On October 13th, 2012 the first Jean Michel Jarre fan meeting in Germany took place in Frankfurt after 3 months of preparations. Thomas Gruberski arrived the day before and the build-up of the equipment started. Soundchecks and rehearsals lasted until late in the night. Alain Pype followed on Saturday morning with the Space Art equipment. The rest of the band arrived in the afternoon.
The meeting started at 11:30 h. As tickets the fans got tickes of the cancelled Jarre concert in Düsseldorf 1994. On the walls fans could watch a discography with record covers and a list of Jarre concerts with concert photos. There was also a stall with Jarre articles like e.g. posters, magazines, CDs, photos etc. On a big screen a slide show with concert photos was shown, followed by a film of Jean Michel’s Monaco concert.

At 3 o’clock Thomas Gruberskis’ concert „Spacetime Adventures“ started. Thomas already played at Jarre fanmeetings (e.g. in Belgium) in the past and has released 3 CDs with own compositions. He played, together with Klemens Trenkle on percussions, a great mix of own songs and Jarre tracks, accompanied by a complex Show of lights, lasers and video projections. The audience, even the people who didn’t know his music until then were thrilled and there was a lot of applause. The tracks he played were the following: Chronologie 1, Photonic Rainbow, Equinoxe 4, Omnipresence IV, Nanometric Part 2&3, Hey Gagarin (Thomas Gruberski Remix), The sons of creation I, Take 03, The Sons Pf Creation II, The Sons Of Creation III, Hyper Glide, Chronologie 4, Magnetic Fields 2, Oxygene 8 and (as the encore) Omnipresence II. After the concert there was a “run” of the fans to buy Thomas’s CDs and get them signed.
Meanwhile Dominique Perrier and his French musicians had arrived. They also were impressed by Thomas’s performance and compositions.

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