Münster Gleis 22, Tuesday, 6th October 2004

Gleis 22 in Münster is a kind place with a nice crowd and a small stage.
As small is the venue. The Fall played and there were about 220 people.
A good mixture - was it, as there were young and older fans who enjoyed the show.

Doc Schoko is the hand-picked support during the continental tour. An enhanced version of the three persons formation was on stage, as they added to their line up a bass player (formerly S.Y.P.H.) and a young guitarist.

Around 10.30 pm the intro tape started with Pander! Panda! Panzer! The tension was high, because of a curtain anybody hasn’t a view on the stage. After 15 minutes of the intro The Fall started with an instrumental riff, Hey! Bo Diddley - this took a few minutes and the curtain was opened: Open the Boxoctosis and MES entered the stage. During the next (Dr. Buck’s Letter) he lifted his black glove. The sound was great as I got all very direct from the stage boxes! As the crowd was pleased so The Fall were, too. They enjoyed the show and MES was in a excellent mood. Clasp, Mountain, Sparta (with great voacals from Eleni!), Pharmacist (heavy melting in the crowd!), Green Eyed, Mad Mock (MES corrected Steven’s volume), Wrong Place, (separated) Grass Grow, Shipman, Contraflow (did I hear countryside...?), and a heavy spooky Blindness. They got a lot of applause when they were leaving. We got three encores: first was White Lightning (again great vocals by Eleni and again heavy melting scenes). Second were two older ones: Paintwork as an instrumental started without Spencer who came later, then an extended New Big Priest. Third was Janet, Johnny + James. MES fetched a microphone and did it from the close backstage area.
This was a fine hot night with The Fall in a brilliant form, one of the best shows from them! I am lucky to had made the trip to this nice club.

I am excited to see that they did paintwork, i still need a copy of this song live.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and admit that I love hearing White Lightning live.

And Mr Pharmicist - this seems to be a track that MES has some personal feeling for, given the way he tends to punctuate the performance of it with rather severe jabbing motions.

I also find that White Lightning is something I can play to non-fall fans, but they'll still enjoy it.

i have to agree with this statement.

No offense, Michael, but what exactly do you mean by "heavy melting"? Do you mean people were swooning over Eleni??

Nice report, though

gappy, I tried to describe that the crowd danced very engaged...
is heavy dancing better, or raving?
So close to the stage there was a big mixture of jumping and moving people!

It’s a pleasure for me that your like my report!

I'm with you, Micheal. Frenetic dancing.

Moshing, perhaps?

it was moshing - but only as they played the speedy songs.

'the crowd were melting'?

there is a german word 'melden': it means to register

mabye you mean that the crowd were registering?

may I explain my use of melting:

I used the reference to melting pot:
heating, tumbling, circulating, mixing, interacting, waving...

but it was a hot moshing, there at Gleis22
moshing under steam