Live Reports

Location: SežanaConcert date: 10.02.2007Attendance: 40Ticket price: Free admission I first ran into Mary Rose back in 2006 at Križanke, and if I'm being completely honest, I don't remember their set in much detail, probably thanks to the…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Politeama Rossetti di Trieste / Trieste / ItalyConcert date: 06.02.2007Attendance: 1300Ticket price: 20,00 € After their December show fell through because of logistical problems (and I actually…

Barely two weeks after the death metal feast with Kataklysm, Master of Metal has already treated us to another concert package. This time the Swedish power metal armored division Sabaton and the German heavy metal Gravediggers rolled into…

Venue: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 29.01.2007Attendance: 800Ticket price: €32.00 Remember the days when you absolutely had to look like you'd just pulled your head out of a clothes dryer? Well, Europe were one of the…

Location: Gala Hala (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 26.01.2007Attendance: 400Ticket price: €8.00 On Saturday, January 27, we witnessed the second, encore show by sold-out Melodrom. True, they haven't exactly…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 25.01.2007Attendance: 120Ticket price: 8.00€ Around eight, nine o'clock there was no big crowd to speak of, but you could feel in the air that the place would be packed by ten, when…

Venue: Linhartova dvorana Cankarjevega Doma / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: January 18, 2007Attendance: 0Ticket price: €16.50 / €13.80 / €8.50 Why does every "serious" Slovenian act want a date in one of the halls at…

Location: Vinoteka (under the Gospodarsko razstavišče) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 17.01.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 0,00€ What beats a Friday invite to a party? One that goes till the wee hours. Benč's Sagittarius and…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaConcert date: 16.01.2007Attendance: 35Ticket price: 3.00€ If you love the seventies, when it was bands making rock music and not record labels, and if you've forgotten what guts look like,…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: LjubljanaConcert date: 16.01.2007Attendance: 300Ticket price: 20 euros (4792.80 SIT) The 2007 concert season has kicked off on home turf, at least in metal waters! And right at the start of the year, a proper…

Location: Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: 12/29/2006Attendance: 2,512Ticket price: 1,800 Well, it was finally time for the annual Christmas Rock Concert in Postojna. This time it was happening for the thirteenth time, and yet I was…

Author: Rok Klemše, Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / SloveniaConcert date: 28.12.2006Attendance: 300 On Saturday, December 23, three of us from the Rockline crew headed to Media Park for the second all-Slovenian metal…

Location: Prešernov trg / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 26.12.2006Attendance: 6Ticket price: 0,00 SIT First off, I have to apologize to all the other bands on the bill, like Leaf - Fat, Tide and Naio SSaion, who probably pulled in a…

Venue: AKC Metelkova mesto- klub Gromka / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 19.12.2006Attendance: 0 Nobody can accuse our temples of concert culture of a shortage of musical events this month. We've already checked out the menu at the…

"Od Franclna Možgani wowed us with their instrumental acrobatics and witty stage approach."

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Roncade, New AgeConcert date: 17.12.2006Attendance: 600Ticket price: 6000 SIT (25 euros) The car pulled out, and the three-headed dragon made up of most of the metal half of the Rockline crew went tearing off…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Venue: Lokal Patriot / Novo Mesto / SloveniaConcert date: 14.12.2006Attendance: 80Ticket price: 600,00 SIT / 1.000,00 SIT Our motley crew, mixed in age but sharing plenty of musical (and other) common…

Location: Cankarjev Dom / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 12/12/2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 7200, 6000, 4500, 3200, 3000 SIT (30'05; 25, 18'78, 13'35, 12'52 €) Author: Klemen Polimac - the legendary Poli The…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11.12.2006Attendance: 200 The Rockline crew once again came through, all of us answering the friendly invitation from the organizer and owner of ORTO Bar in Ljubljana to catch Dan D live.…

Venue: Rock Caffe Epicenter / Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: 07.12.2006Attendance: 80Ticket price: free admission Let me say right up front that I'm not exactly a tribute band guy, because I simply don't see the point in endlessly…

Venue: Chanel Zero / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 05.12.2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 1.200,00 SIT Wednesday night, after St. Nicholas and the full moon had done their thing, those of us who were (luckily) touched by the Farmolution…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 05.12.2006Attendance: 200Ticket price: 1500 SIT Wednesdays usually go down hard for me. This one slid down a little easier, though, because Thursday was promising a gig at Orto bar. The…

