Reeperbahn Festival 2024 Reeperbahn Festival 2024 By now you all know how worthwhile a visit to Hamburg, Germany, is and for music fans all the more so in late September when the Reeperbahn Festival is on, the largest club festival in Europe as well as a meeting point of the
blog That was my Reeperbahn Festival 2023 Looking forward to something like mad and then it swooshes past and you sadly see the back of it already: Those are the events that keep us going and there will surely be a next time. This year's Reeperbahn Festival was such
blog Reeperbahnfestival 2023 Credit: Christian Hedel Time flies but in this case it is a marvellous thing as we are nearing the annual Reeperbahnfestival 2023. In three weeks' time (20th to 23rd of September) it'll be hitting off and tickets for both the festival
blog Interview Nina Persson and James Yorkston, Harmonie, Bonn, May 12th 2023 After collaborating on the wonderful album "The Great White Sea Eagle" James Yorkston, The Second Hand Orchestra and Nina Persson bring James Yorkston's latest songs onto a stage surely near you too. I had the fortune to see them on
blog The Burning Hell, Gebäude 9, Cologne, Germany, May 9, 2023 It has been a while, I admit it freely. There have been post-lockdown concert but I have not written about them. Not that they weren't any good. (At one of the very first events and also shortly after flooding events in our
Reeperbahnfestival 2022 A Visit To Reeperbahnfestival 2022 Mixed feelings as I boarded the train to Hamburg to attend - beside a business meeting - this year's Reeperbahnfestival. It had been a long time coming due to the pandemic, the real thing. One virtual festival and one with severe restrictions
Liam O Maonlai & Peter O'Toole Liam Ó Maonlaí & Peter O'Toole Liam Ó Maonlaí & Peter O'Toole @Überhaupt in Aachen, Germany, Feb 6th 2020 plus a chat with the two artists Here I sit, storm "Sabine", wailing around the house - elsewhere called "Ciara" - and it is going
Kirsten Ludwig Kirsten Ludwig renders sadness beautiful The Canadian musician visits Europe Calgary-born, Vancouver located musician Kirsten Ludwig has just released her fourth oeuvre, EP "Wasted Years" (Oscar St. Records). Here, again, she lets you
My personal Reeperbahnfestival 2019 My personal Reeperbahn Festival 2019 And that was that again: Reeperbahn Festival 2019 in Hamburg, Germany, is over and done with and leaves many of us looking back fondly and looking forward excitedly to the next edition. Let me try and render my personal impression of the festivities that
Wilco, Carlswerk, Cologne, 2019 Wilco, Carlswerk, Cologne, Sep 13 2019 Some years back I had a short conversation with Adam Granduciel from The War On Drugs, him gushing about discovering The Waterboys and enjoying going through their back catalogue. But,
Steve Gunn Cologne, Bumann & Sohn, Sep 9, 19 Steve Gunn, Cologne Sep 9th 2019 I often get asked, would I like to turn music journalism into my day job? Of course that is worth a little daydream or too and both sides would benefit.
Reeperbahnfestival 2019 Coming up: Reeperbahnfestival 2019 A trip to Hamburg always comes highly recommended and of course you would throw in a stroll around St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn. When the annual Reeperbahnfestival takes places from 18th to 21st September, you will find music and everything connected to it in
The Faith Healer By Frian Frian Friel The Faith Healer by Brian Friel ...is a book I had never read. In fact, I do not own a single book by Brian Friel despite the shelves bursting at the seams with Irish literature in my house. Why do I write about it now? Why about a book in
Just a short note Just a short note Thank you to everyone who has contacted me and introduced themselves and submitted music for this blog. You make my day every single time. (No, no, the blog is not going to vanish from the face off the earth). As I have written to
The Burning Hell Interview With The Burning Hell It happens once in a while that I have heard of a band and yet our timelines never met. Hard to manage if that particular band has released a multitude
Little Waves Festival Little Waves Festival 2019 - review Indeed, it was upon us again in this corner of the world: Little Waves Festival in the beautiful buildings of the C-Mine in Genk, Belgium. In December, the first acts
Hamburg Steve Gunn talks about The Unseen In Between As you might deduce from this blog and also from my radio shows, I have been listening to Steve Gunn for quite a while and hence eagerly anticipated his new
Cologne Seamus Fogarty - an interview Seamus Fogarty is on a massive tour in mainland Europe, so he says himself. Following the release of his EP The Old Suit (Domino), he will be visiting further destinations,
Barbara A few precious words about Precious Few Having gone to see Marble Sounds twice, I remembered fondly the time when Precious Few played support for them. I recently had the opportunity to witness a wonderful set by
Alter Schlachthof Marble Sounds, Alter Schlachthof, Eupen/B, December 1st 2018 It is that time of the year again and we are being tortured by the holiday tunes on radio. Well many of them are pretty atrocious. Those songs that are
Bottle It In Kurt Vile & The Violators and Mary Lattimore & Meg Baird at Kantine, Cologne, Germany, Nov '18 Avid Kurt Vile fan that I am, I have been looking forward to see Kurt Vile & The Violators performing live again in my vicinity for the past six months
California Spain's Josh Haden - an interview Josh Haden’s band Spain has had a long and winding career. Throughout the band’s existence their output of six studio albums, however, has had a consistent level of
Chris That was Reeperbahnfestival 2018 like - to me No excuses, I told you about Hamburg’s Reeperbahnfestival last year and let you know that and when it is happening again. Hope you were there and enjoyed it as
Carla J. Easton Gwenifer Raymond, Glenn Jones, Nathan Salsburg, Carla J. Easton & Static Shore This past summer has seen the release of many a fine example of American Primitive Guitar music. Does anybody know what is supposed to be primitive about the nimble fingerpicking
Hamburg Coming soon...Reeperbahnfestival While Offbeat finds that the summer slump in the music industry does not really exist anymore, it has to be said that individual gigs are giving way to festivals during
