It was some journey to get to Rome in time. After leaving Austria at 1.00am straight after the Festival show, we had almost 1000km to go to get to our final show in Rome by the next afternoon. As luck would have it, a large truck overturned on the highway outside of the city, spilling the cars it was transporting on to the road too. This meant two hours stuck in the van a few hundred kilometres from the venue, and also that we were very late for our soundcheck.Despite this bad start, the show in Rome was a perfect end to the tour, with excellent promotion ensuring a great crowd were in attendance and they were not shy to stand up the front of the stage and go crazy. We barely realised that we played 22 songs!
We visited the Colosseum after the show in the early hours of the morning, taking in the last moments of madness before the tour came to a close. Well, at least the part before the 24 hours on a plane rolled around.
Now we're back home in Melbourne and we thank everyone who came out to see us in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Poland, whether it was for the first or fifth time. Thank you also to those who've followed the blog who were too far away to come to see us play, especially Miguel and Matthias.
We'll continue to post photos and videos from the tour here in the next few weeks, so keep checking back.
Setlist Roma 03.10.09
Memoirs of a Butterfly
Reality is Lost
I Never Wanted You
Condemnation
Subversion
Echoes of Silence
Dreaming
Blue Murder
11 O’clock Tick Tock
Afterlife
Fall Apart
Love, Hate and Sorrow
Without Shadows
All Depths of Despair
Encore One:
Torn Apart
Path of the Unknown
A Line on a Dark Day
Garden of the Lost
Rome
Encore Two:
Stalag 13
Black Roses
Ceremony
Psychic Vampire
no doubt for me is a pleasure to watch for my favorite band and send my best wishes today and always.
ReplyDeleteNice to see that you arrived safely in Melbourne.
ReplyDeleteWith pleasure I followed your Tour-Blog since your first gig after the long flights from Australia in Frankfurt - for you guys probably only one of many shows on this European-Tour - but for me it was great and one of the best shows I`ve seen in recent years ( in addition that I havn´t seen IKON live on stage so far). Another reason is of course that I´m a fan of your music since the days of "In the Shadow of the Angel".
Thanks for making it possible to follow the tour on the net, put in all the stories what happened during the tour, the photos from the shows and especially the setlists ! (I only missed a little bit "Into the Dawn", one of my 12 favourites from the Album of the year 2009 "Love, Hate And Sorrow")....I think it was not so easy updating the blog during your journey across Europe.
Again with greets and respect from Germany
Nice information and valuable post!
ReplyDeleteI really want to appreciate there effort.
Big Thanks and keep writing !
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