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Crisis. Music. Boredom

08 13th, 2008 / Tags: , ,

Everybody is talking about the crisis these days. Petroleum seems to be so expensive that everything is increasing prices. Besides, people in the Third World die as we have used their food to make ecological fuel…

These are really important problems, and of course I’m worried about it, but today I’m just writing about how that affects me in my everyday habits, and in one of my favorite hobbies: the music.

I usually search almost everyweek for the the upcoming concerts in Spain. As I posted some weeks ago, some interesting bands are coming next autumn: Elegant Machinery, Suicide Commando, Project Pitchfork, VNV Nation (for Christmas), etc. The majority of the concerts are in Madrid and Barcelona, the biggest cities in this country.

departures

I was used to check the prices of the flights to go to every event I’m able to. But now, I’m quiting from it. It’s quite exasperating looking how the prices have increased so much in less than a year. I was used to pay 40€ for a flight to Barcelona and the back to Málaga, plus the taxi or bus to get the airport. It was perfect, it was affordable. For example, the Dark Christmas Festival 2007 was that cheap for me.

But now, the cheapest flight is 60€. 60 is not a big amount of money… But that means that in less than a year they have increased their prices 50%. On the other side, my salary has increased just a 2,8% in the begining of the year…

So if I used to spend around 75€ for the whole trip, including the ticket for the concert, now I will be spending around 100€ (taxis and buses have increased prices too!).

So… For every 4 concerts I would have gone to, now I have to rule out one in order not to spend more… :(

Video mañanero: Mónica Naranjo - Amor y Lujo

07 26th, 2008 / Tags: , , , ,

Porque sí, porque Mónica Naranjo es de los pocos artistas que, a pesar de gustar al gran público (MTV, Los 40 subnormales, etc), a mi también me encanta. Su último disco me lo sé casi de memoria ya :P, y hace un par de días, viendo el fotolog de emperatrizoscura (cotilleando ropajes de la Tiberio Dark Side) encontré el link a este vídeo que ni me había molestado en buscar.

Espectacular. No tengo más palabras para definirlo. Tanto Mónica Naranjo como la gente que trabaja para ella se merecen un premio o algo. La letra, la música, la imagen son casi perfectas.

Además, el día 8 de agosto tendremos a Mónica Naranjo en concierto en el Freedom Festival, que ese día se va a hacer en una playa cerca de Torremolinos. A ver si encuentro a alguien con quien ir… Lo cierto es que he visto conciertos de muchos estilos, pero el primero que vi de esta mujer me dejó impresionada. Su voz en directo es mejor todavía que en los discos. Y ahora que este disco nuevo que ha sacado me gusta más todavía… ¡no me lo puedo perder! ¡Aunque tenga que ir sola!

Eu quero… ir al Drop Dead Festival!

07 25th, 2008 / Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Drop Dead Festival 2008. LisboaQue este año es en Lisboa… Y madre mía que cartelazo, y es que son 5 días por 65 eurillos de nada, y encima aquí al lado, en Portugal…

¿Por qué los trabajadores tenemos tan pocas vacaciones? ¿Es que los sindicatos no se han dado cuenta la de cantidad de festis que hay a lo largo del año? xD Deberíamos empezar a protestar por ello, igual que los que tienen hijos necesitan horarios especiales, ¡yo necesito concentración de horas para pillar días libres para los festis!

Bueno, tengo asumido que a este no voy a ir, la verdad es que este año voy servida de conciertos y festis, pero que me voy a quedar con unas ganas tremendas de ver a algunos grupos… Por ejemplo, a Cinema Strange, que no consigo que a nadie de mi alrededor le guste (dicen que no soportan los gritos del cantante, ¡ja!). A estos quise ir a verlos cuando los trajeron a Madrid hace un par de años pero otra vez por circunstancias varias, me quedé sin ir. Y ya que están, al DDF se traen también a The Deadfly Ensemble, que esto ya no me mola tanto, pero los organizadores se ahorran algún billete de avión :P

Los Carniceros del NorteOtra gente que estoy frita por pillarlos en directo son Los Carniceros del Norte. ¡Qué hubiera sido de mi adolescencia si hubiera sabido que Nosferatu vivía en Barakaldo! ¡Hubiera ido más por allí, que estaba muy cerca! xDDDD. Ya en serio, me encanta la música que hacen, y no sé por qué, pero los grupillos que salen de por allí del Norte de este estilo siempre llevan un toque especial… Además, esta gente tienen un tema dedicado a mi peli favorita, el Gabinete del Doctor Caligariiiiii ^^. Quise verlos en Berlín en mayo, pero tocaban justo el día que saliamos para Leipzig, y ya en Leipzig ni nos dio tiempo a ver todo lo que queríamos del Wave Gotik Treffen, como para encima ir al Gothic Pogo también… A mí me hubiera gustado, pero no iba sola, y al final hay que hacer un poco las cosas en grupo, sobre todo en el extranjero, que luego uno se pierde y le secuestran :P

Y ya que estamos con los nacionales nombremos a Eyaculacion Postmortem, que tampoco están nada mal y van en el lote del festival. Y llevan también a Theatre of Hate, UK Decay… Vamos, de estos que empezaron ayer mismo a hacer música.

