Live Reports

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Bluesiana, Velden am Woerthersee, AustriaConcert date: 01.12.2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: €15.00 Uli Roth is one of those no-longer-so-dewy-eyed products of sixties and seventies rock, remembered by most…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Stadthalle / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 27.11.2008Attendance: 15 Like all true heavy metal fans, us Slovenes included, we could not possibly skip the tour that put Children of…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 27.11.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: €8.00 Go Betty Go, a four-piece from Los Angeles made up of three girls and one guy (read: a…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: November 26, 2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: free entry The promo shows (rolled into one gig) by two Croatian bands, Vatra and Morso, both…

Author: Urban Bolta Venue: Cvetličarna (Ljubljana)Concert date: 26.11.2008Attendance: 750Ticket price: 20€ (22€ on the day of the show) Prljavo Kazalište's roots go back to the late seventies, the era of the so-called new wave.…

Location: LjubljanaShow date: 11/21/2008Attendance: 500Ticket price: 35 € November 22nd – the day another set of rock legends rolled through Slovenia. This time it was stoner outfit Monster Magnet, who counted as one of the biggest…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11/16/2008Attendance: 1100Ticket price: €40.00 After not one but two postponed dates (first announced back in November 2006, then unsuccessfully…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Olympiahalle / Munich / GermanyConcert date: November 15, 2008Attendance: 12,000Ticket price: €52.00 Rock titans Deep Purple on their 2008 autumn tour, with hot-blooded Swiss hard…

"There was also a hilarious moment mid-set when Al suddenly praised a guy in the front row and asked if he was a drummer, since he always claps in such a tight, on-the-beat way."

Location: Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), ItalyConcert date: November 14, 2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 30 € The Altrock festival is organized by the Italian label Altrock Productions, which specializes in more experimental…

Venue: Radio Slovenija (Studio 14), Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 13.11.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 0,00€ Countless people glued to their radios and a good hundred and fifty "lucky ones" who managed to snag one of the seats in…

Venue: Jamski dvorec / PostojnaConcert date: 11/13/2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: €14 The next installment of this year's Postojna Blues festival season belonged on Thursday night to the American outfit The Holmes Brothers. This is a…

Location: Roxly Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11.11.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 0,00€ Mit are a fresh band that has just popped up on the Slovenian scene! They hail from Dol pri Ljubljani. The band's creators, the…

Venue: Net Cafe, LjubljanaGig date: 11.11.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 0 The young Slovenian band Rock Shock formed in 2001. The lineup has gone through plenty of changes since then, but they've always tried to serve the crowd quality…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Cvetličarna / LjubljanaConcert date: 10.11.2008Attendance: 500Ticket price: 20/23 € On Tuesday, November 11, right on St. Martin's evening, Ljubljana's Cvetličarna hosted Štajerska…

Location: Štuk/MariborConcert date: 08.11.2008Attendance: 700Ticket price: 8 € Last weekend was all about the Ljubljana frog-eater exodus to Styria, or more precisely to Maribor's Štuk, which on Saturday night was swaying under the…

Venue: Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle / Stuttgart / GermanyConcert date: November 8, 2008Attendance: 12,000Ticket price: 48.40€ (standing) After finally pulling ourselves together following a wild night of hanging out and wandering…

Venue: Stadtsaal / Burghausen / GermanyConcert date: 06.11.2008Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 38,00€ Uriah Heep's comeback this year, rejoining the ranks of bands that don't just tour but actually make new music, is a real godsend.…

Venue: Klub MC Pekarna, Maribor, SloveniaConcert date: 05.11.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 17 € in advance, 20 € on the day of the show Endless deserts, scorching sun, cacti and tequila. That's Texas for you. It's also the…

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Gasometer / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 05.11.2008Attendance: 2500Ticket price: 38,00€ Making the pilgrimage to see the legendary art rock and hard rock pioneers Uriah Heep at least…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Gala Hala, LjubljanaConcert date: 04.11.2008Attendance: 250Ticket price: 20€ (24€ on the day of the show) Even as lazy autumn creeps toward an even lazier winter, Dirty Skunks aren't letting us catch…

