so, this was the last day out. what to say about it? uuhhm, the location was nice. i had fun. i didn’t have to pay. that’s something :D
i drove with a friend of mine from salzburg to the location at the clam castle in upper austria. after arriving, i went to the ticket store, stating, that i should be on the guest list. i wasn’t. luckily, i had the printed e-mail with me that said that i was. although for a moment there i thought that someone had been messing with me. long story behind this that i can’t really elaborate. they wanted to keep the print with the mail and gave me the tickets.
the weather forecast was pretty bad so we were prepared for the worst, but the weather was surprisingly fine except a few little raindrops here and there. at the end of the shows it started to rain but by that time we were already in the car.
at the last minute before i left carinthia i got hold of a friend of mine, christoph, the HC strache look-a-like from linz, who was in klam as well. it was nice to see him again. pardon the picture but i only had my cell phone with me.
now for the bands that played in chronological order:
3 FEET SMALLER
they already played when we arrived, due to my delay at the ticket store and the crowd seemed to enjoy it. marcus smaller was entertaining the audience, getting a girl up the stage and giving her an air-guitar. fun! but i did like his solo-project “alone & acoustic” at the acoustic lakeside concert more than the 3 feet smaller performance. first, because of the music, second, because of the lame avril-lavigne-like-school-uniform with black shorts, white shirt and a red tie. overused.
H-BLOCKX
the audience enjoyed it, but i don’t think they have anything other than a decent “ring of fire” cover that i’ve last heard in 2000 or something. and just now in winamp. “risin’ high” was ok too, but besides that, i’m not really into it. the new single “countdown to insanity” is boring (at least in my eyes). but kudos to the singer who managed to catch a flying beer cup and drank the rest. with his hat on, he also looked a bit like ice-t.
MAD CADDIES
i can’t tell much about them, since most of their performance i’ve been standing in line to get something to eat and teaming up with christoph (pic), but it sounded quite good!
BLOODHOUND GANG
a bit disappointing, but it’s nice to catch “fire water burn” live for once, though the song is at least a few hundred years old. and besides “discovery channel“, “f.u.c.k.” and “along comes mary” i didn’t know anything and i’m glad for that, because i didn’t like it either way. i thought it would be fun to see the bloodhound gang live but in case you haven’t - you didn’t miss anything. sick bastard evil jared showed his penis around, spit, pissed and puked all over almost anything. and jimmy pop started his own chant “jimmy pop is homosexual” which transformed into “immer wieder, immer wieder, immer wieder österreich”. they dropped a few german words here and there and apologized for britney spears, lindsay lohan and paris hilton, which was a sign of good faith and therefore i will not wipe out the entire USA once i enjoy world domination. after thanking austria for mozart, freud and red bull they told us to be eternally thankful for the simpsons. good point.
NOFX
living legends live, quite nice. the crowd was really looking forward to them as i could tell by seeing all these NOFX shirts. “the brews” live was way cool, one of the few songs that i knew before, but i missed a few other ones that i know. all in all i expected a bit more from NOFX, don’t know why. still, crowd-pleasers for sure and i liked it after all. quote of the day to two guys in the audience: “you’d make my day if you’d give each other a kiss now. isn’t that what EMO is all about? two guys kissing?”. in one part, they started a sentence “you germans are …. ” until someone told them, where they’re playing. whoooops!
don’t know if i have missed out anything from the performances - it’s usually not “my type of music” and i wouldn’t have paid 45€ for this, but i got in “quite cheap”, so no complaints from this side.
as for the whole ambience i have to say that there were so many stereotypes coming true. shit faced drunk people from all ages, a few of whom had to be taken care of by the medical stuff. an awful lot of NOFX shirts (about 30% of all people there!) and i still don’t get it why people have to throw their beers into the audience… as if it wasn’t expensive enough… what a waste. and rude. but more a waste. that precious, precious beer.
merchandise was way to expensive by the way, the last day out shirt cost 25€!! but it’s just a great shirt motif (main picture of this article). since i saved some money on tickets i thought i could effort it :)
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October 28, 2007 at 05:52
a few years ago, a friend of mine gave me the song “the general” by dispatch. i really liked it and listened to it a lot ever since. but i never got myself more than just this one song, until about 2004. i felt bad, because i missed out that long on such a great band. not only is their music awesome and unique, but also very authentic.
