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Rating: It's my first time at the Depot in Leuven, a former cinema that has become one of the most interesting venues in the country. Trail of Dead is playing, former noise anthropologists now turned into budding Elton John-like figures, in light of their latest albums. They come on stage with two drummers, the second of whom fulfills the role of the first, leaving Jason Reece (the original drummer) with a greater presence on stage as a singer and guitarist, supporting Conrad Keeley (who sang better than usual) and Kevin Allen, who performed his task with relative calm compared to the other two bandmates.
Despite the dreadful signs heralded by their recent "The Century of Self", the concert was more than good, with a band capable of remarkable cohesion even with the new additions (forgot to mention: a pretty good bassist and a keyboardist whose role I couldn't quite grasp). The decision to limit songs from the latest work was spot on (with "Bells of Creation" and "Isis Unveiled" placed in the first part of the concert), favoring the older ones, with the highlight of the performance being the triptych "Relative Ways - Clair De Lune - Totally Natural": the latter in a fiercely extended version, stretched to ten minutes in length and with the rhythm section at the center of the final jam session. The concert ends with two encores: Jason Reece screaming (rather than singing) "Caterwaul" in the audience (with a microphone in one hand, a bottle of vodka in the other, and a train of more or less drunk fans behind him) and "Richter Scale Madness" as a final song, in a version that made no one long for the good old days.
For M, instead of the beer I promised you and that we can no longer drink together...
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