Being on a hardcore mission
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Picked up early in the morning we started our tour into the world of hard/ emo-core. We had the tickets, we had the car, but got lost already after a few minutes thanks to our co-pilot Marc. But finally we arrived in Cologne and our blood was already tuned with music:
First stop was the Live Music Hall, with tons of cool bands, like as friends rust, pale, trial by fire, hot water music, the get up kids, strike anywhere…The only thing missing was the atmosphere, yes the kids were diving and dancing, but it seemed like more kids just saw them on TV and wanted to be cool. Also you just could feel that some bands just didn’t give all they could, maybe there was too much money involved. But so what, we still had a damn good time.
Afterwards we jumped into our car straight away and got on the road again, seeking for some more: after an endless ride (also trying to stay awake) we arrived in Ieper, Belgian at the camping ground and found most people enjoying already their breakfast. Ieper is an awesome hardcore festival where the „family” meets, which means that you see all the people you didn’t see for a while because of the distance. What makes these festivals so special is that everybody is just here to enjoy the music and not to seek for fame. So everybody does whatever he/ she feels like, some run around naked through the crowds, some play football while the bands are playing, others eat every vegan dish they can find, others have a grin on their face because they just found a CD they were looking for, for ages but couldn’t find anywhere else, others just listen to the tunes. The cool thing is that a lot of smaller “unknown” bands have a chance to play in front of a big crowd. So during day we listened to sunrise, cast-down, length of time, square one…
I’m telling you the evening was the bomb, majority rule, darkest hour, strike anywhere, heaven shall burn, I was hypnotized.
Darkest hour had their last concert in Europe and gave just everything they could. I bet they had a great time touring. They are hard fast and are going for the death metal sound. As a thanks we all witnessed the dancing dinosaur.
Strike anywhere are doing their 2nd European tour and are more of an rapid, melodic hardcore band. The people where already out of their brain at this point and enjoyed a great performance, the pictures speak for themselves.
tourdates
09/08 München, Backstage
09/09 Mannheim, JUZ
09/10 UK – London, Camden Underworld (+ trial by fire)
09/12 UK – Liverpool, slaughterhouse
09/13 UK – Middlesborough
09/14 UK – Southhampton, Joiner’s Arms
09/15 Bel – Kontich, Lintfabriek
09/16 Hol – Amsterdam
09/17 Oldenburg, Alhambra
09/18 Hamburg
09/19 Berlin, Kato
09/20 Hannover, Korn
09/21 Schweinfurt
09/22 Trier, Ex-Haus
you better check them out
For the last band I made my way up onto the stage to see them close up. the awesome thing was that the last band of the day was not as on all the other concerts a US band ( just because a lot of people think an American band as a headliner is just bringing more people that pay), no it was heaven shall burn „Europe’s most vicious metalcores act” (that’s what the flyers said). These boys are from Germany and rock the house. Sometimes i thought the stage gonna break, because so many people jumped of it, or tried to sing into the microphone…
I’M sorry that I don’t have a picture of heaven shall burn from the concert, but my friend was so busy with stage diving he just had no time.
Tour dates
trial by fire:
09/09 UK – Brighton, Pressure Point
09/10 UK – London, Camden Underworld
09/13 Bremen, Grünenstr,
09/15 Bel – Kontich, (+strike anywhere)
as friends rust:
09/08 UK – Cambridge
09/09 UK – Norwich, Ferryboat
09/10 UK – Southampton/ Portsmouth
09/11 NL – Amsterdam
more dates at www.tcb-tourbooking.com
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