Yesterday evening I attended a really cool D-A-D event for a limited crowd. It took place in the dome room @ Copenhagen's Planetarium. I was lucky enough to get one of the best seats in the venue - front and center: Row 1 Seat 1. It was an event divided in 3 stages: talk, mini-gig, signing-session. Planetarium is built at the location of a long-gone venue, Saltlageret. Disneyland After Dark played several gigs there in their early years, and now they returned to the place some 40 years later.
Talk:
Radio Host Jesper Bæhrenz was in charge of this stage of the event. A few videos were played and he asked some great questions about the songs on the new album "Speed Of Darkness" [2024] and about the creative process behind the songs. The entire band (Jesper, Jacob, Stigge, Laust) was up to the task and they gave some insightful and often very witty replies.
It turns out that a D-A-D song usually begins as one of the band-member's baby. He then brings the baby to the rehearsal room and the other 3 members start to pull off the limbs and the head and mount some new limbs and generally beat it to death. Sometimes it is completely aborted, sometimes it makes it through the massacre as a real D-A-D song, sometimes the father of the baby will have to take it home, nurse it, and try to sell the baby to the other members again at a better time.
Even if it makes it all the way to the studio the baby isn't safe yet. Sometimes, producer Nick Foss turns his thumb down and kills the baby if he thinks it is too retarded.
A new documentary "D-A-D: 40 års venskab" should be out on TV2 Play today. I hope it is half as interesting as this live talk was.
Mini-gig:
The band played a 6 songs gig to live debut some of the new songs and a few of the older favorites from way back in time. They warned us that they had practically not rehearsed the new ones, they had never really heard them played before, and that they would certainly fuck them up. Apart from Jacob almost not returning after the talk session and threatening to turn the band into a trio again and a minor glitch with Jesper's lyrics screen, it all went much better than the band had feared. They did not fuck them up and we got a great mini gig.
From opener "1st, 2nd & 3rd" it was loud, it was up-close and it was really great. The band kicked the shit out of the old war-horse "Riding With Sue". Closer "Keep That Mother(fucker) Down" is going to make a kick-ass live tune at the upcoming live gigs, no doubt about it.
Signing-session:
After the mini-gig we went to a downstairs room. The band seated behind a desk and a very long line of fans formed to have the new album and/or posters signed. A few had selfies taken with a band member. I had brought my old favorite D-A-D album "Monster Philosophy" [2008] along to have it signed and the band willingly did so. Thank you, guys.
Molly in space
It was a really great event at Planetarium last night and I am very glad I got a ticket. It was a first-of-a-kind event and I think Planetarium may return with similar events in the future featuring other bands. I would love to return if it's a band I care for. Now, we'll just have to wait a month and then D-A-D plans to blow off the roof of Copenhagen's lorte-øls Arena. Let it Röck!
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Band: D-A-D
Venue: Planetarium, Copenhagen, DK
Concert Date: 2024-10-04
Setlist:
- 1st, 2nd & 3rd
- The Ghost
- Speed Of Darkness
- Riding With Sue
- Marlboro Man
- Keep That Mother(fucker) Down
Ticket Price (DKK): 290
Ticket Provider: Planetarium
Content Type: Concert Review
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Updated: 2024-10-05 10:06
Created: 2024-09-24 10:17
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