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Tide Launch Their Album Nothing To Lose! (2008)
Location: Cvetličarna Mediapark/ Ljubljana/ SloveniaConcert date: 23.01.2008Attendance: 900Ticket price: 15€ on the day of the show
On Thursday, January 24, Cvetličarna Mediapark hosted a big launch show for Tide, who presented their…
Toasting the New Year at Heavy New Year with Burning Legion and Sweet Sorrow (2007)
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: KUD France Prešeren / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: December 28, 2007Attendance: 130Ticket price: €7.00
The hugely packed and varied 2007 concert season went out with a big bang, courtesy of the…
25 Years of Rock at the Bar: Šank Rock Celebrate in Velenje’s Rdeča dvorana (2007)
Venue: Rdeča dvorana, VelenjeConcert date: 27.12.2007Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 15,00€
In the style of Big Foot Mama the year before last and Siddharta's marathon last year, the third "giants" of the Slovenian rock scene spent a…
Postojna’s 14th Christmas Concert Goes Pop Rock This Time! (2007)
Concert date: 25.12.2007Attendance: 25Ticket price: 3000
Christmas: the season of love, harmony, mutual respect and, above all, understanding. For years now in Postojna (this time it's the 14th year in a row, to be exact), tradition has…
Strolling Through the Streets with Gamma Ray and Helloween (2007)
Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Venue: All Kart Halle / Kaufbeuren / GermanyConcert date: December 22, 2007Attendance: 3500Ticket price: €32.00
For you to really want to see the same concert a second time, it has to be a…
A Soul and Gospel Sermon Under the Baton of the Incredible Joyce Yuille (2007)
Location: Postojna, SloveniaConcert date: 20.12.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 12,00€
In the dying gasps of this year, despite a freezing December evening, my concert wanderings dragged me back to Postojna for the final act of this…
The Traditional Desecration of Christmas at K4 (2007)
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: K4 / LjubljanaConcert date: 20.12.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 6,00€ / 7,00€
Another year has rolled around, and it was high time to spin up the now-traditional Anti xmass festival once again. For…
Living Colour’s Drummer & Aza Show Off Their Jazz Chops! (2007)
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 19.12.2007Attendance: 70Ticket price: 27,00€ / 30,00€
The crazy merry December at Bluesiana rolls on! Instead of heading to Old Town Ljubljana for some…
Orto Bar Under a Pre-Christmas Moon (2007)
Venue: Orto bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 18.12.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 0,00€
Caught up in the pre-Christmas frenzy, Slovenian prog rockers Moonlight Sky treated us to one last Orto bar show this year. Fried by all…
T.M. Stevens & Shocka Zooloo: Funk Dynamite Blows Up Bluesiana (2007)
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 14.12.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 27,00€ / 30,00€
December 2007 keeps going wild when it comes to top-notch acts passing through near Slovenia. Where…
An Evening with the Excellent Trio Blues On (2007)
Location: Ljubljana / Celica / SloveniaConcert date: 14.12.2007Attendance: 20Ticket price: free entry
Friday nights spent in the cold embrace of the autonomous zone of Ljubljana's alternative scene, a.k.a. Metelkova, haven't been part of…
LastDayHere Piece It All Together in Celje
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: KMŠ / Celje / SloveniaConcert date: 13.12.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 5,00€ / 7,00€
Friday, December 14, brought the first snow to the lowlands, and that evening the snowy Styrian motorway carried…
Playing with Sound and Ideas – Leaf Fat at Dvorana Tabor (2007)
Venue: Dvorana Tabor, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 13.12.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 8,00 €
And finally, December 14th rolled around, the day of the release party for the new album RockPaperScissors by Ljubljana outfit…
Dado Topić and Time Turn Back the Clock a Good Thirty Years! (2007)
Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark, LjubljanaConcert date: 12.12.2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 18€
What is the very heart of the untamed, roaring spirit of rock & roll from the former common state of Yugoslavia?! Those of you…
W.A.S.P. Nail It Yet Again on the Fourth Try! (2007)
Venue: New Age Club / Roncade (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: December 11, 2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: €29.00
