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this Easter travel o' mine, I've had the wonderful idea to dress me in the
style of Klimt 1918, complete with white shirt, black tie and pleated black
skirt after the manner of a schoolgirl: the problem is only that spring's came
all of a sudden and that both in the car and outside, I have no idea how many
degrees there are and I feel too much 'sacrificed' dressed like that. Dear,
experienced and consumed first t-shirt of 'Uncomfortable Emotional Music' o'
mine, I missed you sooo much... But I have to say that it all suited me really
fine (modestly) and that I looked like the lil' sister of Angus Young; I just missed the schoolbag, ha, ha, ha! Around
19:00 I reach Cremona, where I meet my fellow travellers Cristina &
Fabio with whom, after having left arms and luggage for the rest of the
week-end, we set immediately out for La Sfinge,
the club where the gig of Klimt 1918 which I've been waiting
for such a long time,
is gonna be held. After some vicissitudes, we reach the place around
20:00, exactly when Klimt 1918 are gonna start the soundcheck. Luckily the guy
of the club allows us to enter and let us remain inside so, after a quick
general greeting to the four on the stage, we seat aT small table to hear the
soundcheck. Marco sings "Snow of '85" and
"Rachel". Then they try all together "Snow of '85" itself.
Every now and then I hear they play "A forest"
of The Cure and something of AC/DC, I think, just to strum something while
they're adjusting the sounds. The guy at the mixer looks a lil' bit bored of
the soundcheck that is taking a long time; the guys of the band don't seem to
be very satisfied of the sound that's comin' out instead. The fact is that
after a while, one by one get on the stage the other two bands which will play
tonight, and namely Demian (and
not Shining Fear,
as wrongly mentioned on the flyer of the gig) and
Sovversivo. Since it's
Easter, I present our adored of a small chocolate egg each and I have a short
chat with Marco, Paolo and Davide. But none of them introduce me the new
guitarist Francesco: I see him keepin' on himselF, he doesn't introduce himself
and nevertheless I make his acquaintance, hence it will be for the next time.
The point is that I fear he 'twists' too much the old songs and therefore I
wanna hear him live first to value his guitar work. I spot the big poster of
the night with the image of the girl on the roof, that is different from the
flyer here above, but unfortunately at the end of the gig I won't be able to
get neither one. I'm gettin' old guys: once I was quicker to take 'em off from
the doors or the walls of the clubs, ha, ha, ha! In the meantime, I've after
known that Marco has done an interview with Eugenio Crippa of
Advent 'zine, that I
hope we will be able to read soon. Among other things, Eugenio's also been
able to catch Klimt 1918 live the night before, near Como (as I'm here, I just
want to say hell-o to him, Daniela, Stefano and Cinzia, big fans of Klimt
1918 and always present!).
Although the dances had to start around 20:00,
Demian begin to play about
three hours later. Better anyway, so more people reached the club in the
meantime (even if honestly I hoped that there could've been much more,
considered it was Saturday nite and even more during a holidays period... well,
as they say, 'few, but good'), but worse for me that I'm there with a 'lift'
who will accomodate me
for the night that, dear me, once the set of Klimt 1918 is over, is lookin'
forward to go away, which will force me to talk just a lil' with ours and to
take right a couple of pictures with
  Marco and Paolo, among other things shot
too closely. At least, you can look at us well in the face, he, he, he! I was
saying that Demian open the night: while they were makin' the soundcheck, they reminded
me of a sort of budding Lacuna Coil, but a lil' bit more 'core'.
During their set, apart this likeness with the above-mentioned act, either for
the male vocalist or the female one, they also remind me of the latest Addiction Crew
and Linkin' Park too. I've to say that is not my fave style (but long live the early Addiction, especially those of "Doubt the dosage"), but they're
good to listen to and during those five or six songs proposed, time passes
with pleasure. At the end of their set, they'll also give away for free their
demo to all the interested ones and I got a copy too.
After a while follow
Sovversivo that from
the aggressive monicker, I thought they played thrash/hardcore, but are a
powerful
and prepared heavy-rock band instead; they propose even a couple of covers, of Savatage,
if I well remember, but of Alice Cooper especially, which I find to sing
even myself.
