Montag, August 08, 2005

Back from Wacken

Back from Wacken, back from work. This year I worked as the "host" for the Black Stage again - meaning, I had to take care that the bands are gonna find everything they need - from stage and stagemanager to dressing rooms, catering, signing session - to the much more complicated arrangement of the shuttles in the late evening. Pretty clear, nobody wants to leave if the party is at it's heighth.

Marvelous weather on thursday for Nightwish, and the longest and strongest aftermath - heavy rain and a chill the following days.

Working means of course, that I'm not there to watch the bands, so I could only get glimpses of Machine Head, Finntroll, Zyklon, Dissection, Marduk and Kreator, even though I would have loved to see more. But I took my time, arranged some things in before and was able to see the whole sets of Bloodbath, Sentenced (the show of the festival!) & Samael (pink light!!! pink!!! and apple-green-and-red. Ladies!). Bloodbath was simply fun. Took ages for the set-up of the instruments, but only 30 seconds for the bloodlike paint. Unfortunately it was the first and last gig. Maybe for the band in total but definitely for Mikael Akerfeldt as their singer. Remember Mikael directing the audience? "Growl in a death metal way!" "Now high-pitched!" "and now like Dani Filth" LOL!

Definitely it was the last German gig for Sentenced. Even though they have much too much of a rock'n'roll attitude still I was pretty easily convinced by a person well known to the band to offer them some luxury on their last gig - f.e. a shuttle from the stage through the chill to the dressing room. And of course it turned slapstick, as the lawn was sodden and the van was stuck. Well, the driver was not unblameable, but I was not able to get out the red carpet this quick. Next time I'll arrange a landrover or, even better, a hummer. But there is no next time. Where's the limo?

On a more serious topic, there was a terrible accident where a very drunken person was falling against the side of an ambulance and died, unfortunately this turned out to be true, as the police reports. Thanks god this was the only major incident, most of the minor injuries were caused by bad weather all in all it was an exhausting, but cool and calm W:O:A. Now I got some sleep, and I'm already preparing for the next event, as I'm turning 30 tomorrow...

1 Comments:

Shrike said...

Congrats!

12:36 PM  

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