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Liberation Festival, Wageningen, The NetherlandsMay 5th 2006
Anathema and Transworld
It’s amazing how a band like Anathema is able to change a truly lousy day into something beautiful. The day before I already went to Hengelo to see my favourite band play. So for me it was Anathema two days in a row…. Couldn’t get any better…
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Rockweekend, America, the NetherlandsApril 22nd 2006
The Gecko Brothers, Clayborn, El Guapo Stuntteam, Model 101, Infa, Nailpin, Epica, Intwine
A few weeks before the festival the organisation of Rockweekend 2006 started panicking. The terrain which is normally used for this festival, couldn’t be used because some birds breeding their eggs on the terrain. So, they start looking for an alternative location and luckily they found one. It was only 5 km from the nearest train station. Well, they hired some busses to bring the visitors to Rockweekend. But nobody knew what time they came and so it comes that I had to wait with a few others for more then an hour. At least… That was told. But then a nice man with a little bus came to pick up a guy which had to work at Rockweekend and took us too. So sitting down in the sun on a small bench, I saw all artists arrive. With only 15 minutes left until the doors will be open, there are not many visitors. But then the first busses arrive and there is the public.
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Nighttown, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsMay 7th 2006
Fish, Odion Dragonfly
Before the show we (Edwin – interview, Cristel – pictures) had the pleasure of interviewing Fish. What a friendly and magnificent man he is… He was very accessible, interested and took the time for us to do the interview. He was very much looking forward to the show, so that promised to be a great night in Nighttown, Rotterdam.
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Matrix, Bochum, Germany
21st May 2006
Tito & Tarantula and Special Guest
Who doesn’t know the song ‘After Dark’ from the movie ‘From Dusk till Dawn’? Tito was in town and we took the chance to visit his show. As I entered the venue about 30 minutes before the show was supposed to start a quite large amount of people welcomed me in the foyer area. As the doors were opened some minutes later a constant flow was running to the stage and all were waiting for the band to come. But first there was ‘Special guest’ announced too… and in fact the band is really called that way.
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Röhre, Stuttgart, GermanyApril 26th 2006
Ensiferum, Orphaned Land, Spellbound, Noise Forest
This evening the final concert event of this year's 'Wacken Road Show'-tour took place in the 'Röhre' in Stuttgart. It was the fourth 'W.O.A. Road Show' under the motto "Wacken comes to your town!" so far; this concert series is conceived as a kind of warm-up for the festival in August. 'Ensiferum' and 'Noise Forest' had already played last year's 'W.O.A.'. Actually, the German band 'Knorkator' were to conclude this concert evening, but they had cancelled their show; instead, 'Noise Forest' got the chance to play. They were the first ones on stage to prove their skills. The 'Röhre', a modified tunnel section, is a pretty small venue for concerts; nevertheless, there was enough space, because the number of visitors really kept in limits. In the beginning, it seemed that most of them had more likely come to have a beer and a nice conversation. Near the entrance, a promotion stand offered its goods for sale - and everywhere you could see the obligatory skull. With a little delay the first band of the evening was finally announced and some people began moving towards the stage.
