Friday madness @ the airports

Thanks to something but all my flights were OK till now. Maybe let's talk more about arriving to airport and checking in. As you already may guess - this time was more special :) The time was good, just we had electronic tickets so some more procedures had to be done. And everything started then we were waiting in a long queue for ticket office. It was left only about 25 minutes till flight. And then one guy asked - why are we in terminal 5 if this time we're flying from terminal 2 which is in another end of Stockholm's airport :) OK, running a kilometer with couple of big bags is fun! When we were at the place all red and sweaty, somewhy everyone trusted us when we told that we're a bit late and they should let us first to check in :D However, we managed it... One Finninsh guy sitting next to me in a plane even suggested me some local beers. I told him that we have only an hour..
But if something goes wrong then it goes wrong :) Landed in Helsinki and saw the best thing - our flight to Vilnius is delayed for more than 4 hours so now we have to wait for five or six hours :D I just have to mention that we had one guy who was celebrating his birthday, so ok - we're going to take some beer. We even got some lunchon voucher from AirBaltic. It was 16 Euros :D What can you get for this sum in Helsinki's airport? A small burger and one small beer :D That's a compensation!! :)
Anyway, after running, waiting, drinking and other attractions we came to Lithuania at last. And it was so good to drink some cold and good lithuanian beer at bix pub. Beerkend is starting! ;)

FOJE joke!

Even if this band do not play anymore for already ten long years but they're still number ONE here in Lithuania! And those guys are incredible! Last joke: on 17th March some people made a concert dedicated to ten years anniversary of Foje's last show. Some local "superstars" or "look at me, someone says I'm a star" made covers of best Foje songs. OK, let's forget this concert, it's not that interesting (to put it mildly) ;)

So, at the same time in the place where Foje's last show took place, four guys re-united for one song after 10 years!!! No fans, no rumours, no... anything.. They just came, played one song (actually they started their last concert with this song) and went away.. That's what I adore about them - no frames, no "everyone does so", no pompous things! Just something what borns suddenly, some idea of the moment, something what was totally surprising, what was totally sentimental...



P.S. And I know that today my playlist contains only Foje songs :)
P.P.S. If you want to see how this great song sounded 10 years ago click here!

Ferrum birthday: Atrocity!

Well, hi again! Last weekend spent in Lithuania again! Sleepless nights again also :) Waiting for the morning in Bix pub, walking in the oldtown till the midnight and Ferrum birthday concert for sure!

So, as I must admit that I was waiting for Atrocity only and the other bands were just 'good to see', the waiting of headliners was quite a long :)
However, let's start from the beginning. After two hours delay, the show started! The Perplexx (very interesting Lithuanian cross-breed metal band) performance was ruined with sound problems and I just was thinking how good records of them sound.. Wishing them not to experience such problems in the future (too optimistic I guess).
Then, Andaja came to the scene. I'm not big fan of this pagan metal band, but somewhy I really wait for their live shows. Those guys have some extraodinary energy which tooks you into their world.
Can't tell much about Latvians Preternatural as I decided to give some rest for my old neck and back :) And hey, I did it - a concert with only mineral water to drink :D
After some rest - welcome to the musical world of Atrocity and Leaves Eyes! I won't write lot about these guys.. I just can tell you that I was totally happy when they were playing and even if there were some problems about the sound - whatever! It was nice, it was good and it was worth to wait for them! And the way Alex Krull treated the public was incredible :) At the end of the show it was enough for him just to look, raise the hands and almost everyone were screaming and doing what he wanted :)

Two weekends in Vilnius, two great concerts, lots of memoriable moments and now falling into some rest from visiting live shows (but if you know something what will took place soon, just tell me!).. And yeah, am waiting for next weekend with no plans - only sleeping, sleeping, sleeping!

Have a nice dreams!

P.S. Photos are taken from Fotogriausmas once again.

Kunigunda Lunaria

Kunigunda Lunaria already became one of most awaited events of the year in Lithuanian music scene. So 6-7th of May are spent in Vilnius. As this festival provides lot of attractions (movies, excursions, even theater this year and so on), but the main thing is concerts on the evenings. And how can you not to like it when headliners are so well know bands like Spiritual Front, Last Days of Jesus, Gothika, Desdemona and others.

I missed the industrial/electronic music evening as just couldn't be back to Lithuania on time, so I tried to enjoy other two as much as possible.

So, my five favorite performances from the festival:
1. Vic Anselmo - from the very first chords this Latvian girl took me to the dream world of hers and that world is the place I really adore! She was the biggest surprise of the festival for me and choise number one who I want to see one more time!
2. Comedia D'el Arte - maybe I was looking for surprises on this festival, coz those guys like Vic Anselmo was the main discoveries for me. I have heard couple of songs of them before, but hey! This performance was very good and if these guys will keep on that, Lithuania may have a very interesting band in the nearest future!
3. Now it's getting tough. But maybe I will choose another Lithuanian band Saprophytes. Maybe because of the fact that I liked them quite much for couple of years already. This performance was a new start for them as almost all members of the band have changed. Anyway, it's still really powerful gothic metal and I must admit that they sounded more interesting than earlier.
4. Let's say it's Gothika, band from Japan. Actually I've seen only two or three songs performed by them as I had to leave the show, but they were tottaly incredible! The energy, image, music - it was one superb picture which takes all your attention and do not let you go away so easily...
5. Spiritual Front - I also heard not much of them as was running to meet some friends at another place, but it seemed like ideal ending of the day. Very impressive music, very warm performance and very nice atmosphere..

However, it was really worth to visit Kunigunda Lunaria and am already looking forward for the next years festival.

P.S. Pictures are taken from Fotogriausmas photo album.
P.P.S. Follow the links to get more information :)
P.P.P.S. The musicians day in the streets on Saturday was a completely superb idea!!! Don't you think so? :)