It is long, it is mostly about nothing, but if you're interested, here it is ::) ;)
During this Tour Lacrimosa heared an applause of lots of gobbled up balloons,
saw a lake of lilies, a fest while the Revolution and hundreds of white birds flying
in the crowd ; they here happy with a sea of red paper planes and an ocean of not
less red balloons – and they saw a night sky beneath their feet...
17/10/2014
Tele-Club, Ekaterinburg
First thing you need to know about any concert on a Friday's evening (and if there's no other adequate way to get to the club) is – preorder a taxi in the very morning. That's the lesson I've learned very, very well. That was the reason that there were not so many people in Tele-Club when the show started, and some of them wrote afterwards they arrived just when Schakal started.
Btw, here's our set-list :
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Well, thanks to an unexpected snow and long traffics, I arrived at 18:45 and a show started almost in time (that means at 19:10 or something like this), so I really didn't have a lot of time to distribute the stuff for flash mobs we've prepared. I don't remember how did I get in the building, don't even remember how did I met our LacriWelt ladies (hello and thanks for organization of flash mobs to Cat, Anastasia, Julia and Tatiana), I was so-o-o in a hurry! I found myself just when I was saying again and again to different people in different places of club one phrase-of-my-evening : "Good evening, would you like to participate in our flash mobs?" I think I smiled and said it more than 50 times to 100 different people.
"Good evening, would you like to participate in our flashmobs?"
"I already do".
"There are another ones, take this please, and this... Do you have this?"...
or :
"Good evening, would you like to participate in our flashmobs?"
"Yes of course!"
"Then take this this and this, please"...
"I wanna participate too!"
And so on, and so on, running around like a crazy...
THANK YOU, those lo-o-ots of people who supported our ideas with smiles and enthusiasm and made other people around you want to participate, too. You made me smile sincerely and happy.
Also, I want to say a very, VERY GREAT "THANK YOU" to people who I’ve never met before in my life but who came to me and asked something like : "Hey, do you need a help with distributing all this stuff?" THANK YOU, guys, you were amazing and another reason to smile. You helped a lot.
As I have already mentioned, there were not so many people from the very beginning, and in one moment, I was desperate 'cause I still had lots of flash mob-stuff in my hands and all the people around who agreed to participate already had theirs. But then the Intro stared and nothing else mattered – I've returned to my place to enjoy the concert.
It was my first Lacrimosa concert, and I can surely tell you – it was the best concert I've ever been at. I know it sounds like a cliché, but I am here to say truth and nothing but truth, so yes – it was absolutely marvelous and unforgettable. It was so amazing and I was so IN it, that I almost forgot that I have a camera on my phone. So here is just one video I've made – Lichtgestalt, for my own reasons I needed this very song to have on my phone Live, and some blurred pics, thanks to an "excellent" camera, lol.
Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalt (Live Ekaterinburg 17.10.2014) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j1p6G6TKHs#ws)
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Our concert began with a colourful "hello" to the band – with a lo-o-ot of glowsticks on Komet. Sorry for a sound on videos below, I don’t know what they did with it.
Lacrimosa 2014 Ekaterinburg Teleclub live 02 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnE16bGJj8#ws)
Not many at all, people were so loud (hey guys who growled after every song "LA-CRI-MO-SA, LA-CRI-MO-SA", thanks for standing right behind me, my poor ears were almost dead after your screams ; btw in the end of the first part somebody from the other side shouted them "shut u-u-up", and that was somehow funny. They didn't, if you wondered.). So, the concert continued, and we were waiting for Kelch der Liebe to transform our audience to a lake of lilies, you can see the result right here, and if it really looked at least half that magical and lifted a mood of a band, hours of preparing were worth it :
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The only lily I have after the show – and the last one^^
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Full report : http://weburg.net/gallery/797 (http://weburg.net/gallery/797)
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Full report : http://ekaterinburg.vibirai.ru/galleries/lacrimosa-1334855 (http://ekaterinburg.vibirai.ru/galleries/lacrimosa-1334855)
And a video (oh gosh, dear Anne, I regret I was standing on the left and I couldn't see your cute smile while you were watching this flash mob ; thank you, a person with camera for we all can see it now) :
Video from the russian social network VKontakte. (http://vk.com/video5081471_170225599)
A small flashback : actually, my Double Feature Tour began long, long before a real tour began. It began with the first announcement of Irond and Herr Wolff, and I started to think about how to welcome Lacrimosa on the Ekaterinburg show, and I killed at least 6 ideas because some of them were clichés, some were unrealizable and for some I said from the very beginning : "Oh no that's stupid, NO-O"... And then the origami idea came to my mind and it was somehow (in its original, not final version) referring to that awesome flash mob from Moscow with roses, so I wrote, "what if we make some origami flowers?".. Yes, it was wonderful to make it, huge, huge amount of white lilies, and I want to say another THANK YOU to Anastasia – for adding me and encouraging, to all the people who helped making lilies: Anastasia, Julia, other LacriLadies, Svetlana and people about who's help I don't know.
