Archive for June, 2009

That’s a pretty cool USB stick

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

The Wacken organ­is­ers have announced they’re sell­ing a “down­load card” which will let peo­ple down­load MP3s from selected Wacken per­for­mances after the fes­ti­val. And they’re sell­ing a Wacken-branded USB stick too.

I didn’t look at the pic­tures but when I was telling Dave, he said was pretty sure they would be the bog stan­dard USB drive with logo on the metal flippy bit like we are get­ting as promo mate­ri­als a lot lately.

As it turns out, no. They are freak­ing BULLET-SHAPED! The news item doesn’t tell you what the capac­ity of the drive is but these days they’re usu­ally at least 2GB… but who cares how big they are when they’re BULLET-SHAPED?

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Coming to Wacken? Talk to us!

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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While Charp has dropped off the tour again (sec­ond year run­ning… that boy is just unre­li­able) we have picked up a Vagrant and will be meet­ing up with sev­eral other peeps on and before the festival.

If any­one would like to catch up, we will have these Ger­man mobile num­bers when we land in Ham­burg on the 27th, so you can send us a text:

goat­lady kay: +49 1578 453 0334
met­al­beast dave: +49 1578 450 4479

The Ball­room, a metal club near the Fish­mar­ket area in Ham­burg, had a Wacken warm up party on the Mon­day night which is where we met Stu and Nicola who we ended up camp­ing with and a whole bunch of other awe­some peo­ple who we don’t really remem­ber much about (there was a lot of alco­hol con­sumed). We also met a bunch of Perth peo­ple which was quite amus­ing. They have a whole bunch of pre– and post-Wacken events planned and we will def­i­nitely be at one or all of them.

Look­ing for­ward to meet­ing some new metal peeps!

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The countdown is on…

Friday, June 26th, 2009

As I write this, it’s 34 days until Wacken 2009 and 30 days until we leave for Europe.

We’re all organ­ised and ready to go!

Exhibit A: one tent. Note the queen size inflat­able mat­tress which fits inside said tent. We forked out a big $38 for this baby, and we have high hopes that it will be an improve­ment on last year’s dwelling which rather cramped our style.

Wacken Tent Test

Exhibit B: camp­ing choons:

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Takes 2 bat­ter­ies and an SD card wth MP3s. Music at our camp­site, and all for $27.78 with free ship­ping. Bar­gain! It’s so small and light I’m a lit­tle con­cerned we’re gonna lose it in our bags.

I know we’ve been slack… more posts com­ing soon…

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