The thing is, there's a staggering number of bands in rock 'n' roll I wouldn't go see live even if they played on my…
The Eagle Has Landed and Let Rip in Salzburg! (2007)
Location: Rockhouse / Salzburg / AustriaConcert date: 09.12.2007Attendance: 450Ticket price: 28,00€ / 30,00€
Learning that Gotthard had cancelled all their Italian shows in December 2007 because of singer Steve Lee's illness…
A Prog Metal Day Just Across the Slovenian Border with Circus Maximus (2007)
Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Venue: Rock Club / Ronchi dei Legionari / ItalyConcert date: 09.12.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: €15.00
While "all" of Slovenia was zeroed in on the Swedish metal bombast merchants Therion…
Therion Blow Out Their 20th Candle (2007)
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: VPK Mediapark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 08.12.2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 26.00€ / 28.00€
Therion. The great Swedish beast is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, and…
Big Foot Mama at Shark Festival (2007)
Location: Rdeča dvorana / Velenje / SloveniaConcert date: 07.12.2007Attendance: 4800Ticket price: 15,00€
Sharkfest went down at Rdeča dvorana in Velenje on Saturday, November 8, with some of the biggest names on the Slovenian music…
Animateka’s Big Finale – Moveknowledgement feat. Small But Dangerous
Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba
Location: Animateka 2007, Kino Dvor, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 07.12.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 4,00€
The phenomenon that is Moveknowledgement isn't something you get served overnight. It takes…
Fish Stokes the Nostalgia Furnace and Warms Up a Half-Empty Hall
"I'd call this Fish show very good, not phenomenal like the one in Augsburg, but still more or less in line with what I expected anyway."
Saga Gave Their Singer an Emotional, Heartfelt Farewell in the Best Possible Atmosphere (2007)
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Venue: Muffathalle / Munich / GermanyConcert date: December 4, 2007Attendance: 3000Ticket price: €30.00
Munich hasn't exactly been a frequent stop on my gig-going map lately. A big part of that is the considerable…
Big foot mama Put the Cherry on Top of the 2007 Freshers’ Bash
Location: Gospodarsko razstavišče / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 03.12.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 9,5€ / 12,00€
As is tradition, this year too the K6/4 Institute, as part of the ŠOU family in Ljubljana, organized the…
Fish Stoked the Nostalgia Furnace and Warmed Up a Half-Empty Hall
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Location: Estragon / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: 11/30/2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 20.00 €
While more than half the population of our ever-less-green little country on the sunny side of the Alps was…
Pankrti Reborn – in a Sold-Out Hala Tivoli!!! (2007)
Venue: Hala Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 30.11.2007Attendance: 6000Ticket price: €25.00
"He always knows which way the wind blows, where it is and where it'll be, and he loves reminiscing about the times before he was even…
Unified Presence – William Calhoun, Victor Bailey and David Gilmore at Bluesiana (2007)!
Location: Buesiana Rock Cafe / Veldem Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 30.11.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 35,00€
Once again, it was music that brought me to Austrian Velden, not the pleasures the lake, its gorgeous…
Motorhead’s Racket Hits Its Zenith in Munich (2007)
The view of the pit the moment Motorhead stormed the stage with Dr. Rock turned into a proper battlefield, very much like the ones at Iron Maiden gigs. Lemmy, by the way, still hasn't kicked Campbell into dropping the tracksuit and the…
Bonfire and a Mega-Orgy with the Veterans of the German ABC of Hard Rock Polish (2007)
Location: Roncade (Treviso) / New Age / ItalyDate: 11/23/2007
Unbelievable! With how much I zip around Europe by every means possible, it still happens that I end up at a gig completely alone, with no company whatsoever. This time…
Mad Brits with a High IQ Wow Austria (2007)
Location: Reigen / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: November 24, 2007Attendance: 130Ticket price: 20.00€
IQ are a legendary neo-prog band from England who started out in the early eighties and rank among the best in their genre. Even…
Indestructible R. J. Mischo – Mouse Man with the Devil’s Own Character!
