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It was announced quite a while ago that the DIARY OF DREAMS tour accompanying the release of ‘(if)’ would be a festival tour with three more bands. Leading the band through different European countries I decided to follow the band on 12 out of 17 shows. The first part was more or less my home match when I went to Bochum, Cologne, Netherlands and Belgium.
Friday, 9th October 2009, Matrix, Bochum, Germany
Today it was finally starting, the INTO DARKNESS TOUR with DEATHSTARS, DIARY
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14:00. I quickly left the office heading home for a quick shower, feeding the cats and grab my stuff to drive to Bochum where I first checked in at the hotel. At 18.30 I arrived at the Matrix in Bochum, just in time when the doors were supposed to open. But they didn’t. First no one knew what’s happening there. But all around was a lot of police what made people think. At around seven, finally some guy from the security came out to explain the situation: There was an Islamite bomb thread, he said, and the police is currently still searching down there in the club. But
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After telling us all these things, memories at our last trip to Poland came into mind. Somehow always something happens when we want to see DIARY OF DREAMS. Because we still had to wait quite a while, we entered the supermarket nearby to have some coffee and sit in the warmth while waiting. Meanwhile, the queue was getting longer and longer. Finally at 10 to 8, the doors opened, a lot of police was watching the entrance procedure and there were dogs and stuff. Somehow quite threatening! It took very long to get all people in and when DOPE STARS INC. finally started more than one hour
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The whole evening turned out in a way that the band were skipping some tracks from their setlists because there was a party after the concerts and they could not play much longer than midnight. As for the shows, all bands were welcomed from the very start and celebrated the band. I was stuck in the photo pit until DEATHSTARS started. After some songs of taking pics, I left the hall to meet some friends outside at the merchandising booth. And even though you did not have any mobile reception it worked out perfectly to meet them. We had some nice chats, some drinks and a little surprise: for my birthday a few days before, my friends brought a little cake
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It was such a relief to see the band after a long time (well, long time for us) again. Today, we got a little surprise when it comes to the keyboarder. There was someone new on stage, Mauri who is usually playing drums in Gaun:A’s band STONED AGE. The DIARY OF DREAMS setlist on the evening was very powerful and fast containing several news songs such as ‘Wahn!Sinn?’, ‘The Chain’, ‘The Wedding’ and of course the new single ‘King of Nowhere’ just released on the day of the concert
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After the concerts we stayed at the club for a while, watching all the strange creatures of the night passing our way while we had a few more drinks and chats. Around three we finally fell into our hotel beds just to get refreshed for the coming concert day in Cologne.
Saturday, 10th October 2009, Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany
Wisdom of the day: If there is powder, there is also vinegar. Ok, now you think what weird people the hell are writing this article? Well, the explanation will follow later.
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We were getting up not too late in Bochum, called a cab to drive us back to the Matrix club where we still had my car waiting. In the cafe of the nearby supermarket we first had some nice breakfast to get refreshed for the things to come. And what was coming for us was crazy and absolutely funny. The funny part started when we entered out hotel room... Imagine four girls all together in a small Formule 1 hotel room. Just getting ready there for the evening, having some champagne and some sweets made us laugh the entire afternoon. We decided to get ready early to first go into the city, have a look at the dome, walk around a bit and then have some beer and some food at one of Cologne’s famous breweries.
It was already getting a bit late and we had to check where the venue was. We only knew the street but not, where in this street it was. So we decided to walk the street
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Next band coming up was LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE and now it was much more relaxed for me to take pics. The band performed pretty well today and people clapped along to such songs like ‘Amber Girl’ or ‘My Mescaline’. The Cologne audience was much to my surprise very outgoing and celebrated already the second band of the evening. Many of the attending people only were waiting for the band coming up next, Swedish DEATHSTARS who have quite a following by now especially within the females. Extroverted as always, the band entered the stage after some SATYRICON song used as intro and started with the title track of the latest album, ‘Night Electric Night’. Loud cheers and clapping followed the band during all songs including smashers such as well-known ‘Blitzkrieg’. Turned out as a great show, much better than the day before, what can
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The mood on stage seemed to be much better than the day before and also the audience was louder, wilder and more into what was going on stage. The fast and aggressive set seemed to perfectly meet the taste of the audience even though several people seemed to miss ‘Traumtänzer’ in the set. I for myself was not too sad about this because the presented songs including ‘The Wedding’, ‘Poison Breed’, ‘King of Nowhere’ or ‘The chain’ from the current album as well as ‘The Plague’, ‘Soul Stripper’ or ‘Kindrom’ from older releases perfectly met my preferences as well. Also today the set was ended by the faster version of ‘AmoK’ as first encore and ‘The Curse’ as final song. Even though the audience was screaming long and loudly, there was no further encore.
After the show, I met my friends all again at the merch stand where we had more conversations. Members from the first three bands also were there to give some
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Some food now at a Burger King, lots of laughing until four in the morning and finally, four tired girls fell asleep in this tiny hotel room.
Sunday, 11th October 2009, Luxor Live, Arnhem, Netherlands
I left Cologne at 10.30 in the morning. It was grey and raining. The ride to
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Anything there worked out smoothly. Anyone was very kind. And what a venue! It looked amazing. Somehow like an old theatre with lots of decorations, a very nice balcony and hundreds of small lights in the ceiling glowing in deep red when we
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Perfectly in time at seven, the Italians entered the stage for their vivid and entertaining performance. Due to the fact we had this balcony in the venue, I watched most of the show from there having a great few onto what was happening on stage and having some new perspective for pictures. Always nice to have
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Then it was already time for the band I was mainly doing this tour, DIARY OF DREAMS. While they are headliner in Germany, they play on the third spot in the foreign countries. The Setlist was the same like during the both shows before, just without the encores because there was this limited time of an hour to perform. And
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When the show had ended, there was only little more time to chat and we already left very early. Back on the highway, light were passing by and I was alone with my thoughts again.
Monday, 12th October 2009, Biebob, Vosselaar, Belgium
A very sunny autumn day welcomed me today. At noon I left my friend’s place and I found myself back on the highway soon. Due to the great weather I decided not to
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The venue, called Biebob, seemed to be more something for Metal heads and also the audience tonight came more from the Metal corner and so, most people were eagerly waiting for the DEATHSTARS headlining tonight’s evening. I saw several
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Following LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE was well received by the audience as well, especially their songs ‘Amber Girl’ or ‘Ave End’ again closing the set. Following up was DIARY OF DREAMS attracting the attention of several fans coming just to see
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Today, members of all bands were out off the backstage just like on the day before, and were taking some time for all the fans who wanted some pictures with the bands, autographs or just some Smalltalk. I had a pretty easy day and so I stayed for a while as well. It was nearly three when I finally went to bed after emptying a bottle of white wine. Next day I saw myself on the highway again already at 9:00 in the morning. A lot of work was waiting at home before I was going to the next part of the tour, starting off in Frankfurt again.
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All pictures by Daniela Vorndran (http://www.vorndranphotography.com/ / http://www.black-cat-net.de/ / www.myspace.com/vorndranphotography)
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