Tilburg,
Apr. 28, 1999
Review
by EDGAR DRESME Photos by EMMA THOMAS
 Finally
the great day was here. silverchair came to play live here
in Holland. At 7 o'clock "013" opened its doors
and a crowd of 2000 entered. In other words, the room was
sold out. At 8 o'clock the first band began playing. The name
has slipped my mind and if I may be honest, I don't care at
all. What a total Green Day-rip off (and we know Green Day
wasn't that original.)!!!!! But at least Green Day has some
good songs and this band didn't have any. Oh yeah, a cover
of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"…They only played
loud and they blew up an amplifier. Ok, the bass-player played
a standing base and that's the only thing that was worth mentioning.
At 9 o'clock
Fuel 238 began playing and that sounded good, but maybe a
more characteristic sound would be nice. I thought the Pearl
Jam-Alice in Chains-Nirvana path was already walked by Matchbox
20, Creed and the Stone Temple Pilots.
 Finally,
9:45, a spoken intro filled the room, gradually accumulating
into a fantastic version of "Emotion Sickness."
From that moment on the band played with such a great enthusiasm
and fire, that the world was forgotten for 1.5 hours and the
only thing that mattered was the show. The audience was captivated
by the charisma of Daniel and followed everything he asked
us to do or sing.
Ben and
Chris placed the steady base in which Daniel could perform
his sometimes capricious way of playing. Assisted by one keyboard
player the songs of "Neon Ballroom" worked out very
well, even though there are a lot of difficult orchestral
parts on the album.
 Even
the songs of "Frogstomp" and "Freak Show"
were played like it was the first time and a special mention
applies to the fantastic solo-performance of "Tomorrow"
by Daniel. Impressions enough, enough to fill a new homepage,
but I don't think I'm gonna try that. Ok, the shoes Daniel
was wearing. It were the strange colourful ones he also wore
in the video of "Anthem for the year 2000." And
furthermore, Chris' outfit. It was orange and that happens
to be the dutch national colour. What a great feeling for
detail, knowing our national holiday was two days later.
I saw
sc once, live at "Pinkpop" in 1997. That already
was one of the better concerts I ever saw and I think this
one was even better. Striking is the change Daniel has gone
through on stage, even though that already showed at "Neon
Ballroom." From a shy teenager, he transformed into a
mature and selfconcious singer/performer.
Now it's
four days later and still I'm more than impressed and remembering
it like it was yesterday (except for the correct setlist).
I hope
you people enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing
it. |