Location: Orto bar, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: October 29, 2008Attendance: 180Ticket price: 8 € The last evening of October once again had Ljubljana's Orto bar roaring with pure rock`n`roll. Barely six months had passed since…

Location: Orto bar, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: October 28, 2008Attendance: 180Ticket price: free concert (prior sign-up via the band's official email address) On September 22 this year, the long-awaited second studio album "Manifest…

Location: Ilirska Bistrica / SloveniaConcert date: 24.10.2008Attendance: 0 Half a year after the first pair of G2R shows in Slovenia, the organizing crew ran it back, and the Brits once again stopped by for two gigs in Slovenia. First they…

Location: PostojnaConcert date: 23.10.2008Attendance: 300Ticket price: 14 € On Thursday, the little-known American troubadour Larry Garner played Postojna as part of the town's traditional blues swing. The Louisiana child of the blues was…

Location: Sottotetto Sound club / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: 20.10.2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: €20.00 Firehouse! The most successful act of the last wave of American hard/hair rock from the late eighties has finally, after many long…

Venue: Gala Hala, LjubljanaConcert date: 19.10.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 20€ Well, Dihurčki have surprised us once again and brought two huge names of the old-school death and thrash metal scene to our neck of the woods: the…

Location: GMD klub / Graz / AustriaConcert date: October 18, 2008Attendance: 500Ticket price: €26.00 Living Colour are clearly enjoying a new spring. After the seriously convincing party they threw at Ljubljana's Cvetličarna…

Location: OŠ Koper / Koper / SloveniaConcert date: 17.10.2008Attendance: 600Ticket price: 20.00€ Even though only people in the Primorska region knew about the Laibach show, a solid crowd of fans of Slovenia's most successful and…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Thunder Road / Codevilla (Pavia) / ItalyConcert date: 15.10.2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: €20.00 I used to wonder, more than once, why long-established, cult prog rock bands like Pendragon never…

Venue: Menza pri koritu, Metelkova, LjubljanaConcert date: 15.10.2008Attendance: 500Ticket price: 15 € with reservation, 18 € on the day of the show - SOLD OUT! The American-Portuguese team-up of four musicians known as Animal…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 14.10.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 33.00€ Tuesday night at Bluesiana saw the final act of Operation Delamaris, planned for 2008, which once again served up Eric…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 13.10.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 20,00€ Paul Gilbert and his little crew of techs and roadies crossed my path the second I parked on the main road in front of Orto. Carrying…

Location: Orto Bar/Ljubljana/SloveniaConcert date: 12.10.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 13/16 € On Monday, October 13th, a black crowd of long-haired metalheads gathered in front of Ljubljana's Orto Bar once again, honoring the…

Location: Cirkus Krone / Munich / GermanyConcert date: 11.10.2008Attendance: 3,500Ticket price: 30.00€ (seats), 47.00€ (standing) After 10 long years, we finally got a new Uriah Heep studio album. It's called "Wake The Sleeper"…

Location: Vienna / Arena / Austria Date: Wednesday, 08.10.2008 October 2008! Thin Lizzy are heading out on a European tour with Uriah Heep, but before that they play four shows without Uriah Heep. One of them is in Vienna, which, for…

Location: Roxly/Ljubljana/SloveniaConcert date: 08.10.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 0,0 € Feedback are a still-relatively-young band of musicians from the Primorska region who, instead of playing classical music like they were…

Venue: Orto bar, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 07.10.2008Attendance: 280Ticket price: €14 with reservation, €16 on the day of the show 1991 was a watershed year for the global hardcore scene. Hardcore/punk/rock bands that…

Venue: Arena / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 07.10.2008Attendance: 600Ticket price: 35,00€ October 2008! Thin Lizzy are heading out on a European tour with Uriah Heep, but before that they play four shows without Uriah Heep. Sadly,…

Location: Ke Me Meo klub / Argelato (Bologna) / ItalyConcert date: 04.10.2008Attendance: 300Ticket price: 20.00€ On Sunday, 05.10.2008, after three days of metal for me in Kranj and an equally three-day concert marathon at various…

