I think it’s been ages since they played in Klagenfurt the last time but finally they did so again and even on the Wörtherseebühne*, unfortunately not even sold out but what a great scenery and a great show and even many times unintentionally funny :)
Yesterday marked the 4th time I have seen Tito & Tarantula so far. I think the first time was in 2003, also in Klagenfurt. They played here already in 2001 or something and that was when Tito Larriva passed out on stage due to him being sick and mixing Tequilla with medicine or something. Anyways, in 2003 he went on stage and said “I don’t know who was at our last show and remembers it, but i was a little sick that day, so I’m going to make it up to you today” and then he started a great concert, as far as I remember a pretty long show and a really great one. That was the “Andalucia” tour, one of my favourite albums of them.
Another time I drove to Graz to see them play at the Orpheum and I noticed in march 2008 that the audience was way different than from the Klagenfurt show. Only around a third of the crowd was under 30 I thought and when I checked the t-shirts they were selling I couldn’t believe my eyes: they were still selling the “Tarantism” shirt from at least a decade ago. A shirt which should still be somewhere around here, having it since, presumably, around 1997. That made me feel a little old to be honest :D I think the audience in Klagenfurt is much more.. “diverse” is because there’s just nothing to do here so whenever there is a concert anybody shows up :)
Now that they were back again in Klagenfurt and I was in town, too, I had the chance to take some photos. Luckily with a Canon EOS 5D with a 85mm 1.8 which was borrowed to me (thanks @mgratzer!). The cam did a great job, sometimes, gear really is everything. I couldn’t have done that shots with my 400D because anything greater ISO400 wouldn’t work. With the 5D, ISO1600 was no real problem at all.
The thing with Tito & Tarantula is, they gained their fame without a doubt from the song “After Dark” and the movie “From Dusk Till Dawn” it’s so famously placed in. And without a doubt, without that movie I wouldn’t know them myself. Now I don’t consider myself a “bigger” fan than others, of course I’m not, but with every Tito & Tarantula concert I’ve been to there clearly was this part of the crowd that didn’t know any better and was just there to see them because of that. Which is perfectly fine as well. Tito Larriva is probably used to it by now.
Only yesterday, it was getting a little too embarassing for my taste. I was standing almost in the front on the right side of the stage, next to me some other photographers and during the show also one “older” guy (around 50?). Pretty much from the beginning he was shouting “FROM DUSK TILL DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWNNN” a few times. Fortunately the band wasn’t really reacting to it (visibly at least :D), keeping on playing.
Focusing on the show, taking a hell lot of pictures from where I was standing, I noticed that Tito was either clearly in a better mood or at least way better in shape than during the Graz concert for example. He can write some dark songs but when he’s grinning there’s this child looking through and you can see he’s still having fun performing :)
Great concert, I’ll make sure to see them every time I can :)
today, my evening-school-pretend-business-plan won against 5 other teams. got a nice price out of it. the plan was judged by two people that deal with business-plans all the time, which was pretty interesting.
“our” plan was about a way how guests can plan their holidays better and get a lot of useful information before their trip to a destination. it’s actually pretty cool and i like it. made the presentation with prezi (on a train ride without a mouse but with a keyboard and the touchpad… boy that was hard…) and really like it. it was very simple and far from what you can make with prezi, but easy and fun at the same time.
but that doesn’t matter, what i wanted to show you was an example that I used in my presentation.
it’s a hotel in klagenfurt:
looks nice, doesn’t it? well imagine if they would use a marketing buzzword like “close to the lake”. wouldn’t be a lie at all.
