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24th February 2010
Nitzer Ebb & Psyche
While on tour with DEPECHE MODE, Douglas McCarthy, Bon Harris and Jason Payne aka NITZER EBB also played a couple of headliner shows between the dates with their ex-label mates. The Matrix Bochum was one of these stops.
6:30 p.m. in Bochum, backstage at the Matrix. Douglas McCarthy sits in a corner with his laptop being busy posting on Facebook. In another corner, Jason Payne enjoys a meal, while Bon Harris takes care of his inflamed and swollen eye by placing a tea-bag on it. Darrin Huss, head of tonight’s support act PSYCHE, checks his wardrobe and welcomes a few old friends while tour manager Peddy Sadighi is busy making negotiations on the phone. All is quiet at NITZER EBB’s backstage room, but it’s just the silence before the storm…
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20th February 2010
Mesh, Assemblage 23, Tenek
On Saturday, the weather wasn’t too pleasant and while we were standing in a queue that was gradually getting longer, we as everyone else there started to look a bit like snowmen and couldn’t wait to come into the venue to get warm at last. It goes without saying that the event started later then it was announced and that’s why we managed to be in time for the first performance of the evening.
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23rd February 2010
Fear Factory, After All
‘Mechanize’, the first FEAR FACTORY record after the who-plays-with-whom-argy-bargy, is anything than bad, but surely no highlight either. Eons have passed since I saw them last time performing live, so the current tour offered the perfect chance to see, what FEAR FACTORY is still about, how the new line-up works together and if the old strengths are still convincing.
‘Mechanize’, the first FEAR FACTORY record after the who-plays-with-whom-argy-bargy, is anything than bad, but surely no highlight either. Eons have passed since I saw them last time performing live, so the current tour offered the perfect chance to see, what FEAR FACTORY is still about, how the new line-up works together and if the old strengths are still convincing.
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22nd February 2010
Paradise Lost, Samael
Sadly, the initial show of PARADISE LOST planned to take place in Dortmund had to be cancelled for known reasons. But finally the date of the re-scheduled show had arrived and I was very excited travelling to Cologne this time. I was expecting nothing less than a blast.
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10th February 2010
Holly Loose: Reading “Das weiße Buch des Jadefalken”
“God and Allah, the mountains and valleys, Berlin and Istanbul, Laura and Çingiz, love.”
- Rotersand - Cologne 2010
- Corvus Corax & Johannes Steck: "Die Zwerge" - Munich 2010
- Depeche Mode - Russia and Ukraine 2010
- End of Green - Stuttgart 2010
- Draconian - Moscow 2010
- Empire of Darkness, 10th Anniversary - Bochum 2010
- Hypocrisy - Aschaffenburg 2010
- Peter Heppner & Band - Munich 2010
- 69 Eyes, The - Bochum 2010
- Peter Heppner & Band - Duisburg 2010