Stockholm - September 13^th - Reviews

Sept 21: Review from Leonardo Hernandez

I left home at around 1 pm, and I was dressed all in black, yep! Like a Real   "Synthare"! :) Black Leather jacket, Black Trousers, Black DM T-shirt, Black Shoes, Black Sunglasses, Fletch Hairdoo. I had standing ticket and arrived there to entrance number 4 carrying my own homemade tag where it said "Botkyrka Synthfśrening";) at around 2 pm, met a lot of fellow "Synthare" and goths, among them Emby(Hi Jonas!), members of "Synthpoppens Vńnner", DM-freaks from all the corners of the country, from scania to norrland. We chatted, we drank and ate a bit, we joked, we laughed, it was really fun waiting outside.
After some hours some finnish modsters(Jaakko, Thomas & where you there?) arrived, and after them some german modsters(Sven, OGi, Berndt & where you there?), and some polish modsters (tomasz, honorata & where you there ), and some Estonian Modsters ( Ilja & where you there?).
From being around 50 persons when I had arrived, it had increased to 5000 in a couple of hours only. Suddenly somebody saw that they were finally going to open the doors, so the atmosphere got really tense and everybody too!! >:)
They opened the doors at around 6.30 pm and everybody just rushed in, I ran like hell to try to get a good place to stand, and so indeed. I stood there in the front row, just in front of the stage, maybe 5 meters was the difference between me and the stage. Meanwhile they had to fix some wires and install some things, and no!  Good Old Tim Simenon wasn't there that night(at least that was what I saw). Suddenly the smoke machine was in action, and the lights faded. There they were- PURITY!!(not DM, not yet! Hold on...) Purity began at around 7.40 pm and ended at 8.12 pm, They played some sort of HEAVY kind-a-like Electronic music, like a mix of Prodigy and Jungle music, with a heavy touch of EBM. :) And guess what nobody liked them, everybody booed them, and those who didn't spent their time trying to come up with cruel jokes about Pu(ke)rity. During (P)eew-rity's performance the staff went around and gave us ear tampons to protect oneself from the horrendous noise. "I have often wondered why God bothered with Purity..."
Then there was soundcheck, and THE gods entered the stage at 8.36 pm!! :) (Earlier had "Painkiller" started to be played) First entered Fletch- my idol!!! ;) and the drummer, then the other gods Mart and Dave!! When Mart entered, the womans screamed, when Dave entered, the girls
screamed! ;) The blokes didnŠt care that much, they did scream anyway! :) My idol went to his Synthesizer, Martin too, And Dave stood prepared by the microphone.
Then when I heard A Question Of Time I started screaming really loud, and everybody started jumping and singing at " I've got to get to you first". And when Dave shouted "It's just a question of tiiiiiiiiiiime" I started spinning around, and so did also other fellow modsters! :) World In My Eyes, everybody started dancing and singing at "let me show you the world in my eyes", excellent song.
Policy Of Truth, when we heard the first guitar riffs of it, everybody started screaming..
"Never again, is what you swore the time before" - EVERYBODY SANG TO THAT LINE!!
It's No Good, not so good as the other ones, quite lame, the older fans weren't so enthusiasmed(that is me and the older part of the audience) the youngsters did like this song and sang really loud.
I started relaxing and after a while I was also singing to this song, a couple of minutes after the rest.
Never Let Me Down Again, When the rest of the audience and I saw that our Martin was starting to play that famous guitar riff in the intro, then absolutely EVERYBODY went crazy and berzerk!!!! :)
And inmediately everybody started waving their lovely hands... "we're flying high,..."everybody...
And then came the technopart of this song, and everybody started dancing- again! ;), and at the end Martin surprised us by started singing in the end "see the stars, they're shining bright..", WHOW!! This was unexpectex, but yet at the same time, so grand...
