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Date: June 13, 2002
City: Hultsfred, Sweden
Festival: Hultsfred
Author: SwedishEngel
Review
Everywhere at the festival you heard people saying "When R+ plays I´m gonna be in the first row," so I was there about an hour before they started. Pretty early in a festival! And pretty WET. It was raining.
I stood in the second row in the middle. That lasted for two songs, then I almost fainted because of the HUGE pressure! I moved a bit to the rigth so I still stood very close, but a bit on the side. If not my brother and his friends were there with me and helped me I could not have been able to move at all!! It was SO packed! After I moved I had 2 big guys taking care of me, one of them a UN-soldier and the other one just as good at that job as him! Thank you Sebastian and Alexander.
My brother (the boxer) could take the pressure and stood in the first row the whole concert! He said they lifted at least 5 people that had fainted over his head. I saw them carrying away people ALL the time! I hope all of them is allright.
Well - To the show!
They started with "Mein Herz Brennt", "Links234", "Sensucht" and then I'm not sure about in what order they played the songs. (I was almost out of breath) But they played the same songs as they used to, I assume. "Büch Dich," "Mutter," "Adios," "Zwitter," "Asche zu Asche," "Engel," "Du Hast," "Weisses Fleissch," "Rein Raus." I could have missed some songs. I didn´t exactly have the opportunity to write anything down. As extras they did "Rammstein," "Sonne," and finally "Ich Will".
Richard looked really happy the whole show and smiled a lot! I think I got some really good photos of him! I will show you later! Paul was a performer and was really fun to watch! Christoph I could not see so good but he smiled VERY big when they thanked the audience at the end of the show, so I think he was happy. Flake was dressed in the coat and one of my friends think he is the coolest person alive after this show! He did his dance and acted as usual! Really cool! Ollie stod in the back almost the whole show, but at one occasion he got in the front and kicked ass.
But as you all probably have guessed my primary subject to watch was Till! He did it all as usual! Sucked his thumb, threw water at the audience, shocked a lot of people during "Büch Dich," played with fire and so on......... You know! After the show Till said with his adorable accent... "And now Hultsfred. Get ready for the Chemical Brothers" (They played after R+ at that stage).
They all looked as they thougth it was a fun concert as far as I could tell, but what do I know? At least it was the most "talked about" concert afterwards! EVERYBODY talked about it and the day after the concert you saw MANY people walking aroud in the t-shirts they sold!
I thougth it was an AWESOME concert and I was SOO damn happy afterwards. So were my protectors and my brother! Everybody was impressed (Except the critics, of course. The don´t like R+).
Well, that´s about it for now! I´m really looking forward to Roskilde, but that concert I will enjoy a bit further back, I think!