Later we went downstairs into a smelly cellar where the gig would happen, it turned out to be a good place for such a gig. We watched the support band "Teenkrieg" who looked quite young, they played energetic punkrock, not very original, but okay.
T.V. hit the stage close to midnight, from the first song ("The Future Used To Be Better") on there were people singing along and screaming a lot! What I did not like was that many were talking between the songs instead of listening to what T.V. had to say about the lyrics, but apart from that they were a great crowd! Girls were dancing and cheering in front of the stage, I bet T.V. enjoyed this one too. He played lots of classics and some new songs as usual. For the first encore he asked Teenkrieg to return to the stage and they performed some songs together. It went very well, especially considering that it was their first time on stage together with T.V. (they had practised the songs before and then played them once with T.V. at the soundcheck)! Of course these included his punk hits "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" and "Bored Teenagers" but also "Only One Flavour", "My String Will Snap" and "Lord's Prayer" (by the way, T.V. told me that he didn't like the Lords of the New Church's version of that song very much, because they changed his lyrics to please their American producer).
On his own again, T.V. performed some more encores, including "One Chord Wonders", "Useless", "Luxury In Exile" and finally "Runaway Train Driver".
T.V. said on stage that he would be returning to Karlsruhe if possible (I'll try to be there as well)!
As it was late of course, I said goodbye to T.V. very quickly and went to my car (you guessed it, it was still raining), it was 1.45am, so I got home after 3am. On the motorway the rain was pouring down, I thought to myself "I'm a runaway rain-driver"...
However, in my hometown it hadn't rained that much, as the roads there were dry when I finally arrived. I was already looking forward to the gig in Stuttgart two days later, but that's another story!