Space Is Filled With Orbiting Children

Easter, the second coming of Christ, a time to rejoin with your loved ones, come to ease and look for Easter eggs. Well either that, or the time to go to Punk Rock Festival. We decided to do the latter and that’s why we bought a “five friends ticket” with three others we found via last.fm for the Monster Bash, a new one-day festival in the heart of Berlin. I’m most curious to see if this was more than a one-timer as most festivals in this vein could not prevail.

We met around 2:30 pm, so we’d have a time buffer in case someone was late (which isn’t too devious when meeting with four other people coming from three different places), but since everyone was on time, we managed to enter the venue with only slight problems at the entrance around 2:45 pm, so still with 45 minutes to spare before the first band we wanted to see would start their set. Read the rest of this entry »

Berlin on a Friday night. For the comparatively high but still reasonable price of ten Euros, we were granted access to the Lovelite, located in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Though the admission price was about three Euros higher than expected, it was still a fair deal for two US-Bands. After hanging around at the well-attended venue for approximately 45 minutes and listening to background music, that indeed lacked of variety but was still very good as it was the entire album of “The Riot Before”, the first band headed for the stage. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a rather last-minute decision to attend this show because 18 Euro for one band, who would most likely only play a set of 30 to 40 minutes, possibly not even as the headliner, is a lot of money. And the fact that the support was only a bunch of question marks to me didn’t help much. But since I had this day and the next day off, still had a voucher for the box office and really wanted to see The Chariot after their release of their latest record “Long Live”, I ended up at the Magnet that Monday night at around 8:30 pm. Read the rest of this entry »