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Concert Review: Equilibrium, Oceans & Scar of the Sun, Musikzentrum Hannover, 28 October 2024
First of all: This concert was actually headlined by Septicflesh, but we left before the headliner, so they’re not included in this little recap of mine. I mostly went there for Oceans and Equilibrium and it was a fairly spontaneous decision to visit this show as well (I went to the same tour in Bochum but I’m not going to review Bochum out of personal reasons, I’ll only upload a photo gallery later) after Oceans released their new album HAPPY. So here’s my little report.
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Concert review: Imminence + Aviana + Allt, Carlswerk Victoria Cologne, 17 October 2024
This was wild. Until recently, I hadn’t listened to Imminence that much. It was mostly because my girlfriend started listening to them more and more that I added them to my playlists as well. When they announced their tour, we were still a little hesitant and wanted to wait for support acts. When the support acts were announced, we were still hesitant, because we didn’t know Aviana and Allt either. It was two things that made us buy tickets in the end: a) seeing Aviana at Free For All and b) seeing the photos and videos by Ilona Gerasymova. So to be honest, I didn’t really know what to expect.…
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Concert review: Illumishade & Seraina Telli, Turock Essen, 28 September 2024
It’s been quiet for a while. I didn’t visit many concerts in summer – two more festivals (MPS Bückeburg & Summer Breeze), but due to some difficulties I didn’t feel much like blogging about them. And since I didn’t feel all to well during the show of Insomnium in Essen last month, I also skipped that one for blogging. So now I’m back with another Illumishade show. Actually the headliner was Visions of Atlantis, but out of multiple reasons I left before the headliner. That means I’ll focus on the opener Seraina Telli and Illumishade as special guest and I won’t say anything about Visions of Atlantis.
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Festival Review: Free for All Festival, Stapelmoor, 20 13 July 2024
Festival number 2 this year – yet another one that took us roughly 2.5 hours of travel, this time towards the north. The main reason we decided to go there were Caliban, who I personally loved a lot at Full Force last year. Another big plus was that Maelføy were part of the line-up and we’d also seen Venues before (as support for Blind Channel), so all in all the line-up didn’t sound too bad given the price. Here’s my little festival report.
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Festival review: Rock for Tolerance Friday – 21 June 2024
Rock for Tolerance was my first festival in 2024. After seeing Oceans twice this year already, I was a bit in an Oceans-phase. When I read that they would headline Rock for Tolerance, which meant a longer set than we’d ever seen of them, and that the festival was only about 2-2.5 hours away, I bought tickets without thinking too much about it. Thankfully I was also allowed to take photos, lots of love to the RfT-staff. However, I only went there on Friday. The line-up on Saturday wasn’t my cup of tea and I felt a little ill anyway, so I really needed to rest and we didn’t go…
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Book review: Sophie Gonzales – The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist
I used to write fanfiction, I used to read fanfiction, I used to love fanfiction. Sophie Gonzales‘ novel The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist does not only scream fanfiction – writing fanfiction is an integral part of the plot. So when I found this book at the bookstore and read the blurb, I had to buy it immediately. I didn’t regret it.
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Book review: F.T. Lukens – Spell Bound
If I haven’t done so before, I hereby declare F.T. Lukens my favourite author of all times. I mean it. They deserve it. I’ve read three out of their four books (and the fourth one is resting in my bookshelf, waiting for its time to shine) and all of them were absolutely stunning and exactly the type of fiction I looooove. If you’re looking for some cozy queer fantasy, F.T. Lukens is your author. And Spell Bound is worth a consideration.
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Book review: Travis Baldree – Legends and Lattes
Sometimes I aimlessly scroll through Amazon’s section of queer romance books to see if there’s anything noteworthy that I haven’t discovered in the book shop yet and that doesn’t scream „SPICE“ loudly and clearly. During one such scrolling sessions, I stumbled across Travis Baldree’s Legends and Lattes and I was intrigued immediately. When I found it in the local bookshop, I bought it – and then it rested for a while in my bookshelf before I finally made a move to read it.
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Concert review: St Aurora (& The Night Flight Orchestra), Tavastia Helsinki, 17 May 2024
This show was probably one of my most awaited shows in the past few years. St Aurora are one of my favourite Spotify discoveries. Their song They All Remember popped up in a Spotify mixtape of my girlfriend in September 2021 and since then, I lost my heart to this band. Players of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty might be familiar with their song Going To Heaven – which is an absolute banger. I was super excited when I found out that they play a support show in Helsinki during the time I would be there for a seminar, which gave me the opportunity to see them live for the very first time. Here’s how it…
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Concert review: I Prevail, Set It Off & Kid Bookie, Mitsubishi Electric Halle Düsseldorf, 11 May 2024
When I saw I Prevail in 2023, I was fairly unimpressed. To be fair, I was there for the support act (Blind Channel), and I got ill before the second show I saw of them. Considering this, I decided to give them a second chance and I got tickets for their tour this year almost as soon as they went on sale. I wasn’t too positive about the show when they announced shortly before the tour started that they would have to do it without Brian. So to be honest, even on the road there I was still almost convinced that the evening wouldn’t go too well. Let’s see if…
