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A concert retrospective by George Georgiou
Traveling on seats that keep your stare opposite to
the motion of the train gives you somehow the dizzy
impression of moving back to time. Especially when you
are tired and isolated in slices of sounds you have
visited so often in the past, then the old greek stone
country railway stations and their deserted landscapes
suck your impressions into ages gone by. There could be
no better way of traveling to watch And Also The Trees playing
live in Elfentanz Festival of Athens, giving flesh and
bone to a dream of a lifetime for me...
Read the full review here.
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You can find a review from Panayiotis Papandreopoulos about the whole festival and the other artists at:
http://www.tartareandesire.com/articles/elfentanz04.html
However he disarranged things a bit making this a rather 'weird' reading with Nick didn't play drums as well as a masterpiece ?Valentino? wasn't performed.
Review from Rock+Roll magazine for Elfentanz ...
Issue 299 June 2004
reviewed by Ioanna Papanastasopoulou
The good performances of the bands, the huge arrival
of the people and the perfect organization were the
basic elements of the best Elfentanz.
HIGH LEVEL STATIC
appeared on stage having the usually ungraceful role
of being the first band in line.Comfortable and moving
they played a brief set that draw the attention
especially when "Breathing still" was heard as well as
their cover of "Pop corn". Justly their name is known
abroad...
Then ELUSIVE came.What can someone say for these
norwegian guys?There is nothing blamable in an artist
showing being influenced by someone else.But in this
case we are having an obsession haunting many bands
and ending tiresome.This obsession here is called
Fields Of The Nephilim and Elusive are sick of it.If
they weren't just their clones maybe the crowd would
pay more attention to them because musically they had
something to say.
AND ALSO THE TREES divided the audience.The younger
got tired,the older trapped into magic.The common
thing being acceptable from everyone is that not even
ten new bands along could get over the passion of
AATT. Eroticism, melody, sentiment... Highlights were
"Slow pulse boy","Shantell" and "A room lives in
Lucy".
WOLFSHEIM had a bet to win us and they made
it.Heppner's voice, the fairytale decoration and the
stillness of the band created an atmosphere that
seemed to have jumped out of our dreams.We didn't
dance too much, we didn't scream and we didn't do
anything of those things that usually characterize a
nice show.This time the songs spoke inside us and the
whole confusion was taking place in an inner level.Two
extremely modest figures nailed us down.Amongst other
we heared "Leave no need undone","Once in a
lifetime"(a song they saved for their encore),"The
sparrows and the nightingales" and "Heroin she
said".Somehow in this way ,this night slipped away ,a
night that had millions of reasons to remain in our
memories and make us wait for more like this..."
GG.
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Translation of the Elefentanz review from atraktos.
By Costas Liontiris
"...Then the staff was taken by AATT. The Jones brothers - Simon on vocals and Justin on guitar-framed by Steven [Remark: the reviewer has been wrong here] and Paul on bass and drums but also the distinctive company of a blonde nymph on keyboards were in a great mood. Especially Simon with his theatrical presence on stage and his dramatical acting. Dressed in a unique way his melancholic lyrics as well as Justin's haunted compositions submiting the audience into a sacred ceremony. Lyricism, sensitivity, poetry with exaltations and decreases were taking us off and nailing us down.The warm applause was the least indication of respect to this excellent band while Simon obviously touched completed the 80 minutes long show (with their encore) congratulating the audience as well as the organizer of the festival Leonidas Skiadas."
GG.
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