Live Reports

Location: Nickelsdorf / Pannonia Fields / AustriaConcert date: June 14, 2008Attendance: 100,000 If the first day of Nova Rock had us shivering and even four sweaters weren't enough, on Saturday we woke up to a pleasantly warm, sunny…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Nickelsdorf / Pannonia Fields / AustriaConcert date: 14.06.2008Attendance: 1506Ticket price: 120.000 After a heavy morning downpour, when we were all still cowering in our tents,…

Location: Ljubljana/Hala TivoliConcert date: 14.06.2008Attendance: 1500Ticket price: €38.00 John Fogerty is easily one of the most successful ambassadors of American music, a man who has spent decades stretching his arms from traditional…

Venue: KUD France Prešeren/LjubljanaConcert date: 13.06.2008Attendance: 40Ticket price: 5 € KUD France Prešeren used to be a real mecca for alternative gigs of every genre, but in the last couple of years it's sadly gone pretty quiet…

Location: PostojnaConcert date: 12.06.2008Attendance: 300Ticket price: €30 for both days Time flies, and after an exciting concert year, the finale of the 4th season of the Postojna Blues Festival is already here. Since late September…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Villa Manin / Codroipo (Udine) / ItalyConcert date: 09.06.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 30,00€ Whenever the chance is ripe (read: he plays somewhere near us), it's a sin to miss a concert by guitar…

"With Saturday's show, Mark Knopfler proved that after a full three decades in music, the competition still has a hard time keeping up with him."

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Vila Manin / Codroipo (Udine) / ItalyConcert date: June 8, 2008Attendance: 5,000 Mark Knopfler is a name that really needs no introduction. As the driving force behind the legendary Dire Straits, the…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 08.06.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 18€ So, to close out the club concert season and give us a proper dose of ear-ringing before the summer festivals kick off, our dear Dihurčki cooked up…

Location: Bratislava / Divadlo Arena / SlovakiaDate: 05/31/2008 Fortified with some noble Slovak hop liquor and Slovak sausages, we found ourselves face to face with the band at exactly 8:00 PM at the Divadlo Arena theater, a venue…

Location: Divadlo Arena / Bratislava / SlovakiaConcert date: May 30, 2008Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 1,500.00 SVK (€50.00) Fortified with fine Slovak hop liquor and Slovak sausages, we came face to face with the band at exactly…

Venue: Dvorana Stereo / Rijeka / CroatiaConcert date: 29.05.2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: 50.00 HRK (approx. 7.00€) Rock Masters are a crew of legendary Croatian rockers: Tomas Krkać (bass), Slavko Pintarić – Pišta (drums)…

Venue: Križanke, LjubljanaConcert date: 26.05.2008Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 22 € in presale, 26 € on the day of the show Thunder rolled through Ljubljana's Križanke once again on Tuesday, May 27. With a long-awaited and…

Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: May 24, 2008Attendance: 300Ticket price: €29.00 Over the years, Glenn Hughes has quietly grown into a kind of hidden institution of rock & roll. First as the "kid" of…

Venue: Jamski dvorec/PostojnaConcert date: 21.05.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 13 € Well then, on to the second-to-last act of this year's concert series, Blues Postojna. This time it was the Slovenian folk rockers Hiša who came…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Gala Hala, LjubljanaConcert date: May 20, 2008Attendance: 120Ticket price: 18€ For the Slovenian metal scene, Dirty Skunks are Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy all rolled into one. Last…

"An hour and a half of unforgettable musical adventure, led by this trio's witty take on the musical experience, with bassist Tony Levin leaving his unforgettable mark on it, was over in a flash."

