Laetti.de - musiCOWscience: WGT 5 and last

Meanwhile...
I uploaded all my pics to FlickR, but it's just few snapshots as the mobile cam was not really good enough for the indoor festivities and the weather not good enough for good situations outside: Crowds of blacks in cloaks don't really make a picture.

The summary

Most important lesson learned:

I'm a fan of D-Beat

Rider of the weekend

Mois Dix Mois: beginning with screws for the drummer's boots in the morning, further on that only one special photographer was allowed to portrait the singer (except for the first song where there was "public shooting", no flash). Most important item on the list: black straws. Matching the water-bottles which all had to be gaffa-taped black as well.

More bands missed, did I?

The Old Dead Tree from Italy.

Dope Stars Inc.

:Of The Wand And The Moon: (as I think that a signing at Prophecy productions can only be outstanding)

Theatre of Tragedy: Thanks to Hein and Lorentz for introducing "Ronan the Hobbit" and a short but great party mayhem!

Tetris of the weekend

Cantus Buranus: How do you fit 80 musicians on the Agra-Stage? Somehow Corvus Corax and their crew managed to. Impressive musical mystery play. Just a shame that everything was too packed for letting the people the space to move.

Ausbeutung des Wochenendes:

Liebe Goten: Wisst ihr, warum eure schnieken Korsagen bei Xtra vergleichbar billig sind? Nein, nicht nur weil Xtra alles gleich im Dutzend billiger fertigen kann und deswegen ganz viele von euch gleich aussehen in ihrer Individualität. Sondern auch, weil ihre Mitarbeiter den Luxus von nur einer Viertelstunde Pause pro Tag haben. Wo habt ihr über's WGT-Wochenende also das Geld hingetragen?

Short reviews:

Saltatio Mortis: Opposite to all the other bands who started "medieval" sounding, Saltatio don't get boring when carrying on with it. "Heptessenz" is still their best record. Unfortunately they want to "develope" as well - please, rather stay with interpreting outstanding songs and music than writing mediocre own stuff. Sad but true.

Even though listening to Deine Lakaien is rather like a trip to me than listening to particular songs, it was great to finally see them live. Hey! Here is no "but" in this phrase.

Hey, isn't that a cover version again? By OMD? And this? Hey, it's not Madonna, but...
Ok., that was funny guessing. But, geez: Yes, it was Paul Humphreys of OMD, and the new project is called One Two. So if you are in Eighties pop (and who is not?!) - thanks for the nice time warp back. But... in the end it was really boring... just to mention.

How do you say "overrated" in latin?

Omnia. Really nice pagan folk. But, honestly: After 3 days of non-stop flute'n'lute you should give the stage free for other artists to freshen the hearing of the audience again. And you don't have to bash the other artists in your myspace-blog afterwards... as I heard no one scream for more Omnium when there was still the encore for Liv Kristine...