Kraftwerk
ist fantastisch!!
I had
already felt like I had won a golden ticket (just like Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory) as Kraftwerk at the Tate tickets were ridiculously hard to
get hold of. You knew this was to be an
uber cool event. There were many angry
fans who couldn’t get tickets but that just added to how special and unique
this event was going to be.
We headed
down to the Tate Modern and found out that people had been queuing from midday
to try to get a return ticket. (The show
didn’t start til 9pm!) We knew we were lucky!
Security was
very tight. You needed your whole party
with you and the card you paid with to get access to your tickets and
wristbands. However staff were friendly
and excited. Many famous people had been
over the last seven gigs (including Grace Jones, Mick Hucknell and Boy George)
and tonight was the final Kraftwerk gig! It was a very civilised affair. We were issued with cushions to sit on to wait in the turbine hall for the gig to start. People were dressed quite smartly and I was in a minority being a woman as there was many more men than women! So much for Valentine’s Day, Kraftwerk is more important!
We all patiently waited and the time flew by chatting to fellow fans. Kraftwerk opened by saying guten abend and launched into Tour de France. Oh did I mention it was all in 3D! Kraftwerk’s suits glowed in the dark and the 3D was amazing (especially for Vitamin – I felt like I was tripping on LSD as the 3D came right out the screen at me to touch). This was no ordinary 3D but this was no ordinary band!
They did all the old favourites; The Model (which was poor graphics considering all the other amazing graphics), Autobahn had amazing cartoon like graphics, Trans Europe Express, Computer Love, Neon Lights, The Robots, Techno pop. I had known that Coldplay had sampled Computer Love but felt ashamed that I did not know Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force had sampled Trans Europe Express. This show educated me.
The whole experience was one every person there will never forget. Those lucky ‘golden ticket’ winners know they have experienced something amazing. Kraftwerk started back in the 1970’s but still feel as fresh today as ever. It was almost like a resurrection – what Kraftwerk had preached about 30 years ago has now come to be. Computer Love sing about a Data Date and here we are meeting and dating strangers on the internet. How ahead of the game are they?!!
Verdict: Kraftwerk was everything I expected
from them and more! A visual feat to
match the precise and clean electronic sound of music. In a word: Amazing!
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