Home again, after a very successful WGT!
Actually, I have been home for a week now, but I’ve been a bit stressed so I haven’t had the time to post anything. But it was great nonetheless!
Drank punch in the sun, watched concerts and went shopping during the day and clubbing at night. All in the company of good friends. Perfect way to spend your days really. A pity that we now have to wait an entire year for the next festival.
Managed to see the following bands:
Paniklift – nondescript electro. Not bad in itself but boring. Don’t remember much actually, although that could be due heavy pre-parting as it was day 1 of WGT and everyone got a bit carried away.
Combichrist – great concert as always. Have seen them too often to get overly excited but their concerts are always fun.
Sarah Noxx – not that impressed, unfortunately. The music is okay (I’m not a huge fan, but I like some songs), but the sound system wasn’t working well which kind of spoiled the experience.
Project Pitchfork – surprisingly good concert! Surprising not because I don’t like the music (the older material is very nice, the newer stuff I haven’t listened to much), but because I didn’t think they’d have as much energy live as they did.
Yelworc – Horrible. Seriously. Avoid at all costs.
Feindflug – Again, a surprisingly good concert. I love their music but I’m somewhat skeptical to listening to them at clubs/concerts. The theme of most of their songs (3rd world war, execution, etc) is not something to dance around to. Not for me at least. But they respected that and weren’t too overly enthusiastic on stage.
VNV Nation – Good concert, mainly due to the audience. I love their older songs but the newer stuff all sounds the same to me. Big disappointment: they did not play Electronaut or Structure, which I’d been hoping for.
Aesthetic Perfection – Nice to see finally see live! Great music, ok-performance.
Icon of Coil – Great music, sound performance. Fun to see live.
Sonar – Good music, need to listen a bit more to them I think.
Scandy – Not that impressed but might be better on an album. Felt more like a dj-set than a concert, but the music was good.
Bands I would have loved to see but missed:
Patenbrigade: Wolff – Played before Sonar and Scandic at the same tiny venue. We were a bit late to the concert and didn’t make it past the long queue in time.
ASP – There were simply too many things playing simultaneously, so unfortunately I couldn’t make it to their gig.