For the band, the Varese gig on July 10 was painful, tiring and full of irritating technical problems. For me, it was great as always and painfully short.

Of course, I'd been waiting for the concert a long time, while the band got off the plane that morning and didn't get much sleep till the 11PM start of the show. The set was the shortest of the whole tour and they didn't even play it through. The first bad omen was when, in the first minute of the first song (Dead Run) David Edwards' mic was knocked over. There were maybe one or two songs where the band seemed to be more or less satisfied with the sound. Then, in the pause before the last song (Splinters), Pascal Humbert got a huge sound blast from his monitor, totally unexpectedly, it hurt just to see it happen...

The official set included a song called "24 hours" as well, but due to the continuous difficulties with the sound and an impending time limit, it was all over after "Splinters".

by Balázs