Setlist

- Orpheus
- The rabbit Field
- Stranger came to our place
- One perfect day
- Ice guitars
- At the Barbers'
- Happy Hearts
- Jintro & the great luna
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- Exit to Loneville
- Still half my friend
- Moondance
- Bombo
- Jacky (a Brel cover)
- Song for a dead singer
- Tv Song
- My bond with you and your planet: Disco
- Habibi Ouldi
- Ricochet
- Cachita
- I'm Guilty
- Giving up the hero
- Couldn't She get drowned
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- Ragdoll Blues

It was one of the Try-outs with the new songs, and it was the very first time I saw Zita Swoon in their normal formation. They started with Orpheus, a new song. It's a happy song with a catchy refrain: "Friend drives you home after work..., Orpheus, he need's medicin, he's a lonely son...." The Rabbit field was the next song, and I guess everybody knows this song by now. Stranger came to our place is another happy song. about a man called Jacky. It's as wonderfull as Orpheus, and is also very catchy.

"Next song is caled One pefect Day", Stef blurted out like he was an old American farmer who lost his teeth. The song was very different from the album version, and by my opinion, mutch better. Then the best song of the first part of the show followed: Ice Guitars, but it was again very different from the "regular" version: It started like the accoustic version, became a little sultry, and during one of the wild parts, Bjorn suddenly came up with a wonderfull steel-pedal riff what made the song very magical. Wow!!! Next there was At the Barbers', and as an exception it was in a more Album-like version. Happy Hearts started with Stef at the piano with a small intro, and continiued with only one chord 'til the refrain. Once again this is a very happy song. After this, Stef announced to the public and the rest of the group there was a litlle break, but he didn't move from stage. After a few sounds of Jintro & the great Luna he still said it really was a break, but the public was shouting for Jintro, so Tom took a beer, settled him on the floor and did the backing vocals. As usual the lyrics of Jintro were very different.

Now the real break followed. After 20 minutes stef came on stage again and told a little story. "Kent ge die mop van da kafé da helemaal verhuisde naar de savanne van Wit-Rusland" It turned out on nothing, saying he forgot the rest, but it was quite funny how he told it, with giraffes and drunk guys... Then he said the next song normally was spacelight one, and that it was a continuation of an old dEUS song, called The Middlewave, but he wouldn't play it because "that guys over there" forgot the notes. When Tom & the rest said they were able to play it, Stef announced they wouldn't play it after all because he was the boss. Then he asked Tom why there weren't any old songs standing on the setlist. He also said Zita Swoon won the price of the less-concentrated band on the MTV music awards a few days ago. Anyway, next song was exit to Loneville. It's something between Still half my friend and Rabbit field. This time not very happy, but there still was a happy atmosphere around the song. Still half my friend is a song we all know and it was also a bit Album-like, but Tom used (different) sound effects and Bjorn played on his Steel-pedal (a mix between a guitar and a table, without frets and existing out of metal). Next song is about someone "who lost the north", Stef said. Probably he meant himself. Moondance was played. Merci beaucoup, madammes, monsiers: moondance, la dance de la lune! he shouted . Next one was Bombo: shaking with his tattoos on the lyrics "see my my tattoo". This song also had taken a metamorphose. It was more powerfull. He used some lyrics of middlewave during the song, instead of the usual text. And as if it was the same song a sort of cabaret song was started, which suddenly turned out on Jacky, a Brel song, and one of the best Brel-covers I ever heard, and believe me, I've heared a lot. Song for a dead singer was played with a slide, what is now the synthesizer sound in the beginning of the song. It was one of the songs that could make you so quiet, and get drowned into yourself, if you know what I mean. When this piece of masterwork was over, Stef took a red Roland synthesizer, one you take like a guitar, you know. But there were some technical problems. The synthesizer was quite new and stef said the song was cald number 210. This was just the number of the sound effect, but this effect didn't work. Stef said you shouldn't buy Roland, buy Korg! (we'll remember it). After some fixations TV-song was played, with again different lyrics. Stef pretended again he was an old american farmer without teeth. It was hard to understand him, but it sure had a big charisma. My bond with you and your planet: Disco was much stronger, heavier, and there was a piece with fantastic piece with Neil Young-like solo's. The album version is nothing compared with this. Next there was Habibi Ouldi, with Tom playing on the synthesizer, and as usual, this song is very strong, and as sort of an outro Stef told a poem. After (different version of ) the ricochet (with as outro a Johnny Cash-like bluesriff with Tom on piano and Stef singing) the last song of the setlist was played: Giving up the hero. But Tomas' bass was out of tune, so they played couldn't she get drowned. Because the backstage of "De media" is behind the bar and you have to go through the public to reach it, they waited a bit on stage, and Tom took place behind the piano, and as a responce on the remark of Stef there weren't standing old songs on the setlist, he played Ragdoll Blues. It was very different from the new version, and also very different from the old version. This was undoubtfully the best gig I had ever seen, and I wasn't the only person in the room who said these words....