Location: PostojnaConcert date: 11/22/2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: €13
The hero of "oral harmonica" blues, R. J. Mischo, is a member of the younger generation of blues musicians (relatively speaking, of course), whose musical and…
Mega-Orgy with the Veterans of German Hard Rock Polish (2007)
Venue: New Age / Roncade (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: 11/22/2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: €20.00
Unbelievable! With all the traveling I do, up and down Europe by every means imaginable, it happens that I end up at a gig…
The Flower Kings and Pat Mastelotto Chase Away the Blues in the Heart of Treviso with Cosmic Notes
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Location: Sonny Boy Club / San Vendemiano (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: November 20, 2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: €22.00
With its laid-back vibe, hospitable staff and unmistakably Mediterranean…
Micah Blue Smaldone at Celica (2007)
Location: hostel Celica, Metelkova / LjubljanaConcert date: 19.11.2007Attendance: 30Ticket price: 0,00€
Whenever I hear that a musician who puts out albums on Cuneiform is playing somewhere nearby, I'm interested. Label boss Steven…
Helloween and Gamma Ray Raise Hell in Belgrade
Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Venue: Studentski kulturni centar / Belgrade / SerbiaConcert date: 16.11.2007Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 2.400DIN
The Hellish Rock 07/08 tour. Helloween. Gamma Ray. Belgrade. Is there even…
The Road Winds Down South… (2007)
Location: Park Bulldog klub / Kočevje / SloveniaConcert date: 16.11.2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: 6.00€
On Saturday, 17.11.2007, Big foot mama rolled into Kočevje's Park Bulldog Club as part of the promo tour for their new album…
Slaloming Between Raindrops with Doug Wimbish (2007)
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: November 14, 2007Attendance: 25Ticket price: 23.00€
Doug Wimbish! Who, what, how? A bassist who, over his musical career, has pretty much tasted everything…
Električni orgazam at Cvetličarna!
Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark, LjubljanaConcert date: 14.11.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 15,00€ / 18,00€
Way back, in the days of Yugoslavia, when the political and economic pressure cooker was still a few degrees hotter than…
Interceptor Shifted Into Fifth Gear and Flattened Channel Zero
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: Channel Zero / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 14.11.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 5,00€
Last week, on Thursday, November 15th, Channel Zero, the club in Ljubljana's urban alt-quarter Metelkova, opened…
Free-Form FFFFunky Mayhem at Bluesiana! (2007)
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 12.11.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 26,00€ / 29,00€
Welcome back, all you folks with thirsty ears, where else but Bluesiana. Devil's Slingshot…
No Means No Invade Ljubljana
Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba
Location: Cvetličarna Mediapark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: November 12, 2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: 15.00€ (presale) / 18.00€ (day of show)
Tuesday night was something special this…
Berry’s Big Rip-Off of Graz’s Orpheum Regulars and Everyone Around Them Was a Total…
Venue: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 11.11.2007Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 60,00€
Sunday's Chuck Berry experience was an unforgettable musical event in every possible way, and on top of that it turned out to be one of the…
Devil’s Slingshot Give Bluesiana a Hell of a Night
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Woerhersee / AustriaConcert date: 09.11.2007Attendance: 170Ticket price: 32€ (35€ on the day of the show)
Finally! My first visit to the much-sung-about Bluesiana…
Deep Purple in Better Form Than They’ve Been in Ages! (2007)
Venue: Eishalle / Graz / AustriaConcert date: November 7, 2007Attendance: 4000Ticket price: €40.00
Lately Deep Purple somehow never manage to dodge our neck of the woods, or if not our neck of the woods, then at least direct contact with…
Mephista at Cankarjev Dom (2007)
Location: Ljubljana, Cankarjev DomConcert date: 05.11.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 6'50 to 14'50 EUR
Even before I headed out to the Mephista show, I had a hunch this would be a band that's big on experimenting, since the…
Ana Popović, a Slavic Girl with a Feel for the Blues!
