Berlin VP Pics
It looks like Mikey beat me to it but I thought I'd add a couple of my own thoughts about the Berlin Vox Pop experience.
I think we'd be very able to say that the Berlin run exceeded everyone's expectations. Initially we were worried about attendance numbers but in the end the attendances were fantastic. 1000's came out to see the show and we loved playing in the Schiller Theatre.
Kudos definitely should go to the publicity team at Semmel and Backrow who did the most fantastic job in promoting the show. There were posters all over Berlin, including this one from the underground.It was very exciting to travel on the busses and U-bahn's of Berlin and see our posters everywhere...and we mean everywhere!
Thank you to everyone too at the Schiller who were great to work with.
Now to three weeks of serious relaxing and catching up with friends who thought we all moved to Abu Dabi or places further afield...yes we do still exist!!
I leave with a picture of the band just after a show...and yes we are all wearing our makeup still...we kind of liked it!
Nic
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posted by NicMagnet @ 5:10 PM
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whoopee im first to comment!
Finally! Some pictures from your show! Glad to see you guys looking great and of course, the success of your show in Berlin!
Looking forward to more great news from you guys.
Rest well and do update the site! eagerly waiting for it.
after all, its one of the few things we poor fans in far away singapore have to keep us updated bout The Magnets!!
Hello all together :)
Good to read, that you came back home safety..., we also come back home safety (we were the girls driving from hamburg
to berlin just to see you (and back in the same night)....remember?! :)
sitting with you in the restaurant later....yes Andy, we have made a "Pause"
:)....
Just want to thank you again for an great evening !
It was a wonderful evening and the show was really great!!
James, hope you get well soon.. wear the scarf! ;) (sorry for beeing like a
mother again *lol*)...
Derek: so sad, that the car came, I could haved watched you dancing the
whole night !!!
All of you, please come back soon !! We will throw roses again just for you
(the next time, i will practice throwing before ;)...
Hope to hear from you soon !!!
Lots of Love,
Nica
PS: hope you liked the cd...
Glad you all got back ok!
(I'm also glad that I wasnt the only person to take pix of Vox Pop posters on the tube! hehehe! Infact when me and Nina were in Berlin the most over used phrase of the week from us was 'oooh there's a poster!')
Hope the Rotterdam dates are uploaded soon (Andy told me them but I forgot!) am sat here ready to book flights and all!
Cat
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(Oooooh I had a blast from the past yesterday, I went to a gig at the Manchester apollo, which was the venue of my 1st gig seing The Magnets....in 2001!)
Hellooooooo!
Hope you had a nice easter and I am glad to hear the shows going well.
Fi xx
Much enjoyed your show (apart from the laboured heavymetal start..). But I do wish you had spared your voices a little more for those of us hearing you at the end of the Berlin run (Saturday evening, in our case)
You do realise that your VoxPop posters were the opposite of cool or sophistication, and one look into the audience probably revealed to you that the audience self-selected accordingly. Is this really how you want to position yourself? I had to do a lot of persuading to get someone to watch the show with me.
You are such gifted musicians, but it felt like you were throwing "Perlen vor die Saeue". If you target the younger more international crowd, they will even understand your jokes in English...:-)
A.
Dear A,
Thanks for the comments about the poster and the audience.
Sadly The Magnets don't have much say in the publicity pictures and often have to cowtow to producers who say they know "best"...hmmmm.
For the next run hope to have different posters which reflect more of what you get in the show.
As for the voices, it wasn't a matter of saving them, more a matter of three of the cast having bronchitis. Nothing we can do about that I'm afraid. It was the first time we've suffered in 7 years of touring and just one of those things.
And maybe if you add your address when you make critical comments we can enter into proper dialogue..:-)
Nic Magnet
Dear A.
Yes, some of them were ill, we also can hear it...most of all it was James, I think..
I know, that normaly he has a wonderful wonderful and strong voice (We saw the show 2 times in Hamburg before).
But I also think - don´t know why - but the sound wasn´t good. We were sitting in the second range and when Derek and Nic sing "50 Ways to leave your lover", it was really difficult to understand Nic :(
But I´m sure, next time you don´t have to persuading such long time somebody to come with you ;), because they are great!
Greetings,
Nica :o)
A....Don't take this the wrong way but the heavy metal start was kind of important to the 1st half of the show. (but I'm baised...as well as being a huge fan of The Magnets, I'm also a heavy metal kid, so I found to very funny in an embarrassing type of way...they look like rockers too well!)
Also about the 'saving' their voices, how? They had just done a month in Hamburg, so it would have been hard for their voices not to be worn out...its just a pitty 3 of them were also ill (hopefully they are all ok now!).
Nica...The sound was ok when I was there, I was in the 19th (ick!) row for 2 of the nights and I could hear Nic in '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover', but he was also ill (I think) when I was there so his voice might just have been ickky!
Right I'll just stop now (sorry if I seem like I'm having a go at either of you!)
Cat
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CDs, RECORDS, TAPES !!!!
hey!!
i just wanted to say that it was a real pleasure to work for u at the schiller theatre :-) !! it's pretty boring here without u sexy guys on stage and i can tell u: everyone who works at the theatre really misses u (uähhh... :-(...!!!). espacially adam and i, cause we have nothing to sell now...and besides: i realliced that i didn't buy a cd or dvd myself..!!!
...so..sorry guys: u have to come back as soon as possible to sign me one =)!!
thanx that i was allowed to watch u while u had ur soundchecks ! it was pretty interessting!
and thanx for the nice time we spent in this bar after the very last show on sunday,16 (espacially Derek+Andy :-) )
really hope u'll come back to our theatre oneday (maybe just 4 saying "HI" , maybe 4 being on stage with another sexy performance - who knows :-)..?!)
really, really miss u and hope to stay in contact!
and Derek - don't say: "Ich Liebe Dich" to other girls in the front row... ;-)).. otherwise i will become real jealous..still have our "flying teddy" ?? really hope so..and andy honey - still waiting 4 my sexy suit-photo ;-)
..ey guys i really enjoyed the time with u..
i'll allways keep u in mind and wish u all the best 4 the future !!!
BIG HUG + BIG KISS
Nina
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