Venue: Studio 14 (RTV Slovenija) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04.12.2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 0.00 SIT On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, in a Ljubljana already fully decked out and just waiting for a snowflake or two, a pretty…

Location: Datchforum / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 02.12.2006Attendance: 15Ticket price: 9.000,00 SIT Two buses times two (two days) makes four! The sharp-as-a-tack head of Concert Freak in action. My hat's off, again! Thanks, Tadej! For…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Dutchforum / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 01.12.2006Attendance: 15Ticket price: 9.000 SIT When? Saturday, December 2, eight in the morning. Where? The parking lot in front of Tivoli Hall. Why? Departure for the…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Channel Zero (Metelkova) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 30.11.2006Attendance: 50 Moonlight Sky. Why was this the first time I'd ever seen them live? Hell knows?!! And yet, let me tell you something.…

Venue: Tvornica / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 29.11.2006Attendance: 700Ticket price: 160,00 HRK Zagreb, last Thursday of November, a few hours before the show by Nashville's most "fucked up" alt-country outfit Lambchop, is resting…

Venue: Modra Hiša / Ljubljana (Šiška) / SloveniaConcert date: November 27, 2006Attendance: 120Ticket price: 0.00 SIT Huhhh… Time live in Ljubljana! The news came creeping in out of nowhere, right under the wire. I'd just told myself…

Bryan Adams in Slovenia for the third time, and for the third time in a jam-packed venue - in the company of a crowd of more than 8,000 heads.

When you don't know what to do with your money, the best move is to hightail it to Munich and blow it on CDs. And if Mr. David Coverdale – the frontman of hard rock giants Whitesnake – happens to drop by too, with his sidekick, guitarist…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Klub K-4Concert date: 22.11.2006Attendance: 100Ticket price: 1500 SIT (7€) Thursday's rainy afternoon slid into an equally depressing, rainy evening, but the rain couldn't wash…

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Klub K-4Concert date: 11/22/2006Attendance: 100Ticket price: 1500 SIT (7€) Four young guys climb onto the stage, and they might just be the ones to kick off Thursday's party! The quartet from Zasavje…

Venue: Klub Cankarjevega Doma / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: November 22, 2006Attendance: 30Ticket price: 3,500.00 SIT "A squid eating dough in a polyethylen bag is fast and bulbous, got me?!" Those were the words that carried us into…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 22.11.2006Attendance: 200Ticket price: No idea A very symbolic 9 months have passed since Drinkers' last show at Orto Bar and the birth of RockLine. RockLine is taking the lead on…

Venue: Mediapark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 21.11.2006Attendance: 350Ticket price: 4.990,00 SIT A Glenn Hughes show is always the kind of event you absolutely must not miss. And yet, with the Mediapark hall poorly attended…

Author: Jernej Vene Venue: Rockhouse bar, SalzburgConcert date: 19.11.2006Attendance: 140Ticket price: 15 EUR The crew of tried-and-tested, seasoned rockologists was on the road again. Poba and Vene, beefed up this time by expert…

Location: Teatro Verdi / Muggia (Trieste) / ItalyConcert date: 11/18/2006Attendance: 700Ticket price: €15.00 And finally, Trieste at last. Well, right next door to Trieste, in Muggia! There's something special about heading out to…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Venue: Palasport hall, Jesolo, ItalyConcert date: November 15, 2006Attendance: 4,000Ticket price: 20,000.00 SIT (75 €) Last Thursday we headed across the border. To be precise, we went on a pilgrimage…

Location: Hala Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11.11.2006Attendance: 4500Ticket price: 6.000,00 SIT A traffic collapse on Celovška, plus lone cars circling like worn-out insects battering themselves against an overheated…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Orto bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 11.11.2006Attendance: 21 Ever heard of someone who followed their dreams years ago and headed to California to achieve what just wasn't possible back home?…

Location: Riziko Bar / Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: 10.11.2006Attendance: 70Ticket price: 0.00 SIT I'd been looking forward to this one like crazy. Almost a year ago, Thomas and I stormed off to Zagreb to see S.Vai. This time we didn't…

Venue: Orto Bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 09.11.2006Attendance: 90Ticket price: 3.990,00 SIT Friday night is the perfect time to clear your head of all the commemorative duties of the daily "game" of dealing with what the…

