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Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany09th May 2005
Paradise Lost, Orphaned Land and Society1
“Paradise Lost” are one of the most influential Metal bands from the United Kingdom, and without any doubt one of the biggest risk takers in the Metal genre. With their early works the band from Halifax/North England founded a whole new genre, Gothic Metal, and as this genre spawned countless followers and epigones “Paradise Lost” turned their backs on it to explore new musical ground. Their 1999 album “Host” even provoked comparisons to “Depeche Mode”, and this album in particular was hard to swallow for all die-hard fans of the early “Paradise Lost”. But the band always managed to attract new crowds whenever they lost parts of their old audiences whenever they changed yet again their sound, and some fans just have stayed and went all the way with the band…
“Paradise Lost” recent self-titled album hit the stores earlier this year and the fans were eagerly waiting for the tour accompanying the album. Together with guests Society1 and Orphaned Land they hit the road in April 2005. We took our chance to make the Paradise Lost 2005 experience in Cologne´s “Live Music Hall”.
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Markthalle, Hamburg, GermanyMay 21st 2005
Iris and Sono
The concert was taking place at the famous "Party for the masses" - Germany´s biggest Depeche Mode party taking place for 14 years now in Hamburg. Fans all over Germany usually travel to Hamburg to be part of that event. This time there were a little less people than during parties before. Probably because of the fact that there will be another "Party for the Masses" on 25th June at the "Cap San Diego" - a big ship in the Hamburg harbour. We arrived at short past 8 in Hamburg, had first some food and then walked to the venue which filled up very slowly this time. At about 11.30 the party started as usually with "Pimpf" and "Behind the wheel". After dancing for quite a while it was finally time at around 12 for the first band of the evening.
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Cotton Club- Kammgarn, Kaiserslautern, Germany21st May 2005
Lacrimas Profundere
On the same day at which In Extremo played outdoors, Lacrimas Profundere played on their "Ave End" - tour live in the Cotton Club in Kaiserslautern. But they had one big advantage….they played inside in the comfy Cotton Club at the Kammgarn Area, while it rained outside. Before the show began, Thomas Adorff (http://www.adorff.de) presented some of his gothic & concert photos in a slide show. An appropiate start to this evening. Only about 100 people turned up to see the show, thus, it wasn´t really packed.
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Pinkpop, Landgraaf, the NetherlandsMay 13th thru 15th 2005
The Prodigy, Apocalyptica, Epica, Heideroosjes, Within Temptation
There is one name in the Dutch festival scene that is above any others: Pinkpop. It’s the 26th time it’s being held this year. Though locations have changed over the years, as in the last few years it’s being held at the Landgraaf Megaland area. Ticket sales didn’t go too well because of the lack of real big names. All days of this multi style event were headlined by dance acts. Apart form the Chemical Brothers and Faithless, there was the Prodigy. Something I personally looked forward to having been quite a fan of their ‘Fat of the Land’ album for a while. But being there on day one as the photographer for Epica’s special gig, I also had a chance to have an exclusive look at the ‘dark music’ acts of this festival.
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Boerderij, Zoetermeer, the NetherlandsMay 15th 2005
The Lizards & U.F.O.
The Lizards and U.F.O. Two bands of which I’d never heard of, probably due to my young age, but I was asked to take some pictures so I went to Zoetermeer where the two of them played at the venue called “Boerderij”. We arrived just before the support act, The Lizards, would start to play. It was very warm in the venue, but that was something we just had to deal with. And staying in the heat was entirely worth it. Do old Rockers lose their spirit? We’re here to find out.
