Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room Kraftwerk

no live cycling in helsinki but a great gig.

I have "re-werked" the Kraftwerk-page on my Close Encounters Of The Third Kind gallery after last week's Krafwerk gig in Helsinki. It has now pictures of their each gig in Helsinki: 1991, 2004 and 2009.

1991: The Kraftwerk lineup was already the same as through '90s and '00s until Florian Schneider left quite recently. Stage set-up is very different from what it is now and you could see them actually play their elektrik instruments, even percussion.

As far as I can remember 1991 photos are mostly taken by very tall guy called Arto Marjoniemi who was with us to see the mighty Kraftwerk play live.

2004: We sat so far away from stage that there were no point to take "on stage" pictures. I took "close encounters" pics instead. Ralf Hutter signed four CD-covers and an after party flyer but said "no pictures". We were nice/stupid enough and didn't take any pics of him. It was lucky that I met Florian Schneider before he left Kraftwerk.

2009: This was last thursday. I think here is some very nice pictures. My favourites are Schaufensterpuppen pics and especially the last one where Ralf Hutter is alone on stage and plays last notes of 'Musique Non-Stop'. For me as a Kraftwerk-fan since 1981 that last picture is enough to make me a bit sentimental.

thanks for posting the link,

great photos as usual Mr Normall.

nice photos and you can see a glimpse of me on this photo (down left i'm the one wearing brown striped hoodie).

psychocandy, we almost met the first time. Only few meters between us.

The new cover of The Man Machine.

Is there something missing..?

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Not to be outdone, fellow electro-Krautrock pioneers Neu! also announce boxset .. news here

The cynical amongst us could be led into thinking that Ralf Hutter is pursuing with some kind of bizarre, (almost cold war Soviet) mission to eradicate the images of previous (out of favour?) "party members".

It does seem odd that the only sleeve art that retain any resemblance of Karl and Wolfgang are Computer World and "Techno Pop" which are wire frame CGI images.

Conspiracy theory or could it be that Hutter simply doesn't want to pay to use their faces anymore?

I must stop reading autobiographies of scorned ex-Kraftwerkians

That means there'll never be an official dvd release of all the old promo vids then

By the way, there are 2 versions of the new re-mastered boxset available, the original german language version and the english version.
I've pre-ordered the german version from german amazon.
There is also a french version of Showroom Dummies, and Pocket Calculator.Wonder if they will re-surface? Also Tour De France (the original) was available in English,French and German.

But will there ever be another studio album?
They've done travel,technology, computers and cycling...