OH GOD
Pharmakon was an EPIC support. Never heard of her, but damn, that was impressive... really cool sort of industrial drone/noise set if you don'T know... look her up.
The Swans show was pretty unbelievable. What fucked me up the most was the absolute loss of the sense of time. those 2h40m flew away in the weirdest way... Some observations:
Hahn is one creepy looking guy. Couldn't believe the grins when they were doing the intro with them slowly coming on stage. He was absolutely fantastic though
Pravdica is a bass MONSTER. Surprised to see such a huge setup with 810 and two GK heads (OUT OF WHICH ONE burned down) and a Mesa head with a 215 cab. The bass was pretty crushing aven when he played upper tones, which was most of the show but when he came down, it was making the whole place rumble and it made me feel pretty weird, almost as if I were to puke. Fantastic tone, too
Happy to see Norman Wesberg and his blackguard tele and tattoos live. However for some reason, he seemed to be the most alienated and almost confused
The really fucked up thing was their work with the songs. Everything had its time, everything was super slow. Which was amazing because when they played all of it much longer, every little change later on was very apparent. Never expected that the show would be like this. I mean you hear things, you hear it's loud and long and it really swallows you up, but when it started, I realized that it's something which can't really be described.
Oh and when I looked around... Some people really probably didn'T realize what they were getting into. A few people left, lots of them were confused. I do confess I had a hard time standing still, but that was my back-ache, I really enjoyed the show otherwise, but it was really... something else. Transcendental
Bought the Teeth tee and the My Father... vinyl
never got around to meet Gira, the venue was pretty horribly overcrowded and after all the pummeling, I really wanted to get out, started to feel sort of claustrophobic.