WAVE GOTING TREFFEN is not a usual festival. Again there are several great events around the usual concerts:
When We Were Young III
The official “Old School Goth Aftershow Party” WHEN WE WERE YOUNG will take place fort he third Time now in the frame of the festival - again this year in the glittering building of the “Volkspalast” on the old “Messegelände” (Prager Straße 200 (Alte Messe, Halle 16), 04103 Leipzig). On the tables, you’ll get nine well-known international DJs from five different countries playing Goth, Deathrock, Post Punk, Indie and Batcave. This selection promises a delicate evening for all fans of any sort of dark guitar sounds far away from Metal. To accompany the music, several rare Goth videos will be shown.
Details:
Friday, 25th May 2007 ~Monstertanz~
Darlin' Grave (Dead & Buried, All gone dead, UK)
CCCP (Onderstroom, Living in Oblivion, NL)
chRIstian P. (Skeletal Remains, D)
Saturday, 26th May 2007 ~Cryptkickers~
Rickbats (Stiches, Decayed Lace, USA)
Thomas Thyssen (Pagan Love Songs, Randbewegung, D)
Jürgen Jakob (Judgement Day, ex-Strobelight Records, AT)
Sunday, 27th May 2007 ~Creepshow~
Scary Lady Sarah (American Gothic Productions, USA)
Dave Bats (Release the Bats, USA)
Ralf Thyssen (Pagan Love Songs, D)
Place: "Kantine" at the “Volkspalast”
Start: Midnight
End: open
more information: http://wgt.resurrection.nl/
Monumentum II - Licht sehen: 25th May 2007 / 23:12 Völkerschlachtdenkmal Leipzig
The 91 metres high “Völkerschlachtdenkmal” is one of the best known monuments in
Germany. No one can escape from its giant charisma. From the start, this monument was fascinating with its spiritual power you could feel when seeing it and entering it. As an opening event for this year’s WGT, the exceptional architecture and atmosphere of the monument will be accented in an unique synthesis of light and sound.British band IN THE NURSERY – well-known for ambitious composing work at the border from classical to electronic music – created just for this event a piece of musical art based on the works i.e. of Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Franz Liszt and Edvard Grieg. All of those artists had a special relation to Leipzig. Their compositions had been interwoven to a new entity through the brothers Klive and Nigel Humberstone who will also make music at that evening.
With never seen complex light arrangements in eight dramaturgical layers, the contours, surface and structures of the monument will be drawn with light. So, the building will be pulled out of the dark step by step and brought to life. MONUMENTUM II will present an unforgettable artistic scenery. Entrance to this event is free.
GLITTER+TRAUMA ++ A QUEER WAVE PARTYWhitsun in Leipzig is traditionally black. Zacker invites the “queer” subculture to their official WGT party on Friday, 25th May. Gay-lesbian Gothic boys and girls can look forward to a wild and dark-pink dance night. Musically, the night will move between Guitar Wave, Gothic Classics, New Wave, Sub80s, Minimal Elektro, Indieschock, Postpunk and Queer Rock'n'Roll. As a highlight, lovelovelove from Montreal will enter the stage with an extravagant concert. No tears for the creatures of the night!
Details:
Freitag, 25th May 2007 from 22:00
Volkshaus + Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 32 + 04107 Leipzig
concert: lovelovelove [Montreal/Berlin]
Entrance: free for visitors with WGT wrist band, others 5 euros
Info: http://www.glitter-trauma.de/
Specials: “Street-Art” Decoration by Möe, movies, special drinks, “Lounge”, free button,
Verdi's “Requiem” with a breathtaking choir of more than 150 singers
For this extraordinary event, the capacity for WGT visitors is limited. Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” is surely one of the most haunting and most monumental choir works ever and can be hardly beaten in its drama and emotionality.
Guiseppe Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Musical director: Riccardo Chailly
Choir production: Sören Eckhoff
Choir of the Leipzig opera, Gewandhaus choir, additional choir of the Leipzig opera
Gewandhaus orchestra
Sopran - Ines Salazar
Mezzosopran - Maria José Montiel
Tenor - Massimo Giordano
Bass - Ildar Abdrasakov
Friday, 25th May 20:00 / Saturday, 26th May 20:00, Gewandhaus
Duration: ca. 1 hour 30 minutes without break
Source: Press information
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