Live Reports

Location: Orpheum / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 08.04.2006Attendance: 300Ticket price: 30€ One of the coziest little venues around here, and after a longer break we're back! The staff who work there are incredibly friendly too, and…

The setlist, the sound and a fully immersed, perfectionist performance had to satisfy absolutely everyone in the hall. Simple Minds remain what they are: a band of short, simple ideas and moves that work with flawless conviction once…

Venue: Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, ItalyConcert date: 24.03.2006Attendance: 3Ticket price: 13,000.00 - 25,000.00 SIT Wot's…Uh the Deal!!! Three full buses, led by our rock-solid leader, the fearless Concert Freak, in total…

"The Darkness are an unbelievably fired-up, energetic young band who simply made it. What stands out is how incredibly approachable they are with the crowd, without a trace of the snobbery you might expect from a group whose videos get spun…

Venue: Dom Sportova, Zagreb (Croatia)Concert date: 21.03.2006Attendance: 10Ticket price: 12.000,00 SIT "Angels" in the figurative sense of the word, that's how the members of the British pop outfit came across when they moved their…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Vienna (Wien) / Gasometer / AustriaConcert date: 20.03.2006Attendance: 2500Ticket price: €30.00 Well, that date finally rolled around. I'd been dying for gigs this year! The former…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Orto BarConcert date: 23.02.2006Attendance: 140Ticket price: 1000 SIT When thick fog rules over the expanses of Ljubljana in February, when temperatures sink to zero and the precipitation…

Location: Pordenone (Italy), Palazzo dello SportConcert date: 28.11.2005Attendance: 2500Ticket price: €25.00 A November gone wild with concert trips abroad got a nice finishing touch with a visit to the show of the legendary…

Location: Zagreb (Croatia), BoogalooConcert date: 16.11.2005Attendance: 100Ticket price: 60,00HRK While the legendary Black Sabbath, with antics that include low blows at a professional level, have lately been steadily squandering their…

Comments from Zagreb locals, like this one: "This guy is seriously sick!" really fit what we saw. In the best way. It was simply a three-and-a-half-hour concert of stunning, death-defying jamming, unpredictable onstage pranks, and musical…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), VPK MediaparkConcert date: 11.11.2005Attendance: 100Ticket price: 4.000,00SIT 8:00 p.m., we're in the hall, it's foggy outside and brrrrr,…. Quick, grab a beer so we can melt into the rocker…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Hala TivoliConcert date: 18.10.2005Attendance: 5500Ticket price: 6.990,00SIT Finally! Dream Theater yet again, sure, but still. Where else do you find anything progressive in Slovenia? From Yes and King…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), VPK MediaparkConcert date: 01.10.2005Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 4.990,00SIT Well, we finally got them, right in the middle of Ljubljana! Living in a world without a spark, without a single ray of light,…

Steve Vai And The Breed. A guitar maniac surrounded by nothing but world-class musicians played for almost two and a half hours.

Location: Vienna (Austria), Planet MusicConcert date: 18.09.2005Attendance: 250Ticket price: 19,00€ After almost two full years, the road took me back to Vienna in a gorgeous all-day downpour, which by now has pretty much become a…

Location: Faaker See (Austria), Jack Rocks Open AirConcert date: 09/09/2005Attendance: 5000 True, I'd almost talked myself out of seeing the legends again, but my curiosity about that Saturday afternoon just wouldn't leave me alone. So…

Location: Milan (Italy), San Siro (Stadio Giusepe Meaza)Concert date: 07/19/2005Attendance: 70Ticket price: €54.00 Well, I finally made it. U2 live. In the most relaxed and pleasant company, we headed once again to the land of tasty…

Location: Padua (Italy), Villa PisaniConcert date: 22.06.2005Attendance: 0Ticket price: €32.00 Well, almost five years had passed since Dream Theater played Ljubljana's Križanke, and after five years my ears clearly itched to hear the prog…

Location: Munich (Germany), Tollwood FestivalConcert date: June 20, 2005Attendance: 0Ticket price: 35.50 € Everything was under control until I stepped through the entrance of the tent at the grounds of the annual Tollwood…

Location: Graz (Austria), StadthalleConcert date: 30.05.2005Attendance: 5000Ticket price: 13.500,00 SIT (54,00 €) At long last, the big day. The sky clouded over nicely, the rain freshened up the atmosphere and the muggy heat was…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), RollbarConcert date: May 16, 2005Attendance: 250Ticket price: free admission It was a Friday, and it was the thirteenth! A buddy and I were drifting around through the night, mostly winging it with barely…

