JUNE 29th - Muffathalle, München DE

I'm really excited to leave for Munich. According to my routeplanner the trip would take about 8 hours from Belgium. So packed with croissants and two bottles of water my girl and I leave for the Muffathalle in the far and unknown Germany. First we drove to reserve a place at a hotel somewhere inbetween Munich and Amsterdam, to stay after the Muffathalle gig, so Mannheim it became. It took us 4 hours to go to Mannheim and after driving on the wrong road for 30 min. we finally got to the hotel and booked our room. 5 min later we were on the way again for Munich, getting more exciting to get there every minute. (not only to see the show, but also just to get there, cause the driving took ages!) After again 4 hours we reached Munich... Next thing to do: Find the Muffathalle...this didn't seem so obvious cause I thing we saw the whole town asking people where it was, until a nice waitress got a map of Munich and told us the right way to go. Finally we got there!! And I must say I was really impressed by the surroundings. I thought Munich was a rather dirty town, but man the place near the Muffathalle looked awesome: A river with a small beach, a lovely park, great atmosphere!! The sun was shining, it was about 28 degrees, it simply was a great day!

After walking around a bit we decided to eat at the venues cafee. After a few minuted Radio, Dave, Manas and Carl followed by Michael came up after soundchecking and they ate at the same place as us. We had a short chat with Radio and Michael, and well I must say, the long drive was forgotten immediately!!

Not so many people seemed to come and see the show, cause the venue only sold 65 tickets at presale, but when the band started at 10.30 PM there were about 200 people there, even on a Sunday eve!! The show was amazing, really intense and energetic. I really liked Michael doing 'Feelin' free' solo. He turned off his guitar and stepped away from the microphone, singing the song completely 'acoustic'. It was lovely, you could hear a mouse walking in the venue during the song. Radio's beatboxing was amazing again. He did a great beatbox playing panflute and a harmonica at the same time!! WICKED! Another funny thing was Michael introducing 'Bomb the world' in German: 'Ich glaube wir solten keinen Krieg gegen den Terrorismus führen. Ich glaube wir solten einen Krieg gegen den Militair führen.' (As I'm not a native German speaker there might be some misstakes in my text :-)) For those who don't understand a word of German, it means something like: I don't believe we shold have a war against terorrism. We should be engaging in a war against militarism.      

The band looked in a great shape! Playing concentrated and intense and in the meantime they looked like they were having a lot of fun on stage. Another song I loved was the dancehall reggae classic 'Sleng Teng' they played before Taxi Radio. The bassline was so fat, extremely 'in the place'! And then the last song 'Never too late' was in my opinion the greatest of the whole set. Michael's son Ade came up on stage and Michael sang the whole song with the little boy in his arms. It was really sweet!! Michael told it was the first time Ade came up on stage while playing the song! It was marvellous.

After an amazing 3 hour gig and getting hugged by Michael, my girl and I had to leave for the hotel in Mannheim, which included a 4 hour drive on the way back...But due to less traffic on the road at night we managed to get at the hotel by 4 am and we went to bed immediately. After a good but short sleep we got back on the road at 9 am. Amsterdam was waiting for us! - Johan

SETLIST

01. Love invincible

02. Soulshine

03. People in tha Middle (reggae style)

04. Of course you can

05. What I be

06. Pray for grace

07. Every single soul

08. Yes I will

09. We don't mind

10. Radio solo

11. Rock the nation

12. Stay Human

13. Everyone deserves music

14. Feelin' free < What's going on < Feelin' free

15. Closer to the sky

16. Bomb the world

17. We don't stop

18. Sometimes

19. Sleng Teng

20. Taxi Radio

21. Never too late