Brian Fallon from the Gaslight Anthem

The best concert picture I made since years.
I took the pic 2011
"THE REVIVAL TOUR"
Featuring Chuck Ragan, Brian Fallon, Dan Andriano, Dave Hause




Brion Fallon from the Gaslight Anthem

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 15. October 2011 (London, Shepherd's Bush Empire)

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hi my friends,

I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a great NEW YEAR 2012.
Hope to get some free time next year to write some more posts.

All the best
Stefan


"Flying scrap of COLDPLAY paper"

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 15. December 2011

Freddie Mercury

FREDDY MERCURY (5. September 1946 - 24. November 1991)

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 1982

Rachel Fuller is back

Hi friends,

Rachel Fuller is back.

Here is her blog:

www.rachelfuller.blogspot.com/

Let us follow.

Stefan xx

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi,

I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope all your wishes will be comming true.

My son and I celebrated the beginning of the New Year together with my best friend and his girlfriend.
We made Pizza and later we watched the DVD "The big Lebowski" directed by the Coen brothers. We had so much fun.

Stefan xx


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 2007

Merry Christmas!

Hi friends,

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The weather forecast told us, we should get snow tonight. We will see.

Stefan xx

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 2007

"Time eating machine"

Hi,

at this moment I feel boring about my blog and Facebook. So I will be have a break for the next three month.
I think Facebook is a "Time eating machine" and I have a lot of other interests.

I promise to come back.

Stefan xx

11. September 2001

Today let us pray for all the killing people and her families
at the 11. September 2001 (World Trade Center, New York).
Never let us forget this dastard attack.









This pictures I made years before the 11. September 2001
Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (World Trade Center)

The end of the fantastic U2 gig

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Bono & Edge (I think, my best pictures)

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

The men behind the drums

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

The screen

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Round micro

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

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Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Friends!

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

360°

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Adam Clayton

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

The Edge

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Action!

Here are my weekend pictures. Action and power every minute.

(Bono)


(The Edge)



Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Mr. Larry Mullen Jr.

Larry is the heart of the rhythm, and he was working like a engine. He is such a great drummer and the U2 music is living with his play.


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Bono

Bono is back, after his back-surgery he was running over the stage like nothing had happend.


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

The bass player

Mr. Adam Clayton some seconds later on the right side of the stage.


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Beautiful Day

After the instrumental intro, U2 started with "Beautiful Day". This song is the first track from their 2000 album "All That You Can't Leave Behind".
The Edge was playing his old Gibson "Explorer".


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)

Adam, Bono, Edge and Larry

Hi,
now some days past and I will start with my writing about the U2 show in Hannover (12. August 2010).
We stood up very early in the morning and reached the arena at 9:30am. I think 400 people were waiting at this moment at this rainy day. My son Konstantin and I were getting in lane and now we must wait by 4pm to go in. I had a lot of good chats with other fans. In the meantime the rain stopped and sometime the sun came out. U2 started at 9:45pm. The four Irish were in such a great mood and I must say the gig was better as the year before. We stood very close to the front stage. This is my intention ever.
I can't describe my feelings at this moment, because I had a lot of emotions about this fantastic U2 night.

I made more than 250 pics and so I start with the first one and I will continue over the next weeks with pics and some minds about the show.

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (12. August 2010, Hannover/Germany)


Here is the Setlist:

Running time: 140 minutes.

Return Of The Stingray Guitar (Intro) Instrumental
Beautiful Day
New Year's Day
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways / My Sweet Lord (Snippet)
Elevation
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' On Up (Snippet)
Glastonbury
In A Little While
Miss Sarajevo
Until The End Of The World
The Unforgettable Fire
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Funky Town (Snippet) / I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (Snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (Snippet)
Desmond Tutu Speech

Encore I:
One
Amazing Grace (Snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore II:
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You / Happy Birthday (Snippet)
Moment Of Surrender
(U2tour.de + U2.com)

U2 in Germany

Hi,

today I got two tickets for U2 in Hannover / Germany next month from a good friend. He stay in holiday and so I got the two tickets from him. The tickets are "Standing room" inside the stadium. Now I must be very early in front of the stadium to get in to be in one of the first rows. I think the best time is 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning. I must go up very early, because the ride is two hours with the car to the north. I'm so happy to see U2 again.
Hope one of my kids will be go with me.
I will write a review after this gig.

Stefan xx

"The last station" a movie

Hi my friends,

Maria asked me to write a review about the movie “The last station” direkted and produced by the American film director Michael Hoffmann

I watched this movie yesterday night at an open air cinema together with my sister and my brother in law.

