Live Reports

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…

Location: Casino Velden / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 10.07.2007Attendance: 1000 The friendly little tourist town of Velden am Woerthersee in Austria is known for being swept, tidied and perfumed to within an inch of its…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Peter Podbrežnik Concert date: 09.07.2007Attendance: 67Ticket price: 9.000 Our eardrums, cranked to the max, hadn't even cooled down from the previous night's scorching action in Bled (John Lawton & Mary Rose,…

Location: Budva / MontenegroConcert date: 08.07.2007Attendance: 60000Ticket price: from €34 to €500 One of the most successful rock bands in the world, The Rolling Stones, played last Monday, July 9, 2007, at the only beach…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 06.07.2007Attendance: 1300 On the very same day as the big interview with the legendary master Ian Anderson, which was without a doubt a one-of-a-kind…

Location: Club Stop / Bled / SloveniaConcert date: 05.07.2007Attendance: 160Ticket price: 9.00€ John Lawton has been showing up in the Slovenian public eye lately almost as often as the meticulously polished hairdo of "our beloved hero"…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Rotundenplatz, Vienna, AustriaConcert date: 04.07.2007Attendance: 30Ticket price: 55€ After an already unbelievable summer of gigs and festivals, Thursday, July 5th, brought one more trip, this time to…

Author: Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Sandi Sadar Šoba Location: Šalata, Zagreb, CroatiaConcert date: 02.07.2007Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 35 € Early July. Just one day before the national holiday of all Americans, I hopped on a…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: St. Veit an der Glan / AustriaConcert date: 29.06.2007Attendance: 250Ticket price: 25,00 € From gig to gig, hard are the roads of mankind! I'd barely woken up to a new day, stuffed-up and…

Photos: Jernej Vene Location: St. Veit, AustriaConcert date: June 29, 2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 22 euros St. Veit is a sleepy little Austrian town about twenty kilometers from Klagenfurt, which is well known to older…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Concert date: 29.06.2007Attendance: 15Ticket price: 60.000 / day (approx. 165.000) INTRO TO THE THIRD DAY OF THE FESTIVAL: (text by: Sandi Sadar) After a pretty windy night that showed no mercy to plenty of…

Location: Fiera della Musica / Azzano Decimo (Pordenone) / ItalyConcert date: 28.06.2007Attendance: 3Ticket price: 22.00€ Azzano Decimo, a mere 11 km from Pordenone, where else but in the plowed-up, pesticide-soaked Po plain of…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Sandi Sadar Šoba Location: Zagreb / Jarun / CroatiaConcert date: 28.06.2007Attendance: 2006Ticket price: 6.000 June's invasion of tempting open-air shows swept up not just central Europe…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Concert date: 28.06.2007Attendance: 15Ticket price: 60.000 INTRO TO FESTIVAL DAY TWO: (text by: Sandi Sadar) Day two. After the morning ritual of sun-soaking and the first liters of wine, beer and other liquid…

Location: Hala Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 27.06.2007Attendance: 1606Ticket price: 1200 The big day has finally arrived: our faithful lifelong travel companion from the airwaves, Val 202, just turned 35. You can't shrug at a…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Concert date: 26.06.2007Attendance: 15Ticket price: 60.000 / day (approx. 165.000) (intro text: Sandi Sadar) The festival fever we've been living through this summer has seriously worn down our immune…

Venue: Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 25.06.2007Attendance: 600Ticket price: 35-40 euros It's rare for a gig to kick off a little before the announced time. Joshua Radin, a young musician accompanying Tori Amos on some of…

Venue: Cvetličarna - Mediapark (LJ)Concert date: 19.06.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 15 EUR On Wednesday, June 20th, I headed to Ljubljana's Cvetličarna aka Mediapark, full of enthusiasm and positive energy. And why wouldn't I? The…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Gugl stadion / Linz / AustriaConcert date: 18.06.2007Attendance: 21Ticket price: 75.00 € CONCERT REPORT (1): Text and photos: Jernej Vene The legends of progressive rock and, later, pop rock…

"The show by the "depleted" Genesis, whose lineup shortfall of two progressive heavyweights barely showed in the setlist (honestly, it's almost impossible to compare two completely different bands), turned out to be one of the most magical…

