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Mercury Rev

24.11.08

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Artist Mercury Rev
Support act Howling Bells
Genre pop, rock
Date Monday 24 November 2008
Organisation Live Nation
Location
Main Hall standing
  • Accessible to visitors with handicap
  • Smoking Ban
  • Hearing damage risk - Earplugs available
Hour 20:00

Review

This time it's personal...
After 20+ years of giving the people what they want, Mercury Rev have become a well-oiled, cathartic live machine.
I must say I've never been subject to a more shameless display of pandering to the critic. Starting the show with a flash guided tour of everything great in the last forty years (a slide show featuring, the Talking Heads, Bowie, Lester Bangs, Pavement, John Coltrane, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Thomas Merton...yes, these too are my favorite things) with the accompanying glorious tones of the Cocteau Twins' "Ivo", Mercury Rev spelled out to me, personally, 'you are going to amuse yourself tonight and write an unabashedly positive review'. Lees meer op Soundslike.


Photo report

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Photos by: Wannabes.

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Photos by: Digg.be.

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Photos by: CuttingEdge.be.

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Announcing text

Timing 7:00 pm doors 8:00 pm Howling Bells 9:00 pm Mercury Rev Mercury Rev

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Timing

7:00 pm doors

8:00 pm Howling Bells

9:00 pm Mercury Rev

Mercury Rev


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matthieu

matthieu (3 years ago)

concert van het jaar!

Tchouman

Tchouman (3 years ago)

Fantastique concert, déroutant et envoutant...Probablement le plus beau concert de ma carrière de fréqenteur de salles! Vivement leur retour!!!!!

mich

mich (3 years ago)

tijdens het concert riep de schoonste vrouw van de zaal in een onnavolgbaar noord-kempens accent in mijn oor " tis wel heeel vet hé! "....dat vat de avond goed samen lijkt me.

DeFrank

DeFrank (3 years ago)

Eén woord: betoverend...

davinci

davinci (3 years ago)

Enkele recensies die het concert perfect samenvatten: http://www.goddeau.com/content/view/5280 http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1343/Recensies/article/detail/509370/2008/11/26/Mercury-Rev-in-AB---Triomf-van-de-bombast-.dhtml

dyingdeer

dyingdeer (3 years ago)

Hoe mooi kan een muur van geluid klinken, genoten van begin tot einde, :)

Cath.

Cath. (3 years ago)

One of the most amazing concerts as well for me even tough the sound was much too loud... had to put my earplugs for the 1st time at the AB ...

Marky

Marky (3 years ago)

Schitterend concert ! Samen met Elbow en Sigur Rós een van de hoogtepunten van het jaar.Ieder nummer was een boeiende muzikale trip die mij telkens weer kippevel bezorgde.Nooit gedacht dat Mercury Rev zo'n sterke live act was ! Indrukwekkend ! Met zijn prettig gestoorde podiumprésence verkeerde Jonathan blijkbaar in hogere sferen.Dit zal nog een paar dagen nazinderen ! Please,come back !

capo7

capo7 (3 years ago)

De laatste keer in het Koninklijk Circus vond ik het net iets beter maar het was zeker 'weeral' magisch.

kargo

kargo (3 years ago)

het was magisch!

CherryBlossomGirl

CherryBlossomGirl (3 years ago)

Oh my god, one of the best concerts I've ever seen !!! THANK YOUUUUU MERCURY REV, amazing music, awesome show, seldom generosity... SENSES ON FIRE !!!!!

www.indiestyle.be

www.indiestyle.be (3 years ago)

Genoten zoals zelden tevoren

christopher

christopher (3 years ago)

t was de max sommigen zeggen dat hij de show kan stelen

TimBroddin

TimBroddin (3 years ago)

zonder twijfel het concert van 2008

StephL

StephL (3 years ago)

j'ai une ticket en trop / ik heb een kaart te veel. 0478/743908

foufou

foufou (3 years ago)

Ook ik nog 2 kaarten over // Encore 2 tickets // contact : 0474/667.227

Mr. November

Mr. November (3 years ago)

Nog 2 kaarten over. Bel 0497/59 89 15.

