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Published: 14 April 2015

Sentrum Scene, Olso, Norway
10th and 11th April 2015
Seigmen

In Norway everybody is talking about SEIGMEN these days! After nearly eighteen years, a great new album is published on April 13th called ‘Enola’. In March came a tremendous black and white SEIGMEN book with pictures made by the amazing Norwegian photographer Bjørn Opsahl including a gentle and deeply interesting biography written by Arvid Skancke-Knutsen, a well-known Norwegian music journalist. To celebrate the comeback of SEIGMEN the museum of pop-music, Popsenteret, in Oslo dedicated a whole floor to the band. The exhibition is called “Seigmen 1992 – 2014”, showing the history of SEIGMEN through articles, some band equipment and interviews of Alex Møklebust and Bjørn Opsahl which were filmed a few weeks ago. In a red room, really beautifully arranged, are shown some of Bjørns fantastic live pictures and band portraits. 

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Published: 13 April 2015

Zappa, Antwerp, Belgium
April 4th and 5th 2015
Black Easter Festival 2015 with Goethes Erben, Qntal, Rosa Crvx, Ataraxia, Sieben, The Breath of Life, Schneewittchen, Grausame Töchter, Lisa Morgenstern, Lizard Smile, Dark Poem, Hatchling

BodyBeats productions is perhaps best known for the BIMFEST festivals, covering mainly the electronic and industrial oriented bands. This year, however, they organised a completely new two day festival called Black Easter Festival and you don’t have to have a college degree to know it took place during Easter.

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Published: 13 April 2015

Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany
9th April 2015
Deichkind

A show of DEICHKIND just means party, including beer shower and bumping beats. Surely, the Hamburg based band is one of the best German live acts and their shows are always a big celebration. Lots of people usually are heading to the concerts and so, the show in Münster was of course sold out, like so many others…

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Published: 09 April 2015

Paaspop, Schijndel, The Netherlands
3rd to 5th April 2015
Paaspop Sunday: July Talk, The Gentle Storm, Vintage Trouble, Nothing But Thieves, The Black Marble Selection, Liptease, Sven Hammond, Against Me!, Peter Pan Speedrock

Rise and shine was easy on Paaspop Sunday: the weather had improved and the sun was already warming the party people at the festival compound. Unfortunately, this didn’t change much at the muddy parking meadow and tractors were still working busy hours to get the cars in and out. I decided to be creative today and brought my bike so I could park somewhere else and cycle the last few miles. No more worries about nightly drifting adventures! Anyhow, the sun was shining and the beer still tasted good on this final day at Paaspop. Today I will be focusing more on the smaller stages where loads of (potentially) interesting bands have been scheduled.

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Published: 09 April 2015

Eventwerk, Dresden, Germany
29th March 2015
E-Werk Ost Festival with Head-less, Torul, Solitary Experiments, De/Vision and VNV Nation

One day after the E-Tropolis Festival in Oberhausen, I headed for the E-Werk Ost Festival in Dresden. A short interlude after a 5 hours journey in Leipzig, catching up on some sleep, then into the estate car with my dear companion heading towards the Saxonian capital to see HEAD-LESS, TORUL, SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS, DE/VISION and VNV NATION again. And to interview SOLITARY EXPERIMENTS (expect the interview soon).

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