Reviews

I was finally back at the Reeperbahn Festival to celebrate the 2018 edition – and this year I had lots of bands on my “must see” list. Last year I just happened to end up in Hamburg by chance (and love) and since I was on location and, at the time worked, for our Swedish partner magazine Drefvet I thought …

Is it possible to have a two-day festival at Sweden’s national arena for swimming, Eriksdalsbadet? Yes, of course! And you are allowed to use one of the swimming pool’s during the festival days! Popaganda Festival usually represents the end of the summer and the arrival of the fall, and this year was no different; Friday was burdened by typical Swedish …

Three days walking around in the harbor of Hamburg didn’t instantly spring to mind thoughts of fun and escapism. However the curators of MS Dockville Festival had a vision to create just that, in the much milder summer heat than we have been used to this summer (thank someone for that). Messed!Up relocated their office desks to the harbor of …

The second festival day actually starts out in the night since there was no possibility whatsoever to sleep in an overheated apartment with no air condition. And that’s not the main problem. To have two dudes smelling cheap vodka and sounding like two dump haulers in full speed next to me didn’t help at all. Therefore it was better to …

At last back at Tanzbrunnen and the 14th edition of the Cologne based festival. Awakenings can be good or bad – or terrible. After Friday’s pre-party we discovered that our apartment didn’t have air condition and after a really hot day with temperatures reaching +35º C it was a fact that there wouldn’t be much sleep the first night – …

The last two days of the festival were already predicted to be the weakest festival days. Sure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Massive Attack and Mogwai would probably make most music nerds go nuts but if you’ve seen those bands at least seven times before there’s not much new to discover. Again, it was the up-and-coming bands that impressed …