Concert happiness times three! please madame, cari cari and of course the foals invited everyone to an energetic evening in the gasomter!
I was really looking forward to this evening: three bands played at the Gasometer and they were all bands that I liked! And that’s exactly why we were there early enough to get a spot at the front. said and done! We found ourselves right at the front in the front row and waited excitedly for the triple concert joy to begin!
The evening was opened by “please madame“, an indie power band from Salzburg. I’ve known this band for what feels like forever and I’m always a little wistful at every concert when they show up in normal clothes. When I saw them at the Danube Island Festival in 2017 in the pouring rain, they were all dressed in white shirts and a black mesh – still my favorite outfit of the band. Anyway – unfortunately they were wearing normal clothes in the gasometer, but you can’t have everything in life.
In any case, the group spread a very good atmosphere – thanks to their catchy songs and the good audience animation by singer Dominik Wendl. Not only the vocalist but also many of the visitors were jumping. We enjoyed new songs and a drum performance, also by singer Dominik Wendl. I definitely felt very warmed up after the Please Madame concert and I think the rest of those present felt the same way. very well done!
and then we continued with the next supporting band “search for“ from Burgenland. What I appreciate about this duo is that they view and practice the term band as something completely different than many other bands. For them, a band or a music project is a total work of art. And that’s why everything was just right with Cari Cari when they came on stage. The outfits, the performance and the lighting, everything was coordinated, everything together was a masterpiece. the atmospheric music, the cinematic movements, the didgeridoo that was not only played but actually presented.
Their performance was something special from start to finish – not just because it was something special, but because cari cari realized that it pays off not only to stop playing in Austria until it’s possible, but to stay away from your home country and do this instead to make people happy abroad with their music. as the saying goes? If you want to count, you need to be rare. The size and attitude that Cari Cari display is usually only found in huge international acts. cari cari simply took this live experience from the international stages with them and now seemed like the main act in the Viennese Gasometer who had mistakenly been given the wrong slot. pretty big!
After two very energetic performances by the support acts, it was time to gather strength for the next band. Admittedly, I would have been ready for bed at that point. but now it really started! So we took another breather and then the time had come: the “foalsstormed the stage!
Appropriately, they started their set with “Wake Me Up” – there couldn’t have been a better title for the half-asleep Vienna audience. Singer Yannis tried his best to wake up our tired noses. He threw his arms up in the air, shouted “wake me up” and let his hands fly over the guitar to throw the next riffs at us. Slowly but surely things started to move, slowly but surely we realized that we now had to do our best: only good audiences will get a concert date on the next tour!
In fact, it went on relatively smoothly – the songs fit together and gave us a good shake. The band hissed around on stage and the lighting technician tried his best to ensure that we didn’t see red (but pink and turquoise). The energy level from the “Foals” was high, the audience still needed some time.
At some point there was a point in time when the energy in the room literally changed. Because during a song, Yannis asked the audience to kneel and jump up together at his signal. And that was just amazing – the tension in the room was almost unbearable when everyone was teetering on the gasometer floor. And when the big discharge, the collective jumping up, took place, you could really feel how the crowd really merged with the “foals”. The highlight was the accompanying guitar solo – grande!
The further we progressed in the setlist, the more I realized how much the setlist felt like a constant wave movement. Sometimes the current was stronger, sometimes it was gentler, but the audience was always able to swim along, let themselves drift and sometimes paddle along a little to get even faster. Jumping up together in the middle of the set wasn’t the only melting point between audience and band.
Towards the end, or rather already in the encore block, the mood was really heated up again. “Mountain at my gates” boomed from the speakers and everyone present moved to this rousing music. And then it happened: Yannis went to the front row, complete with guitar, and chose a small group of people to play right in front of them. But that wasn’t all – he also made his way into the photo pit to the front row a second time, this time without a guitar. he really leans into the audience and just shouts out the lyrics. that was extremely impressive!
and then at some point it was over and I was stuck in my overflowing thoughts. A Foals concert is always a bit of training for your emotions – you can let it all out and feel happy and relaxed afterwards, although at the same time you feel really exhausted from this concert training. And that’s exactly how it felt for me and a bunch of other people too. At the end, I embedded my concert experience between all my positive feelings and was happy to have attended this evening. Foals always work!