Location: Bluesiana Rock Caffee / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 01.11.2007Attendance: 130Ticket price: 25 euros
The second leg of the two-day RockLine raid on Bluesiana wrapped up in style with a set by the hot-blooded…
Skid Row – Still Young and Wild (2007)
Location: New Age / Roncade (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: 01.11.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 18,00€
words: Grega Šujica
photos: Grega Šujica
"Dude, Skid Row are playing Treviso in November, heeey!" some random guy whispered to me…
Richie Kotzen – A Man Who Never Runs Out of Venom! (2007)
Venue: Bluesiana Rock Caffe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaDate: October 30, 2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: €26.00 (advance), €29.00 (day of show)
Velden's Bluesiana, the Austrian mecca for incorrigible music enthusiasts…
Halloween Night with Lady’s First! (2007)
Venue: Faraon club / Bled / SloveniaConcert date: 10/30/2007Attendance: 60Ticket price: €5.00
When Lady's First are on the bill, you know you're in for a great show, one worth showing up for and tailor-made for the soul of any…
A Symphony with the Dream Team in Padua
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: Palassport, Padua, ItalyConcert date: 29.10.2007Attendance: 5000
After a whole string of gigs in October, the peak for me came right at the end of the month with the Dream Theater and Symphony X show in…
Big Foot Mama Launch Their New Album Važno, da zadane (2007)
Venue: KUD France Prešeren / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: October 28, 2007Attendance: 150
text: Lea Lesar
On Monday, October 29, 2007, the sixth studio album from Slovenian rockers Big Foot Mama, with the fitting title "Važno, da…
Melodrom at Cankarjev dom
Venue: Linhartova dvorana (Cankarjev dom) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: October 28, 2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 17.00€ 13.00€ 7.00€
Black and white clung to everything Melodrom touch. Through the band's look, and…
Long Live Overflow – Here Comes The Beatsteaks
Venue: Gala Hala (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: October 27, 2007Attendance: 350Ticket price: €15.00
It doesn't happen all that often that you can walk into a gig blind, hit the jackpot every time and come out…
Beer-Soaked Revelry with the Aliens at Mediapark
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: VPK Mediapark, LjubljanaConcert date: 24.10.2007Attendance: 700Ticket price: 25€
Not a whole lot of water has flowed under the bridge (well, there were a few minor floods in between…) since we got to…
Rush – An Adrenaline Rush Amid Snakes and Arrows in Milan! (2007)
"A trio of three highly charismatic gentlemen, whose chemistry is built on rich experience, long road mileage and years of knowing each other, still runs like a well-oiled, relentless machine after more than 30 years, carrying the Rush…
Ithaca’s Champion Comes Home to Penelope’s Arms on the Wings of Symphony X!
Location: Vienna / Planet Music / AustriaDate: 20.10.2007
The most tempting lures for metal shows among our northern neighbors, Graz's Orpheum and Vienna's Planet Music, served up a gourmet treat for metal ears and a neck-muscle…
An Adrenaline Rush Amid Snakes and Arrows in Milan! (2007)
The tour supporting "Snakes And Arrows" (2007) – RockLine review HERE – which has been running since this June and kicked off in North America, finally brought Rush back to Europe this October.
The Champion of Ithaca Rides Symphony X Back Into Penelope’s Arms!
Author: Rok Klemše
Venue: Planet Music / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: October 19, 2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 26.00€
The most tempting metal gigs across the border to our north, Graz's Orpehum and Vienna's Planet Music, served…
Raphael Wressnig Organ Trio Conquers Postojna Again!