"Living Colour are poison, you see, especially for metalheads who want to spit out an identical copy on stage of what their studio work sounds like, frozen on tape. It's exactly this disregard for following set templates that sets the band…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: October 3, 2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 28.00€ The name La Famiglia Superstar might not mean much to music fans, but take a quick look at the guys in the…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Izbruhov bazen / Kranj / SloveniaConcert date: 02.10.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 8,00€ Hats off to the Izbruh crew for still putting on their annual Metal Festivals in the…

Author: Urban Bolta Location: Križanke, LjubljanaConcert date: 02.10.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: €20 A rainy evening on September 3rd brought Hladno Pivo to Križanke. The Croatian band is an old friend of Slovenian stages, but this…

Venue: Sax Pub / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 01.10.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 1 dinar Miusow Quartet are old friends of the RockLine crew. I've already seen them twice in the past year, and every time they've played out of their…

Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 30.09.2008Attendance: 700Ticket price: 29,00€ Some bands just make a tradition of visiting Slovenia. Believe it or not, Living Colour are one of them. They once again…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 29.09.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 7,00€ With summer over, and the festivals all across Europe along with it, it was time for the club scene…

Venue: Hala Tivoli, LjubljanaConcert date: 28.09.2008Attendance: 5000Ticket price: floor 36/39 €, stands 39/43 € Monday evening, September 29, was undoubtedly a welcome overture to the autumn concert season. After fifteen…

Location: PostojnaConcert date: 09/24/2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: €14.00 Woohoo, Postojna Blues is back! That's right, on Thursday the 5th season of one of the most prestigious festivals in Slovenia, the Postojna blues festival,…

Venue: Arena / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 24.09.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 8 and 10 € Guapo are already known to some music fans in Slovenia, especially since they played Ljubljana as the opener for Fantomas. I got to know…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 23.09.2008Attendance: 20Ticket price: 24 € Paul Lamb and the King Snakes are a crafty mix of experience and youth. The lineup is built around two full-blooded…

Venue: Menza pri koritu / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 22.09.2008Attendance: 40Ticket price: 5 € Gutbucket are an American quartet (hailing from Brooklyn, New York) of jazz musicians who work other elements into their songs too,…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 18.09.2008Attendance: 80Ticket price: 0,00€ It's finally here, the big day for the band Krema, the day their debut, which the guys fittingly titled "In naj traja…", took…

Location: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: September 17, 2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: €23.00 Keith Thompson is a professional guitarist and singer, a standard-bearer of the classic hard-hitting…

Concert date: 14.09.2008Attendance: 1309Ticket price: 5000 The Rock of Ages festival, headlined by Twisted Sister and the reunited, back-in-action Extreme, is reason enough on its own for another trip to Italy and its northern capital…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: September 14, 2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 16.00€ The summer festival season and a handful of one-off concert spectacles are behind us, and it was high…

Location: Stadio Friuli / Udine / ItalyConcert date: 11.09.2008Attendance: 40 Italian rock star Vasco Rossi, probably the hottest ticket in rock slang, the one our Western neighbors fall for en masse, keeps plowing unstoppably through his…

Location: Menza pri Koritu/Ljubljana/SloveniaShow date: 10.09.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 8 € After being genuinely impressed by Bratko Bibič and his pradolenjski švicarji, I was really curious what the legendary accordionist…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 09.09.2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: 16,00€ It was about time the metal crowd got a breather from the festival fever that hits every summer, with the gig scene heading back indoors…

Location: St. Veit a.d. Glan / AustriaConcert date: 06.09.2008Attendance: 450Ticket price: 42.00€ Day two of my pilgrimage through the city of culture, St. Veit, whose rich arts and culture scene serves up a varied harvest of fun and joy…

Location: St. Veit a.d. Glan / AustriaConcert date: 05.09.2008Attendance: 500Ticket price: 42,00€ St. Veit, a small town just outside Klagenfurt, is the final destination for the RockLine crew for the second year running. We spent the…

Author: Rok Klemše Concert date: 30.08.2008Attendance: 1608Ticket price: 2000 After a rainy Friday night that soaked us to the bone, the obligatory rest (and drink or two) naturally followed until Saturday morning. Early in the…

