Oh and also Saturday night's London gig was fantastic, the sound and performances were incredible from all three bands.
In terms of Haken's set, I loved the first hour as it was exciting to hear the Vector songs and they're really great live, and then FBTE and 1985 are among my favourite Haken songs. Bit less exciting after than, Architect is a lower-ranked song for me although some of it is amazing live, and Crystallised similarly has some great bits and pretty meh bits and I always find it slightly underwhelming live personally. And then we got treated to their cover of Africa with a few people from VOLA and Bent Knee (plus some crew) joining them. It was a very cool note to end the tour on.
I saw them the night before in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands and it was amazing. Both Bent Knee and VOLA were awesome and Haken was probably at their best out of all the gigs I've seen from them. Nil by Mouth was somehow really good live, but I still think Veil is a weak song (sorry). The setlist was really good, with all the hard-hitting metal-ish songs from them, which really made me question the Encores. I already think Crystallised is about their worst song, but to hear it
after the onslaught that was the main set was a real let-down for me. The Africa cover that came afterwards was really unnecessary, I thought. All in all though, I had a fantastic evening with lots of friends and great music.
Oh, and the Doctor Hit Me One More Time mash-up performed live was really funny, indeed
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