re: horizons

So thanks to some crazy busy times I've had little or no time to update this blog

we've had some pretty good shows in the past month (it has been that long)

27.03 - Tomte
03.04 - Richard Julian
08.04 - Poison the Well
18.04 - Out of the Crowd festival (Pivot,God is an astronaut, minnaars and more).

And some pretty good concerts in the months to come, some particular highlights for me as well

The next one being Vessels and Jeniferever on the 1st of may, now while it's not my intent of this blog to plug concerts I feel this one is definately worth it, it'll be one of the first concerts to use the small room which in itself is an event worthy of attention ;) but more importantly Vessels are perhaps one of the best post rock bands I've heard in the last few years, while within the genre a lot of bands use similarly repetitive motions and varying volume crescendos and tend to fall off the map a bit, Vessels combine all the great elements of various post rock bands and add their own little 'je ne sais quoi' on the top of it

Vessels

Best to listen to their latest album, where within around 50 minutes you go between Redneck Manifesto elements to From monument to masses, this will destroy you, Godspeed you black emperor with stabs of electro and some vocal parts

In any case I'm looking forward to that, Jeniferever's latest album also received a lot of great reviews.

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The past month has seen some exclusive shows here, one i'm particularly happy about is bringing Poison the Well to luxembourg, who finally after around 11 years of career have made it to our small country, almost a mythical group within the scene despite all these years and evolution. I saw them way back in 2001, got them to sign a frisbee which still hangs in my room =0


Out of the crowd last weekend had some equally great revelations for me, while the concept remained the same I think the bands to most people were largely unknown but of great quality, in particular Pivot for example (warp records latest signing), Minnaars also brought the popular UK indie/disco pop kind of vibe to the venue, made quite popular by foals/bloc party among others it was nice to hear those kinds of sounds over here.

Each year we tend to have more interest, which given the largely underground and unknown nature of the acts playing is quite encouraging in a country where we're certainly not spoilt for choice in terms of the amount of things going on.

In my position the difficulty remains convincing people of quality alternative so to speak, something which takes time and given the choice out there is not always straight forward but I'm always happy to see new and familiar faces gracing our venue for whatever the show and the Out of the crowd festival is a great example of this, another big thanks to the schalltot collective for keeping up their efforts over the years.


and here's some music to tide you over to the next update:

Pompeii

think death cab vibe with some cursive elements ('false alarm' is a particular favourite of mine) and set to play in the kulturfabrik next season =0


see you soon