| Mein WGT-programm. Vorläufig - Wenn Chaos zulassen wird! |
[May. 24th, 2009|10:25 am] |
As Euro-festival heads will have noticed, the Wave Gotik Treffen is looming up like...well, like a great big sprawling festival in an East German city.
As I always do, I have worked out an incredibly deatailed WGT Master Plan, incorporating all band times, inter-venue travel times, tram routes, refreshment stops, and toilet breaks. I do this every year. And every year, the whole thing descends into random chaos as soon as I get to Leipzig.
As always, among the bands I've specifically earmarked for some attention, I've selected some random venues and unknown bands, because that's half the fun of it for me - to simply pitch up somewhere and see whatcha get. Sometimes, I find some really good bands I'd never heard of before (Last year, for example, I discovered Militant Cheerleaders On The Move) and at other times I stumble on some bloody awful bands (for example, Miss Construction, a band I will certainly endeavour to miss in future).
However, among other excursions to other venues, I'll probably catch L'Ame Immortelle at the Agra on day 1 (I have a soft spot for that band, because the singer posed for my camera in mid-song at the Underworld once - I wish more bands would do this!).
Day 2 I might be mostly at the Felsenkeller, because there are a couple of bands there I'd like to catch. And the Scary Bitches, unfortunately, but I knew they'd get me in the end.
This will, at least, give me the raw material for my annual treatise Something Is Rotten In The State Of Deathrock - because, let's face it, if the Scary Bitches are a top band on the deathrock scene, things certainly can't be healthy. I've made that point before, expecting outraged deathrockers to rise up and denounce me, insisting that the scene is a throbbing creative powerhouse - but nobody's ever challenged me. I can only assume that, on the quiet, the deathrock scene agrees with me. Ha, all you deathrockers - I've nailed ya!
Day 3 I might go to the pagan village, for wine and folk dancing. The quantity of the former will influence the quantity of the latter, I'm sure. I'll also see about catching Frank The Baptist & Peter Murphy, among other bands around town.
Day 4 - I might drop in to the Parkbuhne, although, looking at the bill, I might drop out again at certain strategic intervals, and see who else is on other stages.
Those are just the punctuation points in my schdule, really. There's more to it than that, but I'm sure the final result will be shaped by the forces of chaos more than anything.
As I might have mentioned, Nemesis To Go Issue Seven is now up, but the older stuff can still be found in the Archive section. This means you can still read my somewhat planned, but mostly random, WGT 2008 review here.
So, if you're WGT-ing it this year, I may see you in the cellars or streets of old Saxony. I'm looking forward to Mein erst schwarzbier already! |
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