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Published: 28 March 2014

Pulp, Duisburg, Germany
27th March 2014
The Birthday Massacre & Atomic Neon

It happens not very often that Canadian THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE are visiting Germany. Last year, they could be seen at WGT, but sadly I missed them there. The happier I was now that they were coming back for a few dates. And we were really lucky that they made it to Duisburg since there were strikes and TBM’s flight was the only one leaving Budapest where they were playing the day before…

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Published: 28 March 2014

Finlandia-talo, Helsinki, Finland
12th March 2014
Apocalyptica with Avanti! Orchestra: Apocalyptic Symphony - An Instrumental Night

APOCALYPTICA is one of best and unusual Finnish metal acts that raised to fame with cello covers of METALLICA songs and later continued to be in favour of listeners. They do not have to be bound by a particular genre and easily embark on collaborations with extremely wide number of authors, from classical pieces to most extreme bands out there.

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Published: 24 March 2014

F-Haus, Jena, Germany
15th March 2014
Robert Enforsen

Robert Enforsen was the voice of ELEGANT MACHINERY. The sound of the Swedish band was influenced in the early years by electronic bands like DEPECHE MODE, HUMAN LEAGUE and YAZOO. The debut album, ‘Degraded Faces’, was released more than 20 years ago, starting point of a career as one of the finest bands in Synth Pop. After a split in 1998/1999, the band reunited in 2005 and released with ‘A soft exchange’ a new album in 2008. Two singles and several live performances later, ELEGANT MACHINERY was again put to rest in 2011. Robert is also known as singer of several synth and electro pop projects like HYPE, their great album ‘Desperately Yours’ from 2006 unfortunately never had a follow-up. In his solo appearance in Jena he used to play songs not only from ELEGANT MACHINERY, but also two songs from HYPE on stage.

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Published: 20 March 2014

Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, Germany
27th February 2014
Birdy & Billy Locket

Mostly you can imagine which band will play, if you see the audience. At this evening it was a little bit difficult to figure out because there were people from very young to quite old. In front of the Astra Kulturhaus you could see two well-behaved queues waiting for entry. The location was filled very fast and BILLY LOCKETT (as support) had an easy game. He gathered not the whole attention but the audience applauded a lot.

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Published: 17 March 2014

Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne, Germany
14th March 2014
Laibach - “Spectre” Tour

With their new album 'Spectre' LAIBACH truly managed to re-invent themselves, aspiring for a much more accessible and even poppier sound while the concept behind 'Spectre' is, at first sight, less ambiguous than previous LAIBACH works, albeit political as ever. LAIBACH seems to take sides with Occupy, Snowden, Manning & Co. and predict that “Europe is falling apart”. We took sides with LAIBACH and checked out their 'Spectre' tour in Cologne. 

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