DRONTEN, Lowlands Festival, august 24th 1997, HOLLAND
attendance: 35.000 (=total capacity) - possibly about 2000 of those watched eels
time: 64 minutes
other artists on the bill: Faith No More, Blur, You Am I, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Vans Warped Tour and more....
setlist: If I Was Your Girlfriend/ Nor Ready Yet - 12" mix/ Livin' Life/ Fingertips pt.III/ Susan's House/ Mental/ 13/
Looking Out The Window With A Blue Hat On/ My Beloved Monster/ Flower/ Novocaine For The Soul/ Rags To Rags/ Lucky Day In Hell/ Everything's Gonna Be Cool This X-Mas
-to see the original setlist go here
"Everybody right Here Right Now! Do You Know What I Mean?!" Tommy did, Butch didn't... cool joke by E! eels was scheduled to play in the second biggest tent of the festival; the golf tent. The temperature was extremely hot
and a lot of people did not even go inside the tents becouse of the extreme temperatures. Before the show some tv interviews were done
and after the show they had to do a signing session at the OOR tent. Unfortunately Tommy was feeling very ill and the whole band cancelled that signing session.
The show itself was really nice. Indeed Tommy did not look very healthy, but the show went o.k. Not many surprises, exept for the cool rendition of
Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas. E invited all the people on the stage who wanted to come and dance along. Instead of the bell solo one guy
jumped behind E's piano and started jamming along. After this song the audience did not quite understand that the show was over.
"HEY, BYE", Tommy said as he walked off the stage, along with the crowd that had come on the stage. Then they left.
Straight to the tourbus and away from the festival.
radio: 45 minutes of this show were broadcast by VPRO radio - also the entire show was broadcast on the internet in real audio
2 songs + an interview were broadcast on tv by TMF
bootlegs: at least 3 different audience recordings exist
pictures by Evelien - copyright © 1997 Evelien Eenhoorn
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