Here is the short review:

The movie based on a novel written by the autor Jay Parini. I never heard about this autor before.

The movie show us the last summer 1910 in the life of Leo Tolstoy.
It’s the story about Tolstoy and his wife Sophia Tolstaya. He will change his testament (the authorisation of his books) in favour of the Russian nation and so he get in a conflict with his wife. But both in love together. As consequence Tolstoy leave his wife and home and at the end he is dying about pneumonia in a railwaystation in Astapova. There is a second love story between Walentin Bulgakow and Mascha, but I don’t know if this is only fiction.

The basic actors are:

- Leo Tolstoy: Christopher Plummer
- Sophia Tolstaya: Helen Mirren
- Walentin Bulgakow: James McAvoy
- Wladimir Tschertkow: Paul Giamatti
- Sacha Tolstoy: Anne Marie Duff
- Mascha: Kerry Condon
- Sergejenko: Patrick Kennedy

It’s a great movie but sometimes with little longueurs. The actors all brilliant, especial Hellen Mirren and Christopher Plummer. The production was made in the east of Germany, but I read the landscape looks the same as in Russian. The movie is very informative and you can learn some about the last year of Leo Tolstoy’s life and the people which try to influence him.

I never read a book written by Tolstoy, but now my interest is aroused.

If you have the chance to watch this movie, do it.


Here is the trailer link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAk6Jf5j0GE&feature=related


Stefan xx

Mr. P.T., now he is 65 years old.

Happy birthday Mr. Townshend.


Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © (London)

Seriously!

I think we both are looking very seriously.

Photo: Charlotte Schaetzky © 2010

1. May 2010 / Springtime

Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © 2010

Squirrels (Eichhörnchen) in our garden.

Last week my son took this picture in our garden. There are two squirrels and both are visiting us every morning and afternoon. They are very shy.

Photo: Konstantin Schaetzky © 2010

Some ticket pictures

Hi,

today I will show you some pictures I made today. Long ago I wrote a post about loosing art. Here some more ticket pics. I collected all my tickets and mostly I got the reviews about.

Stefan xx

"Pink Floyd" performed "The Wall".
Please have a look on the ticket price.
It was 34,00 DM = 17,40 Euro = 12,80 US Dollar.


"Genesis" 10. June 1987 in Dortmund. "Invisible Touch" tour.


"Pink Floyd" in Dortmund at the 27. June 1988


"The Cure" in Frankfurt (Festhalle) at the 14. May 1989


Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © 2010

Happy birthday Mr. Daltrey.

Roger Daltrey (The Who)

Photo: Stefan Schaetzky © 2008 (14. December 2008 Indig02 / London)

My own logo.

years ago (1980) I created my own logo, painted on wood.







Logo: Stefan Schaetzky © 1980, Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © 2010

"The Skipper's Child" written by Valerie Poore (book review)

Hi,

last week I started with reading the new book written by Val (Valerie Poore). Good we had bad weather with a lot of snow here, so I could read every evening and yesterday night I finished "The Skipper's Child".

It's a book written for these winter days.
The novel started at 21. December 1962. The story is about a young boy called Arie and he spent his school holidays together with his both sisters on their parents barge (the Rival). The barge is on her way from Gent (Belgium) to France ...
I do not want to write about the story, because I hate accurate book contents. Every one should read it by himself. Only some words about. It's a mystery story and a book about familie life.

Val's book is written so great and I was dunking in the deep of the words and the story. It was if I reside on this barge, but I never stood on one. I saw the waterways and the snow on the boat. Very good was the writing about the familie solidarity. The cohabitate of the three kids and their parents on the limitedness on a barge. I love this book and it's written in an awesome speech. Hope it will find a lot of readers. It's a very exciting book and if you start, you will go on and on.

Here is the link to buy Valerie's book as a paperback edition or as a hardcover.

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-skippers-child/7822516

If you will buy the "Skipper's Child" enjoy reading.

Bist wishes
Stefan xx

Snow

Last weekend my daughter Charlotte and I had a walk with our both sledges around the "Habichts Wald" above our hometown Kassel. We do it alone, because Konstantin don't like the cold weather. He is freezing after some minutes.

Photo: Charlotte Schaetzky © 2010


Photo: Charlotte Schaetzky © 2010






The top of the Oktagon with the giant Herkules

Wilhelmshöhe Palace and Kassel


Photos: Stefan Schaetzky © 2010