Log> Evernight over Europe pt. 2

This one comes from Munich, from behind the Battlelore merchandise booth. The night looks a bit slow, a combination of beautiful weather, long weekend ending, tickets being a bit pricey, and Deathstars & Mortiis playing in the same town tonight. D'oh. But the night is still young, and the Battlelore audience is quite good with their merchandise purchases, so it ain't that bleak.

And speaking of bleak, we just drove (well, Toni did) 700 km from Budapest where the guys played at the Gothica Festival. The gig was good (although again at the same time with Mortiis which deducted from the audience - I wish I was making the terms for BL's tour contracts...) and the festival itself quite interesting. The whole gothic scene in itself is a bit of a joke to my thinking - and I can say that, having donned a long black leather jacket with Sisters of Mercy paraphernalia during a more misery-ridden period of my youth. It can be fun, provided that most of your daily existence revolves around being bullied, trying to balance off your anti-socialness on MySpace and brooding in your room with herbal tea and two cats named Lilith and Bela Lugosi. You get the point. Now, I don't know if that holds in the Easter Bloc, but at the Gothica Festival everyone was bloody gorgeous. We ended the night by getting ushered out from the backstage area, decorating Mortiis's bus in proper Wappu attire and running naked around the Budapest City Park.

The gig is slowly getting better as I'm typing this, the second support act being really good. Quite regular but solid heavy rock mixed with prog and new metal influences, and the female vocalist duo makes it so much more interesting. Christ, I think the week spent in bus is starting to show through... Well, anyway, here's Concept Chaos. Good fit, at least Maike (other female lead) seems to dig Amorphis and Ensiferum, both from Finland too.

Alright, have to get ready for the changeover. Tomorrow it's Kontanz, and then a free day since the Milan gig got cancelled. Boo. But yes, we need a laundry day soon.