Sonata Arctica

Finally a concert in Tilburg again :P
013 is actually next to a big parking space and although I was there 30 minutes before it began, the L shirts were already SOLD OUT!
Not that it's a big problem, cause I've worn XL shirts for a long time so I'm used to swim in my shirts a little bit [maybe I just need to work out more]

Anyway the bands that were playing were Ride the Sky, Epica and Sonata Arctica
I don't think it was sold out, but there were a lot of people [in groups of 2+ and me being alone as usual]

Ride the Sky made me think of the band Jorn, although Jorn sounds better. They didn't really get the crowd going, so Sonata walked across the stage a couple of times. I never saw something like that before, but it was nice :D

Epica was up next and I love Epica :D They always have really heavy listening songs and deep lyrics compared to the new After Forever [Epica was a band formed by the lead guitarist from After Forever, if you didn't know] I've seen them several times now and every show I've seen is great!

Finally I could see Sonata playing! I've bought the first album back in 1999 and this was actually the first time I've seen them live. They played about 3 or 4 songs from their new album Unia [which is a lot softer than their earlier releases] and fortunately a lot of their old stuff :P
There was a sort of intermission where the singer divided the crowd in 3 groups and assigned a drum component to each. He called it drumming in public and it was really fun to see.

Next concert will be uhm... Nightwish on March 21st 2008, but I also want to go to Apocolyptica [December 10 2007] and Helloween [January 7 2008] but I'm not sure about going yet [mainly because I have to go by myself again]

Gothic Kabbalah

I really hate doing this offline and uploading it later, but for a couple more days, I have to live without internet… After 3 weeks someone @ my ISP finally did something to fix my cable and my connection will probably be fixed on Monday or Tuesday [ABOUT F*CKING TIME, YOU B*TCHES!]

Tonight I went to see Therion in 013 [Tilburg] and this time I didn’t have to go alone, because there were four of us going [ I didn’t even have to drive :O ]. Support acts were Sabaton [which was quite happy music] and Grave Digger [less happy, as you can imagine by looking at the name]. I think I might download a bit of Sabaton to hear it recorded and I’ll probably skip Grave Digger because I found their music more of the same.

On to Therion! J
I didn’t know they now had 4 vocalists [2 male, 2 female] and I definitely have to check online for pictures how they look [cause I couldn’t see from that distance].
They mostly played new songs from their album “Gothic Kabbalah” except the song I was waiting for [ the title track for the new album :S ]. Maybe they played it on the last moment, but I was already gone at that time, so allow me to play that song now just for myself…

It wasn’t the best concert in the world, but it was worth my money and my time. Besides, I’m gonna see them again on both Graspop and Wacken :D

At the Threshold of... Europe 2007

This title refers to the Hammerfall tour [in case you didn't know that]
I had to go ALL ALONE [again] because people didn't want to go or couldn't go [NOT wanting to go to HAMMERFALL is a sin and you will all burn for it :D ]

It also seemed that the weather would be bad [thick fog], so I was kinda doubting if I should go by car or with public transportation... Glad I went with my own car [with Hammerfall coming out of the speakers the whole time :P ] Only downside is that you have to pay a parking ticket, but oh well you can't have all the luck in the world...

Hammerfall had 2 opening acts: The Poodles and Krokus. Although the name "The Poodles" would make you laugh, their music is actually really good [going to download some soon ;) ]
Krokus was a bit of a disappointment. It's not that the music was bad, but it's just the guy singing that really annoys me... If it were up to me, The Poodles should've played on their time ;)
When Hammerfall finally started to play, I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time... Happiness! I have no idea how long I've been wanting to see them play live and now it was finally upon me [too bad there was nobody to share in my happiness]
They gave away a FANTASTIC show and had some fireworks [which at the end burned some of the ceiling ;) ]

Hopefully Kamelot will have a great show as well :)