Venue: Križanke, LjubljanaConcert date: 17.06.2007Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 42 EUR Vaya Con Dios are currently touring to promote their new compilation album The Ultimate Collection, so it's understandable that a few people probably…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Ljubljana, VPK MediaparkConcert date: 16.06.2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: €16 in advance, €18 on the day of the show On Sunday, June 17, Buba threw a proper night in Cvetličarna Mediapark for all…

Location: Munich, GermanyConcert date: 14.06.2007Attendance: 11000Ticket price: 65 euros Every time the road pulls me to the capital of the most picturesque of all German regions, Bavaria, I get flooded with nostalgia all over again. Smack…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Milan / Idroscalo / ItalyConcert date: 06.06.2007Attendance: 3000 In the eleven years since its first incarnation in 1997, Italy's Gods of Metal festival has grown into one of the biggest summer music…

Venue: Mala dvorana Doma sportova / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 06.06.2007Attendance: 3Ticket price: 220.00HRK Dream Theater are not a thing you can possibly skip when they land on a European tour! In June 2007 the guys booked a bunch of…

Concert date: 05.06.2007Attendance: 2Ticket price: 12000 Italians are a funny bunch. Well, at least to me they've always come across as proper characters. That goes especially for the way they get rock culture, which, hand on heart, you…

Venue: Teatar & TD, Zagreb, CroatiaConcert date: 04.06.2007Attendance: 250Ticket price: 60/80 KUN Woven Hand have become a proper rock band, and if anyone could have seen that coming a few years ago at Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom, where…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Centralni Stadion, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 01.06.2007Attendance: 10Ticket price: 55€ It took almost seven long years (on June 9th it will be exactly seven years since the show in Izola) for…

Venue: Kud FP, LjubljanaConcert date: 31.05.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 12 euros The Ponys finally made a stop in Ljubljana for the first time in their six-year career. Given the meteoric (if underground) fame they've earned with…

Venue: Orto Klub, LjubljanaConcert date: 28.05.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 13 euros "Of all the cities we play, this is the one we love coming back to most" were the words Warren Ellis used to send off the opening song of Dirty…

Venue: Metelkova, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 24.05.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 12 € Thank God we sometimes manage, despite our ignorance and unfamiliarity with a certain kind of music, to break out of the narrow confines…

Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna MediaparkConcert date: 05/23/2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: 18 € As part of the Limited Edition concert series at Ljubljana's Cvetličarna Mediapark, we got another "unplugged" show, this time with…

Location: Klub Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: May 18, 2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 120/150 Kn Oho-ho! Tonight we'll be saying "Dobar dan!" a whole lot, because we're heading to Croatia. We're going to see Mr. Paul Gilbert,…

Location: Velden, BluesianaConcert date: May 17, 2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 25 euros I first caught Imperial Crowns a few years back, when the boys from Los Angeles, playing the Postojna blues festival, managed to properly rile up…

Venue: Križanke, LjubljanaConcert date: 17.05.2007Attendance: 0 A full ten years have passed since Laibach last shook the capital, and the euphoria over this fresh occupation was proportionate. As usual, a Laibach show is never just…

Venue: Menza pri koritu, Metelkova, LjubljanaConcert date: 16.05.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: / Neil Leyton is a young guy, born in Lisbon and currently living in London, who performs with a Scandinavian backing band, The Ghosts, and on…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Metelkova/Channel ZeroConcert date: 16.05.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 4€ All it took was that ominous "Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea..." and the jam-packed Channel Zero at Metelkova lost its mind.…

Venue: Cvetličarna VPK Mediapark, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 16.05.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 15 EUR in advance/18 EUR on the day of the show Just over two weeks ago, the bricks in Ljubljana's Cvetličarna were being shaken loose…

Location: Roncade/Treviso, ItalyConcert date: 15.05.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 20 EUR It's honestly incredible how easily Glenn Hughes, after all these years in the business, keeps up a drive that, with the man constantly…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Ljubljana/Metelkova/Gala HalaConcert date: 15.05.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 20€ Vital Remains, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Kataklysm, Sinister, Nile... We've already had the honor of hosting quite a…

