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Teviot University, Edinburgh, UKNovember 24th 2005
VNV Nation
Edinburgh on the 24th of November is very cold. Actually, it’s freezing cold. It’s the second show of the UK Formation Tour, held at Teviot University. I wasn’t too sure about the venue but I believe that doesn’t really matter. After [:SITD:] warmed up the audience, 10.30pm was rather late for VNV to enter the stage. Nevertheless, the crowd was still very awake and Ronan, Mark, Vasi and Kolja received a very warm and loud welcome. Some glow-sticks came along too, as you may have guessed.
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Philipshalle, Düsseldorf, Germany08th December 2005
Billy Idol
Age doesn’t matter – Sex, drugs and Rock ´n´ Roll are still alive! Do you know William Michael Albert Broad? No? It’s Billy ‘Fuckin’ Idol and he is back! This year he released a new album after a break of twelve years, which is called “Devil’s Playground” and started touring again. At his side was his old friend and guitar hero Steve Stevens, who wrote the soundtrack for the award winning movie “Top Gun” for which he received a Grammy; he also played with Michael Jackson (“Dirty Diana”) for example and put the finishing touches to the Idol songs. Now Billy Idol arrived in Düsseldorf, which was the last concert of a 10 months lasting tour. The show started at 20:00. No support was needed. Billy and the band were enough.
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WaterFront, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsDecember 2nd 2005
Combichrist and Embolus
Another cold and wet night in the Netherlands, luckily some of us could shelter in the WaterFront in Rotterdam and dance to the beats of Embolus and Combichrist. With his new album out it was of course time for Combichrist to come and visit us again and make us dance to his beats once more.
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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.
- Life of Agony - Tilburg 2005
- Epica - Krefeld 2005
- electriXmas Festival - Lund 2005
- 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