Location: Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: October 18, 2007Attendance: 120Ticket price: €11.00
The Postojna Blues Festival is something of a phenomenon, and if you ask me, a real black duck in the monotonously overcooked goings-on of…
Vlatko Stefanovski Trio Almost Blows the Roof Off Cvetličarna
Venue: Cvetličarna, LjubljanaConcert date: 17.10.2007Attendance: 1300Ticket price: 18,00€
Vlatko Stefanovski clearly has a soft spot for Slovenia. He swings by pretty often, and this year it was already his second visit. After his…
Set Abominae at Graz’s Orpheum (2007)
Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Venue: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: October 16, 2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: €30.00
Iced Earth have been writing one hell of an interesting band history over the last few…
Hladno Pivo Conquer a Sweltering Cvetličarna! (2007)
Venue: Cvetličarna, LjubljanaConcert date: 10/13/2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 15 EUR
Last weekend, at least as far as Ljubljana goes, was draped in the old-school tricolor of red, white and blue for the first time in ages. After…
Bora and Draža’s Ball at the Razstavišče! (2007)
Venue: Gospodarsko Razstavišče, LjubljanaConcert date: October 12, 2007Attendance: 2500Ticket price: 25 EUR
Remember the great Bora Đorđević? Besides having a serious feel for rock & roll, he's the guy who, with his thoughtless (?)…
Bridko Bebič & Taveseli pradolenjski švicarji (2007)
Venue: Cankarjev dom / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11.10.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 6.50 to 14.50 EUR
Bratko Bibič is best known as the accordionist of Begnagrad, where he and his bandmates of the time made music that ranked…
Jealous Guy in Ljubljana, and Not a Bit More Than That (2007)
Venue: Mala dvorana Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 09.10.2007Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 39.00€
The legendary frontman of Roxy Music, the hugely popular art rockers of the eighties, a gentleman of exceptional charm,…
Indexi at Cankarjev Dom (2007)
Venue: Ljubljana, Cankarjev DomConcert date: 08.10.2007Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 25 to 35 EUR
In the sixties and seventies, Indexi were one of the most popular bands in the former shared country, so it's no surprise at all that their…
Gotthard – Swiss Hard Rock Professionalism in Graz! (2007)
Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Location: Graz / Orpheum Teater / AustriaConcert date: 07.10.2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: 27.00€
On October 6th the starting gun finally went off for the real deal in hard rock, the first…
Neil Leyton’s Ghosts Haunt Kotlovnica!
Venue: Kamnik, MC KotlovnicaConcert date: 06.10.2007Attendance: 40Ticket price: free admission
Itching to get in on the latest wins of Slovenia's reborn rock scene, we headed out on a shamelessly rainy Saturday afternoon to Kamnik, or more…
Metal Festival in Kranj, Day 2
Author: Rok Klemše
Concert date: 05.10.2007Attendance: 610Ticket price: 200
On Saturday, October 6, the Izbruhov bazen in Kranj hosted round two of the Izbruhov metal festival. The second day was mostly marked by cancellations: first,…
Metal Festival in Kranj, Day 1
Author: Rok Klemše
Concert date: 04.10.2007Attendance: 510Ticket price: 250
Summer and its festivals are behind us, and the doors to the autumn gig lineup are swinging wide open. At least when it comes to metal, it's way too packed for…
Ian Siegal Opens Postojna Blues Festival in Grand Style (2007)
Location: Postojna / Jamski dvorec / SloveniaConcert date: September 20, 2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: €13.00
I don't know about you, but last night I approached the Predjama Castle in Postojna with the feverish anticipation of an eager…
The Police in Top Form!
Author: Jernej Vene
Location: Stadthalle/Vienna/AustriaConcert date: September 18, 2007Attendance: 12Ticket price: 75 to 105 euros
After all the reunion tours by rock 'n' roll's old guard that we've witnessed in recent years (Roxy Music,…
On the Run Through Time with Aleksander Mežek! (2007)
They say the years pass in silence. But not for everyone. Sašo hides them brilliantly. It was an evening of exceptional togetherness, with a crowd of every age and then some, which must be hugely encouraging for the forever-young elder…
KAPA Festival Takes Over Metelkova City
Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba
Location: Ljubljana / Letni oder Gala Hale (Gala Hala summer stage) / SloveniaConcert date: 13.09.2007Attendance: 119Ticket price: approx. 800
(intro: Sandi Sadar)
Metelkova. A city within a city. If I were to…
Chris Jagger and His Atcha Throw a Pinch of Folklore Into the Blues!
