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LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany
22nd December 2006
Die Happy, Itchy Poopzkid
In the year 2000, there was hardly a day passing without DIE HAPPY's song "Supersonic Speed" played by some radio station or on some music channel in Germany; nearly every teenager or person interested in pop/rock music knew them, or at least this one song. The album of the same name, their first long player with really professional production, brought them relatively high chart entries in Germany and was the key to their success. Nowadays it has become a little quieter around the band from Ulm/Germany, though they are still quite successful. I had already seen, or plain-spoken heard them at the South Side Open Air Festival in 2001, where they played at about 11 in the morning. This evening I was curious to see them perform at a much better and more adequate time of day, and also was looking forward to their support band - ITCHY POOPZKID - of which I had previously already heard quite a lot of good things. The Longhorn in Stuttgart was well filled with fans of all ages and styles, and with a little delay the good-humoured guys from ITCHY POOPZKID entered the stage.
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Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany
3rd February 2007
ADVANCED ELECTRONICS FESTIVAL: Suicide Commando, Soman, Frozen Plasma, Unter Null
Just three days before the event I got my ticket because I only shortly decided to visit the festival. The Advanced Electronics Festival celebrated the fifth edition of the “Advanced Electronics” sampler series. So I couldn’t let the chance go to enjoy the performance of one of the most known acts in scene since nearly 20 years. As I arrived at the Kulturfabrik most of the parking-lot wasn’t filled so far and entering the hall I recognized that it wasn’t filled well either. The concert didn’t seem to be sold out. Until the middle of the first band performance only a few people filled the hall.
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Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany27th January 2007
Elektrisch! Festival: Mechanical Cabaret, Purwien, X-perience, Mesh
On 9th February, MAJOR RECORDS and RE-FLEXION will release the interesting compilation ELEKTRISCH! 2. The release will include 28 tracks from various bands of the international electro scene. Involved are famous bands like Erasure, Camouflage, Client, Mesh and more. Collateral to the upcoming release a club tour took place with X-PERIENCE, MESH, MECHANICAL CABARET and PURWIEN. During this ELEKTRISCH CLUB TOUR on 27th January we went to KREFELD - the last gig on this tour because the primary last gig in HANNOVER has been cancelled by the local presenter. The fans in DRESDEN were also disappointed due the bad weather - a lot of snow blocked the streets and the band had a tight schedule, so unfortunately the show in DRESDEN had to be cancelled as well. The evening in Krefeld should be a special event, because Mesh wanted to record their performance for a Live DVD.
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Lucky & Co, Rijssen, The NetherlandsA year after their first ever concert in Eindhoven the band had returned to the Netherlands to the venue where they'd recored their dvd. A mixed crowd of people who on the whole were quite a bit older than at concerts of other gothic metal related bands filled up the nice venue in Rijssen.
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Biebob, Vosselaer, Belgium21 January 2007
Stream of Passion featuring Ayreon
Less than one year after their first tour, Stream of Passion were coming back to Biebob, for the third gig of a short tour of seven concerts in Northern Europe. The multinational Stream of Passion with increasing international recognition is a gothic metal band formed in 2005 by the Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen following a rock opera project named Ayreon comprising seven albums produced between 1995 and 2004. With Ayreon, Arjen Lucassen, after having played as guitarist for various bands since 1980, wanted to make music the way he has always wanted or dreamed about, without any constraint. The result is a collection of experimental music with various styles mixing various prog, pop and rock influences in a very subtle way.
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- Accession Festival - Krefeld 2006
- Arnhem Metal Meeting - Arnhem 2006
- The Gathering - Delft 2006
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