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Wrightegaarden, Langesund, NorwayJuly 8th 2005
Gåte
Langesund is a tiny village on the southern coast of Norway, home of nothing in particular, except for a ferry line to Denmark and a concert venue. The venue does, however, frequently get visits from bands of a certain size – at least on a Norwegian scale. On this particular warm and sunny Friday Gåte (in English “Riddle”) were the guests on the little outdoor stage built up in the backyard of an old merchant mansion nearby the sea. Even though the audiences could be counted on two hands when I arrived an hour before the concert, the area did eventually fill up rather well, with 250 paying visitors.
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Sportspark Boshoven, Weert, the NetherlandsJuly 2nd and 3rd 2005
Marillion, Uriah Heep, Iron Maiden, Porcupine Tree, Y&T, My Dying Bride, Within Temptation, Overkill, Masterplan, Mastodon, In Extremo, Dragon Force, SQY Rocking Team
Bospop 2005 was a great success for chairman Peter Verkennis. With the 25th anniversary he received a recommendation in the Order of Orange-Nassau for his work at the Bospop festival and the music centre “De Bosuil” . With a good variety of rock/metal and popular music from the early days. It was the best 25th anniversary ever! With many successes from the past and present, we have seen most of the shows with a few exceptions. Bospop 2005 has been a festival of contradictions with dark clouds on Saturday and a burning sun on Sunday. I gained even more respect for bands like Iron Maiden and Uriah Heep who have been with us for so long and still kick ass! A weekend for all ages and with great spectacle!
For us Bospop 2005 starts at july 2nd at 16:45 with de band Uriah Heep.
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Parkpop, The Hague, the NetherlandsJune 26th 2005
Within Temptation, Drowned, Killing Joke
On a hot summers day 350.000 people had gathered in the park to enjoy the sun, enjoy the music and celebrate this 25th edition of Parkpop. A wide range of musicians came here to entertain the audience. For instance the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a group of Japanese men shaking things up with their cheerful ska, Fish who used to be the singer of Marillion had brought along many fans who could sing along with each of his sensitive and warm notes and many more bands ranging from local bands to bands from all over Europe.
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Musicon, The Hague, the NetherlandsJune 24th 2005
Trisomy, Ashen, Valkyre
While many metal heads are sweating their pants off at the Graspop Metal Meeting where temperatures reached 30+ we found ourselves at the Musicon in The Hague. The Musicon is just a small venue, more like a youth centre but with two rehearsal rooms in the back. It as set up by Barry Hay, singer of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring and features a rather small stage in the main room. This concert had to start some 45 mins later than planned because apparently the electricity wasn't really calculated on using all the equipment and the stage lights at the same time, the fuses were blown out. After this delay the few visitors saw 3 bands on stage, let's see who they are and how they did.
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Amphi Theater, Gelsenkirchen, Germany2nd July 2005
Amphi Festival 2005 – Day 2: Staubkind, Psyche, Lacrimas Profundere, Welle:Erdball, Suicide Commando, Blutengel, Die Krupps, Camouflage, In Extremo
After only some hours of sleep and with a terrible headache I made my way back from Muenster to Gelsenkirchen for the second day of the new Amphi Festival which I really enjoyed so far. I arrived quite early in Gelsenkirchen fearing there would be again a long queue. But today everything worked very smooth and I found myself in the Amphi Theater after only some minutes of waiting time. The weather wasn´t as good as the day before but luckily the weather god was quite nice to us and we only had very little slight rain during the whole day and night. The area began to fill up quite fast that day and at the end there should have been about 4500 people attending the festival on Saturday. Looking at all the shirts people wore most of them came probably for the headliner “In Extremo”. But all the other bands had their fans too and the nicely mixed line up promised another great festival day.
- Fields of Rock - Nijmegen 2005
- Amphi Festival - Gelsenkirchen 2005 (Day 1)
- Client - Muenster 2005
- Waldrock - Burgum 2005
- Arrow Rock Festival - Lichtenvoorde 2005
- Graspop - Baflo 2005
- Herriefestival - Heerde 2005
- 2000 Decibel - Bengtsfors 2005
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Tilburg 2005
- Wave Gotic Treffen - Leipzig 2005 (Day 1)
