After releasing a new album entitled “Calling All Corpses”, Wednesday 13 quite literally left a trail from Hollywood to Hell…city when he arrived here for the first time with his solo project at the last date of the recent Euro tour. I was fortunate to see two shows, the other one at the beginning of the tour in Berlin, only to have my mind blown twice.
“Tonight’s the night we drink your blood” goes the opening song as Wednesday appears on stage in full make up and judging by the looks of the crowd, they are quite ready to give him their blood, brains, liver… ah, whatever he asks for! The horror-themed lyrics as well as the whole show naturally attracted quite a peculiar audience, though, I have to admit, Germans put a lot more effort in their outfits than Finns. For instance, it was amusing to see a girl in Berlin wear nothing but white undies and a few stripes of white sticky tape around her body, while in Finland it never gets any different than the usual fishnets, corsets and smeared dark make up.
But back to Wednesday 13. His brilliant showmanship and insane charisma allow him to put on a show with minimum stage props yet still maximum amusement. As the concert went on, with the band going through old and new songs, such as “I Walked With A Zombie”, “Scream Baby Scream”, “From Here To The Hearse”, Wednesday was whipping the crowd into a non-stop-dance frenzy. There is something extremely entertaining in reveling in dark humour and lyrics about necrophilia. I had no reservations about jumping and singing along to “Happily Ever Cadaver” and then humming the song for the rest of the night, so what if it’s about wiping the maggots from someone’s eyes!
Frankly, Wed could easily sing about feeding porridge to his grandmother and people would still go bananas about it, because the flow of energy that accompanies his live show is impossible to resist. It’s like watching a scene from zombie apocalypse unfold before your eyes and dying to take part in it. If the stop-start ending of “I Want You Dead” doesn’t make you lose your shit, then I think it’s time you have a serious talk with yourself.
During the encore Wednesday finally sang “Bad Things” which was undoubtedly one of the most awaited songs that night, and the only disappointment was that “I Love To Say Fuck” was omitted from the set list. The show was closed with a song from the new album called “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, during which Wednesday instructed the crowd on the sing-along part where they had to shout “the dust” to “Where do you come from?” and “the grave” to “Where will you go to?” – an endless rollercoaster ride on top of a coffin lid.
To sum things up: this show was not only in this year’s top 3, but definitely close to the top of “all-time” list. It’s so good, you’re gonna crawl out of your grave just to see it again and again.
Text: Tanja Caciur
Photography: Nelly Tatti
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