it was only to their reunion concerts that i learned about their break-up, which was in 2002. i was curious and finally got myself more albums and loved all about it. then the album with their reunion concert in 2004 got released along with a dvd. dispatch - all points bulletin. two live albums on audio cds and both shows on dvd as well in the package. i’ve never listened to a cd more often than two those two live concerts. they are all perfect*, there are no other words. if you see or only hear this, you will understand. the funniest part is, when they talk about “oh, we’d expect about 20.000 people to show up, but now they had to shut down the roads because we’ve got about a 100.000 strong” - quite a lot for an independent band!
in 2007 they made another round of reunion concerts, benefict concerts for Zimbabwe and various charities the band supports. the full stream was available on their myspace page and a dvd has already been anounced. sure thing i will get it.
but the title of this post is “state radio albums for free”, why do i talk about dispatch? well, after the break-up of dispatch, chad urmson founded state radio, a band that is since then on their way to become another sensation, just like dispatch. “us against the crown” is an overall excellent record and soon they will release their new album “year of the crow“. as good as ordered.
still, the reason i am posting this is that in celebration to the new album, state radio are giving away their previous albums for free! you can download them on their homepage!
three albums are already available (”peace between nations“, “flag of the shiners“, “us against the crown“) and i guess the fourth free album will be the barn sessions. you got about three weeks left to download them until the new album gets out.
and also, there is the song “unfortunates” available as a download, including the story behind this song and further links.
so i’d really like to use this opportunity to say thank you to Dispatch, State Radio and the great guys between this music and the efforts they put in and the ideas for that they stand!
now check out:
* except for a tiny bit on the dvd where the part with the “stir it up” cover during outloud got cut :(
after lake07 was cancelled, i will now attend the last day out festival by clam concerts in upper austria on the 31st of august 2007. i was tempted to go to two days a week, but only ignite would have been worth it. to bad noone would accompany me there.
so now i will head to the last day out with a buddy to see 3 feet smaller, mad caddies, h-blockx, the bloodhound gang and NOFX. the bloodhoung gang sounds like fun and i wanted to get to know the music of 3 feet smaller for a long time. also, because i recently saw marcus smaller (”alone and acoustic“) at the acoustic lakeside session.
plus: NOFX, i mean, that’s got to be cool. right? right? (”i heard they suck live”)
(as for now, i only know “the brews” and “kill of the white man”, but i probably know more without knowing it’s from NOFX)
oh, and by the way: big thanks to He Who Must Not Be Named.
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i could have watched tito and tarantula right now…
.. but the world does not seem to like me very much these days. i was really, really looking forward to see tito & tarantula again at the lake07 concerts in carinthia. also, i had tickets for slut (it’s a bands name, really!) & sportfreunde stiller and naked lunch / monta.
but, just one day before the concert, which would have started about now, there was an announcement, that the organizer ran out of money and had to stop the whole series of events instantly - which means before all the three concerts i already had tickets to.
lake07 was - so i thought - a great project for carinthia - planned as a whole month on a lake in carinthia with lots and lots of concerts with great bands and side events.
yesterday at noon, they announced the end of lake07 and i got the news a bit ahead by some other sources. then I sent an email to the team, asking about my money for the tickets.
now i just received an email that in short says:
Falls deine Karten bereits bezahlt wurden, tut es uns leid dir mitteilen zu müssen, dass die Event Tourismus Südkärnten GMBH, dir den Kartenpreis nicht rückerstatten kann, da ein vom Gericht eingesetzter Masseverwalter unsere Gelder von nun an verwaltet.
[...]
Wir hoffen, dass wirdir keine allzu großen Unannehmlichkeiten bereitet haben und wünschen dir auch weiterhin einen schönen Sommer.
translated:
in case your tickets have already been paid, we’re sorry to tell you, that the event tourismus südkärnten gmbh can not give you your money back, because the legally liquidator is now in control of our money.
[...]
we hope that you are not that big troubled and wish you furthermore a nice summer.
(i’m not that good in direct translations, but you get the deal..)
i’m pretty pissed right now, and i also think it’s a pitty that the concept of lake07 came to an end in the middle - i did hope for the best…
just to be clear: i’m not that pissed about lost money, but pissed about the fact that i miss shows that i was really looking forward to!
