Last year, We Were Promised Jetpacks returned with their fifth album Enjoy the View but the pandemic stopped the band from doing a full album tour and tome parts it had to be postponed until now. Just as on the previous album tours, I was in for another album tour experience – been to them all – and my seventh …
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Festival Review: Lollapalooza Stockolm – Saturday
There were some rumors that the festivals in Sweden had not really been selling well. It would make sense, given that it is a bit crowded, both on the roads with artists that have not been able to tour for almost three years, and in the calendar, between promoters trying to make up for a few terrible years. Lollapallooza started …
Read More »Spiritbox @Knust (Hamburg): Review
The hype around Vancouver Island based metal core quartet Spiritbox is real. While they were always destined for great things (which has been apparent to me since I discovered singer Courtney LaPlante doing vocal booth live singing videos on YouTube), it is with their 2021 album ‘Eternal Blue’ that they’ve catapulted themselves on the map of record breaking successes and …
Read More »Festival Review: Rosendal Garden Party
Aaaaahhh… Finally! Almost three years! Three years since being at a festival. It´s almost difficult to comprehend. Some weird shit went down in 2020 and 2021, but now everything is just fine. Right? Well, we´ll get back to that. The organizers behind Rosendal Garden Party, FKP Scorpio, have waited. The concert with The National and Cat Power has basically been …
Read More »Gary Numan @Markthalle (Hamburg): Review
Growing up in Sweden and becoming an avid music listener at an early age, there were two types of music that caught my interest: Swedish punk music in general, especially Ebba Grön, and all albums released by Jean-Michel Jarre, especially the iconic Oxygene record, released in 1976. However, a cousin made sure I found another direction. First, he gave me …
Read More »Bad Religion + Slime @Fabrik Coesfeld (Coesfeld): Review
It’s been a long two years of waiting for both fans and Bands. But we got there in the end. Finally, Bad Religion are on their Anniversary Tour, the 40+2 years Anniversary Tour. Hamburg’s punk rock legends Slime had the honor of opening that night. For them, it was not only the first gig after the two-year break. On this …
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