Apr 28 2006
dEUS at Le Cabaret Sauvage on 25 April 2006
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 via magic hour
