Negative 08.12. 2009 Hamburg Marx + 09.12.2009 Hannover Musikzentrum
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Frances Amelie Sin



It is not the big hysterie anymore around the 5 finns from Negative. After the leaving of Sir Christus last year and the short guest role of Tuomas Keskinen alias Gary for just one festival gig in Germany and some gigs in Finnland the guys decided to go on with just one guitarist as a five piece. Well I was wondering if that means a big change in their sound.
In fact I first was a bit surprised by something else when I entered the mini- venue they booked in Hamburg. It was not half that big as it was supposed to be for such a band, but there were not too many people, everybody fitted in perfectly. Does that mean they lost a lot of fans, well actually they did, but it seemed to me they reached now an older audience, more aduld, except for the 20 girls in the first rows that are still the same as usual. There where also a lot of guys around...as I said: less hysterie!

Substyle did their part of supporting and it was not too bad. The girl on the drums catched my eyes, she seemed very concentrated and not so used to this but she was pretty cool and a special piece of the band. Or maybe the most special thing was the guy with the accordion...



Negative started playing with an acoustic performance of My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)- Jonne came on stage at first, alone and played guitar and it was a unexpected athmospheric opening for a NGT gig. But nice, I have to say.
The songs they played where a good mixture of old and new ones  but it was particulary "An Ornament" that bored me to death, they have definitley better ballads than this new one. "Motherfucker Of The Year" was a muddy lingering sound to the kicked-out guitarist as it seemed and my personal highlight was the guitar-solo of Lauri of "Angel's Won't Lie" that passed over to "Until You're Mine"! I cannot say that the sound changed so much and as much as it did it was not to their disadvantage.



For I am not very familiar to the new songs I could only enjoy some old classics, but yes, I did. It's not that I need to listen to this band at home more than once but they are a damn good liveband- much better than the studio stuff you can buy-  and the performance is eye-catching. If you are concert-addicted you shoulda go and see them!



The next day started with the Interview you can read here: click  

It was kinda eased and Jonne was obviously in a very good mood. Whatever it was it was very kind.
We waited for the entrance and for there is no photographer's pit we chose a place on the right side in front of the stage. The venue was a bit bigger than in Hamburg and it was good filled with enthusiastic people, still a lot of older guys between the inevitably girls of younger age. The crowd was also much louder and when Substyle started playing there was a bit concert-tuning in me.



The Hannover-show of Negative was a bit more powerful as the show in Hamburg but not better or worse, just a bit different cause of the audience!  I guess the Setlist was the same. You can see it below!
It was nice to see another gig of these guys and to see that the problems did not overrun them so bad. It was not that I missed a second guitar or the nerving girls that stayed away because even this guitarist was not on stage.

Set-list NGT/ Hannover
My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
A Devil on My Shoulder
In My Heaven
Lust N' Needs
The Moment of Our Love
Sealed
Giving Up!
An Ornament
Naïve
Frozen To Lose It All
Motherfucker (Just Like You)
Planet of the Sun
One Last Shot
Angels Won´t Lie (instrumental)
Until You're Mine
Won't Let Go



Thanks to: Jonne and Lauri, Negative, Kari and Marco Linke from cmm

All pictures I made from both gigs are in the gallery!