MiND2MODE well and truly rocked hard on Saturday night with a headlining appearance at the NRW Tag Festival, Germany.
A performance by Germany’s pop idol winner Thomas Godoj had the crowd in good spirits and at 9:30pm M2M took to the stage to a rapturous reception as ‘Waterfront’ boomed across the plaza in front of the train station to a capacity crowd in the thousands.
The set was:
Intro
- WATERFRONT
- SANCTIFY YOURSELF
- BELFAST CHILD
- DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
- ALIVE AND KICKING
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- I FEEL YOU
- WALKING IN MY SHOES
- PRECIOUS
- PERSONAL JESUS
- IT’S NO GOOD
- ENJOY THE SILENCE
- NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN
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- VERTIGO
- ELEVATION
- BEAUTIFUL DAY
- ONE
- NEW YEARS DAY
- I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR / STAND BY ME
- MLK
- WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
- WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
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- JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH / REGGAE MEDLEY
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The 2 hour set witnessed the band at the top of their game and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house following ‘MLK’ - dedicated to Michael Jackson.
Video has been recorded of both this show and the previous week’s performance in Kiel. Some footage is expected to be uploaded soon.
In the meantime, some pictures can be found in the Scrapbook Gallery.
On a lighter note, the English member’s continued ineptitude with media communications continued as Steve appeared on the radio. Having suffering the embarrassment of being physically hoisted onto the flat bed stage due to his trousers being too tight, Steve was briefed to keep his responses short.
Presenter: “So Steve, are you looking forward to tonight’s show?”
Steve: “Yes.”
Pause!
Presenter: “……errr, well thank you Steve, now back to the Studio!”
In all, it was an amazing weekend finding the band in great spirits which reflected in an outstanding performance. The band would like to thank the crowd for a phenomenal reception and are now looking forward to this weekend’s shows in Germany and Holland.
M2M
PS – Simon would like to apologise to the Stewardess from Easyjet for calling her “a bitch” when she wouldn’t let him board the aircraft! He got home – eventually!