Some quotes from the stage during the concert. I cribbed these from the Live CD I purchased at the event, so I missed the openning bit of dialogue and a couple other bits where Blixa talks about how the LiveCDs are probably over-priced and general touring stuff. I used these pieces in the concert review I wrote up; I’ll link to that when it’s posted.

On playing a song from many years ago, where he is interrupted by audience member about footwear:

“…21 years ago, we have recorded a piece of music that was based on a recording of my heart beat and as it was my condition at the time, I managed to squeeze in about double the amount of heartbeats in 24 hours than a normal person. I forgot my sandals? I haven’t got any sandals… Anyway, that kind of makes this an up-tempo song so we have not really played this ever since we recorded it, so we just started doing this on this tour…”

They were taking a bit long to setup the stage for the next piece, moving pipes, etc, so Blixa gave a short history on the song and on hassles they encountered with record company Some Bizarre:

“…Yes it’s a complicated band with complicated ideas. Well, this piece on the new album is called Grundstück [...] When we first attempted this one, we suddenly received a fax from our ex-record company who was threatening us – to sue us again. I’m talking about Some Bizarre that we have signed to in 1982 or 83. They have ripped us off, they have ripped everybody off. They never paid us in [...] 21 years [...] we just decided that okay, we are working on this floor piece, why not turn that into a hex?”

On technical difficulties:

“I’m sorry to say that something with the recording went wrong. For that reason, we are in fact continuing to record now what is going on. Well, you know we’re not Clear Channel.

We’re just ourselves, we’re human and things go wrong with what we do, and we make the wrong going of what we do usually part of the concept (concert?) but I’m sorry, if the recording for us went wrong, that means simply that there is no recording; not for us, and not for you.

Normally we would not record the show to the end in order to multiplicate it, and now we are recording the show to the very end so that you have something that is long enough and worth the money.”

Interesting interview from the Silence Is Sexy album release a couple years back: http://www.goethe.de/uk/saf/radiogoethe/inblixa.htm