Set List

1. I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)
2. The Last Rites of Spring
3. Are You Shivering?
4. Amethyst Deceivers (Version 3)
5. A Warning from the Sun
6. Lake View
7. Ostia
8. I Don’t Want to Be the One
9. Bang Bang (Sonny Bono Cover)
10. An Unearthly Red

Feeling: Reflective

“Live Four” phase.

The audience is particularly enthused and noisy throughout the gig. Some guy often screams “Whoo!” over the music.

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I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)

Shhh
Enjoy the electricity, enjoy the electricity
Electricity pulsating through the voltage
It’s gonna go faster
It’s gonna go further back and faster
Electricity has made angels of us all
Is it loud enough, Andy?

John refers to Andy Ray, the tour sound mixer, in the last line. He would do this again at 2002-10-27 Prague, asking Andy to up his monitors.

The Last Rites of Spring

John: “‘The Last Rites of Spring.'”

We are children of the black sun
We are born under a black sun
We bathe in black sunshine
We bathe in the black sunshine

Have you got the 16 on?

And William Burroughs is hallucinating in space [repeated variously]
(And William Burroughs is hallucinating in) [repeated variously]

Do you have the time?
People have time
People have time, people have time
People have space
People have time, people have space [repeated variously]

And animals are hallucinating all the time
They’re hallucinating why?
They’re hallucinating our time for us
They don’t have much time for us

[repeated variously into vocal looper]
They don’t have much time for us
They don’t have, they don’t have much time
They don’t have time
They don’t have

They don’t have much time for us [repeated]
We don’t have much time for us

Fuck off, we’re feral! [repeated]
We’re feral, we’re feral, we’re feral!

“Have you got the 16 on?” refers to the 16-second delay microphone.

The backing video track ends before the music does, so Peter pauses the DVDr during the next one for the next song.

Are You Shivering?

John: “That’s a little, uh…that’s a little bit better. That’s a little bit better. Fucking deal with that. Moon musick, moon musick. Musick to play in the dark.”

There’s a false ending midway through the song where the audience prematurely starts applauding.

For the sun when it comes through
They pull around in a day
Set sail on a boat on a river
On which a man can float
Drown yourself in silver
And swallow the gold

John (after the song): “Was seeing if the mirror would let me in, but it wouldn’t, so…”

Amethyst Deceivers

John: “Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow slow. Incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, incomplete, incomplete. We took magic mushrooms last night, here,” – someone in the audience laughs, causing John to smile as he monologues – “and many, many spirits appeared, and strange, strange things happened in the woods, and we were, we meant to be going under the sea but we couldn’t actually make it, ‘cuz we got caught up in the roots of the trees, which was nice, and we walked slow through places we had been before. We took vegetables to see animals that were invisible before. We saw, we saw trees, and in the leaves of the branches of the trees we saw crows, we saw ravens, we saw black birds, we saw vultures, we saw vultures, we saw vultures, we saw carrion crows, we saw rooks, we saw rooks, we saw carrion crows, we saw rooks, we saw black birds, we saw black birds, we saw black birds. And they caw, and they crow, and they caw, and they asked us to see, and they said to us, they said to me, ‘Pay your respects to the vultures…’”

What’s history?
What’s his story? What’s her story? [repeated]
What’s her story is not his story
What’s her story is not history
Where’s her story is not his story
Where’s her story is not history

The italicized lyrics above come from “The Mothership and the Fatherland” from Astral Disaster (1998).

After the song, the video keeps playing and someone steps onstage. Peter seems to try to push him away, drawing John and Thighpaulsandra’s attention. John says, “Fuck off, we’re feral! Fuck off, we’re feral! For you, thank you. For you, thank you. For you. Uh. Oh.” He then mumbles a bit.

A Warning from the Sun

This version features a lot of rare synth tones and notes not often played on the song live. Of course, none of the live performances match the synth riff of the original studio version.

John: “Thank you.”

