Faith No More in Berlin: The Last Word

Set list: 1.Reunited, 2.The Real Thing, 3.From Out Of Nowhere, 4.Land Of Sunshine, 5.Caffeine, 6.Evidence (in Spanish), 7.Poker Face/Chinese Arithmetic, 8.Surprise! You’re Dead!, 9.Easy, 10. Cuckoo for Caca, 11.Ashes to Ashes, 12.Midlife Crisis, 13.Introduce Yourself, 14.The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 15. I Started a Joke, 16. King for a Day, 17. Be Aggressive, 18. Epic, 19. Mark Bowen. Encore 1: 20.Chariots of Fire/Stripsearch, 21.We Care A Lot. Encore 2: 22.Pristina.

Highlight: The mere fact that Faith No More performed at all and by most accounts performed a blinding set. First the area in which the concert was taking place was hit by a bomb scare after some World War 2 munition was found and then front man Mike Patton was hit by a leg injury but battled bravely and dominated the stage with typical Tigger-like ebullience. Oh and the wallet incident (1:20 here).

Video: Only a small selection so far.

Photos: Gallery here.

Reviews:
Die Welt
Berliner Morgenpost
Der Tagesspiegel
Die Tageszeitung
Nuta.pl (in Polish)
Gaffa.dk (in Danish)

June 19th, 2009|The Last Word|0 Comments

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Snopper June 19, 2009 at 5:38 pm

Any torrents or something to download?
KittySpit June 19, 2009 at 4:18 pm

What a day that was… einfach Supreme.
kostis June 19, 2009 at 3:05 pm

We came from Athens for this gig and I’m so glad we did. Words can not describe what we experienced. They are playing in Athens in 52 days and i just can’t wait; period.-
DeanSoDisco June 19, 2009 at 2:06 pm

King for a Day live, oh my 😀
Agata June 19, 2009 at 10:22 am

I’t a shame that there’s so small selection of videos. The vallet incident was hilarious 🙂

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