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Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany18th December 2008
Westernhagen, Battlekat
The weather on this Thursday evening was anything but appealing; I could barely feel my hands anymore, in spite of my gloves, but eventually we entered the huge building that was called the Lanxess Arena and the warmth embraced us again. We’d never seen WESTERNHAGEN live before and our first live experience with him would turn out as something special not only for us as it turned out later.
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Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden13th December 2008
electriXmas Festival: Welle:Erdball, Agonoize, Interlace, Autodafeh, Biomekkanik
Being the follower of Virtual X-mas, electriXmas is taking place every year in December since 2002 and developed to one of Sweden’s most famous synth festivals. The line-up this year was again very mixed between “old” heroes of synth music and new talents. Acts from abroad belonged to the line-up as well as local bands. After the festival was taking place for several years in Lund, it moved to Malmö in 2007 and is now taking place at Inkonst, which is set in an old chocolate factory and is part of Kulturhuset Mazetti where it invites everything from experimental minority activities to well known events in theatre, music, dance, art and clubs.
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Alte Spinnerei, Glauchau, Germany6th December 2008
Zeraphine, Diorama, Darkcore
What do you do when DIORAMA announces on of the very rare concerts this year, even though it is hundreds of kilometres away? You go for a ride! And so it happened that I travelled far to see the band playing together with ZERAPHINE and DARK CORE on 6th December in Glauchau, a small Saxon city you might know for the well-known Woodstage festival taking place in the summer time. Announced as “Zeraphine and friends” you might have thought this would be a double-headliner show. But sometimes you are wrong…
What do you do when DIORAMA announces on of the very rare concerts this year, even though it is hundreds of kilometres away? You go for a ride! And so it happened that I travelled far to see the band playing together with ZERAPHINE and DARK CORE on 6th December in Glauchau, a small Saxon city you might know for the well-known Woodstage festival taking place in the summer time. Announced as “Zeraphine and friends” you might have thought this would be a double-headliner show. But sometimes you are wrong…
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Lagerhalle, Osnabrück, Germany5th December 2008
Großstadtgeflüster
On a dark and rainy evening, on 5th December 2008, I went to Osnabrück to enjoy GROSSSTADTGEFLÜSTER at their current tour. The band comes from Berlin and was formed in 2003 by Jen Bender and Raphael Schalz. Their debut album ‘Muss laut sein’ (Must be loud) was released in 2006 and included the independence hit ‘Ich muss gar nix’ which made the band well-known in the German independence scene. The current album called ‘Bis einer heult’ and was released at 30th May 2008. GROSSSTADTGEFLÜSTER are Jen Bender (vocals), Raphael Schalz (keys) and Chriz Falk (drums). http://www.gsgf.de/ / http://www.myspace.com/grossstadtgefluester
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Max Schmeling Halle, Berlin, Germany1st December 2008
Alice Cooper, Whitesnake, Five and the red one
The first thing to notice about the Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin is that it’s an impressive venue. It’s one of those large stadiums that you remember years after for the sheer volume of people and for the atmosphere that that many people, who are all enjoying themselves, can create. Facilities were good if expensive, but the staff was somewhat offhand and at times downright rude and unhelpful. Those few boggles aside, I was present at a gig where all concerned from the support act to ALICE COOPER himself were nothing short of electrifying and excellent.
- Anne Clark - Osnabrück 2008
- 2nd Electronic Aid Festival - Oberhausen 2008
- Farin Urlaub - Münster 2008
- Slipknot - Düsseldorf 2008
- Zeraphine - Berlin 2008
- Bullet for my Valentine - Düsseldorf 2008
- Subways, The - Münster 2008
- Ray Wilson & Stiltskin - Bochum 2008
- Oomph! - Osnabrück 2008
- Kaizers Orchestra - Düsseldorf 2008