Location: Metelkova (Menza pri Koritu) / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 09.11.2006Attendance: 40Ticket price: 1000 Not overly sloshed, but musically still unsatisfied, I left Orto Bar around midnight, where Nick Oliveri And The Mondo…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Ljubljana, Cvetličarna VPKConcert date: 08.11.2006Attendance: 600Ticket price: 5490.00 SIT (22.90 €) After such an incredibly rich concert season here, at least as far as metal goes, we got one last…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Banale Club, Padua, ItalyConcert date: 06.11.2006Attendance: 40 Madness! Back in the car! Back to Italy. The days fly by so fast that you literally go emotionally numb from the sheer flood of events…

Location: Ljubljana, KUD France PrešerenConcert date: 02.11.2006Attendance: 80Ticket price: 1500 SIT A little late, but better late than never: last Friday we also caught a gig with two metal bands, young Kranj hopefuls God Scard and…

Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaGig date: 30.10.2006Attendance: 100Ticket price: 6000 SIT/ 25 € First off, we owe you a sincere apology: this time you won't be reading anything concrete about the metal gig of the week. It could have been…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Munich/GermanyConcert date: 10/28/2006Attendance: 14Ticket price: 62,00€ - 90,00€ When the news dropped this spring that the unpredictable George Michael was heading out on tour for the first time…

Location: Graz (Austria), OrpheumConcert date: 27.10.2006Attendance: 250Ticket price: €34.00 There's nothing better than a Saturday trip to Graz's Orpheum. Same old story. How fast the year has flown by. Our last visit here in April felt…

Location: Treviso / Italy / New Age ClubConcert date: October 21, 2006Attendance: 600Ticket price: 30.00€ "Why are you schlepping to Treviso when they're coming to Maribor?" quite a few people asked me. The answer is dead…

Location: Briščiki (Opčine - Trieste), ItalyConcert date: October 20, 2006Attendance: 2,000Ticket price: 1,700.00 SIT Opčine and Riblja Čorba. Italy and Riblja Čorba? Huh? Sounds pretty far-fetched, especially when you remember that Riblja…

Location: Ljubljana (KUD France Prešeren), SloveniaConcert date: 19.10.2006Attendance: 80Ticket price: 1000,00 SIT I showed up disgracefully late, thanks to a grueling work meeting beforehand. I think the last time I was here was for…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Cankarjev domConcert date: 17.10.2006Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 4.800,00 SIT Well, well. Not in my wildest dreams! Me, there? At a Šifrer show? Hello? Has somebody lost their mind? Holy cow, I had…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Orto BarConcert date: 15.10.2006Attendance: 70Ticket price: 600,00 SIT Lycanthrope and Wartune! Who would've thought! On Monday night at Orto Bar, right after most of the Slovenian metalheads had gone nuts…

Venue: Ljubljana (Slovenia), VPK MediaparkConcert date: October 13, 2006Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 6,300.00 SIT ASTRAL DOORS: 8:00 PM - 8:45 PM I'm standing there with a beer in my hand. What a shattering observation, right? Anyway, the…

Venue: Hala Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 04.10.2006Attendance: 4Ticket price: 9.500,00 SIT (39,64 €) - on the day of the show Old friends, old town, old band! By around 6 PM traffic on Celovška had visibly collapsed. It…

Venue: Dom Sportova / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 25.09.2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 12.000,00 SIT I'm just one of those people who can wake up on the wrong foot, the left one, and stay on it all day. And I'm also one of those people…

Location: Ljubljana / KrižankeConcert date: 22.09.2006Attendance: 2700Ticket price: 4.800 SIT It's fair to say that with their arrival, Buldožer served up an explosive mix of intellect, irony, sarcasm and utterly unique music to Slovenes…

Location: Faak Am See / AustriaDate: Friday, 08.09.2006 That's never happened to me before: finding out, through a random chat, only one day ahead that Alvin Lee is playing somewhere near Villach the next day. It was right before…

Location: Faak Am See / AustriaConcert date: 08.09.2006Attendance: 3500 This has never happened to me before: finding out through a random chat, just one day ahead, that Alvin Lee is playing near Villach the next day. It was right before…

Location: Herzogburg / St. Veit An Der Glan (near Klagenfurt) / AustriaConcert date: 07.09.2006Attendance: 250Ticket price: 20,00 € I can't remember the last time I got lost right on my own doorstep, or at least on a trip to St. Veit…

