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Waschhaus, Potsdam, Berlin
24th February 2007
Terminal Choice
It was my first time at the Waschhaus Potsdam: a small, long hall with a comfortable atmosphere. It was a cool alternative to any club in Berlin. The concert should start at 21:00, but TERMINAL CHOICE (TC) were late. We had to wait 40 minutes - maybe a good decision of Chris and accessory. In the course of time more and more people gathered together. At the beginning this little hall almost was empty. Across the deceleration it became slowly fuller.
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Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany20th February 2007
Billy Talent, Alexisonfire, Enter Shikari
With only two albums Canadian Punk Rockers BILLY TALENT pitchforked their way to the top. While their self-titled debut album, released 2003, was success-wise a slow grower which finally built a cult following for the band, the second album - simply titled ‘II’ and released last June - was like an explosion. BILLY TALENT’s popularity has been multiplied since then, the singles ‘Red Flag’ and ‘Fallen Leaves’ are on high rotation on MTV Europe, so it’s no surprise that BILLY TALENT are playing now venues which are three times bigger as the ones they did back in autumn 2005. About time to catch up with BILLY TALENT!
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Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany22nd February 2007
Northern Light, The World Domination
After I have seen both bands not long ago – exactly in November – in Münster during a club night I was looking very much forward a usual club gig. After the band took place in the Bundesvision Song Contest (where Oomph! Was the winner) the band is drawing more and more attention. In their home town Erfurt in Thuringia, they are playing in front of some thousands of people. But not in Krefeld, there they were scheduled for the small club in the Kulturfabrik which means it was a very intimate concert. Support act was again THE WORLD DOMINATION.
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Rock Line, Tournai, BelgiumFebruary 3rd 2007
Skeptical Minds, AmAndA, Ghiribizzi
Rock Line is a small venue, actually a “rock café” where the backstage is also the front stage! The nice thing about this is that as soon as you enter the room you meet with the band members, can have a chat and eventually a beer with them. The inconvenience is that the stage is tiny and the light very poor, just a few static spots and a couple of disco like gobo flowers, which does not make the life of the photographer easy. On the other hand, as you can walk beside the stage, it is an opportunity to get closer to the drummers, which is quite unusual but an interesting and vibrating experience.
Rock Line is a small venue, actually a “rock café” where the backstage is also the front stage! The nice thing about this is that as soon as you enter the room you meet with the band members, can have a chat and eventually a beer with them. The inconvenience is that the stage is tiny and the light very poor, just a few static spots and a couple of disco like gobo flowers, which does not make the life of the photographer easy. On the other hand, as you can walk beside the stage, it is an opportunity to get closer to the drummers, which is quite unusual but an interesting and vibrating experience.
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Bibelot, Dordreht, The Netherlands26th January 2007
Stream of Passion, Morning
Tonight it would be the last show for the time being for Arjen Lucassen's band Stream Of Passion to play in The Netherlands. With only a few shows left to play in the UK they now stood in the sold out venue Bibelot, a former church in Dordrecht. At that time they were still unaware of the nightmare that was about to happen in Calais where they had to take the ferry to England. The band never made it to the UK. The Mexican bandmembers were detained by officers of the British Immigration Service, who were convinced they would take illegal residence in the UK. But okay, back to the Bibelot... It took quite a long time before we could enter the venue. That wasn't really amusing, because it was cold outside, and so were the security members. It took some effort to enter the building for the venue's paperwork was messed up. Parts of the guestlists were lost and I almost couldn't bring my camera with me.
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