{"id":5456,"date":"2023-05-28T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2023-05-28T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:22:52","slug":"son-mieux-at-013-tilburg-thursday-13-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2023\/05\/28\/son-mieux-at-013-tilburg-thursday-13-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Mieux at 013 Tilburg, Thursday 13 April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mid-week gigs where I have to travel a bit to get to the venue often feel a bit weird. Taking the metro in to the centre of Amsterdam to see a show at Melkweg or Paradiso? Fine. Finishing up early at work, doing something for dinner, taking the metro to Centraal, then a train to ‘s Hertogenbosch, & a change to another train to Tilburg? Felt weird. (Even driving an hour and a half to Zwolle didn’t ring these same bells.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My train was late in to Den Bosch, so I missed the short connection, and I ended up arriving at the venue just a minute before the show started. It was a sell-out gig, and I could only just get in the door and find a spot at the edge of the crowd. 013 is a bit of a barn. It can take about 3000 people, most of them at ground level, some on a balcony. Lead singer Camiel Meiresonne mentioned that apart from festivals, this was the biggest crowd they’d played to so far. They had another two nights at the 6000-capacity AFAS Live in Amsterdam coming up in a few weeks, so that would soon be superseded, but the audience gave them a great cheer anyway. It’s fun to be part of a band’s big moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the travel to get there, the gig itself also felt a bit weird. They played their biggest hit to date, last year’s “Multicolor”<\/a>, as fifth<\/em> in the set<\/a>. They ended the main set with a slow rendition of the already downtempo “Heavy Water”, and during the song the band seemed to all just drift off the stage one at a time, leaving Meiresonne and the guitarist on their own…then they they left, too. The recorded version of “Heavy Water” rises to a decent outro, but the live version didn’t have the same energy, and it just faded out, leaving the audience confused about what was happening. Was it all over?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the house lights didn’t come back up, the crowd got the message, and summoned the band back to the stage with enthusiastic applause, calls, and whistles. They gave a good encore, ending with profuse thanks and an extended version of their second-biggest hit, “Dancing at the Doors of Heaven”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one advantage of being right at the edge of the crowd, just inside the door was that I was also first out<\/em>, and first to the merch stand where I picked up a vinyl copy of their album The Mustard Seed. Not that I have a record player; but if a band doesn’t have a tour poster on sale, I might buy their LP and stick it up on my wall as a substitute. LPs make decent posters; CDs don’t. (I do still sometimes buy tour T-shirts, but their quality and sizing can be so variable that I often find myself not wearing them much.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set list:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. This is the Moment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 1992<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Everything<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Multicolor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Tell Me More<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Tuesday<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Can’t Get Enough<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Will (Part 1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Will (Part 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. The Mustard Seed<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Heavy Water<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Encore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Nothing<\/li>
    2. Dancing at the Doors of Heaven<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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      Mid-week gigs where I have to travel a bit to get to the venue often feel a bit weird. Taking the metro in to the centre of Amsterdam to see a show at Melkweg or Paradiso? Fine. Finishing up early at work, doing something for dinner, taking the metro to Centraal, then a train to … <\/p>\n

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