Info:

Line up:
Robert Smith- guitar, vocals
Simon Gallup- bass
Perry Bamonte- guitar
Jason Cooper- drums
Roger O'Donnell- keyboards

Reviews:
posted to descent:
as to the review i fully support jörg (at the chainofflowers homepage, section dreamtour review vienna) iīve been to stuttgart and munich, too and i must say though there were only about 3000 people in vienna they were twice as enthusiastic as the 17000 mentioned before. everybody singing, dancing, laughing the whole set through, even singing along to the new songs (which are really great live by the way). setwise and soundwise munich canīt be beaten (perfect!) but i think it depends where you are (i always try to get within the first 5 rows, remember that in most european venues there is no seating in the arena). so the overall concert was really great, all the songs being played extremely concentrated, robert playing loads of guitar, singing very emotional, sometimes he kind of spoke to himself during his solos - i love to see him turning on his guitar after the lyric part and then squeezing out every feedbackdriven note thatīs in there - wait til you see him play a hundred years, 39, bloodflowers (he looks so loose during these killersolos as if heīd unpack his lunchbox ore something, no tongue in cheek) and of course a forest. i just have to say a few words more to a forest - itīs sooooo good now as robert rediscovered his love to guitarplaying, he plays on from the beginning, getting heavier and heavier then heīs now screaming loudly a third `into the treeeeeeeeeeesī again and after again and again he plays real hard and never looses tension (as he did on the last tours) until the bass-guitar duel where he gets very melodic, then coming almost to a stop (the helicopterlike sound) only to push it further with another very melodic part to the real end (reminds me on the 85ī versions). although they do a short version now i wouldnīt want to change it - yeah, ok maybe into a long hard version :). now back to vienna: thereīs only one drop of bitterness - though they got this incredible audience response they did only two sets of encores, the set was quite similar to stuttgart (with a few changes) but there they came back a third time to play faith! strange - everybody was so heated up and so much into it but they kind of didnīt reward it, so i was a little bit disappointed.... maybe you think: yeah look at him, he has got the possibility to see three wonderful concerts in a week and then heīs whining around cause they did one song less. but, you know you stand there and sing along and scream and whistle and jump and dance like all the other people around and you see the band enjoy it but then the lights just go on and its over and you know from the experiences before how it could have ended (yes with faith!!). i just donīt know why, cause robert was in a great mood, singing and playing on full scale, doing funny faces, laughing when all the people summed the play for today keyboard theme in an incredible loudness. real fun was when he got down on his knees to fix something with his pedals during disintegration and all the peple in the front rows cheered and laughed so he just stayed on his knees smiling back into the audience and then to roger and then they both shook their heads still smiling... he didnīt really say goodnight when they left the stage either... and now that iīve heard that the whole set will be on radio (saturday midnight MET on austrian radio station fm4!) it hurts double - ahhhhhhhh! no radio version of faith!! by the way i think he sings a few lines of 2 late as additional lyrics in faith now - so i wait for you where i always wait - and some lines more i couldnīt understand - did someone? faith is just great now and robert even plays on with the fender VI through the first lyric sections- yes singing and playing. itīs not the long version but very intense and honest. itīs my absolute favourite (along with all mine, siamese twins and pornography), so what should i say.. a propos pornography - i was absolutely overwhelmed when they did it in munich not only cause itīs the only song of the dreamtour i havent heard live before (36 concerts since 87ī) but it was so impressive the sound shattering right through you, blue and red lights and unbelievable guitar work - robert used this small metal pipe (donīt know what itīs called, iīm an ignorant) but he didnīt put it on his finger but in the palm of his left hand and then longed over the guitar sliding up an down the strings - loud hard brilliant so now iīve got two weeks time to recover my voice and iīm full with anticipation for paris! i just hope iīll have the possibility to see a concert like munich again - pure perfection! but as they are alternating a light set and a heavy set (3 hours and loads of f faith and pornography) there is agood chance. now iīve seen three but iīve not heard the kiss (please, please, please), a strange day, if only tonight we could sleep and the soundchecked cold, push, a night like this, charlotte sometimes, like cockatoos, friday iīm in love and wrong number so there is a lot to look forward to!