New plans: three festivals

December 23rd, 2009 by goatlady

 horns!

Well, we decided to harden the fuck up and our 2010 metal extrav­a­ganza tour will now have three stops: Wacken, Party.San and Sum­mer Breeze.

Co-incidentally, this is the same route that Sound­works Metal Fes­ti­val Travel will be tak­ing – but we’re not going with them (although it’s a good deal they’re offer­ing) as we have our own plans before and after.

In the lead up to Anti-Christmas this year, both Wacken and Sum­mer Breeze have been announc­ing a new band every day (in the case of Sum­mer Breeze, quite often two bands are announced). It’s a far cry from last year where Wacken didn’t announce any­thing at all for bloody ages and dis­ap­pointed the hell out of everyone.

We now have an absolutely insane list of bands that we could poten­tially see. Sev­eral of then we will have the oppor­tu­nity to see mul­ti­ple times. It’s absolutely brutal.

Wacken

  • 1349
  • Arch Enemy
  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Cru­ci­fied Barbara
  • Despised Icon
  • End­stille
  • Grave Dig­ger
  • Immor­tal
  • Mot­ley Crue
  • Slayer
  • U.D.O.

And also Alice Cooper, Amor­phis, Cal­iban, Corvus Corax, Die Apoka­lyp­tis­chen Reiter, Edguy, Ekto­morf, Ghost Brigade, Iron Maiden, Kamp­far, Lake of Tears, Orden Ogan, Pri­mal Fear, Stra­to­var­ius, The Devil’s Blood, Tor­frock, W.A.S.P.

Party.San

  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Suf­fo­ca­tion
  • Watain

And also The Devil’s Blood, Demon­i­cal, Aura Noir, Mane­garm, Tribulation.

Sum­mer Breeze

  • 1349
  • Ahab
  • Behe­moth
  • Can­ni­bal Corpse
  • Dark Tran­quil­lity
  • Despised Icon
  • Gor­goroth
  • Hypocrisy
  • Kylesa
  • My Dying Bride
  • Obit­u­ary
  • Ori­gin
  • Sepul­tura
  • War From a Harlot’s Mouth

And also Anath­ema, Asphyx, Bar­ren Earth, Cal­listo, Cumulo Nim­bus, Dark Funeral, Die Apoka­lyp­tis­chen Reiter, Dying Fetus, Eis­brecher, Eis­re­gen, Ensiferum, Feuer­schwanz, Fiddler’s Green, Frei­wild, Gwar, Hail of Bul­lets, Ill Nino, Insom­nium, Kor­pik­laani, Leaves Eyes, Let­zte Instanz, Long Dis­tance Call­ing, Maroon, Mono Inc, Necrophag­ist, Orphaned Land, Pan­theon I, Poi­son­black, Rebel­lion, Sol­stafir, Sub­way to Sally, Swal­low the Sun, The Crown, The Dev­ils Blood, Tracedawn, We But­ter The Bread With Butter.

Tooo… much… metal!

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Balls to the Wall

November 30th, 2009 by metalbeast

l_4bc0cd8326c30b335ca235953f4ffa0d So the good peo­ple at Wacken Open Air (per­haps inspired by the Sum­mer Breeze organ­is­ers) have decided to give us fans a metal advent cal­en­dar. Pretty awe­some. Each day a band will be revealed, along with a clue for who is going to be announced the next day.

As a warm up for every­one, tonight’s clue was pretty sim­ple – which artists cur­rent album is called Dom­i­na­tor. And the sur­vey says – UDO, the awe­somely angry lit­tle man (of Accept fame) with a kick ass voice. What a great start to proceedings!

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Anyone been to Metal Camp in Slovenia?

November 29th, 2009 by goatlady

Metal Camp 09

In 2008, we went to Slove­nia to stay with a friend – sadly, it was only for three days. It took less than one day to fall in love with the place – the breath­tak­ing nat­ural scenery, the his­tory that is all around you, the friend­li­ness of the peo­ple, the pivo – oh yes, the beer. Lasko, I miss you.

Lasko, excellent Slovenian beer In Slove­nia, not far from where we stayed, they have a five day metal fes­ti­val, Metal Camp. It looks fuck­ing awe­some but five days is a very long slog. How­ever, I just read a report from Metal Rules about Metal Camp 2009 and from their (14 page!) account, it actu­ally sounds really good, much more laid back than Wacken or some of the other big fes­ti­vals. (If you can’t be both­ered read­ing all of it, skip to page 14 for the sum­mary).

Notably, bands don’t start until early evening, which means that there’s time to relax and if you feel like it, visit some of the local attrac­tions dur­ing the day. Much more civilised than try­ing to simul­ta­ne­ously deal with a hang­over, exces­sive light, queue for break­fast food and watch black metal bands at 11am!

Unfor­tu­nately the dates for 2010 are in early July, which means it’s a bit too early for us to con­sider trekking to. But it’s worth con­sid­er­ing for future years I think!

Has any­one been? What did you think?

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Is three festivals too many for one trip?

November 15th, 2009 by goatlady

1001 gelbe Konzertfans

Wacken is set in stone. Party.San is look­ing good.

Would adding Sum­mer Breeze, the week after Party.San, be too ambitious?

Pros: Obit­u­ary are playing.

Cons: After two fes­ti­vals we’re likely to be a bit worn out and ever-so-slightly meh. Not to men­tion prob­a­bly broke.

What do you reckon? Over-ambitious or are we being emo?

