This was the first time I visited the Para concert hall in Breda. When I entered the building, I was surprised by the size of it; I thought the Basement in Rotterdam was small, but this is even much smaller. In fact, it is about half as big, i.e.\ approximately 13 meters wide and 5 meters deep. The stage itself is about 10 by 3 meters. There is no room for a 'backstage' area. In stead of this, a small area is kept free at the side of the stage. I think there is room for about 125 persons, and a few of them can take place on a small balcony.

Apart from the emergency exit, there is not a real side entrance, so at about 21.35h the four members of Mad Dog Loose entered the stage from the audience. I didn't know this Belgium group previous to this show, so I didn't know what to expect from it. At first I spotted some resemblance with the Pixies, but as the performance progressed, I noticed more and more that it really came close to the original dEUS sound. This impression was created by the singer; regularly I was thinking I was listening to Tom Barman's singing. Even the singer's posture showed many similarities to that of dEUS' frontman.

The dEUS resemblance was strengthened by the addition of the violin. This instrument was played rather frequently by the drummer. He alternately played drums and violion, not leaving his position behind the drumkit.

Maybe because of the dEUS resemblance, I really enjoyed Mad Dog Loose. Not many times have I seen such a promising support act. Earlier in the week, I had seen an even better one. That's not very strange, because then it concerned Moondog Jr., the headliners of this evening. Mad Dog Loose played for about 50 minutes, after which the stage was prepared for Moondog Jr.

Saxophone player Benjamin seemed very eager to play, because he appeared on stage about half an hour before the start to tune his saxophones and prepare the organ (and chair) for TV song.

At 23.05h five persons (Stef at the left, and the rest at the other side of the room) wormed their way through the audience to the stage. After they had entered the stage, Moondog started in the same way as in Rotterdam with a short and moderate instrumental song, which progressed into a new (?) song, which I think is called Take It As A combination.

The setlist of this show is as follows (titles between quotes are only guesses; these words or lines appeared several times in the concerning song):

? (instrumental)
'Take It As A Combination'
Bombo
Shall I Let This Good Man In
Everyday I Wear A Greasy Black Feather On My Hat
Moondog
Moondance
Ice Guitars
TV Song
Cachita
'Jacky' (or something like that. I think it is a Tom Jones cover.)
Jo's Wine Song
Jintro & The Great Luna
Ricochet
?
'Hello'
Love 609
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'Raindog'
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'Guilty'

As can be seen from the setlist, many new or unknown (at least to me) songs were done.

Bombo was played in much the same way as on the album. One of the very few not so very impressive songs of this album followed Bombo, but this live version of Shall I Let This Good Man In was very ok.

The next song was announced as Everyday I Wear A Greasy Black Feather On My Hat. Very strange that this title track is not included on the album. It is a rather quiet song and it would fit perfectly between the other songs.

Before Moondog, Stef said that this song was about reading comic strips before going to sleep. Hm...

After Moondance, a series of three brilliant songs formed a first climax of the show. The trilogy started with Ice Guitars. In Rotterdam, I was not really impressed by it, but here it was done very different, much more in correspondence with the album version. It started in a moderate way, but when the drums were added, it quickly turned into a steady rocking song.

After this, Benjamin took the organ-like instrument, so it was clear that the beautiful TV Song would follow. Stef and Benjamin were really taken up in this song, because they both did it with their eyes closed all the time. In fact, they reached that very concentrated state more than once during the concert, and the same goes for the other members.

Strange computer sounds, created in Tom's synthesizer, were the intro for Cachita. This song is full of suspence and Stef's whispering tone and the continuous addition of the instruments succeeded in bringing this suspence across to the audience.

In the next few minutes, a rendition of a cover, which I think is originally done by Tom Jones, followed. I think the song is called Jacky or something like that, and Moondog really paced through it. They seemed to enjoy it in this up tempo way, because several smiles could be seen. I could have misheared, but I think Stef mentioned Jacques Brel's name after the song, and indeed it sounded like this song could have been written originally by this Frenchman; it sounded a lot like Paris Reveille (sp?).

(later addition: the song is indeed Jacky from Jacques Brel, who is not french, but belgian. It wasn't covered by Tom Jones, but by Marc Almond.)

The first lines of Jo's Wine Song were omitted, so it started right away with the 'marry marry, won't you marry'-part.

It was a bit difficult to recognize the next song, Jintro & The Great Luna, because this live version was very different from the one on the album. Stef was not only backed up by Tom's keyboard, but all the others joined in. This resulted in an overwhelming rendition, whereas this song is very restrained on the album.

After Ricochet, Moondog again played the song which I think is a cover, because, like in Rotterdam, it still sounded very familiar to me. I can't exactly place it, but it is a great song anyway.

After another new and rather short song (Hello?), the first part of the concert was finished off with Love 609. I still think this is not the best choice; it is too bombastic and the end is too sudden to be a successful closing. After Love 609, Aarich (drums), Tomas (upright bass), Tom (keyboards and guitar), and Benjamin (sax and organ) left the stage for the small 'backstage' area and Stef jumped into the audience and lingered for a few seconds in the left front corner of the room.

After a short while they all came back on stage, where Stef announced a little game. In the first few minutes of the show, he had worn a fez-like hat, which he had soon laid aside. Now he would throw this in the audience, and the person who would catch it, could exchange it for a t-shirt at the t-shirt stand. Very funnily he threw it right in the hands of Tom, but then Stef closed his eyes and threw it somewhere in the audience.

After this game another unknown song followed. It started off rather slowly, and in the first part of this song, the word 'soft' could be heard several times. It soon passed into a more rapid part, which sounded totally different. In this second part, the lyrics featured the words 'blind' and 'raindog' frequently, so this song is probably called 'Raindog'.

After another short break Tom and Stef re-entered the stage and the two of them performed a very fragile song (Guilty?) until 0.30h, at which time the show unfortunately ended. The five members left the small room in the same way as they came in, i.e.\ through the parting audience.

I am not exaggerating if I say that this is one of the best concerts, if not THE best concert I have ever experienced. All five members of the band were clearly full of enthousiasm and they were very driven during the entire show. For example, Stef did his characteristic dance steps a few times. Their frequent smiles made clear that they themselves also enjoyed this great performance. Not bad: I did have a great and fantastic evening, which I will remember for a long long time, for only fl. 10,- ;).