Archive for June, 2010

Operation: Croissant and Operation: Chocolate

Friday, June 4th, 2010

croissant

Last Sat­ur­day night at Casa Goat­beast: an intense meal of Goat­lady spe­cialty chili, fol­lowed by an intense Blitzkrieg plan­ning ses­sion, fol­lowed by an absolutely satanic choco­late berry baked cheese­cake, cour­tesy of the Full Metal Camp­ground Chef Vagrant and his lovely lady.

The end result? Some very full bel­lies and a tour diver­sion: after Party.San, we spend one night in Stuttgart, cross the bor­der into France to stay one night in Stras­bourg, then over to Switzer­land, for a night in Zurich, before head­ing back into Deutsch­land for Sum­mer Breeze. In ten min­utes we man­aged to dou­ble the num­ber of coun­tries we will be visiting.

Three coun­tries in three days is a tad intense, but we’re a dis­cern­ing lot and the prospect of the diver­sion of French pas­try and Swiss choco­late before head­ing back for more Ger­man beer is very appeal­ing. Oper­a­tion: Crois­sant will be accom­pa­nied by the sooth­ing sounds of Gojira, while Oper­a­tion: Chocolate’s sound­track will fea­ture the unholy Fis­cher trin­ity of Hell­ham­mer, Celtic Frost and Triptykon.

Help us out: what must-see and must-do things are there near these spots?

Wacken running order mass excitement

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

yes, we're grinning too

60 days out from when the Blitzkrieg Tour leaves Aus­tralia, the Wacken run­ning order and timetabling tool has been released.

With much trep­i­da­tion we checked off the bands we absolutely had to see and saw what it spat out. For me per­son­ally, it was not bad at all. Small dis­ap­point­ments are inevitable, but for­tu­nately many of the bands we’ll miss in clashes are play­ing at Sum­mer  Breeze too – 1349 (clash with Slayer), Unleashed (clash with Cru­ci­fied Bar­bara), Sui­ci­dal Angels (clash with Orphaned Land), and Despised Icon (clash with Soulfly). We’ll need to miss either Can­dle­mass or Immor­tal, and Enstille are unfor­tu­nately play­ing the same slot as Voivod and also Evile.

How­ever, there’s noth­ing in there I need to throw myself over a cliff about. Yay! Until I see the Sum­mer Breeze run­ning order, that is…

Gojira over­laps Iron Maiden, but that doesn’t bother me… I wasn’t both­ered about see­ing Maiden any­way. Fear Factory’s slot is right where we hoped it would be – where is absolutely should be — in the mid­dle of the night! That is going to be one killer set.

Kay’s Wacken Run­ning Order of Awesomeness:

THURSDAY

   

Time

Band Stage

16:00 — 16:45

Sky­line (+guests: Doro, U.D.O. etc)

Black Stage

17:30 — 19:00

Alice Cooper

True Metal Stage

19:30 — 21:00

Möt­ley Crüe

Black Stage

23:00 — 23:45

Gojira

W.E.T. Stage

FRIDAY    

13:00 — 14:00

Orphaned Land

Black Stage

14:15 — 15:15

Il Nino

True Metal Stage

18:00 — 19:00

End­stille

Black Stage

18:00 — 19:00

Voivod

Party Stage

18:25 — 18:55

Evile

W.E.T. Stage

20:30 — 21:30

Arch Enemy

Black Stage

21:45 — 23:00

Grave Dig­ger

True Metal Stage

23:15 — 00:30

Slayer

Black Stage

SATURDAY

   

14:45 — 15:15

Cru­ci­fied Barbara

W.E.T. Stage

15:45 — 16:45

Overkill

True Metal Stage

18:15 — 19:15

W.A.S.P.

True Metal Stage

19:30 — 20:30

Can­ni­bal Corpse

Black Stage

22:00 — 23:00

Immor­tal

Black Stage

22:00 — 23:00

Can­dle­mass

Party Stage

22:45 — 23:15

Rot­ting Christ

W.E.T. Stage

23:15 — 00:15

Soulfly

True Metal Stage

00:30 — 01:30

Fear Fac­tory

Black Stage

01:45 — 03:00

U.D.O.

True Metal Stage