Tonight’s real show was started by Xandria. I think they were somewhat surprised of the warm reception, being a support act and all. I for one would have gone to see them solo.
Then, Epica. I think they are still holding on to the throne of best symphonic metal act by far. Their musical mastery is only second to their humility. And Simone is breathtaking. Oh, we also got to jump around to the disco-ified The Phantom Agony again.
The venue’s roof’s actually a fishpond – lacking fish – hence the new name, Aquarium. But not once did we look up while Marge sang.
I know you still remember and I still remember you know.
I don’t wanna lie anymore, it wasn’t you.
But I don’t know you…
Drums – Kristóf Gulyás
Bass – Áron Farkas
Guitar – Dániel Kardos
Saxophone – Dávid Ülkei
Piano & Vocals – Marge
Guest – Mc Zeek
A couple of days short a year later life found me at a God is an Astronaut show once again. A lot has happened in that time but ironically how I felt was very much unchanged.
This has nothing to do with the music, of course. This is how Age of the Fifth Sun sounded:
Mondtam Kockás Abroszéknak, hogy legyen élő főzés, és lett! A baj csak az, hogy a végére mindneki éhes lesz, kaja viszont csak a kamera túloldalán…
Igen, vagyok annyira őrült, hogy egy LEGO készlet összerakását streameltem élőben. Egészen vicces volt; lehet, hogy még lesz ilyen. Ez a lámpaszerelő autó lett a végtermék:
For me the best act of this year’s Sziget Festival was definitely Marina & The Diamonds. On her 2010 tour she covered 3OH!3′s Starstrukk and subsequently offered it as a free download as a little present.
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I went to see Kesh at Zöld Pardon yesterday. Unfortunately only before heading out did I realize that the Sony camera was still on the charger only unplugged from the wall socket: as a result the battery was fully drained. At least I assume that was why it happened. It’s an old device and the battery is not in the best shape anyway.
Anyway, I was only armed with my Nexus S. No luck with that either: the pictures are either blurred or whitewashed and the soundtrack in the video is unusable; only a distorted cacophony of bass and drums. To an extent the Sony’s mic distorts as well, but still handles concerts much better, like when I used it to capture Tides of Time.
Too bad because Kesh is the most popular search keyword here.
Update: My partner-in-crime Anett has an iPhone 4, which admittedly makes a much better concert recording equipment. Check out Mizu live at ZP.
This year the annual ‘convention’ of students of higher education – which translates to an outdoor festival really – was held in the town my parents live in. Not attending was out of the question.
Due to the nature of the event the performers were almost exclusively Hungarian bands, to which I rarely listen. I just went for the company. Regardless, two performances really came as a surprise.
Firstly, following my brother I ended up at Supernem. Their energetic pop-punk-rock music had the audience jump by the second song. This gig also proved that with a bit of luck the Nexus S can take semi-decent photos even in such low-light conditions.
Secondly, locally famous they might be, I haven’t cared much for Quimby before. However, they were pretty amazing live. Thanks to radio stations I knew about two-thirds of the songs but even the rest had something extra to them: a jazz-interlude or megaphone-vocals, etc. One may not like these musicians but it would be silly to question their professionalism.
I couldn’t find one, so I set up a Last.fm event page, post-occurrence.