Bad Religion Deel 2 voor =HellFire=

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Op zaterdag 8 mei 2004 19:09 schreef =HellFire= het volgende:
Skip die examens!

Ga voor de herkansing!

Doe ik ook altijd!!!!!!

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The set list in Stockholm, Sweden on May 7 was pretty much the same as the one in Finland on May 6 except that they didn’t played Sanity. They played The Defense instead.

Greg Graffin was joking and said “Say the word for sugar cake in Swedish. Suck-a-cook!” The word for sugar cake in Swedish sounds pretty much like “suck a cook” if you’re from USA.

Overall it was a really great show. It looked like Greg Graffin and Jay Bentley really liked to be on stage again.


Below is a review from the Swedish newspaper Expressen

The poppunkers challenge - and succeed
Surely you can see it as an impossible mission.
If you think about that BR on their 12 studio albums until today has released not less than 169 songs, it's impossible not to remove a lot of classics.
But that the combo would go this far, I never thought.
No When?, You, The answer, Struck a nerve, Stranger than fiction, Cease, Modern man or even Hear it.

Instead the respectable gentlemen plays not less than seven songs from PoB, and smashes five songs from the upcoming ESF.
Those who like the poppunk archetypes primarily for the early albums have all rights to feel a bit cheated, but since this is my sixth concert with the band I can't do anything else but applause their courage.

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Put the guy in front of a class
Bad religion
Before their retirement my parents were teachers. To go the same way as they did has never been something I wanted to, until tonight when I see the person every modern academic should look up to.

Greg Graffin, the singer of BR, points and screams and has the expression that says "now listen to what I have to tell you". Put a desk on the stage and the guy would jump upon it and give a lecture.

From an intellectual perspective he's a bit too clear - talk about taking everything out of the joke that sugar cake "becomes" sucker cock in English - but no one seems to care. The punk gentlemen still amazingly attracts, to judge from the raise of hands, mostly new fans. The choice of songs is nearly perfect and BR makes its most engaged concert in Sweden for long. The educated can still teach the kids a lot.

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Op zondag 9 mei 2004 11:44 schreef =HellFire= het volgende:
Funny... veel nieuwe nummers (geen nummers voor 2002 dus

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This was written by Grillo on the Message Board.

I went to Lund by car at 3pm, and met some guys from the Stockholm show as arranged. We ate a bit at Burger king and went to their place to unload their stuff. Then we went to the arena (Mejeriet) at about 6-6.30. The first support started playing at 7.15 and they actually sucked pretty bad... The second supports started 8.30 and were a bit better.

At 10 BR entered the stage! I can't remember the exact set list, but they started with Fuck Armageddon, and went on to Supersonic. They played about the same songs with one BIG exception! SKYSCRAPER!!!

Let me tell you about this!!!

In the middle of the show Jay started playing a song by himself with the bass which he claimed was Skyscraper (so people say, I didn't hear him say it), and he told everyone to sing. No one did, so he said something about bass being the least needed instrument ever. Later, at some other quiet pause, everyone started screaming for Skyscraper, really high! We even started singing "Build me up, tear me down, like a skyscraper. Build me up and tear down these joining walls. So they can't climb at all. Build me uuuup" like a fucking choir, fucking amazing!

Greg said something like "I don't understand Swedish, sorry", we continued to scream. Greg H said something to Greg and Greg G said "Aaah, Generator" and he started saying Generator nad we kept on with Skyscraper. They begun playing Generator, but we screamed on for Skyscraper after every song.

At last when they got back for the extra songs, they started with Along the way, then they did Skyscraper! I've never heard a crowd sing so high! And after that they ended with American Jesus, fucking brilliant!

After the show we went to the back to see the band, and first we met Brooks standing behind the tour bus, and spoke quickly to him and got our stuff signed. A while later, Greg came out. My friend got his Infected EP signed twice, on the back Greg wrote "Hi Chris, Greg Graffin". I said "Thanks for Skyscraper" when it was my turn, and he just said "No, no, you mean Generator" for a good laugh. Also, someone asked why they didn't play Anxiety, and he just said that they have so many songs (he stated over 200), and that it would take four days to play them all, we just said "We have time for it".

And I didn't ask about ITU... Fuck me.

It's amazing that I've actually met Greg G twice in three days though! Now I can die in peace!

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2004 20:50 schreef Kiff het volgende:
Dames & Heren, appels en peren. In de Volkskrant van vandaag (bijlagegedeelte) zit een groot artikel over Bad Religion, met interviewgedeeltes met Greg en Brett.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2004 20:50 schreef Kiff het volgende:
Dames & Heren, appels en peren. In de Volkskrant van vandaag (bijlagegedeelte) zit een groot artikel over Bad Religion, met interviewgedeeltes met Greg en Brett.