Angelusnoctis - Bats inside my head

Since I came back from my holidays in Berlin I’ve been searching for an reason to go back to Germany… And some days ago I found it! The 25 Dark Dance Treffen.

In Lahr, next to Karlsruhe and Strassburg, the Universal DOG is the venue for a great night of live shows and DJ sessions. For the first time in my life I’m seeing Hocico!!! And Xotox…

I didn’t know this fest existed, but latelly I’m in a “searching mode”. I let my boyfriend search for new music and I’m allways looking for events! The thing is that they don’t have any english info in the DDT website , so I have to guess almost everything with the google tanslator… I’ve gotta say that the fest organization has been really helpful answering us the most important questions.

So, the crazy weekend plan is like that: taking a plane on Saturday, arrive to Stuttgart, rent a car and get to Lahr by the time the fest starts. And the same to come back home on Sunday… I know it’s gonna be a hard weekend, but I know how I’m gonna feel after that: extremely happy.

I was just checking last.fm to add the WGT to my events… And I found they updated it!! This is the line-up users have written (I suppose they have been checking shows in each group tour info, as the official WGT site hasn’t updated anything yet.) (I keep the links to the last.fm profiles)

Tristania, Covenant, London After Midnight, Lake of Tears, Mesh, Trail of Tears, Die Krupps, Welle:Erdball, Unheilig, Neuroticfish, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Samsas Traum, Faun, Gothminister, Skeletal Family, Asrai, Reaper, Inertia, Xotox, end of green, Rezurex, Jesus On Extasy, Secrets of the Moon, The Other, Star Industry, The Spook, The Creepshow, Chamber, 32Crash, Nachtmahr, Krauka, Straftanz, Ashbury Heights, WeltenBrand, Necessary Response, Super Heroines, Militant Cheerleaders on the Move, Onetwo, northborne, Steinkind, Cauda Pavonis, Kloq, The Beauty of Gemina, StoneMan, Schallfaktor, Morian, Menticide, In Mitra Medusa Inri, PostScriptum, Suicidal Romance, Knifeladder, Days of Fate, Gothika, Mono Inc., Lavantgarde, While Angels Watch, Din [A] Tod, Other Day, 13th Monkey, Deviant UK, The Beautiful Disease, Santa Hates You, Transit Poetry, The Veil, Dead Guitars, Ingrimm, Stellar Corpses, Solar Fake, Jesus On Exstasy, Folkstone, Christian Death 1334, The Dirty Weather Project

It will be nice that all of them are confirmed (some are, as I’ve done my reseach work too :D)… There are a few that are on my whislist: Covenant, London After Midnight, Gothminister, Reaper, Straftanz, Northbone, and… Christian Death!!! (I was thinking about going to their show in Madrid in February, but maybe I wait for the WGT). Of course there are a lot I also want to see… Xotox, 32Crash, Skeletal Family, Welle:Erdball, Neuroticfish, Die Krupps…

I can’t wait to know moreeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Last week I bought my flight to Berlin to stay there a couple of days and then go to the Wave Gotik Treffen!! I’ve never been there, but as my friends tell, it must be an incredible experience.

It is supposed to be something like a huge meeting of goths from all over the world, something like a big family. When I search photos of it I allways find every style in people: the after-punk ones, classic goths, electro and cyber ones, the fetish looks… The great thing is that the whole city becomes dark. A friend of mine told me that in every corner of the city, every shop or restaurant they prepare something “goth” for that days. I’m afraid of feeling so comfortable these days that maybe I’ll get depressed when the festival is over.

Check the official page gallery where I’ve taken the nice photos for this post. You’ll find not only a lot of photos of people, but also live photos of the bands. The thing that still impresses me is to find families with their children! It’s nice to find kids there, I suppose it has to be funny for them, as their parents dress them up in those black and goth clothes, they make up them… Girls even look like little princesses!

We don’t know the line-up yet, but I have my wishlist:

• And One
• UnterArt
• London After Midnight
• Combichrist
• VNV Nation
• Cinema Strange
• The Sisters of Mercy (incredible, but last year they played in the South of Spain!)
• Covenant
• and many more…

Every year I come to Vitoria to stay with my family and friends again during Christmas. Vitoria is a quite cold place, I think I forgot my days in Finland, where winter made us deal with -5 to -15 degrees almost everyday!

Anyway, it’s nice to meet everybody again. But as years pass by, I feel more like a foreigner here. It’s strange to read signs in Vasque, to see how people is really different here… They talk different, they wear different clothes, their faces even even look different!!

Maybe I’m becoming an andalusian… xD Yesterday my father didn’t stop telling me that it’s a pity that I speak this way, that I’ve lost my good pronunciation… :S

The thing is that I love this place. Vitoria is a really nice and comfortable city… If you don’t know it you should come and visit it!

Our underground stop was Frankfurter Allee, we were staying at Dark Hostel, next to the K17. Our holidays in Berlin.

I love Berlin, this is the second time I go there. I love the variety of things you can visit or do. In the center, besides the Bundestag, the Museums and Alexander Platz, you always find markets in the streets, original shops, hot dogs sellers everywhere… I particularly love a bar called Barato, in Friedrischain. It’s a place where you can have dinner or a cocktail while you listen to good music (futurepop, ebm, electrodark, industrial…). Comparing to spanish prices it is quite a cheap place, and food is super! And the K17, which is three streets far away from Barato, is one of the best discos I know. They have 4 different floors, with different styles of music: 80’s, metal, electro… And they open almost everyday!

During my holidays this year I had the opportunity to meet Steve Naghavi, the singer of And One in the K17. It was quite a surprise, and I almost talked him as a crazy fan… But he was very nice, and told me they were coming to Spain in May… That night we also met a couple from Valencia (that guy on the right in the photo). Everytime I go to Berlin I meet some Spanish people who go to the K17! It seems to be quite famous.

Another thing I love from Berlin is the Out of Line Shop. Here in Malaga is really hard to find any electro music CD, so when I get to a shop as the one in Berlin I can spend more than an hour trying to decide what to buy. I know you can buy everything from the internet, but I love going to a shop where I can find everything I like, even special editions and other stuff.

I hope I can get to Berlin soon again. Now it’s time to learn some german words…

Remembering last august again, my second day in the Mera Luna. I don’t actually feel like telling anything today, so I’ll just add some photos of the festival.

Here you have Big Boy (with Chris Harms!, that was a surprise for me), a great pick of Cruxshadows (see that Sangria brick!!!) and The 69 Eyes. My photos of Diorama and Rabia Sorda aren’t as good as I wanted, as they played inside the angar and the light was quite poor.