i'm gonna see them on this tour at wacken yippee!!!! rime of the ancient mariner!!!!!

Saw Helloween last night, best show I've been to in awhile. Was up there with Maiden.

My review of the show last night which I posted on an Australian forum.

Holy fuckin shit! The Melbourne show was amazing, the turn out was outstanding, we roughly got over 1000 people. Security were very strict on cameras, but who cares I was happy to see Helloween.

By the time I got there I was able to catch the last song of Black Majesty, which was Guardian with Danny on backing vocals. The sound for BM wasn't that flash, all the vocals were washed out but everyone else sounded good. Hanny told me they didn't have enough time to do a sound check so we just got what was given to us, still no one complained...everyone wanted an encore. lol!

Vanishing Point were outstanding as always, the sound of the first two song was abit off, but then it cleared up after awhile. Everyone put on an outstanding performance tonight, I reckon tonights set and sound was alot better the Iron Maiden show in Melbourne, but they both kick ass regardless.

Helloween were bloody on fire as usual, the atmosphere of the show just blew up as soon as they came on stage. They first opened with "Halloween", which seemed to go forever. lol! I seriously forgot the setlist but Im sure someone will post it up. From memory they played "As Long As I Fall", "Future World", "I Want Out", "Keeper/Perfect Gentleman duo", "If I Could Fly", "Bells of the Seven Hells", "Eagle Fly Free", "A Tale That Wasn't Right", Dr. Stein",
"Sole Survivor"...thats all I can remember.

The crowd though, my god. Fucking insane, Ive never witnessed a crowd that insane in my life before.

Was lucky enough to meet the band thanks to Gary and his quick thinking. They were pretty out of it, well Micheal was...he just scribbled an S on my CD's and just nodded at me. Can't blame him though, he looked pretty tired. Marcus and Sascha were really cool, very wide awake and just down to earth. I got Sascha pic while in the mosh pit, he throw out like 10 and I was lucky enough to grab one.

Andi and Dani weren't around, I know Andi doesn't like signings and Im sure Dani wanted to do another things. But seriously they were tired and I didn't want to bother them, I just said hello, said thanks for coming to Australia and got them to sign my stuff and I was outta there.

I took some pics of the stuff I got signed. I got the Keeper Pt.I signed with Kai Hansens sig aswell, Gambling with the Devil and the booklet to the Keeper of the Seven Keys: Legacy DVD.


http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m177/black_tooth_grin32/IMG_0448.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m177/black_tooth_grin32/IMG_0453.jpg

I would have gotten pics with them, but my camera was still in the cloak room 2 floors up. Backstage was pretty much underground.

On a final note, shirts sold out in a matter on minutes. I was pretty pissed I missed out, but hopefully they sell some of the Helloween online store.

I saw The Mars Volta last thursday and holy shit that was by far the best concert i have ever been to!
they played for 3 hours and you could see they were really having fun. they played songs from all of their albums and also gave them a very original twist by throwing in long improvisations through most of the songs.
my girlfriend also managed to film a whole song, and the sound/video quality is alot better than i expected!

The Mars Volta - Goliath Live in 013 Tilburg, The Netherlands
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bGqud0OmX8
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFFmoHXe5U&feature=related

yup saw TMV last night. played for 3 hours and only stopped when they were told to by the house... said they would have played for ages more

one of the bands i've seen who seem to really enjoy playing together. and the drummer is a machine!

Just got back from the Katie Melua gig. It was absolutely fabulous, she has the most amazing voice ever. I loved the acoustic parts she did all by herself, that's when she really shines. But whenever the band kicked in, it was still really good. She made it all look so easy, but she was flawless...

And as a nice little bonus, it was recorded for DVD! Yay!

Now to get a t-shirt...

you groupie

Just got back from the Katie Melua gig. It was absolutely fabulous...

*throws away Geert's manly metal card*

Sybreed at Zeppelin Hall in Poznan (feb 7th).

Event was just big bag of fail, organiser totally screwed up any promotion and there was maybe 100 people in venue (including bands and personnel, hur hur), and most of them sat on their arses and drank beer through sets. Fortunately some nice person on lastfm searched Sybreed fans and sent them info, without that they'd play to totally empty place. Also, band were playing over a working bar, wtf.

