Big Bang Bar, Barcelona, Spain
Set 1
Sounds -> Camera, Cracker, My flash on you, Gun or run, Last song about you, Lifetime, Soma shop, Kicksville, No mercy on ravers, Surrender, A thing called love (w/ Daniel Segura Villanova), Better hurry (w/ Daniel Segura Villanova)
Encore: The drifter -> Summer -> The drifter (w/ Daniel Segura Villanova)
Soundcheck: Cracker, Better hurry jam (both partial)
Encore: The drifter -> Summer -> The drifter (w/ Daniel Segura Villanova)
Soundcheck: Cracker, Better hurry jam (both partial)
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Brotherhood's first ever show abroad! Big Bang Bar is situated in El Raval, which happens to be a particularly wild quarter of Barcelona with narrow streets, a large population of muslim immigrants, way run down premises that house many old traditional bars, bodegas and obscure joints as well as some newly opened hip bars. The concert room of Big Bang Bar is a very intimate square 6x6 meter back-room with a maximum capacity of 100 people. The band plays on equipment they did lend from other bands in Barcelona: a Korg organ, a Vox guitar amp as well as very cool Fender Bassman gives them an appropriate sound. Like everything in Spain the concert starts late, around 23:30, but the people are there from the first song, they start to move and dance instantly. Kiryk is obviously nervous which shows in his lenghty stage banter. He tries to turn the people on and to make clear what the band is here for: "We are here to party!". The audience definitely picks up the offer to freak freely and makes the show a true Brotherhood Dance Concert! In the middle of the set the band debuts the new Erik-penned number "Surrender", it has been ommitted from the setlists in the most recent shows but tonight it is finally performed and the band really nails this short garage number! Before "A thing called love" Kiryk asks if there is someone from Germany in the audience and to his utter amazement one person, who is even familiar with the band, actually is. Then he asks for Swedish people and someone screams a response in Swedish to which Erik comments in Swedish too. This encourages Kiryk to further ask for people from Poland, but no-one cheers, so he jokingly adds "...oh, everybody!". From "Love" on for the rest of the show the band is being joined by Daniel Segura Villanova, aka as Danny, the bass player of The Born Losers, a surf outfit from Barcelona. Danny did arrange the show, he is a huge Brotherhood fan. Tonight he plays guitar adding a genuine West Coast quality to Brotherhood's sound by providing hot rhythm guitar as well as stinging solos in the most original Garcia/Kaukonen style! Danny takes the first solo in the 13 minute version of "Better hurry". After his solo they take it down and Kiryk announces the Dance Contest: he offers a free CD to the person who would come up on stage to dance! One girl actually does so and Kiryk switches position with her by jumping off the stage inmidts the first row. He proceeds to play a sexy solo firing up the girl on stage who delivers a great dance turning on the audience! Eventually she leaves the stage and receives her free CD while the band explodes with another smoking jam before they take it down again in order to perform their very own dance! During the dance Kiryk is the most animated, he bangs the cymbals and wham!, there they go back into the conclusion of the song! For the encore "The drifter" (13 min) they pull off a great psychedelic jam, with Danny playing the original guitar parts of the song, while Kiryk and Erik effortlessly slip into Straw Fever's "Summer", complete with lyrics, it has been quite a few shows since they were inspired enough to feature this sweet tease! A way exotic and far out concert experience for band and companions alike, musically and party-wise satisfying everyone! A great concert debut in Spain leaving an impression on the first ever foreign crowd!
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Created At
Mon Jul 16 2007 08:03:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Updated At
Sun Jul 15 2007 15:07:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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