Crossed one of my wishtosee list again. The Foreshadowing. My list is so empty now. Like.. 2 bands I really want to see before I die :p and that must be *ruffels drums* The Cyan Velvet Project and Ruoska.
Well… let’s say it is good that good bands pop up every once and a while so I never get a chance to finish the list completely ;)
But back to the topic, The Foreshadowing did a great gig. Too bad there were not so many doom people there. I think most people found it too depressive. Well, I m impressed. Because tensions are high if you really adore an album and then have to see it live. it’s so easy to fuck up then. But they did it good :D So didnt have to worry. Class musicians :) Reminded me to The Eternal which I saw earlier this year and kind of had the same feeling with. But they rocked it as well.
Next day i went all the way to Germany for Open flair. First day was kind of chill we got passes and wristbands and went to the redbull bus. That was the stage for this evening. yeah bands had to rock on a bus. Kinda sucked. you think it is cool, but within a bit you see it just sucks. The redbull handout in the backstage was cool. I rarely drink it, way too much sugartaste for me (even tghe sugarfree ones).
Didnt like any of the bands. But had fun with dancing to Emil Bulls which were probably the band that comes closest to what i like. And they had merch on from bands I liked. so yeah it was ok. Next day was not so great. Kinda boring. I was way overheated. sort of heatstroke got me. Next day I felt really bad because of it and so I left pretty much an hour after I came. I slept a lot and last day I did not do much either. Went downtown at dinner time and walked on the festival area to see if I could shop something, but I didnt buy a thing. Peter Fox gave me a headache so I left again.
Eschwege is not really a funky place by the way. Why does such a small place have so many bowlinghalls? and knitting stores? I guess a lot of old people live there.
And on the last day I found out that my 70-300mm objexctive is broken. the autofocus is completely blocked and manual focus doesnt work either. Only if I pressure it a lot I can break through the block. So hmm I need to buy a new one. uhm… Sponsors?????? anyone??? :)

I have a couple of galleries on from Open Flair Festival.
Find The Subways 1 and Fiska Viljor 1 in the concert page.

Didnt make a whole festival gallery as I did not shoot much bands.

The Foreshadowing was in NL and I photographed their gig. Find it under concerts: The Foreshadowing 1