Venue: Stari Glej / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 03.09.2006Attendance: 50Ticket price: free admission Whatever the guys had to say at the afternoon press conference, they said it. Right after it, when they happily demoed three tracks…

Location: BA - CA Halle / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 29.08.2006Attendance: 0 Written by: Živa Viviana Doria On Wednesday, August 30, Concert Freak and I hit the road for Vienna to see Irish troubadour Van Morrison. Thanks to my…

Venue: Mali grad / Kamnik / SloveniaConcert date: 25.08.2006Attendance: 500Ticket price: 3.000,00 SIT The last show of one of the great art mysteries, Laibach, on the tour supporting their studio album "WAT" (2003) – "We Are Time",…

Concert date: 22.08.2006Attendance: 1808Ticket price: 30.000 Review by: Živa Viviana Doria On day two we woke up to a cloudy morning with a longish downpour, which the sun thankfully chased away before the gigs kicked off. At 12.10 the…

Concert date: 21.08.2006Attendance: 1708Ticket price: 30,000 Written by: Živa Viviana Doria Great weather, awesome gigs on two stages, 30,000 people a day, the obligatory food stalls serving food that was more "meh" than tasty, and of…

Venue: Schwarzl Freizeitzentrum / Graz / AustriaConcert date: August 19, 2006Attendance: 5000Ticket price: 55€ Right. At first I meant to file this one under festivals, but thanks to the unexpected turn of events described in the…

Location: Hruševje (Postojna) / Quarry / SloveniaConcert date: 17.08.2006Attendance: 1208Ticket price: 1000 Sometimes the weather really messes with you and throws everything into chaos when it shouldn't, not even in anyone's…

In an age when the music itself matters less and less, it's a real treat for the soul and a balm for the ears to catch a show like the one Toto put on.

Location: Ljubljana / Križanke / SloveniaConcert date: 05.08.2006Attendance: 3Ticket price: 8.900,00 (37,14€) For the second time in three years we ran into Mr. Mick Hucknall, the boss of Simply Red, in Ljubljana. A packed show in…

""Twenty-four years without new songs or a studio album? Some bands have to put out records every year or the market spits them out and forgets them. The Who have something that already puts them among the immortals."

"Quite a few people headed back to the "camp" to snore after Robert Plant. The appetite just ran out before Roxy Music. But the "headliner" role of the evening fell to Roxy Music more than deservedly. They set the place on fire above all…

Author: Jernej Vene Venue: Casino Perla / Nova Gorica / SloveniaConcert date: July 27, 2006Attendance: 100Ticket price: 1000 SIT 22.10 - 23.40Brit Paul Young is known as a great 1980s pop singer. Who doesn't remember hits like Come Back…

Location: Burg Clam / Klam / AustriaConcert date: 07/26/2006Attendance: 5000Ticket price: €71.50 (standing) A handful of the most devoted "Gilmourians" and "Floyd heads" rolled into the village at 5:00 PM. All around us were proper…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: St Pölten / VAZ / AustriaConcert date: 23.07.2006Attendance: 5000 This gathering of fans of 60s, 70s, and 80s music served up a second-day lineup that promised a great time. Concert Freak packed us onto one…

Location: VAZ / ST. Poelten / AustriaConcert date: July 23, 2006Attendance: 2,107Ticket price: 15,000 Short and sweet: compared to the venue in Wiesen, where the "Legends Of Rock" festival went down on July 7, 2006, this place simply can't…

"Križanke couldn't handle all that Whitesnake volume. How was Plečnik supposed to know 100 years ago that Whitesnake would play here one day, and build in extra elements for it?"

This was a classic rock event, and a hugely important one for Slovenia. It proved that Slovenians still care about the kind of music scene that ruled the seventies and eighties. The elemental energy of the coiled snake!

