gutter twins - patronaat - 220109
a more boring opener than waiting in front of pukkelpop's 2006 main stage for radiohead ("the longest half hour of my life"), now 30 minutes variations of the same song by one guy and his guitar, which he wasn't playing but merely touching, and ok, the goldberg ones are an exploit of musical creativity, but this here was an awful waste of time ... luckily the rest of the evening with the gutter twins wasn't, stripped down today, greg (shifting between guitar and piano) and mark sitting down in front of their text sheets, accompanied with one guitarist ... kicking off with three saturnalia songs, standing strong in this folk-like approach with even more focus on the mix of their voices now, next we have met before from the ep adorata, great song ... after that older songs of their solo/band work, where those of mark stood out, such as resurrection song with nice high piano chords, one hundred days with the line "one days ship comes in", where you see one approaching from far, and sunrise, with the great opening lines "sunrise forgot to cover up my eyes sunrise should've covered up my eye", from the album with the evenly great title "whiskey for the holy ghost" ... to give also greg some credit, the lure would prove too much sounded good, and (red in some reviews) his out of tune voice is just the way he sings ... best part a conversation near the end of the set, where greg was reflecting back that he stood on the same spot some 16 years ago, asking mark whether he had played there before ... he thinks briefly, puts a slight smile on his face and goes "i can't remember" ...
