Leopoldsburg,
Aug. 28, 1999
Set
list:
Israel's
Son
Emotion Sickness
Slave
Pure Massacre
Ana's Song (Open Fire)
Miss You Love
The Door
Madman
Freak
Anthem for the year 2000
By VALERIE
HAROUNE
Photos
from www.pukkelpop.be
Pukkelpop
took place in Kiewit-Hasselt Belgium, not far from The Netherlands.
I came all the way from France for this event.
silverchair
shared Pukkelpop's main stage with The Living End, Luscious
Jackson, Dog Eat Dog, Biohazard, Kula Shaker, John Spencer
Blues Explosion, The Offspring and Orbital. silverchair were
on at 04:30 for a fifty minute set. I managed to be in the
first row during most of the gigs and I was in the first row
during silverchair's show as well. There was some girl kind
of crying 'out of emotion' right behind me, but she's not
worth mentioning.
silverchair
started off with Israel's Son and played the end pretty slowly.
Daniel was chewing gum during most of the set but it didn't
prevent him from singing. He kept having 'psychopath looks'
on his face, making faces and everything. Some people even
thought he was doing drugs!
Everybody
was really into the music and knew the lyrics to all the songs.
After a few songs Daniel started talking. I had never seen
him that joyful, he was very talkative and kept joking. 'We
love Belgium and we like your chocolate' and asking 'who was
camping here?' He threw his pick to the crowd and then made
us repeat 'We are camping and we like it'. He also talked
about him wandering the streets and some guy talking to him.
He had Ben hit the drums when he started talking about this
guy. He just sounded like some comic like Jerry Seinfeld.
There
was a lot of moshing and crowd surfing and for once the security
guys were really nice, taking pictures of the band for some
people in the audience. After Pure Massacre, Daniel took a
breath to tell us something but nothing came out of his mouth
so everybody started laughing along with Daniel and Daniel
said 'I'm enjoying tranquillity'. He also thanked the eight
bands playing the main stage for letting them play it. He
said they had to ask them personally and they all said yes.
Then he told us how he wanted us to participate to the show
by moving physically, but not now because the next two tracks
were 'kind of mellow'. Then they started Ana's Song and Miss
You Love. Right after Miss You Love was The Door and Madman,
which really got the crowd moving. In the middle of The Door
Daniel said 'Sam Holloway on the organ'. Then Sam looked at
Ben and put out his tongue at him. There was also the 'Can
I get a hallelujah' part and the 'Who believes in Jesus and
who believes in Satan' part. Well, Satan definitely won over
Jesus.
There
was some cable hanging from the top of the stage and Daniel
looked at it then put it in his mouth and started playing
Freak. Everybody sang along 'body and soul I'm a freak'. After
Freak, Daniel had us chant 'We are the youth' at least fifteen
times. After Anthem For The Y2K, silverchair left the stage
without a word and that was it. The set was short but it was
really great and Daniel was very talkative. silverchair was
the most talkative band of the whole festival.Pukkelpop was
my fourth time seeing silverchair and I'm definitely looking
forward to seeing them again. |