"Mark Knopfler showed once again at this gig what passionate, creative guitar playing can be, with no pointless stage kitsch and no flinging himself around the stage (Mark leaves that to others, the younger guitarists), and on Tuesday the…

Venue: Hala Tivoli / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: May 3, 2005Attendance: 7500Ticket price: 7500 SIT Twenty years of waiting finally came to an end on Tuesday, and Slovenia once again got a show from one of the greatest songwriters and…

Location: Villach (Austria), StadthalleConcert date: April 28, 2005Attendance: 800Ticket price: €23.00 What a great overture to the May Day holidays! I was surfing the net by chance, looking for "what's going on" in the concert halls…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Vienna/AustriaConcert date: 12.04.2005Attendance: 12 Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and Freddie Mercury hit their peak in the late '70s and early '80s. In Freddie's day Queen racked up 37 hits, and…

Location: Roncade (Treviso, Italy), New Age ClubConcert date: 15.03.2005Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 25,00 € After a three-month drought, finally something real! A proper band-aid for the wound left by the cancelled Asia show in…

Venue: Munich, MuffathalleConcert date: December 15, 2004Attendance: 1,700Ticket price: €25.50 It was the kind of day Bruce Dickinson would have described as "Satan, has left his killing floor!" (lifted from the Psalm of Job in…

Location: Munich (Germany), Carl Orff SaalConcert date: 12.12.2004Attendance: 1500Ticket price: €35.50 In the sold-out Carl Orff Saal (interestingly, just two days after a staging of his opera Carmina Burana in the sold-out Tivoli…

Location: Zagreb, Tvornica KultureConcert date: November 30, 2004Attendance: 1,100Ticket price: 5,000.00 SIT This report carries a greater or lesser degree of perversity, but we're talking about the phantom glam eighties shock metallers…

Location: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Metelkova Gala HalaConcert date: 09.11.2004Attendance: 400Ticket price: 3.300,00SIT Late in the afternoon we treated our snow-white teeth to coffees, juices and draft beers, and while waiting for "the big…

Location: Zagreb, Tvornica KultureConcert date: 27.10.2004Attendance: 900Ticket price: 90,00 HRK What a tour! Packed with dates all over Italy, then Graz, Zagreb,… and, as always, no Slovenian stop this time either. At half past…

Venue: Graz (Austria), KassemattenbühneConcert date: 03.08.2004Attendance: 900Ticket price: 34,00€ If Jethro Tull slipped through my fingers in Zagreb at the end of May (yes, that was that unlucky-and-lucky day when German heavy…

"Unforgettable Rock In Izola 2004 with Requiem, Cheap Trick, Status Quo and Deep Purple!"

"Four hours!!! Madness! Satriani + Vai + Fripp = G3 2004!"

Four hours!!! Insane!

Location: Izola, Mestni StadionConcert date: 05.07.2004Attendance: 8000Ticket price: 8.900,00SIT I woke up this morning,… nope, no, it wasn't Ten Years After! Yep, I got up this morning and the first thing I did was pat myself down…

Location: Graz (Austria), OrpheumConcert date: 03.06.2004Attendance: 100Ticket price: 30,00€ And for the first time, I hit the road to a gig solo, just me and my car. Here's how it went. Sleepy and slightly grumpy, I sailed out of…

"U.D.O. in Ljubljana! Yes, miracles do happen when it comes to the live offering in Slovenia, but sadly the crowd didn't back it up, with only 100 heads showing up at the venue.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / VPK Mediapark / SloveniaConcert date: May 24, 2004Attendance: 200Ticket price: 4,500.00 SIT It was seven-thirty in the evening and people were still paying more…

Location: Graz (Orpheum) / AustriaConcert date: 11.03.2004Attendance: 600Ticket price: 30,00€ This was one of those events that fans of the masters of vocal acrobatics simply could not miss. We traveled so laid-back and easygoing…

Chris and company couldn't get over how devoted the Slovenian fans were, or how well they knew the band's lyrics. Whenever Chris asked the crowd for a response, a thunderous roar swept the hall and shook it to its foundations.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Munich / Muffathalle / GermanyConcert date: December 11, 2003Attendance: 1,500Ticket price: €28.00 Munich had long since been gripped by pre-Christmas fever, and the old town…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Hala TivoliConcert date: 04.12.2003Attendance: 6500 This report would never have existed if I hadn't believed so fiercely that I'd be at this show. After five years, the legendary British…

