Good things take longer time. More than two years DIARY OF DREAMS fans had to wait, to pray and to… erm… drool. Not it has arrived DIARY OF DREAMS’ first ever Live DVD in their 15 years spanning band history.
Getting me fingers on Nine In Numbers I was a little bit disappointed. The DVD comes as digi-pack, twice folded, well designed in fact but very simple. Pictures on in the inside, the DVD itself and nothing else. No booklet.
Nine In Numbers contains one recorded show from the Nigredo tour in 2005, photos from the shooting in Iceland, the making of that session (short, nothing special, really) and a 30 minutes interview in German with English subtitles. Credits and that’s that! No bonus material, nothing special, nothing rare.
The show itself you better watch without the fragments, which are small interludes between the songs, consisting of mazy dolly rides, recording a conglomeration of the daily life on tour or forest walks as seen in The Blair Witch Project. These fragments get underlaid by very old DIARY OF DREAMS songs you sorely miss during the live show.
The stage is dark, typical for DIARY OF DREAMS, bad for the camera team, because if you want to film you need some sort of light. This way you always again get some blurred sequences. But, since there are no hectic dolly rides during the show the bad light gets balanced. The band’s stage performance is known, although I sensed out a more in choreography, too exerted as for me. Adrian Hates acted butten up till the chin, as usual. While watching him playing you start really carrying about his welfare. He must hellish sweet under his coat. He does away his coat and unleashes his hair perfectly staged in Soulstripper. Obvious and striking though. His guitar play you can see but not hear. I do not know what happened to the sound in this matter.
The setlist is debatable. As for me I would have liked a different setlist ;)
However, my summary? Hmm… since there is absolutely nothing available in this matter Nine In Numbers is a must-have for every DIARY OF DREAM fan. No chance to survive without that piece ;) Generally speaking this DVD is well-done and reflects what the band is about. Though, especially because they are perfectionists, I had expected a bit more. So be it!

Setlist: MenschFeind, Reign Of Chaos, The Curse, Giftraum, Methusalem, Chemicals, Play God!, Butterfly: Dance!, Soul Soulstripper, Psycho-Logic, Traumtänzer, AmoK