Kaiser Chiefs @ Palladium Riga 12-10-2011
Let's try my best to write kinda personal-emotional-review for a concert I attended this week. For the honour of band's homeland I am doing it on English, huh.
So, I don't remember if I mentioned here that in August I read news about Kaiser Chiefs coming to play a concert in Riga on October 12. I wasn't a big fan of them, but I was a bit obsessed with 'The Angry Mob' and my friend aka basta_tragedy had very positive feelings about this band, so I was very sure I want to see them live and bought a ticket as they were available in booking-office.
That was such a sweet waiting for the upcoming gig (as always I get it :)) Unfortunately, I didn't find any friend who would like to join me in interest to see this band which has quite a lot top hit songs, e.g., everybody knows "Ruby".But it doesn't matter, because important for me was the band and their positive and energetic music I was going to hear and dance to.
On the concert day I got early from job and was in ~17:40 at place the gig was about to take place. Palladium is a brand new club, in which on 30th September James Blunt was the first artist who played for the first time in here. Earlier there was a cinema - even my parents know about it -, and now it is transformed into a club. As I read there were used newest decoration materials to achieve better sound quality in the hall.
As you can see, I met no one waiting for their favourite band so early! Since I have been to 30 Seconds To Mars and Muse gigs I used to think that there are always big fans who are waiting at concert place for 2-3 hours (or even more!) before doors open. Even one hour before Poets Of The Fall gig in St.Petersburg there were a small crowd of fans. Seriously, I felt like a forever alone fan, lol) I took a walk on streets for a half of hour to amuse some time. Btw, it is located in the center of Riga, but I am not running across exactly these streets and it was a fresh new impressions about Riga and I remembered this feeling I got when did come to Riga for the first-second time. Back to the day evening. Around 18:30 appeared one guy, then girl, more girls, boys and everything started to become normal. I told I wasn't a big fan of Kaiser Chiefs, but I was quite excited and was looking forward some fun time this evening. It came up, that I was the first one to show my ticket and I took the best place in hall I could ever dream about - right to the border in front of microphone stand!
I knew who will heat up the crowd before Kaiser Chiefs come on stage. These Latvian guys (and one girl) - "Bērnības Milicija" -" played very nice music, I must admit it. Sorry, but I feel so sceptic about our bands` potential, but now I must reconsider my opinion. The drummer played so good, the guitarists were, too. I met a girl who stood next to me and we were discussing how nerdy these guys look, but we approved their music, though, the singer was so pokerface, lol. Btw, she is an echelon, too, and has been to many gigs, e.g. Muse and Placebo.
I was filled with a thrill. The band was going to come in few minutes.
They showed up to shouts and clap from the crowd and started playing some intro music (it's "Howlaround"). And then "Every Day I Love You Less And Less". Such a blast!!! Many photographs were running in free space between border and stage, taking photos, getting me jealous with their cool lenses, lol)
After third song they were gone and guys were all ours. Ricky didn't waste time and went to crowd - he stepped on border, gave high-five to someone and stood like this for a half a minute holded by a guard. I tried to watch Nick playing drums, other Nick and guitarists, their behavior, but Ricky was walking from one stage side to another, sang with such passion that I kept looking at him. Everything changes when you see band playing live. Songs they sing become alive, vibrant and make you clap your hands to each of them, even if you haven't heard any of them before (I am talking abour "Problem Solved" - I listened to CD version of "The Future Is Medieval").
I have read about how bouncy Ricky used to be and it was prooved. It gets sticky and you can't stop yourself from the same excitement and passion about the song. And what he does with microphone stand! Ricky throws it higher than 2 meters up and nothing or no one gets hurt by it falling to the ground. He even catches microphone from falling stand. Is it his girlfriend that he knows so well how to treat it?Lol)
Some personal memories. I may mistake, but I noticed Ricky looking at first row and I started smiling, and then smile appeared on his face, too. That was just too sweet to be real, but at that moment I was sure he looked at girl in front of him, haha) Also, he threw a bottle of water (thank God it wasn't opened!) to us and I can admit I caught it (I dropped it, though xD )- I picked it up later.
There were just a few songs from latest album. I was sure Kaiser Chiefs will play "Man On Mars", I was hoping for "Out Of Focus" and "Chils Of The Jago" to be played, too, but it came out that they choose to play more songs from previous 3 albums. I am really glad, because these songs have more beat and joy. All this rapid rhytm rushed concert forward so quick. I tried to stop and make myself realize fully what is happening right now and how great moment I am living right now, though, I could only keep on jumping to "Ruby", enjoy "The Angry Mob", repeat "NaNaNaNaNa" over and over again. "I Predict A Riot" was something crazy - this song blows mind far far away.
As you can see below, the last song was "OMG". Hard end of the night, I mean it.
I saw some articles about the gig and in one of them was told the point, that Kaiser Chiefs didn't played at 100% and it is bad. I would say they played as good as they could give to Riga - new city in country they played for the first time. They did a great job - 16 songs, a lot of energy, some talks with crowd. Ricky linked city name to "Ruby" song and sang "Riga-Riga-Riga-Riga" = sweet. And they promised to come back. I really hope they will do! Because from now on I call myself a fan of KC :) I regret nothing.