Lake View

Sixteen
Sixty
There are fifty-three side things
Fifteen
There are people who are decide things
There are people who decide to things 

We are no angels
When we dissect, when we inject, we equate
The time He took there, is God too late?
Silence baffles me
Silence unravels me

John (after the song): “Thank you.”

Ostia

John: “This next one is from Horse Rotorvator.”

Peter once again plays Massimo’s pre-recorded poem reading as the intro to the song.

Lion [repeated]
Lion [repeated]

I Don’t Want to Be the One

The backing audio track fades in and glitches for a second midway through.

Your words, my words. My words. Astral disasters happen every day. I don’t hate caught up in all my, I’m caught up in my own stuff. And that stuff is already too much of enough.

I don’t want to be the one
When everyone has gone
I don’t want to be the one
When everyone has gone
I don’t want to be the one
When everyone has gone
I don’t want to be the one

To find out why they came
To play this dangerous game
I don’t want to be the one
To spend my life looking back
To see the skies turn black
I don’t want to be the one
To find out why they came
And to be the one who plays their stupid games
I don’t want to be the one
To spend my life looking back
To see the skies turn black

I don’t want to be left alone
I don’t want to be the one
I don’t want to be the one
To find out why they came
I don’t want to play their stupid games
To be the one left looking back
I don’t want to be, I don’t want to be that one

I DON’T WANT TO BE THE ONE [repeated]
I DON’T WANT TO BE THE ONE, THE ONE, THE ONE
TO FIND OUT WHY THEY CAME
TO PLAY THEIR FUCKING STUPID GAMES
I DON’T WANT TO BE THE ONE
To spend my life looking back
To find out why they came
I don’t want to be the one
Oh…

John (after the song): “But sometimes, I have to be, so…” earning him another laugh.

Bang Bang

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black, and I wore white
And he would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the times
When I grew up, I called him mine
And he would laugh, and he would say,
“Remember when we used to play

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down”

John (middle of the song): “Thank you, Thighpaulsandra.”

Music played and people sang
Just for me, the church bells rang
And now he’s gone, I don’t know why
Until this day, sometimes, I cry
He didn’t even say goodbye
He didn’t take the time to lie

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down

John (after the song): “Thank you. That was a song written by Sonny Bono for Cher, but made famous mostly by Nancy Sinatra. All of it’s tainted, you know? Every p-poisonous drop of it.”

An Unearthly Red

This version has a truncated introduction.

(My father is God, my mother is God [repeated])
My father is God! [repeated]
God, my father
My God, my father
And God told me to do it
God told me to do it
God told me

Animal transport out [repeated]

Something dripping from his hand
It’s an unearthly red
Blood is dripping from his hand
He asked himself, “What is my an unearthly red?”
What is drenching his presidential bed?
His presidential bed is the mother of all wars
It’s the mother of all wars
And the father of our God
War milk [repeated]
It’s the mother of all Gods
And the mother of all

Yes, God told told me to do it
Oh yes, God told me to do it
He said, “Your mother, your mother
Your mother is a whore, the mother of all wars
Your mother is a whore, the mother of all wars”
Yes, he said, “God told me to do it”
She is the mother of all battles
He said, “Your mother is a whore
She is the mother of all wars
She pours war milk
She does war milk
She’ll cause war milk
She’ll cause war

John’s closing words: “Thank you very much for coming to see us. Thank you very much for coming tonight. Ahem. Thank you for coming.”

John Balance – vocals
Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson – Ableton sequence, video projections, Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer
Thighpaulsandra – Clavia Nord Modular Synthesizer, Kurzweil Synthesizer, Electro-Harmonix on John’s vocals (with 16-second delay, modified by Kanwal Dulay)
Simon Norris (Ossian Brown) – Clavia Nord Modular Lead Synthesizer, Kurzweil Synthesizer on “Are You Shivering?”

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Vagonka Club
ul. Stanochnaya
12, Konigsberg
Kaliningradskaya oblast
Russia 236006