Author: Rok Klemše, Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 29.08.2008Attendance: 158Ticket price: 1200 Paradise on Earth? What the hell on Earth is this?… Uh, oh, ah... a new morning… Well, that's how…

Location: Pula / CroatiaConcert date: August 29, 2008Attendance: 10,000Ticket price: 60.00 HRK (approx. €8.50) Showing up in Pula on the second-to-last day of August 2008, at the 14th annual Twin Horn Beach Party Bikers festival to…

Location: Podljubelj (Tržič) / SloveniaConcert date: August 28, 2008Attendance: 120Ticket price: 0,00€ The dull August gig season is slowly winding down. Honestly, I can't remember a duller August than this one, festivals aside of…

Author: Rok Klemše, Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Komen on the Karst / SloveniaConcert date: 26.08.2008Attendance: 600 We finally made it! Metal Mania Open Air 2008, without a doubt the most anticipated metal event of…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Zdraviliški park / Bled / SloveniaConcert date: 15.08.2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: 0 Saturday night at the almost-traditional international Okarina etno festival in Bled, which brings talented…

Location: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 10.08.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 28,00€ Richie Kotzen! A brilliant musician who earned his place among the world's most respected guitarists after…

Venue: Gradski Stadion Poljud / Split / CroatiaConcert date: August 9, 2008Attendance: 29,000Ticket price: €35.00 The great metal riders, big Iron Maiden to you and me, by now a proper corporate monster in their golden years, decide to…

Venue: Simonov zaliv, Izola, Noči na plažiConcert date: 01.08.2008Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 10 € Van Halen recorded the legendary Jump in 1984, and right around then the former Yugoslavia turned out at least two songs that captured…

Location: Graz/AustriaConcert date: 31.07.2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: 7 € (standing) and 28 € (seated) The Graz jazz festival has hosted plenty of big names over the years. This year, for example, Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu…

Author: Rok Klemše Concert date: July 29, 2008Attendance: 37Ticket price: 12.000 The year flew by, and the first week of July brought the long-awaited Metalcamp 2008! This time the fifth consecutive edition of the biggest festival on…

Location: Villa Contarini / Piazzola Sul Brenta (Padua) / ItalyConcert date: 23.07.2008Attendance: 4500Ticket price: €60.00 In the little Italian town of Piazzola Sul Brenta, right next to Padua, sits Villa Contarini, where fans of classic…

Venue: Villa Manin, Udine, ItalyConcert date: 23.07.2008Attendance: 6000Ticket price: 46 € On a warm Thursday evening, with a gentle breeze in the air and just a stone's throw from the Slovenian-Italian border, the idyllic grounds of…

Venue: Bluesiana, Velden (Austrian Carinthia)Concert date: 22.07.2008Attendance: 170Ticket price: 27,00€ Richie Kotzen is a musician who has been successfully cultivating an incredibly wide range of musical heritage for years. For a player…

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 22.07.2008Attendance: 600 Right near the Slovenian-Austrian border, in Kirchbach to be exact, a festival called Summer Breeze went down on Friday, July 11, and Saturday, July 12. Besides local bands…

So Sardinas can't really go wrong at Bluesiana. It's a very special kind of ambience, and its small size and homey feel make it especially well suited to the blues. Think of a slightly bigger living room, where the enterprising owner has…

"It was as if eroticism and elegance were holding hands at this gig. An unforgettable concert of big pop rock charm, which would have left an even stronger mark in normal weather."

Venue: Arenile Terrazza Mare / Jesolo (VE) / ItalyConcert date: 19.07.2008Attendance: 6500Ticket price: 45.00€ Duran Duran. Ah, where was that again? Is there anyone among you who doesn't know them? And all of it thanks to the mad…

Location: Avditorij, Portorož, SloveniaConcert date: 19.07.2008Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 30 € in advance, 35 € on the day of the show It wasn't the first time Slovenia has hosted names tied in one way or another to the…

Venue: Hala Tivoli/LjubljanaConcert date: 13.07.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 45 € The day after a terrible storm, the day after rainfall so heavy it felt like the great flood all over again, the first aftereffects could already…

