Festival review
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Festival report: Oelde Open Air – Friday: Annisokay, Any Given Day & Pentastone (22 August 2025)
Aaaand another summer festival, this time a smaller one. Oelde Open Air is a two-day „festival“ in Oelde, Northrhine-Westfalia. I put „festival“ in quotation marks because it’s rather two days of open air concerts, organised by a collective of music fans who really did a great job at putting this together. I only attended one of the two days and here’s how it was.
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Festival report: NEXUS Nerd Rock Festival 2025
This summer was intense in a lot of senses. This includes visiting a few festivals, and one of them stood out in a certain way: this year was the first time the NEXUS took place in its current form. NEXUS is a mix of convention and festival, which makes it somehow unique. I went there this year and here’s how I perceived the first edition of this festival. Spoiler alert: I think it was cool.