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For those of you who have missed the concert of Motorpsycho at  Hof ter Lo last Tuesday, that's a pity.

Before kicking off we had Creature with the Atom Brain, whose drummer and frontman are also involved in Millionaire, so somehow I had high hopes. While some of their songs definitely had something, I think either their mixer or their bass player had a real problem: the sound definitly lacked balls, with lots of aggressive high tones and almost no low. I didn't even notice they had a bass.

So after hearing this I was a bit scared that the equipment of the hall didn't really fit and that the same problem would arise with Motorpsycho.

Luckily, this wasn't the case.

Motorpsycho then. Much to my surprise they kicked off with a slightly modified version of 'Upstairs - Downstairs'  from the Let Them Eat Cake album. From then on it was a mixture of old and newer material, mostly from the albums Trust Us, Black Hole/Blank Canvas (Triggerman) and the latest Little Lucid Moments (The Alchemyst). Yes I even remember hearing a song from Timothy's Monster (Watersound). While songs like Triggerman and Mantrick Muffin Stomp sounded a bit odd sometimes and couldn't achieve the same result as on the album, others like the Alchemyst, Superstooge and No Evil just blew you away.

Two hours later we reached the end of the normal part, but of course this is Motorpsycho, so they came back and played the opening track from Little Lucid Moments that would last more than half an hour. It's on these tracks that you can really see their new drummer shine. Boy what a talent he is!

Then when you think it's over, MP has left the stage, and some of the audience have left the building, they return to play a magnificent version of Vortex Surfer.

There's no band like Motorpsycho. Sail on psychonauts!

UPDATE: here's the setlist:

• Upstairs/Downstairs
• Superstooge
• No evil
• Mantric Muffin Stomp
• Sunship
• Triggerman
• Year Zero
• Bedroom Eyes
• Watersound
• Taifun
• HeartAttac Mac
• Kill Devil Hills
• The Alchemyst
• Little Lucid Moments Suite
• Vortex Surfer

The last three were definitely my favourite.