BIRTH!Hay muchos otros que también creo que merecería la pena ver y que no conocía (¡hay demasiada música en este mundo y muy poco tiempo para escucharla toda!). Curioseando en el myspace de BIRTH!, vi que es un tío que hace una especie de electro-punk (por llamarlo de alguna manera, me atormenta esto de la clasificación por géneros). No tiene muchas cosas colgadas ni una producción brillante, pero lo que he escuchado me parece bastante interesante, y engancha mucho. Al fin y al cabo el punk tiene que ser así de guarrillo, ¡sino perdería su encanto!

Zombie Zex está muy bien también. Tira un poco al rollo de Ausgang, que me gusta mucho… Los bajos suenan de vicio, y donde esté un buen bajo… ¡que se quite lo demás! Además del ritmillo que tiene toda esta clase de música, que le hace a uno moverse, me encanta la presencia de los bajos (no es tan grande como en el funky, pero mola igual).

Y Madre del Vizio, que estuvieron hace poco por Madrid pero tampoco los ví… Al final como nos tira mucho también el electro siempre acabo yendo a conciertos de industrial, futurepop o EBM y me dejo a mis afterpunkarrillas queridos abandonados…

Y yo que sé qué más… Es que hay una lista bastante grande y creo que ya me estoy pasando un poquillo escribiendo… Pasaros y visitad las páginas de los grupos que no conozcais, hay muchas cosas que os pondrán los dientes largos, ¡seguro!

Lo dicho, que debería ser millonaria y no tener que currar para poder gastarme la pasta en estas cosas…

Let’s go! New season concerts

07 25th, 2008 / Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Today I’ve read the info about the next interesting concerts in Spain… Sturm Promotions plubished the info in their myspace bulletin (they have updated the info with some new ones…)

Here I copy/paste (and translate) it for you:

PROJECT PITCHFORK + MELOTRON + Inline.seX.
Terror + Extinction Front
Friday, 19th of September 2008
Salamandra 1 . Av. Carrilet, 235 . Hospitalet de Ll. - BARCELONA

PROJECT PITCHFORK + MELOTRON + Sins Of The Flesh + support
Saturday, 20th of September 2008
Sala Caracol . Bernardino Obregon, 18 - MADRID

ELEGANT MACHINERY
Friday, 3rd of October 2008
Ritmo y Compas . Conde de Vilchez, 22 - MADRID

ELEGANT MACHINERY + Remember Party
Saturday, 4th of October 2008
La Capsa. El Prat de Llobregat - BARCELONA

SUICIDE COMMANDO + PAINBASTARD + Stigmatroz
Friday, 10th of October 2008
Sala: Salamandra 1, Av. Carrilet, 235 Hospitalet - BARCELONA

SUICIDE COMMANDO + PAINBASTARD + support
Saturday, 11th of October 2008
Sala: Helldorado. Vitoria-Gasteiz

SUICIDE COMMANDO + PAINBASTARD + support
Sunday, 12th of October 2008.
Sala: Ritmo y Compas . Conde de Vilchez, 22 - MADRID

FRONT 242 + DESTROID + Chimo Bayo
Saturday, 22nd of November
Sala Apolo . Nou de la Rambla 111 - BARCELONA

FRONT 242 + support
Sunday, 23rd of November
Sala Heineken . Princesa, 1 - MADRID

DARK CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL 2008
VNV NATION + ROTERSAND + S.I.T.D

Saturday, 13th of December
Sala Bikini - BARCELONA

DARK CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL 2008
VNV NATION + ROTERSAND -+ S.I.T.D
Sunday, 14th of December
Sala Heineken - MADRID

COVENANT + support
Friday, 6th of March 2009
Sala Heineken - MADRID

COVENANT + support
Saturday, 7th of March 2009
Sala Bikini - BARCELONA

I’m not gonna miss the DARK CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL!!

We shut up and swallowed!

07 21st, 2008 / Tags: , , ,

As he told us to do…

The obedient Combichrist Army in Madrid danced to the rhythm of the powerful drums last 12th of july. Andy started the concert with my favorite hit, “Shut up and Swallow”, and everyone in the venue started to dance madly. I don’t know exactly why, but Combichrist concerts are allways full of energy… I’ve seen different industrial shows, but the Combichrist ones are allways the most exciting ones. They’re something like a drug, they cause strange and intense behaviours that we cannot control when we listen to their music!!

