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The Sisters Of Mercy headlined the Lokerse Feesten yesterday, and we went seeing them.
This festival is not like a regular festival — it is rather a series of festivities in the town center than a large scale festival. The entrance is fairly cheap and it is possible to buy a ticket for the entire ten days. As a consequence, there are usually a lot of locals attending, from all ages. A few songs into the show, these folks started leaving, which was good: before, the terrain was packed with people; afterwards it was still full but not overcrowded anymore.
Possibly because of the cheap entrance, I also saw a small group of Germans attending the show.

As for the set itself, I think it was quite good. Sound was a little bland at the start, but halfway into the first song this was corrected. All songs I recognized lived up to expectation: Alice, Mother Russia, Flood I, Lucretia... Only Temple of Love was a but unusual, but I did not expect it to be the same live than it is on record. The show finale was Vision Thing, and I think it was the apotheosis of a great evening.