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Tivoli, Utrecht, The NetherlandsDecember 4th 2005
Opeth and Burst
You can see from the mixture of people in the crowd that by now standard metalfans are not the only ones attracted to Opeths’ music anymore. This time I see a mixture of long haired, next to short haired progmetalfans and also quite a lot of older fans. I think this is where you can see a band has succefully made a name for themselves in the scene: when you see all different kinds of fans attending their shows.
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T Paard, The Hague, The NetherlandsNovember 30th 2005
Apocalyptica
After playing at the Paradiso in Amsterdam the Sunday before, it was now time to hit the stage in The Hague. A freezing night, but luckily there were no lines outside. It seemed to be a quiet evening but the closer we got to the start of the show, the venue filled up more and more.
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013, Tilburg, the NetherlandsDecember 7th 2005
Life of Agony & Green Lizard
Just another traffic jam packed day in the Netherlands, the endless boring roads full of cars can only be forgotten with a good glass of wine or one hell of a concert. Outside the cue was slowly decreasing, inside the venue was filling up with people who had all used up some more time than expected to get to Tilburg. Not because 013 is such a great venue (which it is by the way), but because that hell of a good concert would be provided by nothing less than Life of Agony.
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Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany24th November 2005
Epica, Flowing Tears, Xystus
Some concerts may have to start with a disaster and problems to turn out into a fantastic and great show. The part of the Kulturfabrik where the bands should play has a volume for 300 people, but only 83 tickets have been bought in advance booking offices. On that day, “Epica” came from Potsdam with a delay of 7 hours, because of the bad weather situation. So there wasn’t really time for anything and after the concert they still wanted to start the trip to Milan where they should play on the next day. So everything was in a hurry. The club with the small stage and with the little crowd made me feel like being in the band’s rehearsal room somehow. But also a small crowd (and there were also many Dutch Fans) can make a lot of noise and create a great atmosphere.
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Mejeriet, Lund, Schweden3rd December 2005
electriXmas festival: CombiChrist, Vive la fête, Seabound, Dupont, Code 64
This year’s eX was the second one I was going to and I was looking very much forward to it. I really liked the atmosphere in the venue last year and the line up sounded very good to me as well. So I took my chance to travel to Sweden again. After the successful “Virtual Christmas” festivals the new eX was taking place in 2002 for the first time and is now one of Sweden’s basic festivals playing electronic music always happening in December just before Christmas. Besides the live music it is a tradition to give a compilation CD to the guests, combining contributions from the performing artists and other important acts of today (more often than not, contributing exclusive tracks or mixes) with local talents, some of which are still on the demo stage and illustrate the future of electronic music. The venue holds about 750 guests in an intimate setting, allowing every guest a great view of the events. This year’s line up provided again artists from several countries… so there were two bands from Sweden (Code 64 and Dupont), CombiChrist from Norway, Seabound from Germany and Vive la Fête from Belgium. http://www.electrixmas.org
- Gothtronic - Leeuwarden 2005
- Life of Agony - Utrecht 2005
- Apoptygma Berzerk - Dortmund 2005
- The Legion of Hetheria - Eindhoven 2005
- Arnhem Metal Meeting - Arnhem 2005
- A-HA - Amsterdam 2005
- Metal Organisation Festival - Brussels 2005
- Fish - Amsterdam 2005
- Erocktica - Eindhoven 2005
- Sinead O'Connor - Cologne 2005
