This gig was booked at the last minute. Magma played the Nearfest festival the very next day, so this was a good warm-up gig for Magma. I expected a very small audience, given the facts that it was in Brooklyn and that most Magma fans would already be at Nearfest. But, about 200 rabid Magma lovers showed up. I brought my son to his second Magma show, and he loved it.
Magma played a good gig, and the fans would not let them leave the stage. The promoters were very strict about keeping Magma to a 90 minute time limit, because after the Magma show, the club was to turn into a disco. As we left the club, there was a line of people who looked like they were ready to do The Hustle until the wee hours of the morning.
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I was at the Magma show at Club Europa (my first Magma concert) and while all these facts are correct I recall Magma playing the saturday night show and Hawkwind the following Monday (2 days later). Hawkwind had very little merchandise (a shirt and 2 CDs) and Magma had none, after the show I went to "Other Music" on 8th street to get my hands on some Magma music and everything was sold out and not because of the Club Europa show.
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