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More 2010 festival announcements

November 8th, 2009 by goatlady

Dave with Arch Enemy bassist Sharlee D'Angelo

Dave and I were for­tu­nate enough to win “meet and greet” passes with Arch Enemy at their show in Perth last week… which was heaps of fun! We got to meet most of the band but the per­son who was really cool to talk to was Sharlee D’Angelo, their bass player. Sharlee men­tioned that while it wasn’t 100% final yet, the band were in nego­ti­a­tions to play Wacken 2010. Cool!

While there haven’t been any more offi­cial announce­ments for Wacken, Party.San, fron­trun­ner for “addi­tional fes­ti­val in 2010” has had Can­ni­bal Corpse, The Devil’s Blood and Demon­i­cal added to their exist­ing list which includes Aura Noir, Mane­garm, Suf­fo­ca­tion, Tribu­la­tion and Watain. We missed CC due to a date clash when they played Perth last, so it would be awe­some to see them – and even more so in a fes­ti­val setting.

Sum­mer Breeze has also had some announce­ments, includ­ing my favourite band Obit­u­ary. That one is the week after Party.San – so when we were plan­ning to be in Poland — but it’s worth keep­ing in mind.

Any­one else mak­ing early plans for the 2010 Euro­pean fes­ti­val circuit?

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Expanding the festival itinerary

October 11th, 2009 by goatlady

Wacken 2010 tickets

The Met­al­beast and I have been now to two Wacken fes­ti­vals. We are of course in pos­ses­sion already of tick­ets for 2010 – but are think­ing it’s time to expand the fes­ti­val itin­er­ary and take in another event while we’re in Europe.

There’s so many to choose from that it’s going to be a hard deci­sion. Obvi­ously stuff that is close to Wacken – both in dis­tance and tim­ing – is one of the key fac­tors. We might be able to extend our trip to four weeks this time around, and what­ever else hap­pens we def­i­nitely want to spend time in Poland at the end.

Top con­tender for our sec­ond fes­ti­val in 2010 is, at the moment, Party.San. It’s only a few hours from Wacken and is a week after. They have announced a hand­ful of bands already and as their line­ups are typ­i­cally all black and death metal, it’s look­ing very appeal­ing indeed. We could hire a car after Wacken, drive down there in half a day, and use the vehi­cle as a place to store all the crap we will have accu­mu­lated by then. We will prob­a­bly have at least three other Aussies with us so hir­ing a van might be an eco­nom­i­cal and cool option.

Because we have mates in the UK, there’s also the pos­si­bil­ity of Blood­stock. It’s also the week after, although it’s slightly more com­pli­cated to get there. The only thing going against it are the fact that it’s quite expen­sive to eat and drink there, even more so as the Aussie dol­lar is not as strong against the pound as it is against the euro. On the plus side, they’ve already announced Behe­moth (Dave’s favourite band) and Obit­u­ary (my favourite band) for 2010. Given that both those bands are tour­ing in 2010 it’s likely they’ll end up on other bills too, so that’s not too com­pelling a fac­tor just now.

A cer­tain per­son also would like us to go to Headbanger’s Open Air. It’s the week before Wacken, and also in Ger­many, but it’s all thrash and as such, not our cup of tea, so to speak.

Where to go, where to go? Ideas anyone?

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Wacken At Night

September 11th, 2009 by goatlady

Wacken at night

On the offi­cial Wacken site they’ve pub­lished this stun­ning photo of Wacken at night. Check out the large ver­sion, it’s wicked.

Dave got some pho­tos of our camp­ground at night. I think they illus­trate that it was FUCKING FREEZING quite well…

Spooky

Chilly evening

Brrrr!

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New announcements?

September 9th, 2009 by goatlady

I was check­ing a cou­ple of facts on the Wacken Wikipedia entry when I noticed that there’s a cou­ple of extra bands listed for 2010 in the entry: Devour The Masses and Cry­sis. They’re not listed on the offi­cial Wacken site (Ger­man or Eng­lish ver­sions – the Ger­man ver­sion often gets updated first) and a Google search does not bring up any­thing. Accord­ing to the edit his­tory of the page, Devour the Masses was added a cou­ple of days ago and Cry­sis at the end of August.

Of course, the fact that it’s on Wikipedia does not make it true (duh). But it’s inter­est­ing nonethe­less, yes?

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First Wacken diary is up!

August 23rd, 2009 by goatlady

The first instal­ment of my Wacken travel diary is up on Metal as Fuck: The Wacken Diaries – 01: Fes­ti­val Count­down. Install­ment two is com­ing real soon now.

Metal as Fuck also has a few photo gal­leries from Wacken:

I’ve started putting my pho­tos on Flickr – my Ball­room set is up, any­way – but Dave has done a much bet­ter job already with most of his up: Europe 2009.

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First bands confirmed for Wacken 2010

August 21st, 2009 by goatlady

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They don’t waste any time, do they?

The first bands announced for Wacken 2010 are the mighty Immor­tal, and seri­ous but out-there medieval met­allers Corvus Corax.

I’m pretty impressed that announce­ments are being made already. Per­haps the organ­is­ers learnt their les­son from 2009, when they got ham­mered on their own forums and else­where for not releas­ing any infor­ma­tion about the line up for such a long time – mean­ing the infor­ma­tion when it did come couldn’t pos­si­bly live up to the hype and antic­i­pa­tion that sur­rounded it. Last year’s first band (Machine Head) wasn’t announced until mid Sep­tem­ber, before tick­ets even went on sale.

What­ever the rea­son, I’m excited as hell (don’t for­get, any pic­ture can be improved by adding Immor­tal to it) and will be eagerly await­ing fur­ther announce­ments, as always!

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