Supports actually weren't as bad as I expected, being somewhat stylistically compatible (metalcorish The Old Cinema and industrial metal Cruentus - these guys even played cover of "Cloud Connected" by In Flames, to applause of all of, like, 13 fans). Sybreed were impressive, even if bit spoiled by deaf soundguy and problems with monitors. Drop have one mighty right wrist and their new drummer is also quite a dude to play Dirk Verbeuren's parts. They played lots of stuff off Antares, there was Emma-0, Isolation, 12 Megaton Gravity and Permafrost to list my faves, and some stuff from their first album (which I bought after the gig), including mighty Bioactive. So thankfully it wasn't complete disaster and I didn't waste my two days off work taken to see them. And I have a T-shirt, yay.

OK, here's MULTIMEDIA part.



Moar crappy photos on my wankr (lighting was awful, it's a miracle that there's something half sharp on them):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14668194@N02/

And here's crap recording of 12 Megaton Gravity

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Lucky bastard. I'd love to see Sybreed at least once!

EDIT: The next show i will be attending is the Ministry/Meshuggah show on the 23rd. I'm only about 99.9% sure Meshuggah will be even better live this time around as opposed to the last time i saw them 3 years ago. They are playing Bleed live after all....

EDIT: The next show i will be attending is the Ministry/Meshuggah show on the 23rd. I'm only about 99.9% sure Meshuggah will be even better live this time around as opposed to the last time i saw them 3 years ago. They are playing Bleed live after all....

Ministry will play @ Warsaw in july, nothing was said about their support, but I guess Meshuggah would be just too good. Of course I plan to see this gig (even without Meshuggah).

Report how Mesh played "Bleed" live after gig, I'm wondering how's it humany possible to play.

Just got back from the Katie Melua gig. It was absolutely fabulous...

*throws away Geert's manly metal card*

Hah you can have it. Who needs metal if you've got Katie?

Seriously though, it was impressive. A girl with a guitar comes on stage, starts singing... and the 10,000 people venue went dead quiet...



Goosebumps all over the place I tell ya!

EDIT: The next show i will be attending is the Ministry/Meshuggah show on the 23rd. I'm only about 99.9% sure Meshuggah will be even better live this time around as opposed to the last time i saw them 3 years ago. They are playing Bleed live after all....

Ministry will play @ Warsaw in july, nothing was said about their support, but I guess Meshuggah would be just too good. Of course I plan to see this gig (even without Meshuggah).

Report how Mesh played "Bleed" live after gig, I'm wondering how's it humany possible to play.

There is a video of them playing it on Youtube. Its decent quality, but far from the stage. And its only over 4 minutes long. So either they are stopping at the clean interlude or the person just stopped taping there.

But sure enough i will give a full report!

Porcupine Tree.
The Palace, Melbourne April 25, 2008.

A long wait fulfilled.
I think the band was genuinely surprised by the support they've generated Down Under.

A fantastic show, despite SW's earpiece lodging in his ear canal for several songs, which required impromptu "surgery" using tweezers.
The heavier parts were...fucking heavy. I was blown away.

Setlist:

Fear of a blank planet
What happens now
Lazarus
Anesthetise
The sound of Muzak
Dark matter (solo/outro video, clickez)
Open car
A smart kid (video)
Hatesong
Blackest eyes (video)
Way out of here
Sleep together

Encore:
Trains (video)
Halo

(apologies for the shitty googlevideo quality...it took me 7 hours to upload these bloody things...)

A few of us snuck around the back after the show, and said "Hello" to the guys as they quickly left. Couldn't get any pics unfortunately, as they were in a rush (SW happily munching on a sandwich - showing no ill effects of ear/brain surgery) but I shook Gav's hand and told him I'd see him in Geelong on Tuesday night for his drum clinic.

I shall now die contented.

Dark Matter! You lucky bastard, I have goosebumps on reading this title alone. They're great, aren't they?

I saw Meshuggah and Ministry three weeks ago. Meshuggah was awesome. Ministry wasn't bad, but they get a little monotonous. We left early.

Here's a crappy video I took:


And as for "Bleed": They do stop at the interlude part. Not sure if that's completely due to time constraints, Tomas' injury, or what.

The heavier parts were...fucking heavy. I was blown away.

You gotta love that headbanging bit in Open Car when they play it live