Astra, Berlin, Germany, June 22nd.

A report from Astra in Berlin last night:

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Yesterday night I went to the show of Gaslight Anthem in Berlin, Astra
Kulturhaus, a very small venue for about 2000 people. When the show
started, the guys came up on stage, and Clarence's Jungleland-solo was
played in his entire length. A very good start of the show, I was happy
at that point, but later there was more.

After playing some fast songs Fallon took a few minutes and talked about
all the people he met in the past years, and after mentioning people
like Eddie Vedder he also talked about Bruce: "But the cooles of all is
Bruce Springsteen. (...) And Bruce told me, he said it three times, you
should always stick to Europe. Because if you're doing a record that's
not that great - those people will like it! (...) And at the moment,
there's very much sadness about the passing of clarence, and so the next
song is for him, this song is for Clarence Clemons!" And then they
started a at first very slow and then very powerful version of "Meet me
by the River's Edge" with the verse "No Surrender my Bobby Jean" in it, a
very, very good song to remember the Big Man.

A great 113-minutes night, for Bruce-fans and TGA-fans either. That
night really helped to fight the pain and the sadness. Thank you guys of
TGA, you really knew, what's the right thing to do and to say right
now.


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Setlist:

High Lonesome
The Diamond Church Street Choir
Old White Lincoln
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Casanova Baby!
The '59 Sound
Bring It On
Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
Wooderson
Miles Davies & The Cool
Film Noir
Meet Me By The River's Edge
Say I Won't (Recognize) (w/ House of the Rising Son snippet)
Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
Senñor & The Queen
Angry Johnny And The Radio
Here's Looking At You, Kid
The Backseat

Biloxi Parish
We Came To Dance
American Slang
The Queen Of Lower Chelsea
The Navesink Banks
Great Expectations

Looks like a pretty damn good set to me. Nice to play the whole Jungleland saxsolo at the start and then do River's Edge for Bruce and Clarence.
Encore seems pretty smoking too, with Navesink Banks and Great Expectations to close with. Hope we get a boot from this!

It was a great night. I was talking to Benny afterwards and he said it was the best show they've played on the tour so far.

I swear Brian said something about how if somebody made a bootleg, it should be called A Hot Night in Berlin, hah.

Well, in that case, I'm downloading 'A Hot Night in Berlin' from Dime as we speak...

chickenman wrote:

A report from Astra in Berlin last night:

thank you so much for this long gig report and the set list; it's always good to hear a fan's experience of the night; the stuff about Clarence is touching

Thanks for the report! Awesome setlist! Navesink, Say I Won't ... and seeing that they played Casanova AND Biloxi makes me hope to actually hear both songs in Hannover

I found this video of Blue Jeans in Berlin on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJnUxL5g7M&feature=feedlik Enjoy!

I´m still in Berlin and couldn´t upload some pictures. They will follow on the weekend, when I am back home.

Concert was really great. Surprisingly, not so many 'American Slang'-songs.But no reason for complaining, because the setlist was even perfect for this evening. They changed 'Biloxi Parish' a little bit.

is there anyone who can upload this on mp3. i do not have a dime access

Well...my third Gaslight concert and it was just wonderful..almost perfect.
A beautiful summer night with rain, a magnificent setlist, the moving words from Brian about Clarence, a place in the first/second row, a great crowd, stunning sound (When they played "Here's looking at you, kid" I really had the feeling I'm alone with the band..it was so emotional ...) Big Thanks again to Ian who was so superfriendly and searched after the setlist under that big boomboxes! So I have a new setlist for my "Gaslight wall" at home. [:
I even loved that tropical climate in the venue with temperatures at 8000°C or so...
And yeah that new biloxi parish version was pretty sweet. As far as I remember they played that song with intro, first verse, chorus, guitar solo, then a (new) bridge part where they increased the speed of the song a lil bit and in the end the chorus again. Sounded pretty ace. Hope that version will make it on their next record. (:

And thank you for finding the "Blue Jeans" video, Manu. It immediately gives me shivers again. (:

Finally, I´ve uploaded some pictures. For more pictures visit: www.gaslightanthem-fans.de

Good post, thanks you!)