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On Tuesday, I went to see dEUS at Le Cabaret Sauvage.

It was my first time at the Cabaret Sauvage. It is a great venue: small, and cool looking. It feels really special.

The show itself was great. I was somewhat disappointed when I went to see their private concert at the Grand Rex back in November, but I think that I understand better why. While the Grand Rex is not a very large venue, when only 100 people are in it, it’s hard to really get into the songs. Also, the show wasn’t very long, so it did not feel complete.

Anyway, at the Cabaret Sauvage, the venue was packed, the concert lasted 2 hours, the setlist was not truncated, and it was great. I assume that the band had as much of a good time as the audience did, as they came back on stage for 2 songs after their first encore, while the instruments were unplugged, the amps turned off, and the lights turned back on. It was pretty funny to see Tom Barman saying Merde ! Merde ! repeatedly as he was failing to tune his guitar when he came back.

The new guy on the guitar, Mauro Pawlowski, is growing on me. Yes, he is not very demonstrative on stage, but he plays well, and his way to deal with song requests while Tom Barman was tuning his guitar was pretty funny, answering each request with a straight face saying Yes, That one too, etc.

A couple of times, I saw Tom Barman somewhat upset with Stéphane Misseghers on the drums, as if he had not done the right thing. It was a little weird.

The one negative point of the evening was that the bass coming from the speakers was way too loud. It hurt some songs in my opinion, by covering over instruments in quiet moments and saturating.

Here’s the setlist, from mickygogo:

bad timing
stop start nature
nightshopping
instant street
fell on the floor man
real sugar
worst case scenario
sun rah
turnpike
nothing really ends
put the freaks up front
little arithmetics
what we talk about
roses
suds soda

pocket revolution
iydgwyw

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