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Fuji Rock Festival Triumph!

 
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NickSheehan
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:49 am    Post subject: Fuji Rock Festival Triumph! Reply with quote

The brothers Mael turned in the best performance at Fuji Rock, hands down, closely followed by the reunited Japanese psychedelic freakout "Flower Travellin' Band", who were playing together for the first time in 35 years. But, yeah, wow, Sparks, man, what a show. I was lucky enough to catch them last time they played in Tokyo during the HYL tour, and they blew my mind then, but I think they may have been even better on Saturday night. Consummate performers. And getting to hear "Goofing Off" in the same set as "Dick Around"!? Pure heaven.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Fuji Rock Festival Triumph! Reply with quote

NickSheehan wrote:
The brothers Mael turned in the best performance


Not unlike a few weeks ago in London! Any chance of a full review or, at least, the setlist?

Who was in the band...?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the report, Nick. Wasn't it fabulous? Any photos per chance?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for that - I was wondering how it went. Can you tell us more about the songlist?

I really wanted to go to that gig!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Nick, do you live in Japan?
I was at Fuji Rock Festival last saturday too. Their performance was sooooooo great and I hope they will be back to Japan soon to play thier own gig.

The set list is.....

Intro(aahs)
Good Morning
Strange Animal
Let The Monkey Drive
I Can't Believe....
Morrissey
Photoshop

Something For The Girl...
Propaganda/At Home...
Goofing Off
#1 In Heaven/Never Turn Your...
Get In The Swing
Tap Dance
Dick Around
My Way
Thia Town
Long Intro Reprise (aahs)
album burning

Amateur Hour
Suburban Homeboy


And.....you can see photos at link below.

http://flickr.com/photos/69864534@N00/sets/72157606452008007/


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Utterly brilliant photos, Zen, you got some amazing camera angles. Thanks for posting.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know why, but I'm surprised to see that they did the burning of the album covers at this gig too. I associated it with the 21 at Islington.............finishing the shows one by one. Is it more like time has passed and we aren't the same SPARKS anymore?What meanings did everyone else get from this symbolic gesture? Oh, I know another one...........with each album Sparks was getting hotter and hotter!

Has this topic been discussed before? If so my apologies.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think it was a closure of ther past of some sort,it was the most moving thing ive witnessed as a Sparks fan,the music was haunting in the background,i think the thing that made it emotional was the crowd cheering like mad each time for there own favourite,glad whomp that sucker got a big cheer as well as gs&sv.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nick, ZEN,
the pictures are fabulous!

ZEN, special thanks for the comments, I love them :)
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rwolf'68 wrote:
I don't know why, but I'm surprised to see that they did the burning of the album covers at this gig too. I associated it with the 21 at Islington.............finishing the shows one by one.


I was somehow surprised too.
Now maybe the Japanese audience wasn't so moved as the people from Islington, but for Sparks guess it serves as some kind of an opinion poll about their albums, a popularity contest, so they maybe will do this again at other concerts, in the US for instance.
But maybe they need to burn again the albums to mark more strongly this moment of their career.
Russell said that performing all the albums in a row was the best way to promote ECOTD, while Ron said that the second best idea was "killing ourselves". So they do kill themselves in style, with a whole ritual (Judgement Day was everyday and witches burning everywhere...), having in the background that trancy melody and all the faces hidden behind the huge monkey smiles (Noone ever wears a frown when they see me coming round...)

And Sparks are burning, because all sparks have to burn, it's only natural (and literal). But now with some exorcistic effect - what about melting all their images from the past into a single one and show that there's no such thing as glam versus disco versus techno and so on, but only these ageless people and their ageless music? Memories from the past? Well, melt the past!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the pics Zen.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonder if they did the burning of the albums at the Finland gig and Lithuania? Anyone got the answer? I could check another thread, but just don't have the motivation at the moment.

Boy, the banana sure is energetic! Maybe it'll rub off on me!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No burning of the albums in Finland, rwolf...but they certainly set my soul on fire!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hear ya, sistah!!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all,

At first I have to let you know that it's not me that has taken those photos on Flickr. It was an amateur photographer called "ickyflikr". I think his comments on the photos are nice

I was moved when I saw album burning ceremony because I am an old fan since 1975, though I don't know if younger audience was moved like me.

One more...
Some of Japanese fans in the front row had already mastered the dance of "I can't believe...", and they did it facing directly with Ron & Russell. Ron seemed to be very delightful looking at them.

ZEN
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ZEN wrote:
Hi Nick, do you live in Japan?
I was at Fuji Rock Festival last saturday too. Their performance was sooooooo great and I hope they will be back to Japan soon to play thier own gig.

The set list is.....

Intro(aahs)
Good Morning
Strange Animal
Let The Monkey Drive
I Can't Believe....
Morrissey
Photoshop

Something For The Girl...
Propaganda/At Home...
Goofing Off
#1 In Heaven/Never Turn Your...
Get In The Swing
Tap Dance
Dick Around
My Way
Thia Town
Long Intro Reprise (aahs)
album burning

Amateur Hour
Suburban Homeboy


And.....you can see photos at link below.

http://flickr.com/photos/69864534@N00/sets/72157606452008007/


Sorry if I'm being 'square' but, what's Tap Dance?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Pineapple95,

"Tap Dance" is Ron's performance.
Ron got a storm of cheers. The audience didn't care about the fact that the movement of Ron's shoes didn't syncronize completely to the tap sounds

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ZEN wrote:
Some of Japanese fans in the front row had already mastered the dance of "I can't believe...", and they did it facing directly with Ron & Russell. Ron seemed to be very delightful looking at them.

Right... and at the end Russell says "Domo arigato"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOzoO3ujpg

Hmm, where is summer when you need it!
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