#dübendorf

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Lovely Moments: Johnny Depp: The man of a thousand skills. 

Uncle Johnny showing his harmonica skills to his godson Finn Henriksen (Tommy Henriksen son) on the backstage of the Hollywood Vampires show in Dübendorf, Switzerland, 3 years ago, on July 3, 2018.

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'Siedlung Chriesmatt', housing complex Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland; 1973-82

Rolf Keller

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via "Werk, Bauen + Wohnen" 73 (1986)

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Find a #live song

Snow Patrol ft.  Mig-El - Run

That one time I played with Snow Patrol

(Samsung Hall, Dübendorf - Zürich CH, 19.01.2019)

I would say this is my most biased review and it probably will be, but when it comes to art it is impossible to be objective anyway so there is my excuse.

Snow Patrol (my favourite band if you don’t know) has finally started their proper tour in support of their come back album Wildness. That means concerts all over the globe and full production arena show. Go and grab tickets for a concert near you whilst they are on the road, if you haven’t yet.

First things first. Snow Patrol likes to choose their own support acts. Gary (lead singer and guitarist) in particular tries to support artists from his dear home Northern Ireland and so this time they have taken with them on the first leg of the European tour not one but two Northern Irish artists: JC Stewart and Foy Vance.

JC Stewart was the support on their comeback concert last year in London. This time, the young man comes with a band and fully produced songs. Starting off with a folky song  playing the acoustic guitar and then moving on to the electric guitar and piano and finally singing to some modern pop beats JC went through the 15 years evolution of a musician in a half an hour set.

The stage was all set for both support acts with all the gear for JC Stewart on the right, which only had to be taken away and Foy Vance was ready to go on the left side. The old Snow Patrol friend brought just a drummer with him. One that does great backing vocals. Just as JC, Foy is a great singer (plus extra experience). Foy played some folk and blues songs on his acoustic guitar with some funky effects and on a keyboard along with drums. Nothing else was needed. Foy tried to get the audience to sing as much as posible.

And so very efficiently and fast everything was ready for Snow Patrol. As lights went off an instrumental intro started to play and a big LED screen was revealed with a snowflake and a greeting: Hello Zurich.

Snow Patrol is far from perfect and that is one of the reasons I love them. You can see Gary smiling the whole concert as he truly enjoys playing his songs and Nathan (lead guitar) hits wrong notes sometimes on the climax of songs when he moves too much. But there are actual struggles, like with Gary’s inability to learn lyrics. Take Back The City was the show opener and Gary’s teleprompter was not working, which had him really stressed out for the first seconds of the song. Johnny (guitar and keys) reached out to tell him something. Probably the lyrics and so Gary started singing after missing the first lines. He managed to sing until the second verse but he walked around the stage with a look of frustration and his hand on his head. When the problem got solved his face changed and he just gave in to the music.

The light show is very good. I would personally say that they had a more astonishing show on their previous tour in terms of visuals for each song but this time they use more modern technology and a lot of cameras so that people get to see the band on the big screen with cool effects. The stage is like a cube with two frames: one on the floor of the stage surrounding them and one hanging above. For certain songs,  transparent curtains are drawn down on the sides or even also on the front to cover them and project videos on them whilst still being able to see the band.

To the eye, the highlights of the show are Life On Earth, with a full video playing on the back showing Earth from outer space and the old song What If This Storm Ends? with the brilliant animation of the origami stars flying around and building up galaxies. That is a true gift for fans (like myself) that missed it on tour ten years ago. The song You Could Be Happy also makes use of the curtains and was another surprise at the concert.

The rest of the setlist, which stays pretty much the same for all concerts, consisted mainly of their beloved songs from the album Eyes Open, a few of their other hits and the five new songs such as Don’t Give In and Empress.

*My little snow patrol story*

Gary is known for being incredibly kind to the fans always paying attention to what they say at the concerts, so this time I decided to try and cross something off my bucket list. I made a sign saying “can I play with you?” and got myself a spot at the front row to make sure they see it.

Four songs in, Gary spotted the sign and asked what I could play. After trying to kill two birds with one stone and play one of my old favourites (Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking), he laughed and said it had to be something on the setlist. I let him decide and he offered Run. I agreed and he said I should wait two songs. After the two songs, someone from the crew picked me up immediately. Somehow everything was prepared despite never seeing or hearing the band telling something to the crew. A guitar and monitor were waiting for me. I was on stage in no time.

So after a little failure (my first time with professional gear) we started playing Run together. I played the same part as Gary on an acoustic guitar. A smart choice as they didn’t know if I could play it right and they didn’t try to check even. It was a dream come true. People asked me afterwards if it had been arranged or rehearsed since I looked pretty confident up there. I told them it was easy since I could barely see the audience because of the spotlight being always on my face and because I was looking at my guitar not to screw it up and also at the band which smiled at me through the whole song. Hopefully it was a nice way to mix it up since they have been playing this song for quite a while at every concert. The rest of the audience cheered for this band who had made one of their fans incredibly happy.

*End of the story*

Apart from the personal meaning of that concert to me, it was indeed the best concert of them I have been at in the last six years. Their sound is incredibly good and they are back in great shape after a year of warming up. Also the organisation is brilliant. Sometimes it can feel like an eternity until the band starts playing, especially with more than one opening act, but everything is done perfectly to start enjoying of an evening of good live music as soon as you go inside the venue. And yes, they will play Chasing Cars.

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#dübendorf (hier: Dübendorf Air Base)

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3 years ago, on July 3, the Hollywood Vampires realized their twenty-fourth show on the 2018 Tour, now rocking the Samsung Hall, in Dübendorf, Switzerland.

 > This show marks:

* The first time the Hollywood Vampires played in Switzerland. The band made a second performance two days later at the Montreux Jazz Festival, on July 5, 2018, and planned to make a third visit to the country on August 29, 2021 during the “Riverside Festival” in Aarburg, but the show was canceled due the COVID 19 Pandemic.

* The first time Tommy Henriksen played with his fellow Vampires on his home country. Tommy born in New York, but when is not on tour or working in person with Alice Cooper or Johnny, lives with his wife, Sandra, and their son, Finn, in Zurich. On that day, Tommy’s family was there to support him and Finn, who is also Johnny’s godchild, visited him on the backstage.

* This is the sixth time on the tour Johnny wore a hat during part of the show. But this is the third time he wore a fedora. The first time was on June 8, during their show in Copenhagen (he wore a hat), Denmark and the second on June 13 on the show in Prague, Czech Republic (he wore a hat), the third on June 14 on the show in Mönchengladbach, Germany (he wore a cap), the fourth on June 16, in Birmingham, England (he wore a cap) and the fifth on June 20, in London, England (he wore a cap).

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Behind the scenes: Johnny, his godson and Tommy Henriksen’s son, Finn, and Tommy’s wife Sandra, on the backstage of the Hollywood Vampires show on July 3, 2018, in Dübendorf, Switzerland.

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Hurdacker housing complex Dübendorf - Zürich, Switzerland; 1996-97

ERP Architekten AG (Werner Egli, Hans Rohr, Markus Bircher, Verena Brändli, Urs Stierli) / (photography by Heinrich Helfenstein)

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via "Werk, Bauen + Wohnen" 85 (1998)