― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
They had a mock-up of their studio on stage (I can't believe most of the gear served any purpose...kinda like empty Marshall stacks). A video screen behind each member, and at the end of the show, the screens lowered to reveal the robots! The humanoids left the stage and the robots "played" the last song. Very appropriate.I'm not really sure that they played a live note at all that night, but I really didn't care. I've never heard anyone who was there suggest that it was less than amazing.
(I remember marvelling at the age of the crowd, ranging from about 8 to 80.)
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 02:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Erick H (Erick H), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:35 (twenty years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
not too dissimilar scene at Luton in '97 seeing as there was a huge Detroit contingent DJing at the same event. according to accounts i read the likes of Mills were down the front going mental rather than watching from backstage too.
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:19 (twenty years ago) link
The sound was just unbelievable, the clarity, depth, the BASS! On a few occasions it was a little full-on at the Metro, the digitised voice in "Radioactivity" felt like it was perforating my ear-drums.
― steve, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link
Also at then end as they walked off one by one, Rolf (or was it Florian) even gave a small wave at the crowd and did a little skip. Which of course is the equivalaent of Iggy stripping naked, surfing the crowd, and smothering his knob in peanut butter.
― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:43 (twenty years ago) link
That's Florian without a doubt - he often behaves like an embarrasing dad, hahaha (playing the keyboard through his legs for example).
― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link
The DVD (with all the tour videos plus surround sound) should be something else.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM, Monday, 9 May 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Monday, 9 May 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Monday, 9 May 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 9 May 2005 08:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Monday, 9 May 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
It was the live equivalent of 'The Mix': derivative, recaputulatory, motionless, lacking in vision. I wonder. It seems they lost their magic some time ago and no-one wants to admit it. Live they are just as dull as their new records, and in much the same way.
― moley, Monday, 9 May 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 9 May 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Monday, 9 May 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― moley, Monday, 9 May 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Monday, 9 May 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
These guys had the funk
― baaderonixx, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread makes me miss Detroit so much.
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Display Name), Friday, 19 December 2008 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Great clip, dancing AND audience participation. Is there any more like this?
― Home made ectoplasm (I am using your worlds), Friday, 19 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
is anonymous KW nr. 2 cracking up at 0:30?
― baaderonixx, Friday, 19 December 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome. guy on the right had easiest job in the world
― craig sager (eman), Friday, 19 December 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
― craig sager (eman), Friday, 19 December 2008 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
It now appears that Ian Curtis stole his moves from Kraftwerk, who would have thought it.
― Home made ectoplasm (I am using your worlds), Friday, 19 December 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
According to his wife, Curtis was a kraftwerk fan
― Jack Battery-Pack, Friday, 19 December 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I know he liked them, I just didn't realise that they danced like him too!
― Home made ectoplasm (I am using your worlds), Friday, 19 December 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought I was a seasoned Kraftwerk youtube pro, but I haven't seen those! The current Kraftwerk live show is cool and all, but I wish they'd loosen up and move like they used to.
― (Z S) (Z S), Friday, 19 December 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That would be terrible.
I wish I could go back to 1981 or before and see them live too. But moving like that today? NOOOO.
I appreciate the investment banker approach they have now.
― "Sustainability Sucks" T's Ahoy For Urban Outfitters Bootches (Mackro Mackro), Friday, 19 December 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
They're opening for Radiohead in Latin America next year.
― Melissa W, Friday, 19 December 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Really? That is going to be totally bonkers!
Sidenote: what a headfuck to be the headline act over KRAFTWERK. If there's any band I like more than Kraftwerk, it's probably Radiohead, but still.
― (Z S) (Z S), Friday, 19 December 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
It's going to be awesome.
― Melissa W, Friday, 19 December 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
They're opening for Radiohead in Latin America next year.― Melissa W, Friday, December 19, 2008 10:41 AM (30 minutes ago)
― Melissa W, Friday, December 19, 2008 10:41 AM (30 minutes ago)
That is a crime against humanity... ugh.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 December 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I check google about once every other month for live kraftwerk shows. they might be investment bankers on stage now, playing occasional melodies & tinkering with filters over a 95% inevitable sequencer but up through the early 80's they were one of the best live bands on the planet, and even when I saw them in '98 they were religious
http://www.valand.gu.se/dm/students/andreas/kraftwerk.htmlhttp://www.valand.gu.se/dm/students/andreas/kw_skivor/bootlegs.html << I lose my mind looking at this page, I've only got eleven of these...
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Kraftwerk POX
Heavy Metal Kids 7:53 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K1 15:38 K4 (live june 12, 1971) K2 (Ruckzuck) 19:20 K4 (live june 12, 1971) Ruckstoss-Gondoliere 11:18 Kraftwerk !/2 Autobahn 21:54 Concert Classics (19750520 Denver, Ebbets' Fields) Mitternacht (Rdioactiv/Showroom) 12:04 19750917 - Live At The Dome, Brighton, Uk Faust intro - Kometenmelodie 1 & 2 11:39 19760228 - Machine: l´Olympia, Paris It's more fun to compute 8:02 19810907 - Virtu ex Machina (Live in Tokyo) Numbers 5:25 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF Airwaves / New Song 11:19 19980607 - Live at the Warfield, SF
― Milton Parker, Monday, March 17, 2008 9:48 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
trying to figure out which two I'd bump for:
The voice of energy / Uranium / Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne - 3:51 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, LondonPocket Calculator - 9:12 - 19810703 - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 December 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
somewhere out there, the recording of this 1973 concert is out there (go to 1:45)
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), viernes 19 de diciembre de 2008 19:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Fortunately, no one's forcing you to attend.
