It certainly is, but that's been done. I do think that touring a new album should have a new album track as the opener for the most part.

What The Water Made Me is a seriously good effort from the band. It stuck in my head from the first listen. I love the drumming on it, you can see from Tico's expression that he's enjoying playing it. Army Of One is also quite refreshing but I'm not sure if it'll have staying power. Only time will tell.

The difference from the BBC show and the German show is like night and day. When Jon is in a bad mood the band suffer immeasurably. People blaming the crowd are off their heads. Jon had a scowl on him from the moment he stepped on stage and didn't acknowledge any of the band.

It's a shame because the BBC show was given a lot of coverage and Jon blew kind of blew it.

This is partly the reason why I'm not too bothered if I don't get a ticket to see them. It's a lottery nowadays whether he can be arsed to give it all at a show and it really shouldn't be when tickets are priced so high.

Yeah. Not too be a bore with the whole Springsteen references but with him you know no matter what he's going to be giving his all. I guess Jon doesn't feel the need to prove anything any more. If he's in a bad mood the show's over.

Is there a good video of Amen from that show?
I can't find one, but it was played right?

Amazing the difference between this and the BBC. Seemingly Jon was just in a foul mood that night. New tracks really do sounds great, excited for the album, I just hope they are recorded to their full potential.

Jon seems much happier here (in Berlin):

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