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Beautiful Freak Tour 1997

ROTTERDAM, NL - NIGHTTOWN - april 27, 1997

rotterdam 1997

setlist:
Rags To Rags
If I Was Your Girlfriend [Prince]
Fingertips Pt.III
Susan's House
My Beloved Monster
Spunky
Guest List
Livin' Life [Daniel Johnston]
Mental
13
Flower
Fucker
Manchester Girl
Novocaine For The Soul
Not Ready Yet
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Manchild
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Your Lucky Day In Hell
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Dead Flowers [Rolling Stones]
Beautiful Freak
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Hello Cruel World

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info:
The ticket for this show said it would start at 20:00 hrs. This resulted a long line of people waiting to get in from 19:30 hrs and on. But the doors to the venue did not open until 20:30 hrs. While the audience was waiting outside, Tommy and E were inside the POPULAR café (next to the Nighttown venue) together with opening act September 67. No one recognized them when they came out and walked through the line of people, heading for the tourbus that was parked in front of Nighttown.

September 67 was very well received (better than in Amsterdam earlier that month) and they seemed to be having a good time up on the stage. EELS played a good, but no surprising set. Before Flower E asked the people to be very quiet. If they remained quiet he would play a hard rock song after it. "O.K. you were all very quiet", E said after he finished the song, "but I lied about the hard rock song..." (someone screams FUCK YOU!) "Thank you sir! In America that means you're a fine man! Thank you, this next song is for you and it's called Fucker!" (crowd laughs) "O.K. now I'm gonna play the hard rock song" introduces Manchester Girl.

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