These are the Artists, DJ:s & Groups I've seen live so far in my life, listed in alphabetical order with information about where I saw/heard them, when I saw/heard the shows and how good the shows were.
American cheesy radio rock that I just don't like, sorry! One thing that was cool is that a swedish fan that made an accoustic cover version was on stage doing back up vocals on "This Calling". It didn't sound very good but I guess she liked being on stage with her heroes.
How crazy can it get with for guys playing cello? It shouldn't be crazy at all but they were mad! Laying on the floor grinding the cello to "kill it"? It looked like that anyway!
2. Roskilde Festival (01-07-01) - (4)
Green stage ( 18000) but still an awesome concert!
She was sick and the music was mellow and downtempo. It was also hard to see anything on the stage because the stage was so low and the crowd didn't move.
2. Arvikafestivalen (03-XX-XX) - (5)
She played almost all my favourite tracks including Pluto, Isobel and Hunter, and it was with an industrial techno touch that I really liked.
3. Roskilde Festival (07-07-05) - (4)
I stood in a queue for more than an hour and it rained about 40 milimeters during that time and during the show. I was completely soaked even though I had a rain coat and pants. Even though it felt like standing in a shower the gig was great.
1. Arvika Festival (97-XX-XX) - (4)
2. Hultsfredsfestivalen (XX-XX-XX) - (4)
3. Roskilde Festival (99-07-04) - (4)
4. Arvika Festival (99-XX-XX) - (4)
5. Roskilde Festival (02-06-29) - (4)
One band that really can manage the orange stage in Roskilde!
6. Studion - Stockholm (97-12-15) - (5)
7. Roskilde Festival (08-07-06) - (4)
This show and the Slayer show were the only good ones at the Roskilde Festival in 2008. I was depressed until bob hund made me smile but it's sad that a huge festival such as Roskilde hardly had anything I wanted to see/hear.
As with Trivium this was music that is brutal in the verses but cheesy in the chorus. I just can't stand that. Even though I wasn't too drunk this show is now viped clean from my brain. It's quite strange that a gig can be so uninteresting that you forget it totally in just some days. Fans of melo-death will obviously not understand me at all.
I must say that I was extremely impressed by the level of technical skill and they tried their best to get the crowd going but didn't really reach all the way. As I haven't played Guitar Hero and not being a fan of the speed-/powermetal genres the band was unknown to me before this show.
Their gig got delayed almost an hour because the Austoria tent got so crowded that the management thought it would be dangerous to let the band play. The problem was that it was so crowded in there that you couldn't get out even if you wanted to. It was damn hot in there too and when the band finally started most people were a bit fed up standing there I guess, but the show was pretty good even though the delay disturbed me.
A lot of people got reminded of their childhood when we looked at this group on TV as part of a program called Trazan & Banarne. Sunshine, alcohol and old nostalgic memories are a great combination.
It's hard to describe how special this event was. In the big concert hall of the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress Wolgang had set up a huge screen that showed hypnotic movies from the nature. Very much in line with how the covers of his records look like... but moving... drifting in a very hypnotic way. Some started up close and then they were copied and split into smaller parts showing the same thing but you felt like it was zooming out. It's impossible to describe it really. The concert hall was full when he started but people just didn't get it and started to leave after some minutes and at the end after one and a half hour only about 40-50 people were left. It was one of the most hypnotic performances I've ever seen but I guess the majority of the audience thought it was too slow and boring. Wolfgang himself stood still at the left side of the screen with his laptop and you couldn't really see him. I guess that was as intended becuase the movies on the big screen combined with his fantastic music between ambient, drone, techno and modern classical should be the primary focus, not him personally.
This was the year that 9 people sadly actually died at the Roskilde Festival. Most artists found it difficult to play after the accident and some even cancelled their shows but Goran did a marvelous job. The croud was a bit stiff obviously but me and my girlfriend danced during the happy tracks. We actually missed the Pearl Jam gig just because we both got ridiculously drunk in our tent because it rained a lot.
2. Konserthuset - Stockholm (XX-XX-XX) - (4)
Loud! It was freekin' loud! I thought that it was going to be a normal concert at the concert hall called "Konserthuset" but it was the loudest ever experience of my life. I just couldn't believe it but it almost cracked my scull opened! I've been to hundreds of raves, hundreds of concerts but this was way beyond what I could cope with. Horns and basoons... Grrrhhhs... Please make it stop!
Axl was late on stage and that meant that I had to leave after 6 tracks to catch the Sigur Ros gig. He did play Welcome To The Jungle and that was pretty much what I was hoping and the only thing I cared about really.
I don't understand why I didn't like their Roskilde gig because the band was very energetic in Göteborg, playing really hard music, but with a possitive vibe on stage that got the audience to enjoy it. I enjoyed it anyway.
Farewell tour with a guest appearance by Dregen. I've had the chance to see them so many times at festivals but never bothered before. I'm glad I saw one of their last gigs ever because it was better than expected.
I think it was really sad that he had to play in the lounge where hardly any people go and those that were there wasn't there to see Ian Ion. He played some great ambient but it all started with some poetry read by some guy that I never understood who he was. Both were dressed up in old looking outfits with black high hats.
Fast mixing (45 seconds or so then the next track) but with crappy boring music. I wasn't impressed before I saw his set and I don't really care much for any of his releases either afterwards even though I've got a few.
Special guest: Mike Patton. The show was delayed because of sound problems so a lot of people left before it even started. When it finally started it was a bit too slow and experimental in my opinion. Some sort of weird cabaret music.
Similar to Kraftwerk. He played some Kraftwerk tracks that obviously sounded great but it wasn't Kraftwerk. The other solo-stuff wasn't that fantastic.
This concert was absolutely totally crazy even though it was almost at the same time as Black Sabbath at Orange stage. I actually fainted for the first and only time in my life at the fence! The pressure was ridiculous and when I took some photos with my crappy camera I fainted and the guards had to save me!