Venue: Delavski dom / Jevnica / SloveniaConcert date: 17.05.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 0.00€ One of the most important reunions on Slovenian soil last year, the return of Niet, finally brings a bit of color and a healthy gust of…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 16.05.2008Attendance: 50 Ljubljana's Orto bar shook with punk`n`roll rhythms again on Saturday, May 17, thanks to two young bands from Dolenjska, B.T.K. and Zgrešeni primeri. Even though it was a…

Venue: Gospodarsko razstavišče, LjubljanaConcert date: 15.05.2008Attendance: 0Ticket price: 0 € Like every year so far, Big foot mama played this year's party after the graduation parade, which went down on Friday, May 16. At noon…

Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark / LjubljanaConcert date: May 15, 2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: 20 € It was a night for people with a very particular taste in music. An experience for music gourmets, for lovers of long-life-packaged…

Venue: Estragon klub / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: 15.05.2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: 20,00€ Yesss! The one and only chance, and the closest one, for someone living in Slovenia to catch hard rock legends Y&T came up in…

Location: Teatro Leonardo Da Vinci / Milan / ItalyConcert date: May 14, 2008Attendance: 600Ticket price: €15.00 California Guitar Trio, a trio of acoustic guitars and a whole lot more… Japan's Hideyo Moriya, American Paul…

Venue: Pungert, KranjDate of the event: 13.05.2008Attendance: 0 Masaker povprečja! That's what they called it: an exhibition of a short poetry collection presented as graphic works, on view from May 10 to 20 at Pungert in Kranj. The…

Venue: Sottotetto klub / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: 13.05.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 15,00€ The sparks must be flying and the current jumping like crazy inside the head of a person who decides to spend a three-day vacation in…

Venue: Gala Hala, Metelkova, LjubljanaConcert date: 09.05.2008Attendance: 350Ticket price: €6 with reservation, €8 on the day of the show Mlade pištole, a.k.a. YounGunZ, closed out this year's tour of the bigger Slovenian clubs (already…

Venue: Križanke / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 08.05.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 17,00€ Reunions of legendary bands have been seriously common lately. In recent years we've been "wowed" by The Police, Genesis and other pop…

Venue: Menza pri koritu (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 08.05.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 4,00€ After the Index gig earlier the same day, the photographer and I staggered over to Menza pri Koritu, where Austrian…

Venue: Cvetličarna, LjubljanaConcert date: 07.05.2008Attendance: 800Ticket price: 20 € Cvetličarna has put on another big show. This time we got yet another band from the former common homeland. Zabranjeno Pušenje formed back in…

Location: Klub Roxly, LjubljanaConcert date: 05.05.2008Attendance: 25 In 2003, five seasoned musicians joined forces under the name The Tide. Their productivity showed right from the first year, with quite a few original songs coming out…

Venue: Sputnik - svetovna kavarna / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04.05.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 0,00€ If anyone still claims that nothing interesting ever happens in Slovenia when it comes to live music, they should just…

Location: Stonehenge club / Arcole (Verona) / ItalyGig date: 01.05.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 0.00€ The ways of the Lord are mysterious, and the ways of our RockLine even more so. This time the road led me to a little…

Venue: Bluesiana, Vrba, Austrian CarinthiaConcert date: 01.05.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 25€ Big Brother And The Holding Company is a name most music nuts link first and foremost with Janis Joplin. Nothing unusual there, of course,…

Venue: Gala Hala, Metelkova, LjubljanaConcert date: 01.05.2008Attendance: 570Ticket price: 16 € with reservation, 18 € on the day of the show On May 2, the outdoor stage of Ljubljana's Metelkova Gala Hala was once again…

Venue: Channel Zero / Ljubljana / SloveniaShow date: 30.04.2008Attendance: 25Ticket price: 5,00€ When the former rockline uberkommandoh calls you up and orders you to come to a gig with him, you don't have a whole lot of options. You…

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Jazzy music club / Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: April 30, 2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: €0.00 (free entry) Over its fifty years of existence, Rock'N'Roll has evolved, wriggled free and been reborn…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04/28/2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: €7.00 Adam Bomb is without a doubt the real incarnation of rock n' roll. The thrilling career of this 44-year-old rock desperado is the stuff of…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 27.04.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 5.00€ This year's Ortofest had a bit more shredding on the menu for metal ears. Dirty Skunks already kicked off the metal…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 25.04.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: €16 in advance Ljubljana's Orto bar was roaring again. This time the culprits were France's Straightaway and California's Strung Out. After last year's…

Venue: Dvorana Rikard Benčić /Rijeka / CroatiaConcert date: 25.04.2008Attendance: 250Ticket price: 70HRK (10,00€) Blaze Bayley, the famous pick to fill Dickinson's enormous shoes after Bruce walked out on Iron Maiden in 1993 over ego…

