The opening ten minutes of this show alone was worth the price of admission. Beginning with a metal framework about the size of a table-tennis table, various members of the group from Berlin scraped, smashed and stuck together a bizarre collection of scrap metal chains, bars, tubes and cylinders to create a rising crescendo of industrial noise while building a “machine” that eventually stretched the width of the stage. An accompanying narrative was printed out on a series of whiteboards held aloft by the singer Blixa Bargeld: “War does not break out . . . it stretches and grows to legendary, heroic, oversized proportions . . .”
Much the same could be said about this suite, which Einstürzende Neubauten first performed earlier this month in