On 23rd of January there was a special show of Alkaline Trio in Cologne. The band was on promo tour for the upcoming record release of „This Addiction“ and played a show in the „Luxor“ in front of 400 people.

When we entered the venue we didn’t know if there would be a support band or not but finally there was a German support named „Lo Parker“ opening the evening. The Luxor was quite crowded but not sold out and Lo Parker did their best to activate the audience.

When the Trio finally entered the stage they directly started with „This Addiction“ and afterwards a very drunken Matt Skiba said hello and explained the audience how it is to drink a campari at Cologne Cathedral at 5 a.m in the morning (with temperatures quite some points below 0). He explained that this would be the first show 2010 and the first show playing some tracks of the new record and we should forgive him if not everything would be perfect.

We didn’t mind at all and the audience was able to  keep up with the lyrics so nobody seemed to care if Matt could remember them or not. A quite awkward moment was a little fight between Dan Andriano & Matt Skiba on stage when Dan yelled at Matt but they seemed to have balanced that until the end of the show, even though Dan wasn’t able to hide the fact that he was quite upset for the rest of the evening (which can be easily seen in the pictures of the concert).

Totally a funny and great evening.

Setlist:

This Addiction
Fatally Yours
If We Never
Time To Waste
In Vein
Cringe
Skeletons
Dine Dine
We’ve Had Enough
Dead On The Floor
Private Eye
Old School Reasons
Crawl
Stupid Kid
Off The Map (gespielt wurde: Blue In The Face)
Peter
This Could Be Love
Radio