Posts in category ”Music”
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Music history in Manchester
Manchester feels like a city carved out of soot, sweat and steel. Once the industrial heartbeat of Britain, now a sprawling canvas of concrete dreams and fading echoes. But for those of us with a well-worn vinyl collection and a taste for the poetic disintegration of civilization, Manchester isn’t just a city. It’s sacred ground.
Meeting the robots at Way Out West 2012
Time for another year at Way Out West, the cozy and predictable festival in the forest. It’s always a bit of a challenge to have an early slot at a festival, since people tend to arrive later in the afternoon.
Amphi Festival in Cologne
Cologne in July. Most people come for the cathedral, the river cruises, maybe a Kölsch or two. Me? I came for the darkness and industrial noise at Amphi Festival, the annual pilgrimage of the black-clad faithful, where leather is a second skin and daylight is considered an occupational hazard.
Music on the street
Walking down the street these days feels less like moving through a city and more like navigating a personal soundtrack convention. I see people with headphones everywhere and I often wonder what they listen to. People are plugged in like we’re all extra nodes in some great invisible jukebox.
Kalabalik festival in Alvesta
I spent the weekend at an old amusement park in the deepest forests of Småland. It sounds like the plot of a bad zombie-splatter movie, but it was even better.
Hultsfred the zombie festival
Hultsfredsfestivalen is the annual event that died last year but somehow got resurrected by the Scorpio necromancers to once more lay waste to the shores of lake Hulingen. Since Arvikafestivalen was canceled a few weeks ago, this is one of the few places left in Sweden for large outdoor festivals.
Das Boot to Tallinn
As our ship was leaving the port in Stockholm, we were getting ready for a weekend with Das Boot. This is an annual sort of festival, where the ship goes from to Stockholm to various places. This year the journey was going across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn.
Report from Døgnvill festival in Tromsø
Just saying the name Tromsø feels like a mouthful of cold wind and reindeer fat. Tucked far above the Arctic Circle, this Norwegian outpost isn’t the kind of place you’d expect to find thousands of music lovers losing their minds to global headliners.
Rammstein fires up Metaltown
Today it was hot enough to fry an egg on the Frihamnen pier. And that’s before you factor in 20 000 of your closest metalheads packed shoulder-to-shoulder, all dressed in black, sweating like kitchen staff at a Saturday lunch rush. Welcome to Metaltown 2010, where the sun wasn’t the only thing radiating heat.
Vince festival in Karlskrona
There is a new electronic festival in Sweden. The Vince festival, named after legendary Vince Clarke, is located in Karlskrona.