Earlier this year Leaves' Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine announced her annual European solo shows would feature former Theatre Of Tragedy bandmate Raymond Rohonyi as a special guest. BraveWords scribe Carl Begai caught up with the duo during the tour; following is an excerpt from the interview.

CB: Any chance of a live DVD to commemorate the tour? It’s a reunion that nobody expected…

Ray: “I hope not. I really hate seeing myself on screen…”

Liv: “I don’t know. I’m kind of old fashioned. I really like the old style of things: you go to a concert, you have that experience, you go home with great memories of that night.”

CB: How about dragging Ray kicking and screaming into the studio to record a song or two? For old time’s sake. That, and you know the diehard Theatre of Tragedy fans would lose their minds.

Liv: “You know what’s going to happen. The last album that was produced at Mastersound was the Leaves’ Eyes album (King Of Kings), so next up is a Liv Kristine solo album. I would really like to have Tosso (Thorsten Bauer / guitars) write a song with Ray in mind. I’ve told the record company it’s going to be in the same vein as Vervain and that it would be perfect to have Ray on the album.”

Ray: “We talked about it the other day, and Liv would like to have me on the album growling for her upcoming recordings. It doesn’t mean I’m back in the music business, though. There still some of it left in me so that I enjoy performing, but I don’t want to do the business thing again. It doesn’t make any sense to do that unless you do as Liv’s done with having these other bands and the studio and all that. It’s especially difficult being in the music business if you live in Norway because it’s so damn expensive, too.”

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Fan-filmed video from the show in Moscow, Russia at the Volta Club can be viewed below.

The setlist on the night was as follows:

“Vervain”
“Venus” *
“A Hamlet For A Slothful Vassal” *
“My Wilderness”
“Paris Paris”
“Cassandra” *
“On Whom the Moon Doth Shine” *
“Image”
“Panic”
“Let You Down”
“Siren” *
“Machine” *
“Black As The Devil Painteth” *

Encore:
“Commute” *
“Love Decay”
“Der Tanz der Schatten” *

* with Raymond Rohonyi