Walking In My Shoes- this is the real heavy rocksong, and everybody started to calm down, and some blokes started headbanging. And we sang "try walking in my shoes".
Only When I Lose Myself- this song is special, because it seemed that I was the only one singing to this song at least in the part of the audience where I was standing. And I screamed really loud to this song, and you could hear from other parts of the audience, singing to this beautiful song. It was then when I noticed how many DM-beginners and DM-Wannabees there were
in the audience, they _ONLY_ sang to the Ultrasongs, a couple of SOFAD ones and ETS.
The older ones(that includes me too:) ) sang to every single song... And when Dave left the stage and Martin approached to the microphone in  A Question Of Lust, then I literally freaked out!!! :)
Some women started screaming, crying, and some couples started making out.  Home- I really could feel the meaning then, standing there among with other fellow modsters, Home...Ahhh....Martin sang so beautiful...
Condemnation- It was now a sea of tranquility, everybody started rocking gently from one side to another, and started singing softly. I looked up at that balcony, and it was dark due to the faded lights, but there were some people who were moving their lighters softly back and forwards to this calm song. It was really touching. In Your Room, really gloomy song so everybody kept on with the same style. And hearing people singing to "I'm hanging on your words", it was just whoow!!
Useless- this energic song torned your strength down, some blokes started also headbanging to this song, and it was really energic, so everybody just kept on the same way, that is screaming, dancing,  jumping, waving, spinning,yep! You name it... :)
Enjoy The Silence- This was the song that apparently everybody had been waiting for, just whhoow!!
Now literally everybody were in some kind of ecstasy, everybody jumped, sang, SCREAMED!!!;)...and so on, but this was the bouncy song, the song that apparently everybody had been waiting for, so instead of keep going jumping, everybody stopped and started dancing and spinning instead. Personal Jesus- Now you just _couldn't_ say that this was a utterly stiff audience, everybody was so happy now,although everybody had been happy during the whole, but it was now when I reeeeaaallly could see that the majestic globe arena was on fire!!!!! :)
I'd say(at least from where I was standing)that this was the song where the audience was most intense!!!!
Barrel Of A Gun- same style, but yet not so quite active and intense as in the previous song.
Encore One: / Somebody
Everybody left the stage, except for Martin and another guy entered the stage and went to the synthesizer. He started playing, but this time Somebody a bit more soul- gospel-kind-a-like. Oh my god!!! Martin started singing so beautifully, oh my god.. I freaked out again, his voice is something extra. And this time, he did more of his "ahh" and "oooh" than as usual. And at the time, he ended the lovely song by screaming out in the audience "aaahh...ooohh!!"
Stripped- I had been singing, jumping, screaming, spinning around, but it was for _me_ _now_, when my heart really started flipp-flapping a "bit" faster. After Martin had ended singing, I started screaming really loud and fast  "STRIPPED! STRIPPED! STRIPPED! STRIPPED!"
And so it was, I finally had the chance to hear that famous guitar riff and those industrial sounds of  the intro of that masterpiece.You could say that _NOW_ I had literally really freaked out, I had during the night reached many times the gates of heaven, but it was NOW when I finally got access to heaven, I was now in heaven...ahh...
Dave moved towards the microphone and started singing those magic lines "come with me, into the trees, weŠll lay on the grass, and let the hours pass" WHOOWWW and AHH...
heaven, feels like heaven...
It was absolutely fabulous, when everybody was standing there and dancing, I started jumping of joy to those industrial beats of Stripped. IMHO- DM's gift to god!  And when Dave finished with "...just for me.." me and some other modsters could actually see saint peter and his keys...aaah and at the same time WHOOWW!!! I started hyperventilating(at least I did) During this whole song, I was astonished, baffled, shocked, EXTREMELY happy, bouncy, yep! You name it..
And I'm sure that I wasn't the only one then..
