I was not going there. It could not be good. A children's choir was announced. Just imagine a choir accompany Caroline Says little "doo doo" and other "whoo whoo" should be enough to discourage the most avid fan. "I only do this Every Thirty Years. One time, one time only. You Can Tell your kids you saw Lou Reed's Berlin . "He wrote with his arrogance so characteristic in the press release announcing European tour. This statement would have to persuade me once and for all not to go. In addition, the capitalist has set ticket prices between 40 € and 80 €. Obviously I do not go! Then yesterday, thinking back to that concert I realized that Lou was right. Cunt. He would play Berlin in its entirety at 15 minutes from my house and needed me to be there, was only to be able to tell my kids. We will attempt to find excuses, Julian Schnabel was the staging, her daughter has incredible projection, if it is the bus of the choir will have a flat tire tire ... And shit. I go there. I decided to give fate one last chance to stop me going there on my way to National Forest armed with a single € 20 note. After 15 minutes of waiting fans desperate to sell me a heart-cons up to 80 € in the pit for this one blue ticket. I can not turn back. I enter the room that stinks already hamburger, misses the booth of T-Shirt € 30, avoids the opener and found my place. Perfect atmosphere for a Rock 'N Roll Animal. The seats are numbered the couple from whom I bought the place not long join me. Embarrassed smiles. The room is busy but not full house and a stream of images are projected onto a large white sheet behind all the instruments. It looks more sober than expected eventually. Lou Reed is perhaps not yet completely megalomaniac. The lights are extinguished and the white sheet is removed to make room decor consists of draperies with bourgeois 18th century before they what appears to be a couch hung vertically. The choir of 15 girls is definitely there, dressed for church, accompanied by a small orchestra of eight strings and brass in turquoise tuxedo. While the subtlety Lou.
The introduction of Berlin ("Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit" followed by "Happy Birthday") sounds as the musicians find their marks. The chorus kicks in and then surprise, she is not too invasive. She subtly accompanies the pieces. Berlin, Lady Day and Men of Good Fortune melodic pass in a flash. Caroline Says happens, the choir sits down, we do hear more to The Bed and Lou really in between her concert. The result is magnificent. We all know the songs and these repetitions do not live to fade before the recordings. My neighbor is obviously not the same view he chose this moment to leave definitely the concert. An amateur Lo-Fi surely. The quartet's final in Berlin, Caroline Says II, the Kids, The Bed and Sad Song now close an beauty. Lou was again because the choir is quite a place in this show. For the staging of Julian Schnabel cons it will go through. Apart from choosing the location of musicians, the decor and color of the T-Shirt Lou maybe we can not say that he has trodden. The concert could not be more static. The projections are also Schnabel Jr. quickly shelved. We prefer to do him all the tricks which were partly used as a pretext for coming to our focus on music. These 50 minutes had anything to displease. Cher, pompous, selfish, opportunist, etc.. I think many would have liked to say they did not like. Only now, Lou Reed is doing very well.
Berlin ends, the band left the stage to return a few minutes later with a trilogy of "crowd pleasers". Lou Reed sticks to its concept, it would have been frowned Resort a darkness from The Raven at this time. He drops Sweet Jane, Satellite of Love and Walk on the Wild Side. The public rejoices but it's less successful than the first part. Lou is content to sing the words "Sweet Jane ..." and let her do the rest singer. Satellite of Love accompanied by a choir reached as you can imagine the heights of kitsch. Lou smiled throughout the song and likes to play the conductor before his five young daughters. Walk on the Wild Side closing concert very agreed but nothing in the world would be left without ... I thought he was going back to Perfect Day as we went but it was obviously too much.
And all the girls said: doo doo doo ...
We know them all but it never does any harm ...
Lou Reed - Caroline Says II
Lou Reed - The Kids
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