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JuWi Fest, Münster, Germany5th June 2008
H-Blockx, Pohlmann
The JuWi Fest is the campus festival of the university in Münster and this year it was already the 33rd JuWi Fest taking place. Started as a small afternoon party, the festival is now best known also outside the student city Münster. This year’s fest offered all in all two outdoor stages and an indoor stage with several bands performing live in front of about 4.500 visitors. Headliner of the fest was local heroes H-BLOCKX and we wanted to take our chance to see the guys rocking the stage. We arrived early enough on this warm early summer evening to start relaxed with POHLMANN into the night.
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Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany31st May 2008
Zita Rock Festival: Down Below, Zeromancer, Eisbrecher, Dreadful Shadows, Unheilig, ASP and Subway to Sally
It was a real hot morning when we took off for Berlin. After travelling for about 1.5 hours, we finally got there and already a lot of people were waiting to get in. It didn’t matter where you were looking at, everywhere you could see people dressed in black. With bands like EISBRECHER, UNHEILIG and ASP it was promised to be a great day!
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Amphitheater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany9th to 11th May 2008
ROCK HARD Festival Day 1+2: Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Testament, Moonsorrow, Helstar, Enslaved, Exciter, Amorphis, Exodus, Immortal
The Rock Hard Festival took place for the sixth time in a row this year and it was my first visit there, which turned out to be a fantastic idea and so I'm sure I'll be there next year, too. The festival history began in 2003 when famous Rock Hard magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary. Originally planned as a singular event, the great success of the performance led to a regular Rock Hard Festival, annually taking place on Whitsun. The location is the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, quite an unusual place for a festival; it’s a real amphitheatre directly next to the Rhein-Herne-Kanal. So good view for nearly everyone, you can sit down whenever you get tired of banging and crowd surfing, no mud in case of rain - which some people surely regret - and the water close-by always provides a cool breeze. So, all in all best conditions for a relaxed festival weekend.
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Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany26th May 2008
Die Ärzte
The current album ‘Jazz ist anders’ is spiked again with splendid texted songs which are going directly into the ears and legs and that are destined for eternity. “Electric Guitars” and “Noise” aren't accidentally keywords of the first single ‘Junge’ according to what DIE ÄRZTE are writing on their homepage and accordingly almost every concert of the recent tour was sold-out in a few days. The “best band of the world”, as DIE ÄRZTE call themselves, were guests at the sold-out Halle Münsterland and we were part of the party.
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E-Werk, Cologne, Germany18th May 2008
Einstürzende Neubauten
Pioneering German avant-garde band EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN embarked on a 33-date European tour this spring in support of their new album ‘Alles Wieder Offen’. They also did a stop at the E-Werk in Cologne, a venue which already saw many great NEUBAUTEN shows. The line-up of EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN consists today of the three founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Alexander Hacke (bass, guitar, vocals), N.U. Unruh (special built instruments, percussion, vocals), and Jochen Arbeit (guitar, vocals) and Rudi Moser (special built instruments, percussion, vocals) who joined the band in 1997. http://www.neubauten.org/ / http://www.myspace.com/neubauten
- Emilie Autumn - Eindhoven 2008
- Schiller - Münster 2008
- Wave Gotik Treffen - Leipzig 2008 (Day 4)
- Wave Gotik Treffen - Leipzig 2008 (Day 3)
- Wave Gotik Treffen - Leipzig 2008 (Day 2)
- Ragnarök Festival - Lichtenfels 2008 (Day 2)
- Wave Gotik Treffen - Leipzig 2008 (Day 1)
- Hexentanz Festival - Bostalsee / Saar 2008
- Diary of Dreams - Paris 2008
- Elf Fantasy Fair - Haarzuilens 2008
