august 20th 1997
Utrecht
Tivoli
HOLLAND
attendance: 1000 (sold out)
time: 90 minutes
support act: Trashgallery
setlist:Novocaine For the Soul/ Not Ready Yet - 12" Mix/ Livin' Life/ If I was Your Girlfriend/
Fingertips pt.III/ Susan's House/ Guest List/ Mental/ 13/ Looking Out The Window With A Blue Hat On/ Fucker/ My Beloved Uncle Daddy/ Flower/
A Most Unpleasant Man/ Rags To Rags/ Lucky day In Hell/ Exodus pt.III/ Beautiful Freak/ Hello cruel World/ Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover/ Everything's gonna Be Cool This X-Mas
It seems that the suckier the audience, the better the eels show. Most of the audience were people who did not even care which band was on the stage. They kept on talking and talking through each and every song.
I became very annoyed by all of them. All people that I used to hate when i was in highschool. All the so called "hip" people. People who want to be seen at a show, not to go there for the music. Considering this,
it was the worst night of the shows I saw so far.
Musically this show was super cool! A wicked country version of My Beloved Monster was played (with E on banjo). ...you know... I didn't use to be the pleasant fellow you see here tonight... introduced A Most Unpleasant Man. Butch' drum solo during Rags To Rags was longer and cooler than normal. The highlights of the evening were the encores.
Most of the annoying talking people had left (they were leaving already when the show wasn't even finished....) and the band seemed to have a really good time. The crowd went nuts for Exodus pt.III and E started making jokes about the upcoming Butch solo album. After the show Butch remarked that it would be called Butch On Birds and that it's follow up would be called Butch does Birds.
The coolest part of the evening was when during Everything's Gonna Be Cool This X-Mas, my girlfriend Evelien was invited up the stage to play along with some jingle bells! This was soooooo cool!!
Evelien, are you ready? Is Elmo ready? Then the song started, with the bell solo it the middle part. In the end Evelien was slamming the bells agains E's guitar and he was making lots of noise with it..... wow!
COOL SHOW! I totally forgot about that sucky audience... this band ROCKS!!
radio/tv: No radio or tv broadcasts of this show
bootlegs: as far as I know 2 different audience recordings exist; one complete and one incomplete
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