My Morning Jacket

July 10th, 2008 by freek

It’s not often that at the end of a brilliant concert nobody screams ‘we want more’. But after two and a half hours of My Morning Jacket in the Melkweg last tuesday I was full, couldn’t handle another song. One of the best concerts I ever saw!

The opening act was promising, Everest, with Jim James and Carl Broemel of MMJ joining them in one song. But at half past nine it went really los! MMJ started of with Evil Urges from their new album Evil Urges (Het gedicht Opvliegers uit de bundel ‘Opvliegers’) and from then on it was one highlight after another (Read Ear). At eleven a clock a small break, but within 3 minutes bandleader Jim James was back on his own with his guitar and a funny h00dje op. I thought: two toegifts and a big finale, and that’s that. But the band played for another full hour and after midnight we found ourselves outside the Milkyway under a small offroof, smoking, not saying anything, flabbergasted and with a pleasant peep in our ears.

Wobbly pictures, but good sound: One big holiday in de Melkweg, 8 juli 2008.

For your home-entertainment: the first disc of the live album Okonokos, the other one I still can’t find.

And I would like the two guys who were boo-ing all the time, throwing glasses and finally getting kicked out of the Melkweg to get a disease of which they will suffer a long time and then die in a very unpleasant way.