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Sunday 13th July, Berlin. I am just back from a trip to Klodzko, Poland where I wanted to visit the Alternatywna Twierdza Festival announcing German DIARY OF DREAMS as headliner of the fest. The band was there, the crew was there, lots of fans were there, but the show did not take place. Now you might wonder what had happened...

Maybe I should start a bit earlier when GMX and laut.de published an article end of June 2008 dealing with the fact that a self-constituted “Commission for defence against sects” announced to take part in future decisions which bands are allowed to perform in Poland or not. First prominent victims of this comissions were MARILYN MANSON and MOONSPELL. This ominous commission is compiling a list of bands proclaiming “dangerous messages”. MOONSPELL i.e. were called satanists and fascists. If you think this is some kind of joke I must tell you that you’re wrong. Some Polish policy-makers want to follow this list which is not open to the public. An anchor man of the interior ministry even announced that he considers this list a good instrument against sects.

Now you ask what this all has to do with DIARY OF DREAMS? If you have thought the ethic discussion in the vinyl printing plant for the ‘Nekrolog Redux’ vinyl calling DOD to be black magicians was somithing strange and totally ununderstandable, you now will be totally shocked... In Poland it got much worse.

The evening before the festival, some Catholic fanatics – I wonder if the knew about the above mentioned list – were cutting the power cables and organisators of the festival did anything to get the power back to make the fest at least happen. On Saturday at around five, the power was finally back and so, very late, the sound check of all four bands was going to start, lasting until short before eight... a time when the bands were supposed to play for two hours already. But all of a sudden, just when the first band was going to start, a big bang announced terrible things to come.



As we found out short after, those fanatics – and here I am quoting the promoter – were cutting the power cables again to make sure with this action that DIARY OF DREAMS, whom they also called satanists, had no chance to perform. Sadly, the promoter had to announce that it would take at least six hours to get the power back and that there won’t be any concert this night. All bands packed their stuff and both German bands – DIARY OF DREAMS and DIGITAL FACTOR – even went back all the long way to Germany because they feared that their equipment won’t be save anymore.

You cannot imagine the emotions boiling inside of me after these news. Discomposure, incredulity, incomprehension, enormous sadness but above all unimaginable anger made me nearly bursting. There are no words for the bigotry of religious fanatics. I am sure they did not even had a single look into the lyrics of DOD. If they had they would know that these guys are anything else but satanic. At the moment I am really frightened where this whole development will lead to. Somehow this reminds of historic times where no other opinion that the own one was tolerated. Free will? Nothing of that allowed to others...

Congratulations – you’re so pitiful
Congratulations – you’re so immature

Those words of front man Adrian Hates out off the song ‘Congratulations’ fit so very well for those fanatics.

Well folks, let me tell you something, if you think the band get discouraged by such actions and you would avoid the band playing in Poland anymore, you are 100% wrong. The band will come back sooner or later!

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