melkweg amsterdam, 6/11/2009

[viq]

a friend told me that royksopp is coming to amsterdam again in november. i assume it will be a 'senior' gig, since they've been to the netherlands in april already and there is no real need to visit a land twice in the same tour, unless.. a new album or new material needs to be promoted.

[Kjetil]

Interesting. Although it isn't completely unheard of for a band to visit the same city twice during a tour. They are coming to London again for the Get Loaded In The Park concert. Either way, I'd imagine the promotion for 'Senior' should be happening soon.

[viq]

tickets for this concert are on sale since yesterday.
on last.fm other concerts have been mentioned as well in this tour:
http://www.last.fm/music/R%C3%B6yksopp/+events

[Kjetil]

It's adding up to be a busy touring year for the guys. It looks like they will be starting their North American leg in November as well, starting in L.A.

[tristesseglobale]

Interesting. Although it isn't completely unheard of for a band to visit the same city twice during a tour. They are coming to London again for the Get Loaded In The Park concert. Either way, I'd imagine the promotion for 'Senior' should be happening soon.

I can't go to that one since I'll be somewhere else...

[viq]

it was awesome.
great crowd, much better atmosphere than in rotterdam last april. they played two encores, one with so easy and one with please stay (i think - couldn't really tell). and they played 'i wanna know' with svein on vocals. actually a great song which to my opinion has to be made in the studio as well. if only it were a b-side.
besides that, all the hits came along, anneli had a great voice, they put on quite a show during the girl and the robot and ole the bass player was there again as well. anyone else from the forums that attended this show? dvtb?

[dVTB]

it was awesome.
great crowd, much better atmosphere than in rotterdam last april. they played two encores, one with so easy and one with please stay (i think - couldn't really tell). and they played 'i wanna know' with svein on vocals. actually a great song which to my opinion has to be made in the studio as well. if only it were a b-side.
besides that, all the hits came along, anneli had a great voice, they put on quite a show during the girl and the robot and ole the bass player was there again as well. anyone else from the forums that attended this show? dvtb?

Yes, I was there too, yesterday, together with 2 friends. Another friend cancelled half an hour before meeting, so I had one ticket left. Fortunately I was able to sell it to a man from Norway, who was very happy to find a ticket, despite the concert being sold out.

It was a fantastic show with great light effects and a lot of energy coming from the guys on stage. Anneli Drecker did a great job singing.

Songs in the set included "Eple" (in a long version with lots of extra synths), "Remind Me" (in the vocoderized version), "Only This Moment", "What Else Is There?" (in a great slowdown version), "Alpha Male", "Happy Up Here", "The Girl And The Robot", "This Must Be It", "Röyksopp Forever" (opening track), "Tricky Tricky", "You Don't Have A Clue" and, like viq already said: "I Wanna Know".

The first encore included both "So Easy" in a slightly sped-up new version and "Poor Leno".
The second encore featured a track I never heard before. I'm pretty sure it wasn't "Please Stay", but something else; pretty monotone. So: 12 songs and 3 encores. You could only complain it was a bit too short, but apart from that it was a great evening.

Something else caught my attention, though: the music playing before and after the show. I don't know what music was played around other concerts, but this music had something remarkable: it sounded SO MUCH LIKE RÖYKSOPP...

I can't help thinking the music actually was by Röyksopp themselves. Perhaps they tested tracks of Senior. Nearly every song I heard sounded like something Röyksopp could come up with.

[viq]

I haven't paid much attention of the pre and post-show music, since i came in quite late (was only three minutes in when they started - right in time!) and we left pretty quick after they had finished. My girlfriend isn't that much of a fan so we left as soon as the gig ended and the lights went on.
Looking forward to the new material though.

Another point: they haven't changed their way f playing since the first time i saw them. it's always, synths, svein left, torbjorn right and that's it. A more experimental set-up (with more musicians maybe, or at least violins/cello's) would add so much to a show like this. But who am I to ask this...