Tag: live reports

Marc Ribot has been touring in Europe this year with his Ceramic Dog project for…

The second European tour ever for Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets would have probably been…

I guess I’m not fun to be with at festivals: I don’t hang around, I…

Cover bands, you either love them or hate them. They are even left behind their…

by ywannish The partnership Rock Classic and Les Soirées Cerises is continuously bringing as much…

Mark Lanegan played day 3 of Leuven’s M-IDZOMER 2016 Festival, in the museum’s outdoor premises….

It may be hard to be the first band on the last day of a…

Cover bands are a tricky subject; you hate them or love them, despise them or…

I guess alternative rock has a special meaning for all those having lived their teenage…

Last Friday, the partnership Rock Classic Bar and Les Soirées Cerises Booking presented again a…

Sick Of It All never broke up to reunite decades later and go into the reunion…

Live, Motorpsycho’s impressive catalogue and decades of activity invite to one thing: attending their concerts…

Last Saturday, Krankschaft and vert:x offered a perfect answer to life and the universe and…

In an attempt to better promote their latest releases, it became customary for bands to…

An(other) excellent line-up in Magasin 4. Three first class bands shared the stage on 25…

For this year’s tour, Opeth combine their 25th anniversary of existence with the 10th anniversary…

There is not enough use of improvisation on the live music scene today. We have…

To mark the release of their self-titled album, MASSIS channel their spirit live on a…

The live music scene is full of small pleasures but I guess nothing compares with…

On 26 October, the noise rock series during the 20 Years of Magasin4 anniversary events…

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, whose name is taken from the movie The Wild One (1953,…

When everything goes smoothly by the rule, the “cool” people start running in the opposite…

Post-rock is a very fashionable style nowadays, which I have discovered relatively recent and of…

One of the things that offenses my personal freedom is organizing my life months in…

First of all I should say that I had only heard of Satriani, so I went to the show quite clueless about what to expect. I knew I would see a technically brilliant guitar player, but little else. So if any huge fans read this, forgive my candor. I was sort of replacing Ywannish at the last minute, for which I am very grateful, even more so now that I’ve just come back from the concert.

Belgium is a country full of festivals, all you need is find your music in one of them and some good company. I must say I had both on 1 August at Lokerse Festival, a ten-day summer festival in Lokeren, Belgium, which took place for the first time in 1975, presenting over the years big names as Sisters of Mercy, Iggy & The Stooges, Madness, Sex Pistols, Simple Minds, The Cure. I attended only one day, the “metal day” as one of my friends called it, to see Anthrax, Life of Agony, Panic Cell and Papa Roach.

It is incredible how this festival could pull together so many styles: trash, doom, progressive, rockabilly, alternative metal, grunge, power metal and there was still room for one more, industrial. It was the biggest festival Romania had so far and it will be difficult to challenge this in the future.

DAY 2 AND THE BIG FOUR

Yes, Saturday at last.. Vita de Vie, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica.

For very many people, 2010 Sonisphere is synonymous with “The Big Four” – the 4 most famous thrash bands together in the same festival – which made it the biggest attraction of this metal summer. But few may know that Sonisphere is held just for the second time ever, that it’s the only European itinerant festival, and what sets it apart it is a core group of bands touring together through different countries.

Friends’ positive discussions about Stone Sour’s shows, the fact that they’re quite promoted on mainstream radio stations and their strong and coherent sound made me very curious about them, so I decided to see them live even if their melodic accents dissolves a little bit of what I like about the metal sound.

On 10 June, Rage Against the Machine reached Holland with their 2010 Tour. The Battle of Arnhem was one of the only six European dates they had for this year and took place in GelreDome, the largest Netherlands venue.
The event announced them as headliners and Gallow, Gogol Bordello and Jane’s Addiction as Special Guests.

If you like Kyuss, if you like stoner, if you love enjoying a live concert where music comes your way because it’s played well and from the heart and if you go to the concert with the idea “I’m gonna hear Kyuss, never thought I would ever reach this moment!”, the concert was a good one!