| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Music |
| Genre: | Other |
| Artist: | The Posies |
My love is quite a big fan of this band so when they said something about a performance in Mechelen when they played at Pukkelpop he immediately decided we would have to go there ;-)
It took a while before you could buy tickets but once they were there they were bought. So we had been ready for the Posies for a while now...but were they ready for us? The last performance at Pukkelpop was rather chaotic (the singers were definitely drunk ;-p) so what would tonight bring?
The place where they performed is an old church so that's a very decent surrounding for any band. It's a very small club too (around 400 people) and you can sit on the stage. It's a very homely atmosphere ;-)
The performance started with one of the singer-guitarplayers (Ken) telling us he'd been hit by the cork of a champagne-bottle in the eye recently. He had this spot in his eye resembling the former USSR (with all the Baltic states ;-p) and he went to see an eye-docter in the UK (they were touring there). Today he went to one in Brussels and his eye would be fine but he should not shake his head too much or his retina might fall off...
Well the tone was set! They are great performers, they do not hide it when they discuss what song they are going to play next, they so obviously like what they do and have great fun doing it! Strangely the best word to describe it is Dutch: gezellig!!
It's a pity that the quality of their songs isn't very steady. They have a few brilliant ones (shivers down your spine material, especially live), some decent ones and some songs that are well, just songs...
After at least 2 hours and one encore the club and most of the public thought the show was over but... No! They came back on stage telling us they would tell us when they were finished and played some more. After about three more songs they asked us if they were done..well..uhm.. no? Well the drummers arms were falling off (or so he claimed) so he wasn't playing anymore so the two singers-guitarists played another song together. And then, finally, they ended the show, refreshed a bit and went back into the room to talk with us some more, sell records etc
Sadly I had to work the next day or we would have stayed some more to talk to all of the Posies and have a drink with them ;-) Well, maybe next time!
Their site: http://www.theposies.net/
