Pukkelpop report

[Chills]

Great show yesterday. The energy level was up from the start. The sound was loud and glorious. Excellent song selection (no Don Dante though). Don't know if this is in right order:

Wordless
Gideon
Holiday
Wonderful Man
Record
Way That He Sings
Golden
Hell (!)
Anytime
Run Thru

Hell was a nice surprise, magnificently played. Other highlights were Wordless, the end jam in Off The Record and Run Thru. Run Thru just destroys everything in its path, amazing closer. Carl went crazy (all through the show actually) and knocked over his mic stand at the end. ROCK AND ROLL.

Here are some pictures I stole from another website. Best not reproduced in the gallery without permission I guess.

Wordless




Gideon


Holiday


© Goformusic 2006 - Thomas Dhanens
All pictures taken with Nikon digital cameras.

[dragonboy]

Thanks for the report Chills! Pleased to hear they played a good show (couldn't have gone any other way really, could it?)
Excellent pics!

[Chills]

Yeah, the pictures are really cool.
To anyone who's yet to see them on this tour, you're in for a treat. These boys are on fire. You'll see!

[BH]

Awesome pics!

[ycartrob]

thanks for the update. I'm really glad they're playing on the other side of the pond again, you guys had a long wait.

[Mr. T.]

 ;D

What can I say...

Blistering set, great song selection for a festival, crystal clear sound, loud as hell and with an unmatched intensity. 50 minutes of pure R 'n' R bliss.

The day started very good with GOMEZ, continued nicely with MAGIC NUMBERS and then sank to a low with WE ARE SCIENTIST. I didn't know they attracted little boys and girls; we saw a mosh-pit with 14/15 year olds, wicked)

We then pushed to the rail and put ourselves into our RnR mode for:

Wordless Chorus: Strike a pose! Jim put up some funky dances, even tried a moonwalk, and sang like a devil.
Gideon: This song is so much stronger live then on record.
OBH: Crazy, just crazy. Their biggest hit but they still perform it like it's their first time
Wonderful Man: as powerful as it was short: really short, really powerful
The way that he sings: Great song. great singing, and I got stunned againg about how good these lyrics are
Golden: My favourite MMJ song. Very good rendition. Jim had to hold himself not to go jamming on his acoustic guitar
Hell: Brave choice for a festival, wonderful song, audience was silent, which is always a good sign.
Off The Record: Not my favorite song, but the '2nd' part was just over the top. Jim lost a string but went on and on, and on..He would have gone on forever if the didn't go into
Anytime: perfectly orchestrated chaos!
Run Thru: unbelievable. Killer song. The power that the band sent to the audience was devastating. All 5 just went berserk!

During the show, we got treated by some nice comments from Jim, how he felt we were all listening and how he would love to to sit and chat  with all of us... :)

I thought 50 minutes would be short, but with the energy this band is consuming, Those 50 minutes lasted like a lifetime. Thanks guys.

Final note to all: Go out and see this band live. They're on top of their game!

PS, Radiohead was very good, but they were no match for MMJ, not by far.

[MMJ_fanatic]

Great pics Chills and excellent, pithy reporting.

[dragonboy]

Cheers for the report Mr. T  :)

[TEO]

Thanks CHILLS! Leave it up to a HOOSIER  to knock over a mike stand and make a statement! Hope you had a GREAT time, Wordless really stands out doesn't it?

[ratsprayer]

Thanks CHILLS! Leave it up to a HOOSIER  to knock over a mike stand and make a statement! Hope you had a GREAT time, Wordless really stands out doesn't it?

TEO, you're much more patriotic about your HOOSIER roots than i seem to be.  

[Chills]

Wordless really stands out doesn't it?

Yeah. Jim did a great slide on his knees for the climax. He must've practiced that move!

[CC]

there's more pics and a review up at:
http://www.proximusgoformusic.be/nl/report.php?id=131768

babel translation makes it even better:

A world championship ' reverb ' should exist there, then My Morning jacket would belong to the kransje top favourites. More galm cannot sit there according to the laws of the fysica on a voice and a jet ear. The group around the flamboyante Jim James implied himself however a beetje and chose for snoeiharde, rechtoe rechtaan treatment. Wordless and Gideon were powerful rockers who did not shun the large gesture. Also One piglet holiday (demented countryriff, killing bass) and Wonderful man blew our complete: this is rock n roll in its nature. Just with applied My Morning took jacket what gas: splendid countrynummer with a prominent role for the stalk guitar. James considered it time for a communication: I feel that we are present in a relation where your really to me listen. I'm ate peace. Gladly done. There was possible rocking still a quiet number of the finished, ijselijke Hell, and afterwards again took a commencement. Run thru was the apocalyptic final: roarring woestijnrock, with James in the role of the preaching Mozes. God well concert.

[JacketGal]

Nice reviews and photos, chills and Mr. T.  And I swear Jim has the best between song banter....;D

This shot is incredible!

[Mr. T.]

thanks for the review Mr. Baxter, I hope you had a great time too...

These Babel translations remain very quotable : "roarring woestijnrock"; gotta love that!

BTW: I read a shitty remark in my morning paper about the show. Some reporter (who'll burn in hell) said MMJ played very well, but "Neil Young has done this before". So let's all stop making any more music: Neil Young and Bob Dylan have it all done before  >:(

What a serious pile of gobshit! Damn that made my angry

[Chills]

Yeah I read that review as well. While it was ridiculous and just wrong (does Wordless Chorus sound like Neil Young?), it didn't bother me at all this time.

"All you critics sit alone"

[BH]

Yeah, I'd like to hear Neil Young do wordless chorus.

[TEO]

TEO, you're much more patriotic about your HOOSIER roots than i seem to be.  

I dunno'. Maybe it is just because I am "stuck" here now. ;) See you at the next Vogue show! :)

[TEO]

Yeah. Jim did a great slide on his knees for the climax. He must've practiced that move!

Yes has had some practice. Saw him do it at Bonnaroo.

[TEO]

Yeah, I'd like to hear Neil Young do wordless chorus.

If my son and his friends want to tease and "get my goat", they always kiddingly compare JJ to Neil.  They know that is a good way to get me goin'. ;)

[Mr. T.]

For all you dutch speaking/reading people, Knackblog has a tiny review from the show. It's a short but very positive one, so I thought I'd add it here:

"Wie My Morning Jacket van op een afstandje gadeslaat, zou zweren dat het om de jongere broertjes van Metallica gaat. Niets is minder waar: Jim James en zijn maats vermeidden zich op Pukkelpop alweer in akoestische countryballads die, zonder dat je er erg in hebt, openscheuren tot grootse en fully electrified hymnes - een tikje episch, maar nooit over-the-top. Ronduit indrukwekkend hoe James er in sloeg om schijnbaar nonchalant, kauwend op een denkbeeldige strohalm de hele Marquee het water in de schoenen te zingen."

http://www2.knack.be/blog/blog.jsp?siteID=71&sectionID=33&blogartID=589&RMG_CURRENT_PAGE_71_7=2&mwebtag=BLOG/Festival

babel translation

"He who My Morning observe jacket of on afstandje, would swear that it concerns the youngster broertjes of Metallica. Nothing is less where: Jim James and are half-measures vermeidden itself on Pukkelpop again in acoustic countryballads which without a lot have you, tear open hymnes to massive and fully electrified - a tikje epic, but never over-the-top. Simply impressive how James beat to sing the water in the shoes seemingly nonchalant, chewing on a fictitious strohalm the complete Marquee."