Location: Vienna (Austria), Planet MusicConcert date: 07.11.2003Attendance: 800Ticket price: €26.00 Finally! Helloween closer to home on tour, a mere 450km away. Rage as the support act were the main reason I bit my lip and brushed aside…

Location: Munich (Germany), New BackstageConcert date: 14.10.2003Attendance: 500Ticket price: 25,00€ We rolled into Munich at five in the afternoon. And of course we got lost right away. We pulled over in a part of town that looked…

Venue: Centralni stadion Bežigrad / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 12.09.2003Attendance: 35Ticket price: 4000 SIT Believe it or not, autumn cleaning pays off every now and then. While rummaging through my drawers I found a totally…

Location: Budapest (Hungary), SportarenaConcert date: 17.06.2003Attendance: 3500Ticket price: 25,00€ Or, as the 2003 Yes tour is called, "Full Circle". The clock was ticking toward general panic stations, and after a long, lazy feast…

Location: Vienna (Austria), StadthalleConcert date: June 7, 2003Attendance: 5000Ticket price: 45.10€ After two hours holed up in a stinking, hellishly hot dive and a bitter run-in with some revolting pale Bavarian beer (the barkeep…

Venue: Salzburg (Austria), RockhouseConcert date: 03.04.2003Attendance: 650Ticket price: €24.00 (€24.00) I'm at the scene of the action, I no longer know what time it is, or where exactly I am, and in front of me is the…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Orpheum GrazConcert date: 02.04.2003Attendance: 0 For the first time in this hall, we got to see the kind of stage the bigger stars get. No amps or mic stands anywhere, everything was cleared away to give the…

Location: Vienna (Wien) / Planet Music / Austria Date: 22.03.2003 FOR AN ENGLISH VERSION, please scroll down the bar! The old town of our visits, on the perfect day, a Saturday! Late in the afternoon we were the first to burst…

The guitar machine-gunner totally came alive, and at times you honestly think Blackmore is up there on stage. The gestures, the playing... Mastery of the guitar is another story, though. They're not even in the same league.

Location: Munich (Germany), BabylonConcert date: 19.01.2003Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 25,50€ At 20:00 Wolf hit the stage. Swedes. Worshippers of NWOBHM in the old Anglo-Saxon school of Iron Maiden. The image alone says it all:…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Planet Music / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: October 11, 2002Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 25€ An unforgettable day started out pretty miserably. It was rainy and nasty outside, the dark forces had…

"Guess what Dio saved for last? Heaven came next and... hell. Yes!!! "Heaven And Hell", with the stage wrapped in black and a spotlight beaming red light up from below onto Dio's face, so Ronnie looked like the real devil. Ahh, that…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Graz / Orpheum Teater / AustriaConcert date: September 18, 2002Attendance: 1200Ticket price: €35.00 The Austrians Firestorm opened the night. Hmmmm, I had two or three beers in me…

Location: Puntižela (Medulin) - Croatia, Biker's FestivalConcert date: July 27, 2002Attendance: 6,500Ticket price: 150.00 HRK Medulin, Premantura, Pula... Off to the seaside!!! Fantastic!!! How boring the coast would be if you just…

Location: Riolo Terme (Italy), Frogstock FestivalConcert date: 05.07.2002Attendance: 2200 Bellies full, we plopped down in the park in Riolo Terme with a view of the main road that runs through the little town. And right across from us,…

Location: Graz / Orpehum / AustriaConcert date: 15.06.2002Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 30,00€ (please, scroll down the bar for an English version) Our quiet afternoon of lounging around and soaking up the shade of a sprawling…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Graz (Austria), OrpheumConcert date: April 1, 2002Attendance: 1000Ticket price: €30.00 (attention: for an English version, please scroll down the bar) It was one of the few sunny April days we got…

Location: Kaufbeueren (Germany), ZeppelinhalleConcert date: 22.03.2002Attendance: 1500Ticket price: 21,00€ Ten confirmed shows and a tour that sticks almost exclusively to northern Germany: that's been the hallmark of Running Wild…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Terminal 1/Riem/MuenchenConcert date: 28.02.1995Attendance: 2000 Seattle's Queensryche rolled into the Terminal 1 hall at the old Riem airport in Munich. In front of a sold-out room, the musi­cians used…

Author: Jernej Vene Location: Munich/GermanyConcert date: 20.06.1993Attendance: 12 On a pretty chilly evening we made our way to the Olimpijska dvorana to witness a show by the British band Depeche Mode. You obviously know pretty much…

Extreme sound punchy, aggressive and fresh on record, but live you need to multiply that by at least three to get the real picture of what went down in the hall. Bands like that sadly don't exist anymore...