It's already very late when
Klimt 1918 go on
stage (and told me that even the night before they stayed up to the small
hours...) and everybody get close to the stage to take more actively part to
the show, even exhorted by Marco and Davide, that a couple of times 'threaten'
to stop playing, if we don't get closer. They start with one of the most
beloved songs taken from the debut album
 "Undressed Momento",
and namely "That
girl" that immediately makes the bystanders happy. The sound is okay and
the volume doesn't seem so hugely high as during the soundcheck. Follows the
nostalgic "Snow
of '85", which with that hot it was today and that's even inside the
club, brings me back with my memories for a moment, to cooler temperatures and
climates, when the between-seasons still existed. After all, the new guitarist
doesn't change so much the old songs or better still, so slightly rearranged
the songs sound really great and I'm enchanted by hearing him playin'... him,
but even the others. A particular praise, in my opinion, goes to Paolo at the
drums: though everything moves there behind, he'll frightfully play for the
whole set every single track, especially "Sleepwalk
in Rome" and "They were wed by the sea". At the end of the set,
he's so hot and exhausted that ours won't be neither able to perform the
foreseen encore (with "Pale song", performed instead the night
before at Motorockas); what a pity! The set goes on with the first new song of
the nite, considered that, as Marco himself says, "Dopoguerra" was
released two years ago by now and therefore it would be about time to propose
something new. I'm curios and listen to this new song
very carefully (I don't know if
is exactly entitled "Ghost", because on Francesco's play-list
pinched at the end of the gig, the title has been barred...;
that then was entitled "Ghost of a tape listener" Mery's note, January
2008) and as for
the sonorities, reminds me a lot some of the more indie and post-rock
solutions already heard on the last record, rather than what done on the debut,
but I expected this and considered that lately I've started even myself to get
close to such kind of sonorities, I enjoy this new song that definitely
pleases me and that gives me a lot of energy! I also think that the second new
song which will follow right after, "Skygazer", at least as mentiond
on the play-list, got very similar vibes and I'm already lookin' forward to
hearing these new songs once more, in occasion of some other nice gig or as
soon as this blessed new record will be released (yeah, I ask myself
when? When? They're still makin' it and according to Paolo it seems is coming
out really good, so we can't do anything else but confidently waiting'. And me
that I hoped that for this spring we could've had it already in our hands :/ ...).
 Let's
go ahead with "Rachel" and that
anthem of "Nightdriver",
dedicated by Marco to all those who drove for several kilometres to attend
their gig: I think that except the band, nobody has made so many kilometres
like me, but luckily it's stil worth going. Among other things, I just wanted
to thank very much Cristina for the hospitality (as well as for the
extraordinary vision of "Os cavaleiros do templo" and the repeated
listenings to "Paris
Spleen" of Ataraxia, the cd "Campo di Marte" of Camerata Mediolanense
and the beautiful sightseeing tour of Soncino where, just think of it, right
at the marvellous Sforzesco castle have been shot some scenes of one of my
fave moovies, "Ladyhawke"!) and Fabio 'Day & Nightdriver'
for the live pictures you can see here and there, and for giving me the chance
to take also part to the
Dark Celebration the day
after. I hope to make you soon the same favour, guys! And
 again
some songs taken form "Dopoguerra", that is "Because of you, tonight",
with Paolo always big protagonist behind the drums, the title-track itself and "La tregua".
The final is getting near and ours keep the unforgettable "Parade
of adolescence", but above all the masterly "Sleepwalk in Rome",
extraordinarily even more beautiful, intense and exciting, listening after
listening, with its final part in crescendo with the Italian verses and the
last "They were wed by the sea", which closes the dances. It's very late
but unfortunately, even this time, it's already over... No encore as already
mentioned some lines above. There is who wants that Marco talks about Rome
football team and who hasn't understood yet that he's a Lazio fan instead, who
just like me would like him to sing us still something, who didn't know them
and start makin' questions about their weird monicker or that however
congratulates for their musical proposal, who runs towards the merchandising
stall as soon as Davide materializes with the big bag crammed with cds and
various t-shirts, waiting that they can come back soon to play on some stage
and not always so occasionally, every three or four months, maybe exactly to
present the new and long waited record.
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