Report from the Obscene Extreme festival 2008

(I notice that the Obscene festival has linked directly to this blog, so a few people have actually read this blog post, and some have been offended as well. My main site is www.noposersplease.com where I run a small vinyl distro. Please note this is not a very serious report. It’s just my personal, totally biased, view on being on a festival, where, sometimes, getting a hot dog might be more important than catching that next band. Two people have actually taken the time to comment on my blog post, feel free to voice your opinion as well! See you next year at the Obscene, hopefully!)

Thursday 10. July 2008
Macabre Minstrels

Friday 11. July 2008
12.30 – 12.50 Poppy Seed Grinder
13.00 – 13.20 Rubufaso Mukufo
13.30 – 13.50 Jesus Cröst
14.00 – 14.20 Ass To Mouth
14.30 – 14.50 Keitzer
15.00 – 15.20 Pulmonary Fibrosis
15.30 – 15.55 Fucksaw
16.05 – 16.30 Disturbance Project
16.40 – 17.05 Cerebral Turbulency
17.15 – 17.45 Malignant Tumour
17.55 – 18.30 Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
18.40 – 19.10 Excrementory Grindfuckers
19.20 – 19.50 Mesrine
20.00 – 20.30 Splitter
20.40 – 21.15 Putrid Pile
21.25 – 22.05 Cock and Ball Torture
22.15 – 23.05 Regurgitate
23.15 – 00.05 Agathocles
00.15 – 00.50 Demonical
01.00 – 01.30 Isacaarum
01.40 – 02.00 Speck
02.10 – 02.30 Androphagous
02.40 – 03.00 Sakatat

Saturday 12. July 2008
10.00 – 10.20 Death Toll 80k
10.30 – 10.50 Demented Retarded
11.00 – 11.20 Anal Penetration
11.30 – 11.50 Dr. Doom
12.00 – 12.20 Rectal Smegma
12.30 – 12.50 Pyorrhoea
13.00 – 13.25 Gonorrhoea Pussy
13.35 – 14.00 Namek
14.10 – 14.35 Reth
14.45 – 15.10 Discarga
15.20 – 15.45 Blood I Bleed
15.55 – 16.20 Dead Beyond Buried
16.30 – 16.55 Voetsek
17.05 – 17.30 Bloody Phoenix
17.40 – 18.05 Dead
18.15 – 18.40 Gride
18.50 – 19.15 Benighted
19.25 – 19.55 Entrails Massacre
20.05 – 20.35 Pisschrist
20.45 – 21.15 Le Scrawl
21.25 – 22.20 Impaled Nazarene
22.35 – 23.45 Macabre
23.55 – 00.30 Extreme Noise Terror
00.40 – 01.10 Desecration
01.20 – 01.50 Alehammer
02.00 – 02.30 Abortion
02.40 – 03.00 Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny

Poster

For the first time, this year I got my ass down to what is said to be one of the cosiest outdoor metal festivals, Czech Republic’s own Obscene Extreme. A three day festival held annually in the sleepy town of Trutnov, a couple of hours drive from Prague. Except for the rather crappy vegetarian food inside the festival area (with the occasional sneaking out to the nearest pork chop vendor), I would highly recommend this festival to anyone who’s into grindcore and death metal, if only for the laidback atmosphere, cheap beer, great food (anywhere except the festival area!) and a chance to see the city of Prague or medieval castles in the countryside. Ok, enough tourist talk, now to the bands!

Grind Crusher live in Trondheim report

Grind Crusher, UFFA, Trondheim, Norway, March 4, 2008
Support: Sexy Police, Beg For Fire, Laserguys
http://www.myspace.com/grindcrushernorway
http://www.myspace.com/sexypolicegrind
http://www.myspace.com/begforfire
http://www.myspace.com/laserguys
http://www.uffa.no

 

This weekend I went to Trondheim to play live with my band Grind Crusher (I play the drums in this constellation), and here’s a small report for you to read.   With its population of 152,000, Trondheim is one of only four Norwegian cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants; the others being Oslo (557k), Bergen (246k) and Stavanger (117k). In addition to the welcoming population and their Karsk, or half-and-half coffee and moonshine liquor, the city is also home to the autonomous youth house UFFA. Punk, grind and the occasional metal concert is held there every other week or so, and this weekend it was time for a very brutal Saturday evening with Oslo’s Grind Crusher along with local bands Sexy Police, Beg For Fire and Laserguys.

Bloodshed Fest #8 festival report

 Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 13th, 2007

Running order:

Basement Stage
15:10-15:40 Jesus Crost
16:30-17:00 Dr Doom
17:50-18:20 Blood I Bleed
19:10-19:40 Infected Pussy
20:30-21:00 Nice Idiot
21:50-22:50 Massgrav

Main Stage
14:30-15:00 Rectal Smegma
15:50-16:20 Drugs Of Faith
17:10-17:40 Putrescence
18:30-19:00 Dead Infection
19:50-20:20 Agathocles
21:10-21:40 Malignant Tumour
23:00-0:00 Regurgitate

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is home of the well-known Dynamo scene, which has given name to the once huge Dynamo Open Air Festival. The Dynamo is in fact the local metal pub in Eindhoven, located in a basement with a small scene rooming about 150, and a big scene upstairs with room for around 1,000. I guess about 500 people showed up for this great event.