Encore Two: I Feel You- People started relaxing, but just a tiny little bit
only. During IFY, me and some other blokes started screaming "I JUST CAN'T GET
ENOUGH!!!!!!" And God heard us...
Encore Three: /Just Can't Get Enough
Everybody went crazy- again... - and for the 19:th time.
IT was now when Everybody, and I mean everybody started jumping as high as they could, high, higher...
JUMPING AND SPINNING AROUND!!
SCREAMING AND POINTING AT DM AND SINGING "I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!" AND EVERYBODY SANG, JUMPED, SCREAMED, POINTED, SPINNED TOGETHER THAT LOVELY EVENING... ANOTHER PROOF THAT THE DIGIT OF 13 DOESN'T MEAN BAD LUCK..
And it was during the whole night, the usual videoshow, the usual, the same one. And Martin was wearing a glittery dress, Fletch was in all black, the same
case with Dave. And innumerable times Dave screamed and spinned around holding the
microphone tripod. many times he bent down and pointed the microphone at the audience, f.i during PJ when everybody went crazy and screamed "reach out and touch.." at it
or during Stripped "let me see you stripped..."
or during JCGE "I just canŠt get enough.."
or during...
and etc and etc..
so on and so on..
Yep!
Many times!
yep many times
And once he screamed "good evening Stockholm!!!" and he screamed also some other phrases that just now I can't remember.
Yep! Martin, Dave were on fire, so was Fletch. ...a little bit of spark could I see at least from him, but oh well, you all know how Fletch is. Don't you?
But as I wrote before, it was basically the same videoshow as in previous concert, the same setlist, yep, the same things. But what an energi and intensity that I saw from both the gods as from the
audience this evening. It was whoow!
And after the concert, I left went out and bought some souvenirs, f.i a DM-mugg and a HUGE!! DM-poster!
I wanted to buy a DM-t-shirt and a DM-hat(for the winter you know, here's very cold then)but I couldn't afford it.
The muggs costed 80 SEK.
The posters costed 40 SEK.
The T-shirts from 200 to 300 SEK.
The Sweatshirts with a hood 200 or 300 SEK, can't recall so well.
The Hat costed 200 SEK.
The tourbook costed quite a lot.
The pins costed 50 SEK.
and there were also more stuffs that I can't remember right now..
During the evening I lost several kg, but gained afterwards by drinking several liters of coca cola. :)
THIS was an unforgivable night, a night to remember... and ended at 10.36 pm.
I left The Globe Arena, and on the way out I saw some Northamerican modsters(Gence, Chad & where you there?)
It was fun seeing that this was a multicultural evening, but! After all It was an entertaining evening.
I called my mom and told I was on my way home, on the way out there were some arabs selling dm-stuffs.
And I could hear them saying "enibodi want dipecht mode tee sheerts?" Man I laughed, hearing them speaking so lousy english.
I looked at my watch and saw that the tube was soon to depart from the station, so I ran and got in just in time. The Wagons were full of Modsters, among them some Northamericans. I took the train to Slussen were I switched train to Norsborg. The trip went quite ok, there were no gangs terrorising the wagons as it is in usual cases, however, the trip went ok. Due to the delayed departure from Globen Station, and due to slowness of the tube, I arrived home at 1 minute past midnight. I took a shower, ate something, watched the tele a little bit and went then
to sleep. Laying there in my bed, I remembered the night, oh what a night..
The blokes(DM)kicked ass as you northamericans would put it;) But what a night...
Went to school today, and although I had been the only one of the school's 700 pupils who actually attended the concert, everybody kept asking me about the it.
And gosh, did I feel proud or what.
Btw, I was the first DMentia-member who attended a DM-concert this year. That makes me feel even more proud! :)
The Keywords of The Evening: EXTREMELY Fabulous, wicked, terrific, splendid, great, magnificent, grand, wonderful, excellent....
I give it 17 L's out of 10.
A show that you _MUST_ should have seen, and therefore _NOT_ to have been missed