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Srednješkolsko igralište (Srednjika) / Osijek / CroatiaConcert date: July 10, 2008Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 140.00 HRK Ten hours each way, spent in the guts of a boldly rattling pride of the Italian…

Venue: Mostovna, Nova Gorica, SloveniaConcert date: 08.07.2008Attendance: 600Ticket price: €18 in advance, €22 on the day of the show - SOLD OUT! Lagwagon, one of the leading lights of 1990s melodic Californian punk rock, have…

Concert date: 06.07.2008Attendance: 27Ticket price: 10.000 Rock Otočec. The twelfth consecutive edition of the muddiest of all mud festivals, set in the idyllic surroundings of Otočec Castle, served up three days of action, musical and…

"What is there to add after the 10th consecutive Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany? Mission accomplished. The festival ran smoothly, with no delays. Apart from Hardcore Superstar canceling and Rob Halford's worn-out vocals,…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Piazza della Repubblica / Monfalcone / ItalyConcert date: 04.07.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 0,00€ That evening in Monfalcone, we had a date with the legendary Premiata Forneria Marconi…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Arena Campagnola / Schio / ItalyConcert date: 03.07.2008Attendance: 0 Almost a year after our last run-in with Jethro Tull in Graz, where we also had that unforgettable interview with Ian Anderson, the…

Venue: Mestni muzej/LjubljanaConcert date: 03.07.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 0 Classical music that isn't classical! On Friday, a lucky few of us at Mestni muzej got to witness the presentation of the upcoming record from Milko Lazar…

"The first day of the festival had no trouble earning the flattering nickname "Operation: Balingen". It made plenty of people's dreams come true, even though Queensryche already played the whole of "Operation: Mindcrime" live in Balingen…

Location: Ljubljana / Hala TivoliConcert date: 01.07.2008Attendance: 3200Ticket price: 45.00€ Who'd have thought that right after John Fogerty's visit, the legendary Status Quo would put Ljubljana's rock pulse under the microscope too!…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Location: Dessel / BelgiumConcert date: 06/29/2008Attendance: 55,000Ticket price: 180€ (three-day ticket) Graspop Metal Meeting, which took place this year from June 27 to 29 near Dessel in Belgium,…

Author: Rok Klemše Concert date: 29.06.2008Attendance: 276Ticket price: 20.000 The summer festival season is in full swing, and one of Europe's biggest metal/rock festivals, Gods of Metal, was once again calling us into its bosom…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 28.06.2008Attendance: 2806Ticket price: 15.000 AGE OF EVIL: 09.30-10.10 On day two my head was seriously heavy thanks to a healthy dose of alcoholic derivatives. I staggered onto the grounds a…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 27.06.2008Attendance: 2706Ticket price: 15000 This year's traditional Bang Your Head!!! festival, held on the outskirts of the little town of Balingen in the state of Baden Württemberg, in…

"The Verve closed out the night with the song "Disco". The crowd sang loudly along with the guys one last time. The lights went out. Until we meet again."

Author: Rok Klemše Location: ŠTUK / Maribor / SloveniaConcert date: 23.06.2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: 25,00€ Every true music connoisseur dreams of getting the chance, at least once in their life, to see a legendary band that…

Venue: Križanke/LjubljanaConcert date: 22.06.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 20 and 25 € Croatian pop group Jinx made a successful return to the music scene last year with the album Na zapadu. The band is hugely respected in…

Concert date: 22.06.2008Attendance: 2106Ticket price: 300 Day three of the Morarock festival had arrived. The headliners announced for the day were Germany's Judas Priest, or in plain speak, Primal Fear. By far the biggest name of all…

Concert date: June 21, 2008Attendance: 2006Ticket price: 350 Morarock festival, held in Moraro, a little town in the Slovenian borderlands of Italy less than ten kilometers from Stara Gorica, was interesting this year mainly for its metal…

Concert date: 20.06.2008Attendance: 1306Ticket price: 90.000 We've finally made it. This year's Nova Rock festival, that is! After last year's seriously encouraging line-up, we were wondering whether this year would deliver again. And the…