Tag Archives: Hamburg

“Dear party animals, we won’t dance together in 2020”. That’s how thousands of festivals and venues across the world announced the cancellation of the festival season and all live shows to come, and the whole industry was forced into hiatus. Or putting it simply: The pandemic obliterated the 2020 festival season and almost shattered the live music scene. Now, five …

Australian hip hop three-piece Hilltop Hoods have been around since 1994 when Suffa (Matthew David Lamber) and Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith) joined forces. They were joined by DJ Debris (Barry John Francis) after DJ Next left the band in 1999. Since then they have released eight albums and six of those albums have reached number one on the Australian Record …

A typical cold Hamburg March evening, Sam Fender played the best concert I’ve ever been to at a sold-out DOCKS. It‘s already the highlight of my 2020, and since there will be no more concerts in the next months, it will probably stay that way. To say that I’m a bit of a fangirl when it comes to Sam Fender …

After being the frontman in grammy-nominated Needtobreathe and already achieved great success with a band playing arenas today, frontman William Stanley “Bear” Rinehart III, known as Bear Rinehart, went solo with his project Wilder Woods, a project named after his children Wilder and Woods. In August last year, he released his self-titled debut album, a combination of modern alt-pop, R&B, …

The “glitter rock” era of the early 1970’s, best represented by bands as The New York Dolls, was conspicuously out of step with the dire economic situation by the mid-1970’s. Glam and glitter was ill-fitted with the worldwide economic depression. As the Dolls faded into managerial feuding and drug abuse, a group of neighbors in Forest Hills put together a …

Feuerengel tour across Europe and made a stopover in Hamburg for yet another show. Just after 7 PM a chilly mid-February night it was finally time to head down to Docks at Reeperbahn, completely packed with a 1 500-audience, and with no support act opening up the evening we got an early start. Watching curiously at a massive dark curtain covering …