CombichristThis last concert in Madrid was special. I was really near to the stage, so the sound was not the best for me, but Andy compesated for this lack of good sound. He was vigorous and forceful, but he was also happy. Yes, he was happy, he talked to us all the time. He even showed us his improvements with Spanish language: cabrón is a really useful word! Keep on working, Andy ;)

I enjoyed the concert as if it was the last of my life. I was lucky I had my fan with me, it was really hot there… ^^

You can check the photos from the concert in the gallery. Don’t miss them!!

This weekend you should “Shut up and Swallow”

07 7th, 2008 / Tags: , , ,

I’m ready for it! A Combichrist concert in Madrid this 12th of july.

“Shut up and Swallow” - Combichrist (I love the lyrics!!! :P)

“You know the truth.”
“Where are you?”
“You could call it the end of the world..”

You fucking parasite
Feeding off my voice like a leech
Sucking me dry
Use your head
Hope you’re gagging in your throat
Hope you gag and choke
Your pale little face turning blue

If you want it in your ass as I spit in your face
Face down on the floor holding you by your neck
Do you feel like a wreck?
Well that’s life, kiddo
Now shut up and swallow
Shut up and swallow

You’ll get nothing for free
Don’t try to suck it off me
You always take you what you want
Now I just take what is mine
I’ll give you abstinence
You tell of life..
It’s up to you to fill it with substance

I’ll play your game
A lesson of life: It’s not what you want, but what you get
You’ll feel it from within as I work my way out
Such a pretty girl, but such a dirty mouth

Now you want it in your ass as I spit in your face
Face down on the floor, holding you by your neck
Do you feel like a wreck?
Well that is life, kiddo
Now shut up and swallow
Shut up and swallow

“Where are you?”
“You could call it the end of the world.”

Spring concerts

04 18th, 2008 / Tags: , , ,

Waiting for the summer to come I already have planned my concerts agenda.

First of all, the Wave Gotik Treffen (I know, I always write about it!). Next month, more than 160 bands… I hope I can manage to see Ashbury Heights, London After Midnight, Covenant, Paradise Lost, Xotox, Christian Death, … Too many bands in just 4 days!!!

The next week, the And One show on the 17th of may in Madrid. After seeing them in the Mera Luna last year I can’t wait to listen them live again! But… the same day, the 17th of may there’s another great concert here in Malaga: Hora Zulú. And that makes me doubt. Their last CD is great… and the concert is right here…

The 7th of June in Madrid too, Fiendflug + Tyske Luder + Proyecto Mirage. :D FIENDFLUG!!!!!

And the 12nd of July…. Combichrist!!! In Madrid again.

What a great season!!!

We really were there! xD

03 19th, 2008 / Tags: , , , , , , , ,

We were there!I was browsing the galleries of the DDT and I’ve just found us there! Check the www.poisonbytes.de gallery of the 25 Dark Dance Treffen, they have lots of photos not only of the bands, but also photos of the people. Nice work!

Dark Dance Treffen… what a weekend!!

03 18th, 2008 / Tags: , , , , , , , ,

I almost have no words to describe how it was. I’ll just say that UnterArt was again the winner… They were great! I left the Hocico concert 4 songs after the begining, but UnterArt made me stay dancing and signing during the whole show…

I think I’m having a “favorite band” again…

Here I post some photos of the festival. Enjoy!

Becks & Vinyl DDT stamps on our handsFabrik C in 25 DDTPsyche in 25 DDTRome in 25 DDTTerrolokaust in 25 DDTUnterArt in 25 DDTUnterArt in 25 DDTUnterArt in 25 DDTUnterArt in 25 DDTUnterArt in 25 DDT

Digital21 in Malaga

01 25th, 2008 / Tags: , , ,

So long writing in my blog and I haven’t said anything about an important artist… Digital21, a guy who makes everything in his CDs, even the cover art, the videoclips…

Digital21 - Espacio InfinitoI went to a concert of him about two years ago, I haven’t listened to him before, but I remembered reading the name of the group in sonidobscuro.com. As the concert was really cheap (just 1,5€, some official institution pays the rest!) I bought my tickets, and I could enjoy one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. It was so great that I bought his CDs at the end of the show. The music he makes is described as eletronic punk… I have to say that some tracks remind me of Placebo music.

Since that day I’ve tried to see Digital21 again, he’s been playing in Malaga (his hometown, and the place where I live) this summer, but for different reasons I couldn’t go (one of the concerts was the same day I was arriving from the Mera Luna, we were so tired!).

This time I’m not gonna miss it. I’m looking forward to see again all that electronic machinery around him as he shouts loud the powerful lyrics, full of critics and nonconformity. This time the show takes place at the same venue, the “Teatro Diputación” in Malaga. This time is cheap too: just 4 euros. The 9th of february, at 10:00 pm. I’ll be there for sure!!