tour de werchter Werchter 2005



Thursday 30/06
green sweater
New Order

New Order is rising back to the surface due to the whole 80's revival. Starting off with some songs from their latest cd Hooky and co immediately proofed why the bravery still is a rookie in the game of glitch rock. Speaking of the bravery, they and the chemical brothers were very eager to watch this ex-joy division band. Let's face it: classics like temptation and blue Monday are nice but they never reach the immortality of Love will tear us apart or transmission. Still it is an alright band with their fair share of hits, but it isn't just Joy Division.

Yellow sweater
Kraftwerk
In comparison with New Order was Kraftwerk armed better cards for the simple reason that all of their music that they made don't really belong to a specific date. They are "krauting" it since 1968 and they still sound post-modern today. There is no romance around 4 man with their laptops and a giant screen playing screensavers that most of us thing are old-fashioned. But aces like Computerworld, Autobahn, Aerodynamic and radio-activity were blast into the audience and with their almost-freighting German precision. When experienced it everything those robots/men did seems logical as can be, but when you look back you don't really know what just happend, like it was some kind of religious experience. They showed the audience why they were pioneers. Their influence on dance music as on rock music (read Kid A-Radiohead and the sample that Coldplay used) is the most logical effect of their hard work and precision.
A clear example of Kraftwerk "arty" behaviour when the first encore (Robots)came the men were no longer there


Got lost and did not get to the finish

The Bravery
Sam and the gang, are maybe NME's new hope still didn't touch a single soul. Yet they tried so hard, they're tried to hard to have funny lyrics "You put the art in retarted have every big British music style represented as a haircut in your band(Mods,brit poppers, rockers)Unconditional sounded so cold and if you only have one song and the rest of your songs are just "ricky martins" of that one song then you got a problem.
They dedicated black cat to U2 as thank you for having to open before them in Dublin. The Bravery never got any farther then a Strokes and Killers cover band and not even a good one.
The bravery proved that they put the cliché in the oh-my-god-do-you-really-look-and-sound-that-much-of-a-cliché-rockband!