And here goes some souvenirs I got :)
P.S. Just skip Ricky's very tight white pants LOL
P.S.S. HQ photos belongs to delfi.lv. Videos are mine :)
So, I don't remember if I mentioned here that in August I read news about Kaiser Chiefs coming to play a concert in Riga on October 12. I wasn't a big fan of them, but I was a bit obsessed with 'The Angry Mob' and my friend aka basta_tragedy had very positive feelings about this band, so I was very sure I want to see them live and bought a ticket as they were available in booking-office.
That was such a sweet waiting for the upcoming gig (as always I get it :)) Unfortunately, I didn't find any friend who would like to join me in interest to see this band which has quite a lot top hit songs, e.g., everybody knows "Ruby".But it doesn't matter, because important for me was the band and their positive and energetic music I was going to hear and dance to.
On the concert day I got early from job and was in ~17:40 at place the gig was about to take place. Palladium is a brand new club, in which on 30th September James Blunt was the first artist who played for the first time in here. Earlier there was a cinema - even my parents know about it -, and now it is transformed into a club. As I read there were used newest decoration materials to achieve better sound quality in the hall.
As you can see, I met no one waiting for their favourite band so early! Since I have been to 30 Seconds To Mars and Muse gigs I used to think that there are always big fans who are waiting at concert place for 2-3 hours (or even more!) before doors open. Even one hour before Poets Of The Fall gig in St.Petersburg there were a small crowd of fans. Seriously, I felt like a forever alone fan, lol) I took a walk on streets for a half of hour to amuse some time. Btw, it is located in the center of Riga, but I am not running across exactly these streets and it was a fresh new impressions about Riga and I remembered this feeling I got when did come to Riga for the first-second time. Back to the day evening. Around 18:30 appeared one guy, then girl, more girls, boys and everything started to become normal. I told I wasn't a big fan of Kaiser Chiefs, but I was quite excited and was looking forward some fun time this evening. It came up, that I was the first one to show my ticket and I took the best place in hall I could ever dream about - right to the border in front of microphone stand!
I knew who will heat up the crowd before Kaiser Chiefs come on stage. These Latvian guys (and one girl) - "Bērnības Milicija" -" played very nice music, I must admit it. Sorry, but I feel so sceptic about our bands` potential, but now I must reconsider my opinion. The drummer played so good, the guitarists were, too. I met a girl who stood next to me and we were discussing how nerdy these guys look, but we approved their music, though, the singer was so pokerface, lol. Btw, she is an echelon, too, and has been to many gigs, e.g. Muse and Placebo.
I was filled with a thrill. The band was going to come in few minutes.
They showed up to shouts and clap from the crowd and started playing some intro music (it's "Howlaround"). And then "Every Day I Love You Less And Less". Such a blast!!! Many photographs were running in free space between border and stage, taking photos, getting me jealous with their cool lenses, lol)
Click to viewAfter third song they were gone and guys were all ours. Ricky didn't waste time and went to crowd - he stepped on border, gave high-five to someone and stood like this for a half a minute holded by a guard. I tried to watch Nick playing drums, other Nick and guitarists, their behavior, but Ricky was walking from one stage side to another, sang with such passion that I kept looking at him. Everything changes when you see band playing live. Songs they sing become alive, vibrant and make you clap your hands to each of them, even if you haven't heard any of them before (I am talking abour "Problem Solved" - I listened to CD version of "The Future Is Medieval").
I have read about how bouncy Ricky used to be and it was prooved. It gets sticky and you can't stop yourself from the same excitement and passion about the song. And what he does with microphone stand! Ricky throws it higher than 2 meters up and nothing or no one gets hurt by it falling to the ground. He even catches microphone from falling stand. Is it his girlfriend that he knows so well how to treat it?Lol)
Some personal memories. I may mistake, but I noticed Ricky looking at first row and I started smiling, and then smile appeared on his face, too. That was just too sweet to be real, but at that moment I was sure he looked at girl in front of him, haha) Also, he threw a bottle of water (thank God it wasn't opened!) to us and I can admit I caught it (I dropped it, though xD )- I picked it up later.
There were just a few songs from latest album. I was sure Kaiser Chiefs will play "Man On Mars", I was hoping for "Out Of Focus" and "Chils Of The Jago" to be played, too, but it came out that they choose to play more songs from previous 3 albums. I am really glad, because these songs have more beat and joy. All this rapid rhytm rushed concert forward so quick. I tried to stop and make myself realize fully what is happening right now and how great moment I am living right now, though, I could only keep on jumping to "Ruby", enjoy "The Angry Mob", repeat "NaNaNaNaNa" over and over again. "I Predict A Riot" was something crazy - this song blows mind far far away.
As you can see below, the last song was "OMG". Hard end of the night, I mean it.
I saw some articles about the gig and in one of them was told the point, that Kaiser Chiefs didn't played at 100% and it is bad. I would say they played as good as they could give to Riga - new city in country they played for the first time. They did a great job - 16 songs, a lot of energy, some talks with crowd. Ricky linked city name to "Ruby" song and sang "Riga-Riga-Riga-Riga" = sweet. And they promised to come back. I really hope they will do! Because from now on I call myself a fan of KC :) I regret nothing.
And here goes some souvenirs I got :)
P.S. Just skip Ricky's very tight white pants LOL
P.S.S. HQ photos belongs to delfi.lv. Videos are mine :)