Location: St. Veit, AustriaConcert date: September 8, 2007Attendance: 80Ticket price: 25 EUR
It was a wonderful experience. Three strapping stallions (okay, two of the slightly more wilted variety, but still proud, upright comrades) and…
Rager and Dawn Patrol Take Kranj Back to the Eighties
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: Kranj, Izbruhov kulturni bazen (club)Concert date: 07.09.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: /
Summer is over, and after a short break Kranj's Izbruhov kulturni bazen has opened its doors again. To kick off the…
TOOL Live in Zagreb
Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba
Location: Dom Sportova, Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 03.09.2007Attendance: 1Ticket price: 280 kuna (€40)
Tool are extravagance incarnate. Tool are a provocation for the eyes and ears, a balm for the soul of…
IGNITE – Are you listening?
Location: Ljubljana / Gala hala / SloveniaConcert date: 02.09.2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: 15.00€ / 17.00€ (on the day)
California hardcore/punk outfit Ignite stopped off at Ljubljana's Metelkova mesto on September 3, 2007,…
Turbonegro – Not Black, But Plenty Turbo!
Author: Jernej Vene
Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark/ LjubljanaConcert date: 30.08.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 30,00€
Jani and I spent the last evening of August making our way over to Bežigrad. Cvetličarna was a fitting…
Ana Pupedan: Da Revolušn In Da ZOO
Venue: Rdeči Trg, Postojna, SloveniaConcert date: 30.08.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: /
Postojnski Zmaj Ma Mlade has sailed successfully into yet another finale, and how better to close the festival than with a set from the by now…
Zmaj Ma Mlade! And Boban Marković Orkestar Too!
Location: Rdeči Trg, Postojna, SloveniaConcert date: August 27, 2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: /
The attraction has arrived! At least that's how it looked from the number of people crammed onto Rdeči Trg, where the now-traditional annual…
FM4 FREQUENCY Festival 2007 – Day 3
Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Concert date: August 27, 2007Attendance: 1708Ticket price: 150.000
intro: Sandi Sadar
Last day on site. Heavy air soaked with damp, and the patter of raindrops on a few…
FM4 FREQUENCY festival 2007 – Day 2
Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Location: Salzburg / AustriaConcert date: 25.08.2007Attendance: 1608Ticket price: 150.000
intro text: Aleš Podbrežnik
A new day was rising over the Salzburgring…
Uriah Heep Drop In on Feldkirchen! (2007)
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Location: Hauptplatz / Feldkirchen / AustriaConcert date: 08/24/2007Attendance: 1100Ticket price: 47.00€
Anyone who knows me knows that a Uriah Heep show, every single time I get the chance to see them, is a…
FM4 FREQUENCY Festival 2007 – Day 1
Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Concert date: 22.08.2007Attendance: 1508Ticket price: 150.000
"THE MISSED CLIMAX OF THE AUSTRIAN FESTIVAL SUMMER, AKA FREQUENCY 2007"
(intro text: Sandi Sadar) This year…
Metal Mania 2007, Day Two
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: Komen na Krasu / SloveniaConcert date: 17.08.2007Attendance: 1108Ticket price: 700
On Saturday morning we woke up to a clearer day, with only a dull meowing somewhere in the back of my head to spoil it a bit.…
Metal Mania 2007, Day One
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: Komen na Krasu / SloveniaConcert date: 09.08.2007Attendance: 700
There's no better way to wrap up the festival summer than with a small, intimate festival on Slovenian soil. For the fifth time, Metal Mania…
Mary Rose Bravely Take On the Wind, and Themselves Too!