Concert date: 13.05.2007Attendance: 1205Ticket price: 8000 The visit of the esteemed Mr. John Lawton to our neck of the woods, and in Umag no less, with its proper seaside vibe, began and ended in a seriously adventurous way. The whole…

Location: Maribor, Jazz klub SatchmoConcert date: 11.05.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: €12.00 / €15.00 Thunder and lightning saw me off as I crossed Trojane and then rolled into Maribor for the second night of the…

Venue: Hala Tivoli LjubljanaConcert date: 11.05.2007Attendance: 3300 Adelmo Fornaciari, known to everyone as Zucchero. Thirty years of rich career behind him! The guy had his first real taste of success with the band Taxi in the eighties,…

Location: Križanke, LjubljanaConcert date: 08.05.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 40 EUR This time the legendary Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek rolled into town with a proper "All Stars" lineup. Really, though, it's not much of a backing…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Orto bar, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 07.05.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 10 € If names like Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Angel Hair or Halifax Pier mean anything to you, then last Tuesday, May 8,…

Concert date: 06.05.2007Attendance: 1304 So what actually is RIO, or Rock in Opposition? Is it a musical style, or a political movement? It started out as a political movement, kicked off by Henry Cow and Slapp Happy, and in the late…

Location: Postojna, EpicenterConcert date: 06.05.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: free admission Who would have thought that somewhere in the world there's a guy who'd publicly dare to announce a show where he'd confidently belt out the…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Orpheum theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 04.05.2007Attendance: 450Ticket price: 27.00€ Despite the heavy downpours, which for our farmers must have come as a balm after the April drought, we…

Location: Ljubljana, Cutty SarkConcert date: 02.05.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 0 EUR In a pretty intimate setting at Ljubljana's Cutty Sark last night, two Finnish musicians served up an eye-catching, noisy acoustic evening. Pete and…

Venue: Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, ItalyConcert date: 28.04.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 20 euros It was a gorgeous sunny Sunday in Venice, and we were chatting with Will Oldham in the afternoon shade of the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove…

Venue: Ljubljana, Metelkova - Gala HalaConcert date: 04/27/2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 10 EUR Six different people from different cultures, with one thing in common – making music. Gino from Bosnia, Mario also from Bosnia, Val…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04/27/2007Attendance: 200 I hope nobody's going to hold me to this, but I think Majke played one of their last shows in Slovenia before they split up in the mid-nineties at Križanke in…

Location: ATP arena (UMAG)Concert date: 27.04.2007Attendance: 1947Ticket price: 70 Kn. According to Zlatan Stipišić (Gibonni), a.k.a. Đibo, this concert at the Umag ATP Arena was the first one that wasn't specially blessed with…

Venue: Klub Zakon, Vrhnika, SloveniaConcert date: 26.04.2007Attendance: 40Ticket price: 6 euros It's been half a year since the release of the album The Guide, and in that time Melodrom have pretty much nailed down the vision of the sound…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark VPK, LjubljanaConcert date: 25.04.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 15 € presale / 18 € on the day of the show Thursday night. Ljubljana was once again soaked in…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Estragon / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: April 25, 2007Attendance: 1700Ticket price: 20.00 € With the first signs of the midday sun beating down, our trio of eager prog-melody fans set off for Bologna…

Location: Velden, BluesianaConcert date: 04/24/2007Attendance: 8Ticket price: 20 euros Bluesiana has long since turned into a proper sandbox for the wild musical games of master players from all over the world. Which isn't the least bit…

Location: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 24.04.2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: 33.00€ (standing), 36.00€ (seated) Damn! The day before, the otherwise always-reliable Austrians finally send a "yes" (for the…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Orto fest- Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 23.04.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: 5 € There are few Slovenian acts right now who can boast a sound that's entirely their own, without a whiff of…

Location: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 22.04.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 10.00€ The crew from San Francisco proved they don't need sleep to pull off a top-notch, high-energy show. They kept…

Venue: Ljubljana/KrižankeConcert date: April 22, 2007Attendance: 1200Ticket price: 30 EUR It's been a long time since I last saw Ritchie play. Way back in 1993 in Villach, Austria, where he was performing his final duties as a member of…