capo7

capo7 (3 years ago)

Ik heb nog een kaartje over. Interesse? Bel even naar 0499 41 43 78.

www.indiestyle.be

www.indiestyle.be (3 years ago)

De (hele mooie!) nieuwe single van voorprogramma Howling Bells heet "Into The Chaos" en is hier legaal gratis te downloaden http://www.howlingbells.net/

pietw

pietw (3 years ago)

...nog iemand van Haacht (of die daar passeert) waarmee ik na het concert van Mercury Rev mee kan rijden naar huis ....? piet.wouters@gmail.com

Sarax

Sarax (3 years ago)

Le concert le plus attendu pour moi depuis bien 3 ans.. Mercury Rev dans une salle comme l'AB! J'espère qu'ils joueront quand même quelques anciennes chansons comme "nite and fog" ou encore "my love".. :)

Hemka

Hemka (3 years ago)

The way we were, the way we wear, the way I lit your cigarette. Grand concert a la route du rock... il y a dix ans?

kargo

kargo (3 years ago)

de visuals pasten op pukkelpop ook zo mooi bij de muziek. het was allemaal zo dromerig en Jonathan Donahue was net een psychedelisch vogeltje. dat gaat vonken geven de 24ste.

Herman

Herman (3 years ago)

Raving UK reviews on the new Mercury Rev album, Check them out ! ?Ten years after Deserter?s Songs became a gorgeous Americana classic, Mercury Rev have made another masterpiece. Its incredible. Turn up the speakers and drop that jaw? The Guardian ? 5 Stars ***** ?Only a few bands succeed in reinventing themselves even once, and its hard to think of more than a select few who pulled the trick off twice. But with the gorgeous Snowflake Midnight Mercury Rev have done just that, and re-connected with the exploratory impulses that drove their earliest works? The Independent ? 5 Stars ***** ?an ultra-vivid juxtaposition of textures, eras and moods? this New York-formed outfit can still arouse the kind of wonder you felt as a child contemplating the star-speckled heavens? This Rev record is another triumph? MOJO ? 4 Stars **** ?Dreamy avant-pop is offset by throbbing ambient house and proggy neoclassicism; if the Rev?s universe once turned in tandem with Pink Floyd and Frank Churchill, it?s now tuned into Prefuse 73 and Danny Elfman too? Time Out ? 5 Stars ***** ?beautiful orchestral odysseys and space-pop epics? a seriously awesome album? The Fly ? 5 Stars ***** ?This is a magical and arresting album? at once monumental and evanescent in feel? it?s pop, but pop from a faraway, better and unreachable place? The Wire ?This is their most compelling effort since Deserter?s Songs? dark, dangerous and beautiful? a beguiling listening experience? The Sun ? 4.5/5 ?Now using keyboards rather than guitars, they continue to indulge their more experimental leanings on the dreamy Butterfly?s Wing and Senses On Fire. But this is a surprisingly accessible comeback? Daily Mail ? 4 Stars **** ?both unexpectedly monumental and surprisingly synthetic, pulsing with programmed rhythms and riding on swathes of electronic sound? this is music to watch the universe by? WORD ?Satellite beeps find a home alongside breakbeats and orchestral blowouts. Tracks such as the dreamy Butterfly?s Wing will have Chris Martin and Brian Eno weeping for what might have been? Esquire ?with songs such as Butterfly?s Wing and Snowflake in a Hot World, all as beautiful as their titles imply? this is a band reinvigorated? NME ? 7/10 ?astonishing ambition? A wide eyed triumph, an album who?s love for the world is genuinely intoxicating? Clash

jency

jency (3 years ago)

Iets om naar uit te kijken. Was enorm prachtig op Pukkelpop!

Marino

Marino (3 years ago)

Waren beestig goed op Pukkelpop en dat met allemaal nieuwe nummers (op 2 hits na)! Hoop dat het deze keer net zo super wordt.

plekkie

plekkie (3 years ago)

Man, wat kijk ik uit naar dit concert. Compleet geschifte muziek van een fantastische groep met als boegbeeld een al even geschifte zanger.

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