Posts with tag ”festival”
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Meeting the robots at Way Out West 2012
Another August, another pilgrimage to Way Out West. By now the festival has settled into its familiar rhythm.
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.
Banff Mountain Movie Festival
Banff is more than just the sound of Nightcrawler. It’s also a small town in the Canadian Rockies that hosts one of the world’s best-known mountain film festivals every year.
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.
Hultsfredsfestivalen back from the dead
Hultsfredsfestivalen was supposed to be dead. Last year it flatlined, another casualty in the long list of festivals that discovered nostalgia doesn’t pay the invoices. But then, in true horror-movie fashion, the corpse twitched.
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.
Vince festival in Karlskrona
There’s something wonderfully irrational about traveling across Sweden for a niche electronic music festival named after Vince Clarke. There are no corporate tents with freebies, no celebrity chefs, no VIP areas.
Best concerts of 2009
The music industry spent most of 2009 insisting it was dying. Album sales were collapsing, record labels were panicking and every executive seemed to have discovered the phrase “new business model”. Meanwhile the bands did the only sensible thing: they got in the van and hit the road.