Information
Date: May 18, 2002
City: Manchester, England
Author: Gary Roberts
Setlist
- Mein Herz Brennt
- Links 2 3 4
- Sehnsucht
- Feuer Frei
- Rein Raus
- Adios
- Mutter
- Hallelujah
- Zwitter
- Weisses Fleisch
- Asche zu Asche
- Du Hast
- Bück Dich
- Engel
- Rammstein
- Sonne
- Ich Will
- Stripped
Review
To start with Raging Speedhorn sucked live! But American Headcharge were great!! These bands went on for about an hour and a half roughly... but they wern't as good as RAMMS+EIN.
The whole stage was changed for Rammstein, you could see Flake's Keyboard stand thingy, and Christoph's Drums. A huge long pause waiting and waiting then out of nowhere appeared Flake dressed in his white doctors jacket. He stood behind his keyboard staring out on all of us looked down and played the opening to Mein Herz Brennt, and everyone went mad it was amazing. You could hear Till's voice but he was still hid then a huge roar of fireworks and then he appeared.The whole band appeared in their shiny white barred costumes, We all sung with Till during the chorus the it all stopped Till shoot his hand in the air and 'his heart burnt' it looked great!!
Then the marching begun Flake started to march in time to LINKS 2 3 4 the song started absolutely great!! Richard's solo was amazing! Really fast and impressive!! It was one of the best songs preformed that night I thought.
Then the singing for Sehnsucht begun and the whizzing of the green lights against the stage looked great. There was 4 sets of bangs at the start which was really good, and in the break there were pools of fire at the front and fireworks lined in front of Oliver, Christoph and Flake.
The whole tune for Feuer Frei went on for a while then Richard and Paul appeared with the flame-spitting masks and shouted the BANG! BANG! backing. Then it all went quiet Till ran back on stage with a mask and the flames rose into the air. SUPERB!!
Richard and Paul then stood in front of their microphones and shouted REIN and let us shout RAUS back this went on for a while then the song started up. Great lighting effects and Richard's solo was great!! And at the end Christoph's drumsticks exploded!!
Richard then stood in front of the pit and played the opening to Adios which was really amazing the lights were fast and dashing all over the place, Flake was stood in Oliver's section playing a drum that had some water on it i think, the whole song broke up in the middle and it was just Flake and Christoph playing, meanwhile Richard ran offstage and back on and his guitar shot out flames thick and fast during his solo!!!
The whole thearte went dark and then two lights shone on Till sucking his thumb then the sweet symphony started for mutter nothing much happened in this song but the lighting effects were really cool.
Then Richard and Paul stood peering over the audience and played the guitar riff to Hallelujah this was superb live i didnt think it could get better i love the break in the middle where it goes guitar, piano and so on and Flake just played any old keys but it was superb 1 of my favourite songs!
A bit of a break swapping guitars and stuff then Paul walked back on and stood lurched over the pit and started the Zwitter riff, Richard speaking Zwitter with Till,and at the end everyone except Christoph came to the front and headbanged!!!!!!!!
Flake's little keyboard light shone on him and you could see him taking off his jacket he then turned round and played the keyboard opening to Weisses Fleisch, the Till ran on with his feet alight with his boot fireworks which was brilliant, Paul and Richard shouting FLEISCH was a bit scary(very loud) and Richards solo sounded rad.Then Christoph done his drumming solo thing and then the whole lights went mad spinning, flashing, while Flake done his infamous dance which more funny than impressive but it looked more choreographed which was great.
Then the flashing of the red lights gave away the next song Paul ran on and played Asche Zu Asche the he was joined by Richard and this was my most favourite song live Richard's voice was booming round the whole thearte on the 'ich komm weider' part, Oliver then played his part taking breaks raising his arm and making us all shout ,then it all started back up with the flaming microphones!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!
Then Flake played the very fast opening to Du Hast, everyone was either screaming or shouting 'DU, DU HAST, DU HAST MICH!! The break in middle was great because Till had these fireworks that shot over the pit which was amazing to see.
Then there was a 2 minute break while we watched Flake sit on his section while stripping down to his shorts and then started to put on his bondage kit. Then a stage-hand came on with a box and placed it in the centre of the stage. the song started up and Till ran on chasing and ordering Flake around like a dog seeing Flake run round was funny, Till then reached into his trousers slapped Flakes arse and pulled out the dildo and spewed himself onto Flake, and when he had finished with Flake he spurted all over the front of the pit.
The two micrphones were then light after a long pause and Paul and Richard began whistling for Engel.The best thing about this song were the flamethrowers at the side which spurted now and then just missing Till. Richard at the end of the song pushed his microphone down, which kind of symbolised the end they all go up and bowed and walked off stage.
The whole of the thearte was chanting 'RAMMSTEIN RAMMSTEIN!!' for a good 4-5 minutes and began to give up hope then Flake walked back on and leered over his keyboard and began to play the opening to RAMMSTEIN!
Till walked on with the laser and the metal jacket (not lit) then his jacket exploded in flames and he began to sing, the solo was great near the end of the solo both guitarists hammered on and shook there hands at the audience.
Christoph began to play the drums to Sonne the Flake played keyboard then the fireworks blew up and the guitar riffs started up.During the chorus when Richard and Paul shouted 'EINS' and so on the were a set of flamethrowers at the back that rose in to the air. A great song Live!
Closing near to the end Richard and Paul started to chant ICH WILL and of course we all joined in,this was really good live Richard acted a bit during,'KONNT IHR MICH HOREN?' he raised his hands to his ears, 'KONNT IHR MICH SEHEN?' he pointed to his eyes,'KONNT IHR MICH FUHLEN?' he rubbed his chest and the then shook his head for the 'ICH VERSTEH EUCH NICHT!!and at the end to finish the loudest bang ever!!
Then Till's voice began to speak to the music for Stripped, then the fireworks at the front of the stage shot into the air and the guitars roared, then the whole song stopped all was playing was the backing music while the rubber dingy came out and Oliver ran and jumped into it and sailed round the whole of the pit, then as Oliver was coming near Richard played a solo,Oliver jumped out and took a bow, they all then finished the song.
Oliver was the first to bow and walk off stage, then Till said 'ZANK YOU VERY MUCH' in a very deep german accent,Paul then bowed and walked off clapping while walking,Richard the bowed and ran from one side to the other clapping then bowed again and walked off, Christoph was still drumming away he then smashed the symbols and walked to the front chucked his drumsticks into the pit and bowed, everyone then kept their eyes on Flake who was playing some random melody he the finished looked at everyone and bowed the jumped off and walked off.
It was a great night and the best time of my life i wont forget it in a hurry!!