Van Der Graaf Generator

This must have been the last show I saw this summer. It would have been easily the best, but apparently, the Montreal Jazz Festival is not quite clear how important that band is (or had not foreseen the amount of standing ovations the band's music would cause), so they had scheduled another gig at that same venue the same night. Which means that VdGG had to leave, most reluctantly, it seemed to me, after playing about an hour and fifteen minutes. Huge disappointment. I am really not proud of the Festival for that one.

In any case, these guys must be telepathic, because communicating tempo changes and silences lenght that well is pure magic. That was musicianship at its greatest levels. They played Interference Patterns, (In the) Black Room, All That Before, Childlike Faith in Childhood's End, Over the Hill, Man-Erg (incidentally, the guy sitting next to me was sobbing by that point, which, although it annoyed me greatly at that time, at least shows the amount of emotions the band managed to transmit the audience) and encored with The Sleepwalkers.

And the strenght of Peter Hammill's voice was purely ecstasy inducing.

TOO SHORT!

I totally should have gone and seen them in Quebec City.