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Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany29th September 2006
Newcomer Contest "Metal": Firereign, Scratched Surface, Mindead, Soulsick and Crowd in Anger
This Friday evening the Longhorn in Stuttgart had called all the metal heads from the surrounding areas to a Newcomer Metal Contest. In the run-up to this event there had been an online voting; each band not signed so far and with its own web presence had the possibility to apply for this voting. Five bands, namely FIREREIGN from Esslingen, SCRATCHED SURFACE from Göppingen, MINDEAD from Stuttgart, SOULSICK from Zwiefalten and CROWD IN ANGER from Ostelsheim had survived the online poll and now had the opportunity to play on the Longhorn stage in front of a bigger audience and maybe get one of the prizes. About 300 Metal-hooked people had found their way to the venue. The jury, consisting among others of the FARMER BOYS’ drummer Till Hartmann and representatives of Nuclear Blast and metal.de, would estimate the bands' music and performance and announce the winners when the contest came to its end. The prizes were money and another possibility for a live performance. My favorites, the congenial CROWD IN ANGER, finished third, FIREREIGN won second prize and MINDEAD were the night's winners.
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Phillipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany11th November 2006
Farin Urlaub (Racing Team)
Jan Vetter, better known as FARIN URLAUB (like German "Fahr in Urlaub!" ("Go on vacation!"); he chose this artist name according to his love for traveling) was born on October 27 1963 in former West Berlin, Germany. He is best known as the guitarist/vocalist for the German punk band DIE ÄRZTE. In 2001, URLAUB started his solo career with the album "Endlich Urlaub!" ("Vacation at Last!", which can also be read as pun on his pseudonym, "Urlaub" meaning "vacation", as in, "Urlaub at Last!"). "Am Ende der Sonne" ("At the End of the Sun") was released in 2005 and his latest album, “Live album of Death”, was released on February 3rd 2006. http://www.farin-urlaub.de/
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013,Tilburg, The NetherlandsSeptember 23rd 2006
Disturbed, Nevermore and The Zico Chain
Just a couple of days before the completely sold out gig we learned that we could go to the gig as press. It was a big, but very welcome surprise.
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Funaberia 2, Lodz, Poland4th November 2006
Gothic Festival 3: Empire in Dust, Controlled Collapse, Agonised By Love, Head-less, Covenant
Gothic.pl Festival has been organized for three times so far and it commemorates launching of the portal Gothic.pl. The first Fest took place in the club Przestrzen Graffenberga in Warsaw on 11th Sept. 2004 and it attracted 250 people. The line-up of the first edition was as follows: Miguel And The Living Dead, The Act, No Signal Detected, Agonised By Love, Torhaus. The headliner was the Slovakian artists Lahka Muza. In 2005 the fest was located in Proxima in Warsaw on 2-3rd Oct. and the line-up covered totally 12 bands i.e. Diary Of Dreams and Diorama. Additionally there were: Painbastard (de), Rumours About Angels, Silence (Slovenia), Deathcamp Project, The Act, Miguel And The Living Dead, D’archangel, No Signal Detected, Carnal, Eve Of Destiny (jp). Above 500 people participated in the fest.
http://www.festival.gothic.pl/
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Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany10th November 2006
The Crüxshadows and Ego Likeness
On Friday the 10th November we went to KREFELD into the KULTURFABRIK to visit one of my favorite bands - THE CRÜXSHADOWS. On our arrival at the KULTURFABRIK some people already were waiting outside the door and the doors were open. The evening started with the support band EGO LIKENESS.
