The Facing Canyons Tour continued.On Tuesday after the concert in Solothurn [read here] Bastian Baker stopped at Bierhubeli Bern. And Robert Francis was again part of it as a support act.
Directly after work I went off to Bern and even I was there only half an hour after doors had opened, I was standing in 2nd row on the side of the sold out Bierhubeli – directly behind friends and acquaintances. So it wasn’t different with the audience than in Solothurn. The location only filled slowely then. And still the Bierhubeli audience was from the beginning a lot more euphoric than the ones the week before in Solothurn. The support act, Robert Francis, who performed again accompained by Martin on the violin, already was welcomed in Bern more turbulent and louder.
The same with Bastian Baker then. Among others it started with this one girl in front row. She hardly could calm down anymore and almost kept screaming her lungs out during the first songs, and felt the need to drawn more attention during the whole concert. Definitively didn’t need the ear plugs for the loud music… Already at the beginning she got Bastian’s attention this way. Just, with her screaming he also only realised late that she didn’t speak German… Bastian and the band seemed as irritated cos of the whole screaming as the audience. One can laugh about at the beginning maybe, but if it goes on during the whole concert… well.
So, the setlist was the same as in Solothurn except of a small part. The band started the show again with “We Are The Ones (#FF)” [Video here]from the new album “Facing Canyons” – accompaigned with the screams. A great song to start the concert – the screaming not that great though. You try to ignore it as much as possible. But what we also noticed already before the concert started: There were little lamps, single bulbs hanging, that haven’t been in Solothurn yet. And they made everything a lot better and nicer. They created wonderful, warm light with them during the concert and I could barley take my eyes off them. Incredibly beautiful! The stories, tellings and comments of Bastian were about the same. Just on this evening he seemed to still top it. A little wilder, a little exaggerated… like the story about the time in Paris when he wrote “Prime”. Of course he jumped into the audience again during “I Want You” and was dancing with the fans. Later he kept running through the backstage on the balcony to visit the audience up there. Of course there was big excitment in the audience then. Also the band loved to mess around a little more in the back.
The setlist looked like this on the evening:
1. We Are The Ones (#FF)
2. Everything We Do
3. Lucky
4. Tomorrow May Not Be Better
5. White Room
6. I Want You
Accoustic:
7. Leaving Tomorrow
8. With You Gone
9. Colorful Hospital
10. Prime
11. Ain’t No Love
12. Planned it All (Piano)
13. Never in Your Town
14. Two Thousand Years
15. Kids Off The Streets
16. Give Me Your Heart
17. Charlie From Sydney
18. Tattoo On My Brain
19. 79 Clinton Street
20. Dirty Thirty
21. I’d Sing For You
It became a bit more quite again with the accoustic set during “Leaving Tomorrow” and “With You Gone” or when Bastian differently to Solothurn played “Give Me Your Heart” additionally, all alone only with his guitare, before they continued with “Charlie From Sydney”. Towards the end the audience turned up properly, didn’t want to let the band go anymore. Everyone kept screaming and cheering. First Bastian and the band were standing there a little speechless, until the audience started to sing the melody of “Seven Nation Army” – and Bastian and the band simply went along [Video here]. What an incredible atmosphere! The concert finally ended with “I’d Sing For You” again.
It was really a great concert! The songs, the atmosphere, everything did fit very well. And the question was then: Can it be topped the upcoming weekend in Zurich at all?