Venue: Jamski Dvorec, PostojnaConcert date: 24.04.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 12 € The Croatian blues troubadours Little Pigeon's ForHill Blues have a good seven years behind them of scattering bluesy sunflower seeds of a very…

Location: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 23.04.2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 8 € After a flop of a show (and not the fault of the organizer or the bands, but of an uninterested crowd) on Tuesday, April 22 in Maribor (you can…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Ljubljana, KUD France PrešerenConcert date: 22.04.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 16€ Barely three weeks after the last headbanging session at KUD, the venue was calling again for a metal-flavored…

Location: Štuk, MariborConcert date: 21.04.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 12 € in advance, 15 € on the day of the show "Punk is dead!" We went looking for an answer to that claim on Tuesday, April 22 (Earth Day) at Štuk in…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: April 20, 2008Attendance: 120Ticket price: €6 What comes to mind when you hear the name Vanilla Sky? Maybe the Spanish romantic thriller starring the charming Tom Cruise and the gorgeous…

Venue: Klub Jazzy, PostojnaConcert date: 04/19/2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: 10 € "I came straight from London just for this gig," says John Lawton in his unmistakable English accent, while his old pals in Mary Rose busily tinker…

Venue: Štuk, MariborConcert date: 18.04.2008Attendance: 800Ticket price: €15 in advance, €18 on the day of the show After more than two years, we finally got them – the California skate-punk giants No Use For A…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Auditorium della cultura friulana / Gorizia / ItalyConcert date: 18.04.2008Attendance: 400Ticket price: 15,00€ This time the Rockline trio, always a sucker for the weirdest musical experiments from…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Wörthersee / AustriaConcert date: 15.04.2008Attendance: 53Ticket price: 30,00€ The Bluesiana parade of visiting acts rolls on into fickle April, this time with Eric Martin and "his" Twin Dragons (or…

Location: Orto bar, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 15.04.2008Attendance: 180Ticket price: 8,00€ As part of this year's Orto fest, the coastal crew Tide took the stage on Wednesday, April 16. It had been a little over a year…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Gouveia / PortugalConcert date: 13.04.2008Attendance: 5000Ticket price: 400 Gouveia is a small town somewhere between Lisbon and Porto that has been hosting an art rock festival since 2003. The event has…

Photos: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 13.04.2008Attendance: 120Ticket price: €6.00 It's not often that all the elder statesmen of Slovenian thrash metal end up under one roof and fill the room, too. Monday's…

Location: Szene / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: April 10, 2008Attendance: 650Ticket price: €26.00 The Rage show in originally announced Conegliano near Treviso on April 10, 2008 got moved to Florence, so we had to find a decent…

Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark, LjubljanaConcert date: 10.04.2008Attendance: 950Ticket price: 17 € What do you get when Russian, Ukrainian, Israeli and Ethiopian emigrants and descendants of other peoples, all carrying American…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Thunder Road / Codevilla (Pavia) / ItalyConcert date: April 8, 2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: 15.00€ Practically straight after our dramatic return from Portugal, where the immortal progressive rock…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Cankarjev dom / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: April 7, 2008Attendance: 80Ticket price: €12.00 Lineup: Fred Frith – guitar, bass, vocals Zeena Parkins – electric harp, accordion,…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Channel Zero / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 05.04.2008Attendance: 53Ticket price: 13,00€ The Lord's Day, Sunday April 6th, was the perfect reason for every God-fearing passerby to steer well clear…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: KUD France Prešeren / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04.04.2008Attendance: 70Ticket price: 5,00€ Last December, KUD France Prešeren got its healthy dose of metal courtesy of Heavy New Year, with Burning…

