From Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts): Cyril/Larry Barrett sadly left us today. A singular songwriter, my all-time favorite bartender and a deep, special soul. He was a good friend to me and The Walkabouts. He toured with us in 1994 and 2003 and played on three of our albums starting with Satisfied Mind. One of his greatest songs is called „House of Sky“ and I truly hope that he has found that place.
Welcome back to my personal Music Diary – today for the 25th October!
Back in 2006 Transmissionary Six played a very cosy and intimate concert in the very small Austrian village called Vöcklamarkt. To the location called Premysl, which is just a tiny bar in the middle of nowhere, only a few people found the way there.
Anyway – the three piece band feat. Terri Moeller and Paul Austin from The Walkabouts and Jon Hyde on Pedal Steel Guitar did a wonderful performance. Most of the songs were from the current album called „Radar„.
Terri Moeller (Transmissionary Six)
After the show Terri was so kind and signed my whole Walkabouts and T6 collection – thanks again!
More pictures of the show can you see here – just scroll down on the mentioned date (25th October).
I won’t forget this day, because it was my very first Jethro Tull live experience! When I was 9 years old I became a fan and so this concert is still very special to me. Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Dave Pegg, Martin Allcock and Doane Perry were on the „Rock Island“ world tour and stopped in Munich, Olympiahalle. Awesome performance!!!!
What a bill: Calexico, Vic Chesnutt and Lambchop played that day in Vienna at the Szene! Unfortunately no pictures or videos of that night are on the internet, but in my memories this evening will stay there forever 😉
17/10/2009:
CHRIS ECKMAN & THE LAST SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN BAND – Hartberg (Schloss)
For this show I travelled to the village called Hartberg in Styria to see Chris Eckman (Walkabouts, Chris & Carla) performing with The Last Side Of The Mountain Band at the Schloss Hartberg (Rittersaal) to perform some songs of the album of the same name. He also played some Walkabouts classics and Neil Young’s „Cortez the Killer“. Before the show I did a very interesting interview with Chris for the Austrian independent radio station B138. You can stream/download this interview totally for free here!
The performance was amazing and after the show we had some fun backstage 😉
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The Setlist:
Healing Waters
Grand Theft Auto
Ransom
Down, Down
Eyes
Who will light your Path?
Stranger
The Same
Hours
Slow Red Dawn
Crime Story
Black Field
The Stopping-Off Place
Raise them Hands
Rock’n’Roll (Velvet Underground Cover)
Cortez The Killer (Neil Young Cover)
Ghostrider (Suicide Cover)
18/10/2005:
WOVEN HAND & HELLDORADO – Bonn (Harmonie)
As a huge Woven Hand fan it was obvious that I will do the trip to Bonn because this performance was filmed for the series of „Rockpalast“ at the Harmonie. And as a bonus the amazing band Helldorado from Norway did the support on that night. The shows were simply outstanding and luckily they broadcasted the recorded gigs on German television.
You have missed this? Really? Shame on you! But hey – you are a lucky bastard because you can watch the performances on internet!
Helldorado – you can stream the broadcasting here!
Woven Hand – you can stream the full broadcasting including interview snippets here!
It was billed as “Mick Harvey Trio” but due to a knee injury Thomas Wydler (drums) has cancelled the whole tour. So the line up was Mick Harvey (Vocals, Guitar) and Rosie Westbrook (Double Bass, Cello, Backing Vocals)
The Setlist:
First St. Blues
October Boy
The Ballad of Jay Givens
Bethelridge
Planetarium
The Bells never rang
Frankie T. & Frankie C.
Slow Motion Movie Star
Mother of Earth (Gun Club Cover)
Two Paintings
Glorius (PJ Harvey Cover)
Famous last Words
Photograph
Home is far from here (Crime & The City Solution Cover)
That’s all, Paul
Sonny Boy
Out of Time Man
Hank Williams said it best
The River
Kurt Wagner with his Nashville band Lambchop played in Ebensee again! Very breathtaking and beautiful performance at the Kino! Most songs were from the current album at that time called „OH – Ohio„.
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This is the Setlist from the Graz show (22nd October 2008), which was almost the same, I do guess:
Ohio
Slipped dissolved and loosed
You’re a big Girl now
National Talk like a Pirate Day
Close up
Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m thinking of a Number (Between 1 and 2)
A Hold of you
Of Raymond
Please rise
Popeye
I believe in you
Give it
Let’s go Bowling
The Man who loved Beer
Your sucking funny Day
All Smiles and Mariachi
Autumn’s Vicar
Soaky in the Pooper
Up with People
Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen Cover)
The Walkabouts (Support Larry Barrett) live in Vienna, Szene. It was the „Shimmers“ tour which features very rare songs from the whole backcatalogue. After the show Chris Eckman and Carla Torgerson were so kind to sign some CD covers and the poster below 😉
Apocalyptica from Finland rocked the Muffathalle in Munich. This show was filmed for a DVD release called „Apocalyptica Live“ which features mostly songs from the masterpiece „Cult„.
