Good lord! Industrial metalists, bondage enthusiasts and all-round German mental-bags Rammstein were in town tonight!
They spent about two hours setting off fireworks, flamethrowers, explosives, flares and giant robotic cocks to a pretty full O2 and boy was it some show!
Rammstein are a band that are frequently and easily mocked, even inviting some of with their bizarre music videos and silly songs (Amerika & Du Hast, though great fun, are guilty). But man oh man do they put on a helluva stage show.
Fireworks shots out of every side of the stage, flames bursts out of the stage floor and the ceiling, willed on by the absolutely insane front man Till Lindemann, whose booming vocals got the crowd kicking and punching their way through classics such as 'Ich Will', 'Sonne' and my personal favourite 'Engel'.
Beside all the big bright shiny fireworks, Rammstein's usually dose of bondage and sado-masochism shone through like a leathery beacon of light for all those (and their were a few) whom had shown up in bondage gear. At one point they were walked across a platform on hands and knees, with leashes on and whipped by the drummer as they made their way to a smaller stage on the middle of the crowd. Bizarre but kinda hilarious stuff, thankfully Rammstein rarely take themselves too seriously and Till proceeded to shower the audience with, what I presume was water emanating from a small penis-like attachment to the front of his pants.
Rammstein are such a spectacle, you may not like the music but I assure you the stage show is epic, yeah its just crashes and bangs and colourful lights but its very brilliantly put together crashes and bangs and colourful lights. Well worth the ridiculous price for a ticket.
Oh and it ended with a giant motorised cock which was driven from one side of the stage to the other shooting out white jizzy foam. Well I never...
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