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Out of Line tour headlined by Die Form August 30, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) Die Form (France), Agonoize (Germany), Ashbury Heights (Sweden), Amduscia (Mexico) and Auto-Auto (Sweden) make up multi-national Out of Line tour 2009 through Germany in November. Talented pop duo Kite signed by Progress August 30, 2008 | Edited: September 4, 2008 By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) Swedish electropop/new wave duo Kite from the southern parts of Sweden has just signed with Progress Productions. Their first release (on October 1) will be an EP with four songs, and please let me be the first to tell you that they are really good. The two members Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Berg have a history in bands like Yvonne, Strip Music, Melody Club and The Mo. Arvika sets 2009 dates August 27, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) As a follow-up to yesterday's News about Hultsfred, Arvika has announced their 2009 dates: July 2-4. This is the Roskilde Festival weekend again. Further plans will be revealed at a press conference on September 4. Hultsfred moves and expands August 26, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) Next year's Hultsfred Festival will expand and become a four day event and take place one week into July (8-11). The best from Qntal August 26, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg)
After 18 years, Qntal thinks it's high time for a best of compilation. "Purpurea" (Drakkar) is scheduled for October 31, and is a double disc affair where disc two holds remixes and more. Jarre celebrates his 60th birthday August 26, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) Last Sunday, Jean Michel Jarre celebrated his 60th birthday. He is currently planning an event on the Canary Islands. Rammstein photographer releases book August 22, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg)
Olaf Heine is a German photographer who has portrayed Rammstein many times over the years, as well as numerous other artists, actors and sport stars. "Leavin the Comfort Zone - Photographs 1991/2008" is new a 210 page book about his work. Some interesting bands in "Guitar Hero: World Tour" August 21, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg) Kent's "VinterNoll2" will be included in "Guitar Hero: World Tour", to be released later this year (even in the American and Australian versions). Among the previously announced artists we find Rammstein, The Smashing Pumpkins, Interpol and Billy Idol. In further news, Kent's Jocke Berg will take part in the upcoming Olle Ljungström tribute with the song "Nåt för dem som väntar". 23 000 attended successful M'era Luna August 19, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg)
Dark at night. Release is back from Hildesheim's M'era Luna on August 9-10 and we can look back at a great festival. With 23 000 visitors in a good mood and few, if any, incidents, the annual gathering has already initiated preparations for next year's tenth anniversary. Everyone is invited to send in their live act votes. At the same time you compete for 5x2 tickets and 50 CD packages. - We are pleased to see that according to the number of visitors, the ninth M'era Luna showed that the festival is one of the most important gothic events in Europe, organiser Folkert Koopmans says. He hopes for more foreign visitors next year and promises to improve the sanitation facilities. After being to numerous muddy festivals throughout the years (Roskilde, Arvika, Hultsfred, Eurorock etc), I must say this airport-turned-festival area handled Sunday's vast amounts of rain quite well. Rain can't stop M'era Luna from being something of a huge fashion show and the majority of the visitors dress up to extremes regardless. A big part of the festival area is a market with endless stands for clothes, jewelry, records - even gothic home decoration. Only in Germany. Even close to the stage during EBM concert frenzy, people go to great lengths to avoid annoying anyone while dancing or passing through the crowds. "Entschuldigung" can be heard everywhere. And even the coolest of bands bow deeply after their performances. Only in Germany. Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl reunited on stage and went all old-school during a minimalistic concert where, at times, one could only hear Gabi's shouting and Robert's drumming in the old hangar where they played. Germans from the days of old showed me there is actually a special "Der Mussolini" dance routine. Mexico's Hocico stood out from the EBM pack by adding three fully dressed-up indians to their show. VNV Nation's main stage concert was one of the most popular amongst the visitors and Ronan Harris performed a ballad entirely on his own, just singing and playing the keyboard, while sitting. Atmospheric Gothic legends Fields of the Nephilim closed M'era Luna around ten pm on Sunday. |