I don't know why the audience started laughing – and I think a bit confused talking about "time to refresh" Tilo, and it was cute how he started to search for other actions we could do while a 15 minutes pause, like smoking or taking a beer in a bar :D
All in all, the concert was so emotional, and Tilo, Anne and our wonderful musicians were so good this time (as well as all the others in the Tour, as YouTube says). I was really glad to hear Tränen der Sehnsucht live, it was one of the most desirable songs on this tour (I think now I need just Ein Hauch von Menschlichkeit to be completely happy ;D). And the evening went to its end, and I just want to say a little more about Revolution song. I mean, you can watch it here :
2014.10.17 Lacrimosa Live in Yekaterinburg (TeleClub) - 09 Revolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmgPKUtfek#ws)
and on these photos :
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and Cat, I still remember you were filming it so I'm waiting for your video as well ;)
It was fun to get these confetti out of our hair after we made this small fest ; it was beautiful to tears and to laugh to watch it – here and now, live, standing right under this shining rain and watching the band smiling so wide. LacriWilt girls, it was an amazing idea, thank you again. I didn't expect, when I was reading about it, that it'd be SO good... It was even better.
Then there was the first Encore, and it was great, just – just great. And Tilo, traditionally, made a photo of the audience :
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and they played Krasnodar and Irgendein Arsh, and it should've been the end... actually, I guess, everyone from Lacrimosa and the crew supposed it to be the end, bu-ut not the audience! Crazy people, we were standing there, watching how the lights were off, how a guy from the crew started to disconnect the instruments... And one person somewhere around asked : "But wait, what about Copycat?" – so peeps agreed very soon that it was wrong – not to hear Copycat tonight, and started shouting "COPYCAT! COPYCAT! COPYCAT!", and I swear they wouldn't stop even if it took 10 minutes. Fortunately, it was just a one or two, and Tilo was back on the stage – no ideas what the band was thinking at that moment, but the audience was CRAZY and HAPPY to see them again on the second and not planned at all Encore. And while the instruments were connected again, Tilo was talking to the audience and to Anne, and it was somehow like this :
"I have no idea what song you are talking about. Anne, do you?"
"No, I don't. I cannot hear them. Which song? No, I don't".
"COPYCA-A-A-AT", – the audience exploded, so-o, we had our Copycat, and i guess, it became our Ekaterinburg tradition – to ask for an additional Copycat that isn't on a set-list ;D
Here are two videos, from this Tour :
http://youtu.be/bRIajicz8S8 (http://youtu.be/bRIajicz8S8)
and from Revolution Tour with 1,5 song :
http://youtu.be/SvvMZxKNfL0 (http://youtu.be/SvvMZxKNfL0)
During the Double Feature Tour Lacrimosa heared an applause of lots of gobbled up balloons, saw a lake of lilies, a fest while the Revolution and hundredes of white birds flying in the crowd ; they here happy with a sea of red paper planes and an ocean of not less red balloons – and they watched a night sky beneath their feet. This Tour was exceptional for both sides – and that's why it was so amazing. It was a "Double Feature" in every sense of these words – from two parts of the concert to two shows at one moment : their – to us, and ours – to them. Our love to them.
To end this report right, I want to say some more "thank you's" :
to LacrimosaFan.ru – for the genius and very touching idea of linked banners in every city of the tour. Ours was containing : "Heute hören wir euch und spüren, wie sich die Welt ringsherum ändert. Moskau wartet auf euch" [eng. : "Today we hear you and feel how the world is changing. Moscow is waiting for you"]. For making this idea to come truth – THANK YOU, Taris and others, from all my heart.
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to JP – I thought it is right to say an exceptional thanks for coming down from the stage and playing a part of Copycat down there, right nearby the people. That was fun… that was awesome!
to all the people who came and made the right atmosphere in the club – thank you all, I saw you, I talked to you, you are great.
and, finally,
the most important THANK YOU – to Lacrimosa, to your music, this unforgettable, touching, full of emotions concert and your kind words. There wasn't any chance to say it personally – but I hope next time you will have a less intense schedule of trains and plains and I could tell it to you – thank you for making this evening so magical – and come back soon.
...and, of course, thank you, the person who's still reading this lo-o-ong report for your patience ;D ;D
That's it. It was nice to share my emotions and parts of this evening with you.
Marina.