Bad Timing are such intense live songs, always enjoy them very much live... 2 Magnus songs: Assault and Rock chick, great to hear as well but one could notice that for most of the crowd these were completely unknown songs
They left out 7 days, 7 weeks - the weakest part of the setlist a few months ago and as requested by the fans they finally played Hotellounge again - one word: WOW - together with suds and soda it became a nostalgia trip back to 1994 - university had just started, the debut album came out and finally music in Belgium became fascinating again, Ape-town was enjoying the afterglow of the european cultural capital year... great era, fantastic memories, sublime soundtrack ...

Thanks to a friend we were invited to the aftershow, great fun just before leaving Belgium again to hang out with my favorite belgian band, some beers and the interesting rest of the belgian music scene :)
Afterparty continued at KVS and made the alarm clock hurt very much at 7am in the morning after a very short night of sleep.

(picture kindly taken from dEUS flickr group - Myrto)