― Turangalila, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I would go and then leave... which I've done that many times, friendo.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 19 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1803807/2/istockphoto_1803807_gold_star_2.jpg
― Turangalila, Friday, 19 December 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://kraftwerk.technopop.com.br/animations.php
Yes!http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/anim_14.gif
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― (Z S) (Z S), Friday, 19 December 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/kk_02.gif
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), viernes 19 de diciembre de 2008 20:28 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not to provoke or anything, but truly (and I say this with genuine Kraftwerk fanboy disappointment) doing this would have been very, very stupid at the Mexico shows. :(
The music was fantastic, as usual, and the setlists were changed up a bit from the first to the second night, but it could have really been just been the mannequins standing there with programmed iPods, for all I care, and the show would have been just as "exciting."
I never expected them to come across as so weirdly pointless and minor to experience in a live setting.
― Turangalila, Friday, 20 March 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep. Tickets are $55 plus service charges in DC. But its a 3d show...
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Anybody know a good way to swap my Trans-Europe Express tickets for Computer World? Er ... Craigslist, I guess?
― cristalnacht (lukas), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Tickets are normally personalized so you might have a problem there.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 08:53 (ten years ago) link
closeups of their "workstations":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la7CTPNTDb4
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 08:46 (nine years ago) link
Tickets on sale now
http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/26/kraftwerk-announce-their-first-full-uk-tour-in-13-years/
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:47 (seven years ago) link
been trying all morning for bristol.
website is totally dead.
had tix booked several times, but site crashed each time.
― mark e, Friday, 30 September 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
Booked for TEE in Antwerp. Psyched
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:52 (seven years ago) link
xpost
A group of three of us managed to get tix for Glasgow ok, hope you get yours mark
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:55 (seven years ago) link
Had 4 for Sheffield, crashed after submitting CC data. Don't hold out any hope.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Friday, 30 September 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
the site for colston hall/bristol is truly awful.was warned about it yesterday while at work.the link from kraftwerk took you to gigsandtours.comthey never had any tix available.
― mark e, Friday, 30 September 2016 09:59 (seven years ago) link
sold out.
― mark e, Friday, 30 September 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
Glasgow now sold out too
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
We struck lucky for Nottingham, using the venue's own website. It was down for the first 20 mins, then miraculously came back to life, after Ticketmaster / See / Ents 24 were all saying "sold out".
― mike t-diva, Friday, 30 September 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
A group of three of us managed to get tix for Glasgow ok
When did you get yours? I was trying to buy tickets for either Glasgow or Edinburgh from 10am and it seemed like they sold out right away :(
― paolo, Friday, 30 September 2016 10:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah, i was trying to get tickets for glasgow and they were all gone by 10:02!
― the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
A pal of mine emailed me at 10.17 am to say he'd got them - he went through the Concert Hall website, just like Mike, so I guess that was the way to go.
I'm sorry that people will miss out on the chance to see them - and I hate to think what greedsters are going to try and resell tickets for - but also very pleased they're not playing an enormodome like the Hydro.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:31 (seven years ago) link
suspect a UK arena tour would have been v much undersold unless it was like two dates. their popularity is prob being exaggerated by (a) everyone who wants to go having 24/7 internet access and (b) the % of tickets going straight to tout gangster scum sites
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
This was way less stressful than for Tate Modern, when I didn't get through on the phones until 4pm, the sole website having irretrievably crashed in seconds. Many hundreds of calls, but totally worth it in the long run.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
Oh for the days when you'd queue up outside the venue in the rain instead
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 30 September 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
Third row, Robotfuckers!
― Sehr Kornisch (Branwell with an N), Friday, 30 September 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
xp my wife was rehearsing at the concert hall in glasgow today and people were apparently there queueing in person! so 20th century!
― the devastation is very important to me (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 September 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2)
my brother (who hates computers) got tickets for one of prince's last concerts by doing exactly that
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Friday, 30 September 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
queued at concert hal, 60 people in front. phoned up at 10 on the dot and got 3 front ow tickets. hung up the call and suddenly everyone was turned away as it had sold out already. virtually everyone was turned away
― PaulTMA, Friday, 30 September 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
ya (lovely) lucky bastard.
― mark e, Friday, 30 September 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
I didn't manage to get tickets and therefore hope that these are all acoustic gigs.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 30 September 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
On 20 July 2018 around 21:50 local time, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst welcomed the legendary electronic band Kraftwerk and 7500 visitors to the Jazz Open Festival on Stuttgart's Schlossplatz – live from the International Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQEzgtWv-E
http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/de/2018/07/21/good-evening-kraftwerk/
― meisenfek, Saturday, 21 July 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
Nine nights at the Walt Disney Hall here in May - one night for each album + a finale https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/2912/2024-05-24/kraftwerk
It's been 15-16 years since I've seen them last (Florian was still there), but I kinda want to see this - The Disney Hall's acoustics are very very good.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 11:16 (three months ago) link
I think I still have my 3D glasses from seeing TEE at the Disney concert hall. It was a real good show. This is tempting.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Thursday, 11 January 2024 07:06 (three months ago) link
/r/kraftwerk had the presale code - got floor tickets for Trans-Europe Express night and am completely stoked for this.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 January 2024 07:33 (three months ago) link