{"id":5592,"date":"2025-01-25T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T17:28:54","slug":"bilderbuch-at-melkweg-amsterdam-tuesday-26-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2025\/01\/25\/bilderbuch-at-melkweg-amsterdam-tuesday-26-march-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilderbuch at Melkweg, Amsterdam, Tuesday 26 March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think I first came across Bilderbuch<\/a> in 2015 or 2016; I remember sharing their track “OM”<\/a> in a “New Music Monday” collaborative playlist at work. Their rich, genre-bending pop sound invited obvious comparisons with Falco, and I loved it. When I visited Julian in hospital in Austria at the start of 2019, I remember seeing their name on a poster in Innsbruck. It was probabaly for a gig or an album release. I jumped back into their catalogue, and found myself listening to “Checkpoint”<\/a> on infinite repeat on my train journeys through the snow for the rest of that trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then I was waiting for them to play a show somewhere closer than Cologne, and last year they finally touched down in Amsterdam in March. I was still in deep burnout at work, and despite loving the band, and having bought a ticket as soon as I found out about the gig months before, I wasn’t excited on the day. I had to force myself to go into town. I skipped the support act (K\u00e4ssy). As a latecomer, I had to squeeze myself into a corner of the Oude Zaal at Melkweg to get a barely decent view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gig was good, though. They kicked off with the powerful riffs and playful solos of “Softpower”, and carried on with the groovy “Dino”. Singer Maurice Ernst started off in a shirt and tie. He teased and flirted with the crowd and lost the shirt part-way through, but then gained a tight black crop-top. There were a ton of German fans in the audience, and a lot of singing along. Their live version of “Aber Airbags” is an extended, slow and trippy guitar solo tour that turns lively and up-tempo half-way through a 15-minute run, bursting with exuberance and a driving, bouncy beat. And of course<\/em> they played “Spliff” as well. Amsterdam, innit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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  1. Softpower<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Dino<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Gigolo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Drugs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Bungalow<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Willkommen im Dschungel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Aber Airbags<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Maschin<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Ab und Auf<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Checkpoint<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    1. Digitales Wunder<\/li>\n
    2. Spliff<\/li>\n
    3. Bluezone<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      I think I first came across Bilderbuch in 2015 or 2016; I remember sharing their track “OM” in a “New Music Monday” collaborative playlist at work. Their rich, genre-bending pop sound invited obvious comparisons with Falco, and I loved it. When I visited Julian in hospital in Austria at the start of 2019, I remember … <\/p>\n

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