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Published: 22 June 2013

Amphitheater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
21st June 2013
Dead Can Dance & David Kuckhermann

When DEAD CAN DANCE visited us last time in October, for the first time after seven years with the new album ‘Anastasis‘, the first one after 16 years, the announcement of the tour alone was causing sheer excitement. Within a glimpse, all five shows were sold-out. And any single show was a revelation. As if they never had a break, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry were performing on stage. And now, they are back in Germany again!

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Published: 21 June 2013

Live-Music-Hall, Cologne, Germany
20th June 2013
The Smashing Pumpkins & NO

With hits such as ‘Disarm’, ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ and ‘1979’, Billy Corgan and his band can be counted as one of the biggest rock bands from the nineties. After a break, the band reformed in 2005, releasing the album ‘Zeitgeist’ in 2007. Their newest work blends well with the old classics resulting in the perfect material for a series of live shows. It’s to be called rather unique to see THE SMASHING PUMPKINS in a relatively small venue instead of the big arena’s and festivals! The Live-Music-Hall in Cologne was sold-out months before the show, so this was promising to be a hot boiling event!

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Published: 20 June 2013

Rosenhof, Osnabrück, Germany
19th June 2013
Bob Geldof

His latest solo album ‘How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell’ was released in 2011, being presented live at an exclusive show case in Berlin and is presented now to a wider audience. BOB GELDOF, the legendary Live-Aid initiator and ex front-man of the BOOMTOWN RATS, who was knighted by the British Queen, always said that he – as a child of the sixties – is generally only interested in two things: music and politics. And so, he connects those two interests in his music. We took our chance to see this extraordinary musician live on stage on Osnabrück on the so far hottest day of the year, turning the Rosenhof into some kind of sauna.

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Published: 18 June 2013

Stade de France, Paris, France
15th June 2013
Depeche Mode & Douglas J. McCarthy

So here I am in this giant French stadium named "Le Stade de France". I didn't want to go and see them in my homeland (UK) as English crowds has never been the most supportive for DEPECHE MODE shows. My heart balanced between Germany and France until last minute and it's due to luck that I'd managed to find last minute tickets for Paris. The atmosphere was the closest you could find to the Pasadena's cult concert, at least in our imagination as few of us was really there. I won't go through a detailed track by track review and will manage to go straight to the point: I hated this concert.

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Published: 17 June 2013

Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland
30th May 2013
Epica

Dutch symphonic-metal band EPICA is closing down their gig activity at the end of June, since Simone is expecting a baby. Yet, before this is happening, EPICA was apparently put up quite a tour, with places to visit in some past months such as Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Russia, Australia, Dubai and Mexico. (Everyone be envious of flight miles they collected in the meantime). The tour is promoting their 2012 album ‘Requiem for the Indifferent’. They do not plan a dense schedule, when a band plays every day, rather aiming for some really wide coverage. Thankfully, EPICA likes Finland and won't mind playing there. Interestingly, those other Northern Countries are not in their favour quite that much: the last Swedish tour was in 2010 (according to their webpage)! Finns know how to receive a metal band and fans are guaranteed to show up in number.

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