P.S.: A few months before that show I did an interview with Eicca Toppinen at the music fair in Cologne – you can watch the video here (just scroll down a little bit)!
25/10/2006:
TRANSMISSIONARY SIX – Vöcklamarkt (Premysl)
Transmissoinary Six (feat. Terri Moeller from The Walkabouts and Paul Austin) played at the very small Austrian village called Vöcklamarkt. It was a very familiar performance at the Premysl because only a few people found the way to this bar. After the show Terri was so kind and signed my whole Walkabouts and T6 collection – thanks 😉
Jethro Tull stopped in Munich (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle) druing their „Roots To Branches“ tour. My personal highlight was the opening „A“ medley feat. the songs „And Further On“, „Fylingdale Flyer“ and „Protect and Survive“ as an instrumental. Unfortunately we sat far away from the stage but nevertheless it was a fantastic performance.
The Setlist:
„A“ Medley (And Further On/Fylingdale Flyer/Protect And Survive)
Roots to Branches
Rare and Precious Chain
Out of the Noise
Valley
In the Grip of stronger Stuff
At last, forever
Dangerous Veils
Nothing is easy
Beside myself
Aqualung
In the Moneylender’s Temple
My God
Misère
Fat Man
Budapest
Wounded, old and treacherous
Locomotive Breath
Jump Start
The Dambusters March
Thick As A Brick (Reprise)
Joe Cocker in Vienna, Stadthalle. Yes, I was there, but to be honest: Just because a friend of mine wanted to be there. So I joined and it was not that bad at all! Especially the female background singers were awesome 😉 I do think this show was part of the „One Sight Of Sin“ tour …
Deep Purple in Wels (Jubiläumshalle) with new songs from „The Battle Rages On“ on the setlist. One of the last concerts with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. It was very sad to see that Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore avoided each other. On the 17th November Ritchie left the band.
29/10/2010:
THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND – Vienna (Porgy & Bess)
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band live in Vienna at the Porgy & Bess. Awesome perfomence – this band KICKS ASS!!!!! They performed almost any song of their masterpice called „The Wages„.
Before the show I did an interview for the Austrian independent radio statin B138 – stream/download it here!
Nick Cave (solo show feat. Warren Ellis, Jim White and Norman Watt-Roy) live in Vienna at the wonderful Burgtheater. It was obvious that this „band“ didn’t play a long time together – I do think it was the very first time that they performed officialy. The soundcheck was VERY long so the show started one hour late. This performance was part of the 10th anniversary of the „schule für dichtung„, a school for poetry in Vienna for which Nick Cave did some lectures.
Setlist:
The Mercy Seat
Sad Waters
Hallelujah
Into my Arms
God is in the House
There is a Kingdom
Darker with the Day
Gates to the Garden
West Country Girl
So far from me
Little Janey’s gone
The Ship Song
People ain’t no good
As I sat sadly by her Side
Do you love me? (Part 2)
Jack the Ripper
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More information about this very special concert are here! And pictures can be found here!
14/01/2012: THE WALKABOUTS – Ebensee (Kino)
Support by Terri Tarantula aka Terri Moeller
My second time seeing this amazing band from the US – The Walkabouts! Although frontman Chris Eckman is now living in Slovenia the sound didn’t change at all. With the new songs from the amazing album “Travels in the Dustland” this outstanding band proved their unique style in Ebensee at the Kino. Drummer Terri Moeller aka Terri Tarantula did the support during that tour and so the shows started very sweet and soft before The Walkabouts (Chris Eckman, Carla Torgerson, Terri Moeller, Michael Wells, Glenn Slater and Paul Austin) rocked with full force (as you can see on the videos below – all recorded by long time fan Walter Horn)
17/01/2012: SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB – Innsbruck (Treibhaus – Small Hall)
The Auto Club played the second time at the Treibhaus in Innsbruck (The Tyrol). After their live debut back in 2009, when they played the big hall in front of a handful people, they played the small hall this time. And luckily many more people found their way this time to the Treibhaus. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (Slim Cessna, Munly Munly, Daniel “Danny Pants” Grandbois, Todd “The Peeler” Moore, Lord Dwight Pentacost and Bob “Big Bad Bob” Ferbrache) did an amazing performance again and introduced us to the brandnew songs of „Unentitled„.