Location: Unec/LjubljanaConcert date: 03.04.2008Attendance: 0Ticket price: 13 € A while back, some intriguing posters with the GN'R logo and the subtitle Prospect popped up around Ljubljana. What's this now, have Prospect become a…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: April 2, 2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: €7.00 Boss Tweed, the intriguing Brooklyn trio from New York that plays an extremely seductive blend of blues, rockabilly, surf and rock…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 01.04.2008Attendance: 40Ticket price: 5,00€ As we know, Orto Bar is pretty much the last stronghold of everything that sounds a little heavier and doesn't show up on TV every day. On…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 30.03.2008Attendance: 190Ticket price: 14,00€ "Punk isn't dead!" With that slogan, this year's by now traditional Ortofest kicked off on Monday, March 31, and just like every year,…

Location: Jamski Dvorec, PostojnaConcert date: 03/27/2008Attendance: 350Ticket price: €13.00 The fourth season of the Postojna blues festival is slowly sliding into its closing stretch. Understandably, the temperature of this friendly…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 26.03.2008Attendance: 90Ticket price: 7,00€ A month has passed since the last Thursday metal night at Channel Zero, and it was high time for its…

Avtor: Rok Klemše Kraj: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SlovenijaDatum koncerta: 23.03.2008Število obiskovalcev: 40Cena karte: 5,00€ After a weekend of stuffing our faces with Easter treats, the Easter bunny (well, the Dirty Skunks, really)…

"Chimaira have convinced the Slovenes for the second time that, in their musical territory, they recognize no one better than themselves."

Location: Klub Gromka (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 21.03.2008Attendance: 40Ticket price: 5,00€ If the rituals of the Easter holidays leave you cold, or you just can't get worked up about them, there's always a good…

Photos: Rok Klemše Venue: Izbruhov bazen / Kranj / SloveniaConcert date: 21.03.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: €3.00 On the day when most people are proudly strolling around with a basket full of Easter goodies, the unbelieving part of…

Location: Gala Hala (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: March 19, 2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: €20.00 Anyone still remember the Dark Tranquility, Chimaira and Hatesphere show in Ljubljana, way back on December 19,…

Venue: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 03/18/2008Attendance: 225Ticket price: 10.00€ It's customary for bands that release an album to play a handful of live shows to promote it properly. Psycho-path did…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Orto bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 16.03.2008Attendance: 110Ticket price: €10.00 The year has turned, March has rolled around again, and it's time to host a musical virtuoso…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 13.03.2008Attendance: 80Ticket price: 30,00€ What do you get when half of Living Colour joins forces, the rhythm section to be precise, made up of Doug Wimbish…

Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: March 12, 2008Attendance: 1200Ticket price: 22.00 € / 25.00 € One of the most eagerly awaited shows in Slovenia this year was surely the concert by Croatian…

Location: Ljubljana, Orto barConcert date: 11.03.2008Attendance: 50Ticket price: 5€ Pudding Fields. A band with roots going back to 1996, they've already got three studio albums under their belt. Their latest, "Srečni izbranci", came…

Location: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: March 10, 2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: €30.00 Some things never change. Take the stubbornly wrinkled face of the RockLine editor-in-chief, or Jernej's…

Venue: Studio 14/Radio Slovenija/LjubljanaConcert date: 10.03.2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: 0 What is there left to say about someone like Tomaž Domicelj? I think he describes himself pretty well through his music and his humor, so…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Pordenone, PalasportConcert date: 04.03.2008Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 34€ Dave Mustaine and his baby, Megadeth, are one of the most important chapters in the history of metal. The legendary…

Location: Klub Gromka (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 03.03.2008Attendance: 40Ticket price: 5.00€ Miusow Quartet lineup: Marko Brdnik - accordion Andrej Čopar - saxophones (soprano, tenor, baritone), flute…

Location: Gledališče Tartini / Piran / SloveniaConcert date: 02/29/2008Attendance: 170Ticket price: €10.00 It's been ages since we've had a setting this gorgeous on our gig-hopping circuit. The destination is Piran, on the Slovenian…

Venue: Bluesiana, Velden, Austrian CarinthiaConcert date: 28.02.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: 27,00€ A show by the British blues-rock warriors Nine Below Zero was reason enough to hop over the recently fallen borders of the "Reich",…

Location: Gala Hala (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 28.02.2008Attendance: 450Ticket price: 15.00€ The New York outfit The Slackers, formed in 1991, have been serving up a mix of ska, reggae, soul, swing, jazz, punk…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 27.02.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: €5.00 Last Thursday, Channel Zero once again invited everyone to its by now traditional Thursday…

