Well, the forum meeting(s) were too much on short notice this time, unfortunately.
I think the best way to describe it is - pure chaos and pure fun!
Some new faces, some familiar faces, some friends who are not members of this forum but who came anyway, some people who simply spotted Eskil and Joakim and came to ask for autographs or to take pics. Especially on Sunday quite a mess but a fun one!
Biggest downer of the weekend was that the festival organizers had to close the Rheinparkhalle after Feindflug's gig on Saturday because parts of the plaster came off the ceiling!
So the second stage had to be rescheduled to the much smaller theatre, and there were many delays because of it on Sunday.
Covenant's gig was a good one although I have to admit that I was kinda bored during the first 2-3 songs. Maybe it's just me, maybe I saw Covenant too many times. Plus, I surely prefer Covenant performing at a club to their festival gigs. I don't like daylight during concerts anyway.
But things really took off when our boys performed a new song (setlist please!!
) which was simply
brilliant! A great version of The Men followed, and Ritual Noise merging into this cool version of Brave New World was brilliant too. Loved it!
So a good gig even though it took a while for me personally to get into the show but the great moments later into the perfomance made up for it.
Other highlights were for me Laibach (impressive!!), Front 242, Diorama and the great great aftershow party Sunday night.