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As festivalgoers get home from enjoying Roskilde Festival, Wacken, Reading/Leeds Festival and many similar events creating memorable weekends across Europe this summer, a warning has gone out that many events are surviving on such precarious finances that as many as one in ten could close down by next year, in particular those festivals run by grassroots organisations having a rough …

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 – …

Their live shows are known to be awesome, the band is going nuts on stage, and no one is left standing still and those that are get knocked out. We’re talking about Malmö based electropunkers The Guilt and their high energy performances earning them a great reputation across Europe. Prior to their show in Hamburg, Messed!Up sat down with Emma …

Two releases into their career, Stockholm’s post-punk outfit A Projection has provided listeners with a widely-varying palette from which to draw. After being signed by Hamburg based Tapete Records even before there was a full band setup, A Projection have seen a massive increase in popularity and already played the major festivals on the scene. We caught up with the band …