Lee's Palace seemed a little more like a cavern for this sparsely attended Thursday night gig.
Mathias Kom asked us all to come forward so he could at least see who he was playing to and being the good
Burning Hell sports that we are, we obliged. Besides a familiar bassist the backing band has changed significantly since
the good ol' Guelph shows, not to say these guys were any slouches. Besides it is Kom's brainchild and he reaches well beyond mediocrity in all aspects. His songwriting is wonderfully literate and it was fun just to listen to the new girls beside me as they heard the jokes (as well as the outrightly heartbreaking lyrics, eg.
Remote Control) for the first time. In fact the only new song was a duet with Berlin-based opening lady
Freschard. A lovely, simple English song sung through her endearing French accent. Not to say the set was totally a rehash though either nor that she was the only guest. Actually during
Flux Capacitor's
Nostalgia Matthias called for any sax players in the building to make themselves welcome for this song, without any real expectations. Sure enough following the first verse the man to follow on the bill,
Stanley Brinks, strolls out from backstage nonchalantly and joins in without missing a stride. Matthias is so caught off guard by how awesome this is that he momentarily forgets the words to verse two.
It wasn't the most prolific BH set by any stretch but it did make me smile, such as when Matthias introduced
Let Things Slip Away by saying 'I was going to call this Losing My Religion but somebody told me that was already taken. By U2.' Who ever said hell couldn't be enjoyable?
Set
Remote Control
Let Things Slip Away
Nostalgia
Kings of the Animal KingdomDuet with
Freschard "I liked you from the start"
Everybody Needs a Body (to be somebody)
Old World
The Second Cigarette
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