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The Setlist:
Magalina Hagalina Boom Boom
That fierce Cow is common Sense in a Country Dress
32 Mouths gone dry
Red Pirate of the Prairie
My last Black Scarf
Children of the Lord
This is how we do Things in the Country
Cranston
Hold my Head
Americadio
Everyone is guilty #2
No Doubt about it
A Smashing Indictment of Character
Jesus is in my Body – My Body has let me down
He, Roger Williams
Pine Box
Do you know thee Enemy?
Jesus Christ
18/01/2012: SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB – Munich (Kranhalle)
The awesome Slim Cessna’s Auto Club came back to Munich after they rocked the crowd in June 2011 during the so called “Pfingst Festival” at the Theatron. At the Kranhalle they proved again why the Auto Club is one of the best live bands ever.
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The Setlist:
Magalina Hagalina Boom Boom
That fierce Cow is common Sense in a Country Dress
32 Mouths gone dry
Red Pirate of the Prairie
My last Black Scarf
Children of the Lord
This is how we do Things in the Country
Cranston
Hold my Head
Americadio
Everyone is guilty #2
No Doubt about it
A Smashing Indictment of Character
Jesus is in my Body – My Body has let me down
He, Roger Williams
Pine Box
Do you know thee Enemy?
Providence, New Jerusalem
Jesus Christ
More pictures of this amazing performance you can see here!
The White Birch (Ola Fløttum, Hans Christian Almendingen, Ulf Rogde with Linda Wietfeldt) from Norway played that night at the Kino in Ebensee (Upper Austria). It was the perfect soundtrack (mostly songs from the current release „Come Up For Air„) to the winter landscape outside.
23/01/2014: SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB – Nuremberg (Desi)
The Setlist:
Americadio
32 Mouths gone dry
Cranston
Jesus is in my Body: My Body has let me down
This is how we do Things in the Country
Red Pirate of the Prairie
Children of the Lord
My last Black Scarf
A Smashing Indictment of Character
No Doubt about it
Everyone is guilty #2
That fierce Cow is common sense in a Country Dress
Magalina Hagalina Boom Boom
He, Roger Williams
Pine Box
Hold my Head
This show was billed as “An Evening with Mark Lanegan & Greg Dulli”, but they also perform as The Gutter Twins. It was forbidden to take pictures at the WUK – even some security guys were checking the audience the whole show! Very strange but anyway – great acoustic performance by the frontmen of The Screaming Trees and The Afghan Whigs! After the show I bought myself a shirt and a signed poster. During my shopping someone said to me that he also wanted the shirt I was wearing. Well, it was an original Afghan Whigs shirt which I bought back in 1999 and I will NOT sell it 😉
The Setlist:
The Body
God’s Children/All along the Watchtower
The Stations
We have met before
Creeping Coastline of Lights
Resurrection Song
The Twilite Kid
The Lure would prove too much
Kimiko’s Dream House
Summer’s Kiss
King only
Sunrise
River Rise
Sunset Machine
I am in the heavenly Way
Candy Cane Crawl
One Hundred Days
Tennessee Waltz
All I have to do is dream
I get a Kick out of you
27/01/2014: SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB – Vienna (Arena – Dreiraum)
The Setlist:
Americadio
32 Mouths gone dry
Cranston
Jesus is in my Body: My Body has let me down
This is how we do Things in the Country
Red Pirate of the Prairie
Children of the Lord
My last Black Scarf
A Smashing Indictment of Character
No Doubt about it
Everyone is guilty #2
Magalina Hagalina Boom Boom
That fierce Cow is common sense in a Country Dress
Pine Box
He, Roger Williams
One Hundred Years (The Cure Cover)
A Forest (The Cure Cover)
Dancing with myself (Billy Idol Cover)
Master and Servant (Depeche Mode Cover)
Ever fallen in Love (The Buzzcocks Cover)
Blue Monday (New Order Cover)
Human Fly (The Cramps Cover)
Guns of Brixton (The Clash Cover)
Too drunk to fuck (Dead Kennedys Cover)
God save the Queen (Sex Pistols Cover)
Grey Day
Unknown Song (Cover)
Dance with me (The Lords Of The New Church Cover)
Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes Cover)
Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Bauhaus Cover)
Friday Night, Saturday Morning (The Specials Cover)
Love will tear us apart (Joy Division Cover)
I just can’t get enough (Depeche Mode Cover)
Just a Girl
(This is not) A Love Song (P.I.L. Cover)
Eisbär (Grauzone Cover)
In a Manner of Speaking (Tuxedomoon Cover)
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