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Kraftwerk in Dublin

Yesterday was the big day! Finally. But lets start from scratch. Jonas bought our Kraftwerk tickets a while ago – it was one of those “you have to buy the tickets Monday morning at 30 seconds past nine” in order to get one. Especially this time – they limited the amount of ticket to 4999. But Jonas managed and bought them. For all non Dubliners – this kind of stuff is usually sold out within 2 minutes once the tickets are available online… In fact I read that it wasn’t sold out immediately – it would have been though if I decided not to buy them right away…crystal clear Murphy’s law style…

So far so good. Especially because all this sounded almost too good to be true – it did btw… It was supposed to be more a Festival kind of thing – bands and DJ’s the whole day, peaking into Kraftwerk’s only show in western Europe this year. And then the location: Luggala Estate in County Wicklow:

Not too bad for such a special occasion, right? But then the downer: a long email from Ticketmaster found it’s way through Jonas to my inbox earlier this week saying that they had to move the gig to a new location:

Pod Concerts regret to announce that due to extreme weather conditions
causing the river at Lough Dan to burst its banks on the Luggala
Estate, Co. Wicklow today, the Kraftwerk concert, scheduled for the
13th September will now be held in the grounds of Royal Hospital
Kilmainham, Dublin…

Buuuuh! The typical shit weather in Ireland once again killed it! Feck! So well I decided to go anyways – they offered to refund the tickets. Once there at the Kilmainham Hospital thingy I was pretty disappointed. Very nice “grounds” but then they set up a huge tent there – so the charme of the surrounding area was totally killed. The HUGE queue to get a drink also didn’t make me feel too optimistic. I was pretty late so I could only enjoy 10 minutes of Soulwax before Kraftwerk… but I did not really care about the support acts anyways…

Eventually Kraftwerk started to “play” and I was pretty much immediately enthusiastic. Cool visuals – you can also watch them on Kraftwerks‘ site and the 4 guys behind their equipment – lined up – it was just right. Good sound as well. Towards the end they set up the well known robots to let them “play” the track “The Robots” – it was great. I actually wanted to achieve two things: listen to “Tour de France” and to see the robots in action! Both worked out and despite all the disappointments it was a great night!!!! I took some shaky videos with my camera – check it out!

1. The Opening: Man Machine

2. Taschenrechner / Tour de France

3. Vitamin

4. Computerlove

5. Radioactivity

6. The Robots

At that stage my memory card was full and I realized again how much more I would fancy a cool video camera instead of using my Powershot for such stuff…

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