Location: Baredi (Izola) / SloveniaConcert date: 03.08.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 5.00€
The biker get-together that the coastal fans of petrol fumes, leather, Pez candy and assorted other S&M accessories threw for the…
Hanging Out with Paul Di’Anno & Lady’s First, for Everyone Who Couldn’t…
Location: Baredi (Izola) / SloveniaConcert date: 03.08.2007Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 5.00€
It's 7 PM. I'm at the venue on day two of the seventh anniversary MK Red Eye Biker's festival, out in the rolling hills of Refošk country,…
Metalcamp 2007
Author: Rok Klemše
Concert date: 07/29/2007Attendance: 16Ticket price: 8,000/day
It was hard to believe a whole year could fly by that fast. It feels like I just got back from Metalcamp 2006 and was still nursing my post-festival…
Paul Di’Anno in Postojna
Author: Rok Klemše
Location: Postojna, SloveniaConcert date: 07/28/2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 12€
Mr. Paul "Softich" Di'Anno hardly needs an introduction. Di'Anno left an indelible mark on metal by lending his pipes to two cult…
Steely Dan in Sweltering Tuscany
Author: Jernej Vene
Location: Lucca / ItalyConcert date: 27.07.2007Attendance: 4000Ticket price: 38.00 - 43.00€
The duo Steely Dan, made up of keyboardist and lead vocalist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker, wrapped up the…
Showing Your Passport at the Passport Gig
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Location: Kassematenbuehne (Schlossberg) / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 26.07.2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: 25.00€
When it comes to catching quality gigs, Graz has become more and more of a second home to…
Plant by the Sea in Slovenia! (2007)
Location: Titov trg / Koper / SloveniaConcert date: July 22, 2007Attendance: 2000Ticket price: €40.00
Slovenia in July was desolate, numbed and heat-scorched. For days on end the safest thing was to stay holed up at home, shutters…
Legendary Old-Timers Teach a City Square a Lesson in Feisty Celtic Melodies
Author: Peter Podbrežnik
Location: Piazza Unita D'Italia / Trieste / ItalyConcert date: 21.07.2007Attendance: 600Ticket price: free entry
This time our trio of budding fans of country idylls, forest edges and farmhouse parlors made…
Rolling Stones in Brno!
Location: Outdoor Exhibition Centre / Brno / Czech RepublicConcert date: 21.07.2007Attendance: 35000Ticket price: 35,00€
Luck never sleeps. And that's exactly what happened to me, the big lucky devil, when I was supposed to shoot our…
John Mayall: Blues Legend Wows Graz!
Venue: Kassemattenbuehne / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 20.07.2007Attendance: 350Ticket price: 20 EUR
John Mayall is definitely more than just another in a long line of aging, thoroughly worn-out performers who haunt the unsuspecting, and…
Graz Crowd Wouldn’t Let Mike Stern and Co. Leave the Stage! (2007)
Venue: Kassematenbuehne (Schlossberg) / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 20.07.2007Attendance: 600Ticket price: 25,00€
This year's Jazzsommer Graz Festival lineup is insanely tempting! Even for us at the RockLine crew. Gigs just keep…
Heavy Metal Night 2007 Shakes Veliko Ubeljsko!
Location: Veliko Ubeljsko (Postojna) / Sports field / SloveniaDate: July 14, 2007
Hell yeah, another year has rolled around, and it was time to give the sleepy little village in the embrace of Nanos, Veliko Ubeljsko near Postojna, a…
John Fogerty – The Man Who Defies Time!
Location: Wiesen, AustriaConcert date: 15.07.2007Attendance: 4000Ticket price: 49 euros
If you haven't had your fill of this summer's festival action yet, then chances are you were spotted last weekend bouncing around energetically in…
Heavy Metal Night 2007
Author: Rok Klemše
Concert date: 15.07.2007Attendance: 147Ticket price: 500
Hell yeah, another year has rolled around, and it was time to give that sleepy little village in the embrace of Nanos, Veliko Ubeljsko pri Postojni, a proper…