Venue: Stadion Ernst Happel / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 13.07.2006Attendance: 50Ticket price: 95.72 € (standing ticket) Our Rolling Stones day kicked off at 7 a.m., when 5 buses led by our national hero Concert Freak set out from…

"The chemistry between the crowd and the band was incredible all night. Not a single flub to be heard. Purple took our breath away (as always) with their famous trademarks. Flawless solos and songs flowing into one another through witty…

Concert date: 12.07.2006Attendance: 707Ticket price: 4500 This one's for everyone who worships the bands that made rock history in the seventies! For everyone who misses the sounds of the progressive, notoriously "punk" extravagance of…

Author: Jernej Vene Venue: Ljetna pozornica (Summer Stage), Opatija, CroatiaConcert date: July 12, 2006Attendance: 1,200Ticket price: 220 kuna = 7,425 SIT Nice summer road trip, no doubt about it! The muggy weather didn't put me off, and…

"With his energetic, professional performance, Emerson proved that after all these years he's still the very definition of a pro keyboardist, even though some had been ready to write him off before the show. He's still a real fast-fingered…

Location: Festivalgelände / Wiesen / AustriaConcert date: 07.07.2006Attendance: 6500Ticket price: from 39,00€ to 65,00€ The day after Legends Of Rock! Morning at the campsite! Uuuu, my head! It felt like a tank had rolled…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Stadthalle / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: June 25, 2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 30 - 228 Euros Billy Joel is an artist…

Venue: Teatro Palamostre, Udine, ItalyConcert date: 24.06.2006Attendance: 350Ticket price: €15.00 Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble: 21.05 There were fewer people than the day before at Fripp, and the show started almost…

Location: Teatro Palamostre, Udine, ItalyConcert date: 23.06.2006Attendance: 500Ticket price: 20,00€ Well, well, well! Look at that! "Frippoman" in action. Attendance mandatory! I just never seem to get lucky enough to catch King…

Location: Nickelsdorf / Panonnia Fields / AustriaConcert date: 06/20/2006Attendance: 1506Ticket price: approx. 100,000 (for the three days) Sun, 30°C, lots of tanned skin and plenty of great music. Heat aside, you couldn't have wished for…

Avtor: Aleš Podbrežnik Kraj: VPK / Media ParkDatum koncerta: 18.06.2006Število obiskovalcev: 0Cena karte: 30.05 EUR The gig scene this year is absolutely nuts. You barely turn your head and you're already at a different venue with a…

Venue: Hammersmith Apollo, London, UKConcert date: 17.06.2006Attendance: 5039Ticket price: 11,500 SIT (32.50 GBP) The wait is finally over, well, my wait anyway, to see Leppard at London's Hammersmith. The old theater with the famous name…

Location: Ljubljana, Stadion BežigradConcert date: 13.06.2006Attendance: 14Ticket price: 9,900 SIT (stands facing the stage and floor) & 11,900 SIT (other stands) OK, let's go! Where to? To the Bežigrad stadium, which, by the way,…

Venue: Stara Klaonica, Zagreb, CroatiaConcert date: 10.06.2006Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 240,00 HRK (33.84 €) Well, here we are at Motorhead again! I can't believe it. And I can't resist it! No fuckin' way! What the hell are…

Location: Idroscalo (Milan) / ItalyDate: 03.06.2006 A rundown of melodic European power metal, spiced up with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus left at midnight, and with the lovely, uplifting vocal soundtrack of mostly…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Idroscalo / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 03.06.2006Attendance: 18000 A revision of melodic European power metal, spiced with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus pulled out at midnight, and with…

Venue: Postojna Blues Festival, SloveniaConcert date: 26.05.2006Attendance: 700Ticket price: 3.490,00 SIT This condensed report is part of the longer write-up that is otherwise included in the Postojna Blues Festival…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Olympiahalle / Munich / GermanyConcert date: 24.05.2006Attendance: 12Ticket price: from 51 to 120 euros As we all know, the biggest names in popular music rarely make it to Slovenian stages. I'm talking about…

Location: Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: 18.05.2006Attendance: 2605Ticket price: approx. 200 (26.05.2005) & 700 (27.05.2006) This little festival was worth catching this year no matter what, especially once I spotted the words Ten…

"I sure hope this was only the beginning of our concert-going and friendship with the "father" of neo-progressive rock: a Scottish giant with a gentle heart and a sharp pen."

Location: Sonny Boy Club, San Vendemiano (near Treviso), ItalyConcert date: 04.05.2006Attendance: 500Ticket price: €20.00 It was the day after Fish, the day after the trip to Augsburg…. And lazily, really lazily, Peter and I…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Spectrum / Augsburg / GermanyConcert date: 03.05.2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 29.00 € Most of our RockLine crew decided that Fish's gig was an event we absolutely could not miss. In this year's…