""Play It Loud festival II." was organized by the label My Graveyard Productions, and this year too it put a heavy emphasis on homegrown bands. But when the organizer throws in legendary acts like Helstar, Manilla Road, Elixir, Steel…

Location: Orzinuovi (Brescia) / Buddha / ItalyConcert date: 23.02.2008Attendance: 2302Ticket price: 1100 Play It Loud! Festival II. 2008, in the little town of Orzinuovi, 30 km from Brescia, headlined by a few living fossils! Impossible to…

Venue: Celjski dom / Celje / SloveniaConcert date: 22.02.2008Attendance: 900Ticket price: 15,00€ / 18,00€ Saturday night, February 23, belonged to California's Mad Caddies for the fourth time in a row. They've been getting…

Location: Postojna, Predjamski GradConcert date: 21.02.2008Attendance: 300Ticket price: 13,00€ Thursday's Postojna adventure with American blues-rock warrior Gail Muldrow was already the sixth gig of the fourth season of the Postojna Blues…

Venue: Menza pri Koritu (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 21.02.2008Attendance: 100Ticket price: €10.00 Huh… Action! I couldn't resist the teasers describing Radio Moscow (thanks, FV Music!). It wouldn't leave me…

Location: Šentjur pri Celju / SloveniaConcert date: 21.02.2008Attendance: 170Ticket price: €5.00 Lately, with gigs by local bands stacking up one after another, it's getting hard to pick where to go. Well, on Friday, February 22,…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Ljubljana, Orto barConcert date: 19.02.2008Attendance: 80Ticket price: 5€ Styrian outfit LastDayHere have been conquering Slovenian stages ever since their excellent debut From Pieces Created came out.…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Hotel Mons / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 14.02.2008Attendance: 170Ticket price: 20,00€ That evening in the jazz club of Hotel Mons we checked out, with real interest, a show by Mr. Traja Imer…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Rok Klemše Venue: Metelkova, Gala HalaConcert date: February 14, 2008Attendance: 150Ticket price: €5.00 Ljubljana's avant-garde black metal outfit Dekadent is without a doubt one of the best metal bands around…

Venue: Borovnica (Arterija) / SloveniaConcert date: 09.02.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: free admission After ages, a properly stretched-out weekend brought, on top of its usual relaxing effects, a chance to visit the Borovnica center for…

Venue: Klub glasbe Jazzy / Postojna / SloveniaGig date: 08.02.2008Attendance: 160Ticket price: 0,00€ "Lady's first" helper. Lady's opener? With a little imagination, perfectly compatible roles. Ah, you windbag! Let's just stick with…

Location: Dom kulture (Ruše) & Lokal Patriot (Novo mesto)Concert date: 08.02.2008Attendance: 170Ticket price: 5,00 € Last weekend belonged to rockers Tide from the Slovenian coast, who stopped by Ruše on Friday as part of their…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 03.02.2008Attendance: 160Ticket price: 27,00€ / 30,00€ How time flies. At the start of last March, Bernard Fowler, that superb singer and performer…

Location: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 01.02.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 5,00€ Head over heels! First off, I have to thank Rok, who hustled me out to the Železobeton gig on 31.01.2008 (RockLine…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Channel Zero / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 30.01.2008Attendance: 60Ticket price: 7,00€ Channel Zero is always a cozy refuge, especially when it's calling us to metal shows, which luckily are a…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 29.01.2008Attendance: 180Ticket price: €5.00 / €7.00 Sure, a long four years had passed since their now second-to-last album Pop idoli (2003), but the guys haven't been…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Slovenska Bistrica / MC Kreš / SloveniaConcert date: January 27, 2008Attendance: 160 It's probably in metal hearts that the memory of fallen legends lives on especially strong and devoted. When we lose a metal…

Location: Klub Kotlovnica / Kamnik / SloveniaConcert date: 25.01.2008Attendance: 30Ticket price: 2,00€ Klub Kotlovnica in Kamnik, that famous metal mecca, was anything but on 26.01.2008. The show was announced for 9 PM. "A bit too…