Venue: Bakhus / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: April 18, 2007Attendance: 130Ticket price: €0.00 (you had to show an invitation) A party meant to promote Blackmore's Night, whose concert was coming up three days later at Križanke.…

Location: Orto bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 17.04.2007Attendance: 200 As has become the custom, Orto bar was once again packed "to the absolute limit" with seasoned rockers and the "old tomcats" of Dan D. The show was sold out!…

Venue: KUD France Prešeren / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 15.04.2007Attendance: 70Ticket price: 3.50€ Moonlight Sky have made their first music video, called Štirje svetovi! The "four worlds" are really the four selves inside…

Venue: Sportarena (Laszlo Papp) / Budapest / HungaryConcert date: 13.04.2007Attendance: 20Ticket price: 130.00€ (standing & second-category seating), 165.00€ (first-category seating) Three years and nine months after I…

Venue: Bluesiana / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: April 12, 2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 28.00€ Our old stomping ground for catching great gigs. Music by chosen artists, for chosen ears. Velden in Carinthia, our little…

Venue: Štihova dvorana, Cankarjev dom, LjubljanaConcert date: 12.04.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 14 or 11* euros (* for high school and university students) Friday the 13th, around nine in the evening, was when Ljubljana had the honor…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Ortofest- Ortobar, LjubljanaConcert date: 12.04.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 25 € in advance / 29 € on the day of the show Are you old enough to say the nineties were your time? Did…

Venue: Cvetličarna Mediapark (Ljubljana)Concert date: 11.04.2007Attendance: 250Ticket price: 15,00€ / 18,00€ The already pretty warm spring overture got an extra kick from Psihomodo Pop announcing a gig at Cvetličarna in…

Venue: Orto Bar - LjubljanaConcert date: 11.04.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 8 EUR Yesterday, as part of Orto Fest, Spain's Obrint Pas properly got Orto Bar in Ljubljana moving. First off, the practically non-existent turnout was an…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Volkhaus Landskron / Villach / AustriaConcert date: 10.04.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 19€ A good ten days have passed since our first visit to Villach, and it was time to drop in on our metal buddies…

Venue: Menza p.k. Metelkova / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 08.04.2007Attendance: 25Ticket price: 5.00€ Menza pri koritu on Metelkova hasn't gaped with an emptiness like this in ages, not until Easter Monday. 09.04.2007. What…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04.04.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 13.00€ One of Those Gigs… Remember your first trip to the circus? You were probably four or five. From the moment you saw the…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Izbruhov kulturni bazen, Kranj, SloveniaConcert date: 04.04.2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 12 € The third millennium. After decades of global metal dominance, and a short break while trends shifted,…

Author: Jernej Vene Venue: Palabam Arena, Mantua, ItalyConcert date: 31.03.2007Attendance: 4000Ticket price: 28.75 EUR American rock band Toto released the album Falling in between last year, and they've been promoting it for a good year…

Location: Bluesiana Rock Caffe / Velden am Woerthersee / AustriaConcert date: 30.03.2007Attendance: 150Ticket price: 25.00€ / 28.00€ On the last day of March 2007, the day before everybody starts lying left and right, we caught…

Venue: Peter Pan Pub / Trieste / ItalyConcert date: 03/30/2007Attendance: 60Ticket price: 0.00€ (free entry) Sometimes you get pushed into this funny situation where you've simply got nowhere to go under the open sky! Heh, the old…

Author: Rok Klemše Concert date: 29.03.2007Attendance: 3003Ticket price: 400 It was a real surprise when word reached our crew that regular metal fests go down right on our doorstep, in Villach, Austria. This time the Carinthian metal…

Location: Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: March 29, 2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: 35.00€, 40.00€ After all these years, hardly anything has changed. The world still needs a representative, a spokesperson, who…

Location: PostojnaConcert date: 29.03.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 12.00€ We rarely get the chance to see fiercely independent, completely dominant musicians caught in a relaxed atmosphere of all-round enjoyment, where each…

