Archive for June, 2008

A toilet of our very own

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

The Ger­man peo­ple are known for their effi­ciency, organ­i­sa­tion and indus­tri­ous­ness. Is it any won­der then, that for the tri­fling fee of 120 euros, you can have your very own lock­able portable toi­let for the dura­tion of the Wacken Open Air fes­ti­val, posi­tioned near your allo­cated camp­ing area, cleaned daily with mil­i­tary pre­ci­sion by san­i­ta­tion crews? A small price to pay for con­ve­nience and san­i­ta­tion, methinks.

Of course, we have put our names down for one. We trust it will be of a higher cal­i­bre than the image above.

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Girlschool oldschool

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Girlschool

Just read the announce­ment that Girlschool, described in the press release on Blab­ber­mouth as “vet­eran British all-female hard rock band”, have been con­firmed for Wacken. This is pretty cool – a real piece of metal his­tory. Their gui­tarist Kelly John­son sadly passed away last year, and the only other thing I really know about them is that Lemmy said they kicked arse and could drink him under the table. Which is as good a rec­om­men­da­tion as any, right?

Wacken starts in 33 days. We leave for Europe in 15 days. ROCK.

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Udo! At Wacken!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I’m pretty happy about this. Udo Dirkschnei­der, the crazy lit­tle man out the front of Ger­man power-metallers Accept and now U.D.O. is going to be doing a guest spot with Lordi at Wacken.

Just one song, mind you, but still… Udo is a bit of a leg­end as far as I’m con­cerned. Balls to the Wall rates as one of my all time favourite songs from my child­hood (I tried to slip it into the playlist at Gossy’s wed­ding, but the only 80’s power metal that made it past the DJ was Judas Priest’s Turbo Lover).

We’re a man down – Al will no longer be join­ing our epic jour­ney of epic­ness – but we’ll raise the horns for our fallen com­rades and bat­tle on, only 6 weeks til Wacken itself and a shade less than 4 weeks until we leave Aus­tralia. Wootage!

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