and what a blast it was.. everything started out normally with the
intstrumental thing and grace kelly and packing blankets..  <just a note,
i'm trying to quote here but of course it's not all 100% accurate. i geuss
i can only sumarize things. i geuss some pple on this list must've been
there. husky unit maybe? and there was allways that cute lurker who told
breun he had tix for the 27th)

i don't remember if it was after gk or pb but after one of those songs e
said he believed something special was going to happen to night..  i don't
need no setlist! then he roughly teared his setlist of the stage and threw
it in the crowd... (well the remains of it anyway)
e continued: what's going to happen tonight might be a good thing or it
might be a bad thing. you and i are going to go home tonight (no not
together) and then we'll judge.. e also said something like: most of the
people here tonight had an important choice to make between me and beck (he
also used the word friend quite a lot). well i think those people have made
the right choice. see, beck may sing about sex laws, but i (?????) sex
laws. beck may be singing about a jackass but i AM a jackass.
when they were playing my beloved monster e suddenly started to play
something weird on his guitar and the entire band started to jam wich was
really really cool. well anyway the jam took some minutes but unfortunatly
they didn't finish the song itself... but still i was amazed that they were
all playing weird shit all of a sudden.. it was so great. oh and i really
should mention that e had quite an impressive beard.. it was like a 100%
beard thing... i mean it was a BEARD not some hairs like he had on
pinkpop... i geuss the beard should've been allready there in groningen
last night. if edgrrrr or eppie could tell us about the length of e's beard
that night we can calculate the growing speed of his beard, quite an
interesting fact for the eels faq right (after all it is a frequently asked
question)
oh and e had two setlists, one for his guitar position and one for his
piano pose, and later when he changed from piano to guitar or the othwer
way around i don't remember he made a prop (???) of his other setlist and
kicked the thing away. they continued their set wich was still a lot like
the original one (i geuss completely similiar but i don't really remember
playing orders after gigs anyway)
when they played flyswatter e started to bang his piano after that single
bar where he did it in antwerp he did that here too, but he did it again
later and just didn't stop doing it... he was like karate choping his piano
with two hands and he smashed it with his hands and all and it was really
groovin'. the band started to just jam around it. the horns started to just
improvise something (well they could've faked it but it really seemed like
they were just improvising) and e went on with banging and played some
beautiful piano in between the bashing. really soft  but with melody.. they
went on for a few minutes and it was so great. i never expected a thing
like that. my god it was everything i dreamt from an eels show. anyway then
they play a song and at the end e says butch has gotta do a speech (like he
did in groningen??) and butch started to rant urrm.. about...  well he
started with moaning about one of the hornplayers (whatever his name was)
allways shouted speech after that song and oh well i can't remember but he
couldn't really put himself to something and e said that he had to come up
with a better speech for  all these beautiful youngsters. butch continued,
starting with 'of course e interupted me in the middle of my speech, i
wasn't finished yet' then he started blaing about us being at the start of
the beginning of the new millenium or something... oh well anyway he was
continuing his speech... getting closer to perfection but he wasn't quite
there yet.
so then they played hospital food. and when butch did his butchbox thing e
said: butch, not that again (in fact he probably said something a lot
cooler. wish i could remember but m.s.m.w.l.m) every single day of the tour
he does that. then he started to make fun of butch saying that he was so
popular and he had his brit awards and drum magazines (or did he say that
he was featured in drum magazines?) i believe he even used the word
motherfucker. well there they were in the midle of hospital food with e
just bashing butch for 2 minutes instead of the regular butch? you're on
the radio/butch? i can hear you/butch? what the fuck? well then pple in the
crowd started to yell speeech. so butch did a speech again. he said
something about .. oh i remember now this is the thing with the millenium
bussines.. in the coming of the new millenium you should do something
something and you .. urr. something with a light that you had to see or
reach for... he was talking slowly and without emotion like only he can do.
well anyway he said something like you have to look into that light.. then
e said, well to cut it short you will have to find a light and blind
yourself. now can we go on with what we were doing? butch: no. wait. then
he went on about that you had to remember to put oinment (spelling?) on
your eyes because it takes away the pain... (this is all sumarizing really,
butch was telling a lot and was talking very slowly) e was now watching
butch laughing with his hand before his mouth. then he asked if they could
go on with what they were doing. butch said: no. wait. and started talking
about you having to remember the thing about the ointment and also remember
to tell a friend about it.  so then e asked if they could go on again and
they could and they went on with the song. it was so cool. ok in the
meantime e made a lot of jokes, some of them he did in antwerp and probably
most of the show. he was about to start playing and told us that we were
the most extraordinary group of youngsters (he said something weird anyway)
while he was saying this  someone in the crowd shouted get on with it and e
said thanks and continued his scentence. then he went on saying
blahblahblah etcetera etcetera etcetera and started the song. then they
also played going oh what the hell was it again? going fetal..  they didn't
play that in antwerp so that was a bonustrack for me. it was a nice song.
urm.. well they continued the regular way, playing you rock my world going
of stage lights on everyone leaving and me and my friend walking to the
stage and waiting for them to come back... i picked up two small pieces of
feathers from lisa germano's lovely feather thingy (tm). i couldn't resist
them lying in front of me at a grabable distance. then they came back on
and played that little soldier song.. (wich is great). then they were about
to go off but lisa started to play the same note over and over again on her
keyboard thing (don't really know how to say this while it's such an
obvious thing) and i believe butched looked at her and nodded and then they
all came back and they played a reallly REALLY weird song.. butch sang some
weird melody and weird lyrics. i haven't got a clue what it was.  but it
was really cool and lisa grabed her micro and started to make people sing
in it in the crowd.. only one or two did though, but lisa is just such a
sweet person. i was standing in the exact centre of the stage with my hands
resting on the actual thing and e and lisa were both less then a meter
away... i had a lot of fun and i could take a closer look at that
mysterious beard. it made him look different but so much the same at the
same time (sorry). well after they played that last weird song they went of
never to be seen again.