Location: ViennaConcert date: 29.03.2007Attendance: 4200Ticket price: 35EUR It was a Friday. We left rainy Ljubljana with the Koncerti.net agency for a few hours' drive to Vienna. In Celje and Maribor we picked up the lucky few decked out…

Location: Delavski dom / Trbovlje / SloveniaConcert date: 23.03.2007Attendance: 500 The Laibach show, postponed from last October (2006) to the end of March this year (2007), finally happened, right in the middle of town, in the band's…

Venue: Stadtsaal / Feldkirchen / AustriaConcert date: 22.03.2007Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 35.00€ It's unbelievable how Nazareth always, quite literally, sneak up on me from behind. This time too I decided to jump in the car at…

Location: Beogradski sajam / Belgrade / SerbiaConcert date: 13.03.2007Attendance: 12000Ticket price: 3000 Din - 5000 Din Iron Maiden. Lately everybody's been talking and writing about them non-stop. The world is clearly starving for a big…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Caffe - Vrba (Velden) AustriaConcert date: 13.03.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 25 EUR The village of Vrba (Velden) sits next to Lake Wörthersee, once part of Slovenian lands, and with its landmark "Our Lady"…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaGig date: 12.03.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: / Barely three days had passed since the Australian guitar wizard and fingerpicking master Tommy Emmanuel played Cvetličarna Mediapark, and here…

Venue: Dvorana Mediapark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 10.03.2007Attendance: 700Ticket price: 22.00€ Finally! The great master of finger picking, Tommy Emmanuel, in Slovenia at last. What is there even to say, where do you find…

Venue: Planet Music / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 08.03.2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: €29.00 A UFO show with Brazilian melodic perfectionists Angra warming up the stage is pretty much the definition of a guilty pleasure for any true…

Location: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 06.03.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 6.00€ My day started out pretty miserably, pretty much the opposite of what anyone would wish for, but I gathered up my courage and…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Caffee / Velden am Wörthersee / AustriaConcert date: March 4, 2007Attendance: 120Ticket price: 28.00€ It happens every now and then: you find out about something at the last minute. Or maybe a little before…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 27.02.2007Attendance: 30Ticket price: 0 € After spinning the debut Stubborn, which rang out loud and clear from Ozeljan near Nova Gorica last year, though the ears of the wider…

Location: Graz, AustriaConcert date: 25.02.2007Attendance: 600Ticket price: 25 eur Watching Mr. Ian Paice, totally absorbed in the relaxed joy of rediscovering all the charms of the old Deep Purple classics about two weeks ago in Treviso,…

Venue: Roll bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 22.02.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 0,00€ Quite a pile of months and days has gone by since the first time I got to see Aperion live. That was almost two years ago, and I wasn't…

Venue: Cveličarna VPK Mediapark, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: 19.02.2007Attendance: 500Ticket price: 16€ (18€ on the day of the show) We Slovenians are spoiled. We only go looking for something special, and we only turn out…

Location: Cutty Surk Pub / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 19.02.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 0,00€ It was Shrove Tuesday and we had to go properly nuts, as usual! I mean, when don't you have to go nuts? Those days are rare.…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 19.02.2007Attendance: 50Ticket price: / For Shrove Tuesday, three Croatian bands flew into Orto Bar to present the compilations New Underground and Strašni Riječani. The two…

"The show was over way too fast! The guys had announced a CD signing after the gig. The crowd literally snapped up the CDs and swarmed the guys as they came out from backstage. Naturally, Tony Levin had the most work "swatting away the…

Venue: Teatro Miela / Trieste / ItalyConcert date: 16.02.2007Attendance: 350Ticket price: 15.00€ Wow! No way. This superb trio of acoustic folk guitars, right in the middle of Trieste. And on top of that, with one of the greatest…

Venue: Ch. 0, Metelkova, Ljubljana, SloveniaConcert date: February 16, 2007Attendance: 80Ticket price: 10 euros, 8 euros if you came in costume To kick things off, The Real Things warmed up the carnival Saturday, and in a solid three…

Venue: New Age / Roncade (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: 14.02.2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 25 EUR Unless you've spent the last 30 years living as a hermit, buried some fifty meters under the deep-frozen ground of the Siberian…