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Flugplatz Borkenberge, Lüdinghausen, Germany20th - 22nd August 2010
Area4 Festival 2010 Day 2: Blink-182, WIZO, Monster Magnet, The Sounds, Donots, All Time Low, Frank Turner, Minus The Bear, Long Distance Calling, Kylesa
Also the second festival day proved that the weather god likes the Area4. It was warm, sunny and dry. Best condition to enjoy the Saturday at the airfield with headliner BLINK-182, MONSTER MAGNET or THE SOUNDS. Having just one stage, you were able to enjoy the shows in full length without any overlapping. This is just great! Anyway, the day started with the first band KYLESA being late for about 20 minutes.
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Castle, Bolkow, Poland29th July to 1st August 2010
Castle Party: Christblood, Infinity Pain, Red Emprez, Dusk Watch, Gray/Scale, The Violet Tribe, Wieze Fabryk, Otto Dix, ¯ywio³ak, The Beauty of Gemina, Qntal, Bacio di Tosca, Deviant UK, Alec Empire, Job Karma, And One, The Proof, Noisuf-X, Faith and the Muse, Clan of Xymox
Yet another edition of Castle Party came to an end. As Auerbach once said, Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. I believe the souls leaving Bolkow every year feel decently purified - 2010 was not an exception in this respect. The festival is developing with every subsequent year: it relates not only to the duration- from two to four festival days, but also to the quality of the bands and side program. However, with all the positive changes taking place there are two things that remain the same: first of all variety (the organizers had always been very particular about inviting the band that would break the strictly gothic mode and included the band of a different sort in a line-up - vide metal band BEHEMOT in 2010) and second of all, marvellous atmosphere making Castle Party both a great musical and social event. http://www.castleparty.com/
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Flugplatz Borkenberge, Lüdinghausen, Germany20th - 22nd August 2010
Area4 Festival 2010 Day 1: Placebo, Queens Of The Stone Age, Editors, Bela B y Los Helmstedt, Biffy Clyro, Thrice, Alain Johannes
Already for the fifth time, the Area4 Festival opened its gates, for the fourth time now at the Airfield Borkenberge. Steadily grown over the years, the event welcomed about 23,000 guests at the 2010 edition. Just like in the previous years, perfect festival weather (at least during the first two days) with sun, a few clouds and temperatures around 25°C awaited the fans, most of them already arriving on Thursday to occupy the camp ground and have their very own pre-party. The festival Friday offered a great line-up, at least in my opinion, with PLACEBO, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, my favourite EDITORS or BELA B.
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Flugplatz des Aeroclubs Dinkelsbühl, Dinkelsbühl, Germany18th of August 2010 - 21st of August 2010
Summer Breeze Open Air - Day 2: Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, Triptykon, Endstille
Due to several reasons, I had to skip the first day of this festival and arrived on Thursday at around 5pm. On Wednesday, the first bands had the chance to play in the tent (=party stage) and also a newcomer contest was held. This year’s edition was long ahead sold out and only some day-tickets were available, so around 30,000 metal heads gathered in southern Germany to watch bands from all sorts of metal. After having gotten an overview over the area and the camp ground, I went to the party stage for watching the first bands.
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Flughafen Drispenstedt, Hildesheim, Germany
7th & 8th August 2010
M’era Luna 2010 Day 2 Hangar Stage: Combichrist, Skinny Puppy, Feindflug, Agonoize, Amduscia, Celine And Nite Wreckage, Colony 5, Ambassador21, Eyes Shut Tight
As little electronic music we had the day before at the hangar, as many hard beats we got today. Headlined by COMBICHRIST, the hangar program offered anything from TBM over Hellectro with AGONOIZE and AMDUSCIA to Future/Synth Pop with COLONY 5 and even pure electronic pop. Highlight for many at the hangar of course was the show of Canadian electro pioneers SKINNY PUPPY.
- Wacken Open Air - Wacken 2010 (Day 1)
- M'era Luna - Hildesheim 2010 (Day 2 - Main Stage)
- Faith and the Muse - Bochum 2010
- M'era Luna - Hildesheim 2010 (Day 1 - Hangar Stage)
- M'era Luna - Hildesheim 2010 (Day 1 - Main Stage)
- Combichrist - Zurich 2010
- Gothic Festival - Waregem 2010 (Day 3)
- Gothicfest - Steenwijk 2010
- Vainstream Rockfest - Münster 2010
- Bang Your Head Festival - Balingen 2010
