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HateSphere China Blog Part 3 - ´The trouble starts´
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Just got back to the hotel after a crazy taxi ride.
It seems like the traffic here is totally out of control.
We have been hanging out quit a bit with the boys from "Rock Hard Power Spray" these days.
Nice guys who knows how to throw a party.
Well, I will turn back time to the 2nd of May, the day of our second show in Beijing:
We went to the venue, and ends up waiting for the local crew to set up the gear.
We meet up with EL CACO, which are a very good band from Norway, also taking part of the show that night.
Communication is hard with the local crew, because of the language barrier, so everything takes longer.
Mads, our soundguy , is about to loose it several times ? which we of course find very funny.
The Painkiller and the Schecter guys, who are sponsoring the tour, are the coolest guys.
They are really there for us when it is needed. Yang and Freddy (the baddest motherfucker in Beijing), speaks English, so they can translate for us.
We finish our soundcheck, and go eat with Yang and his girlfriend Wendy.
Then the trouble starts.
There are 2 local support bands and then EL CACO, before we go on stage.
Right before the first band enters the stage, a guy from the Chinese Culture Department shows up, and tells the organizers that the show have to stop at 12. Not 1 minute later!
And since everything is already delayed, we are fucked. If we are lucky we can play 25 minutes, which pretty much suck.
There are long and loud discussions in Chinese, and we try to shorten down the playing time of the local supports and bla bla...
The last Chinese support decides to keep on playing longer and all kind of shit happens.
The club is pretty much full now, and EL CACO plays a cool set.
The Danish DJ Duo Kasper Bjørke og Josephine Filip shows up together with HipHopsters Ufo/Yepha and Rock Hard Power Spray. All in a good drunken mood.
We enter the stage and 600 people are going crazy! The first 3 songs are pure mayhem - amazing.
After 8 songs, Freddy comes to me and says that the Cultural Department guy has left the building, and we can play as long as we want.
I was told later that the guy saw how much people was into us, and he was afraid that if we stopped playing too early, the crowd would go berserk.
So we continue our set, and everything is cool.
All the Danish bands, Martin from ROSA and EL CACO go out for dinner and drinks in the night.
A good night.
Jacob
We got on the plane to Beijing - had a safe flight and all. Landed - no problems with the customs - everything went smooth. Met up with our Danish guy, Martin, over here.
Checked in at our hotel and had a rest before we went out for dinner and drinks.
1st of May and 1st show: The Midi Festival
Everything seems to be a bit chaotic when we arrive at the festival. And chaos is the main subject over here. More about that later. Time for a soundcheck. Normally it´s pretty fast, but there are issues because of the language. Only 1 person of the crew (out of 100 or so) speaks English. And we don´t speak Chinese. So things are a bit more tricky. But it works out okay, and we play a couple of songs to make sure that everything works fine. Around 300 people are already in front of the stage screaming for more.
There is no real backstage - there is a press tent where we hang out a bit, and talks about todays schedule.
All good so far, but still everything seems a bit chaotic.
We take a walk around the festival area, and get a few beers, and check out the tents with shirts and other stuff.
And then the madness begins: This is no joke. I think we got something like 500 photos taking during the afternoon .With fans that knew who we are - and with people who just wanted to take pictures with those tall, weird looking guys from some other country.
Every 5 minute some guy came to us and said: "Please - take picture?"
So weird to be in that situation the whole day - but fun. Met a lot of fun people.
Later on we got told that people are considering us as being the headliners that day.
Interviews are being made and more photos are being taken.
I already got a bad thing going on in my body - had it from the early morning.
So I am forced to visit the toilet 3 times that afternoon. And it´s no fun being 2 meters tall, and then take a shit in a small closet with a hole in the floor, ha ha - check the pictures and you know what I mean.
Showtime.
Mayhem - that´s all I can say. Never found out how many people that were there.
But somewhere between 15.000 and 20.000. And everybody is into it. Crazy!
After the show we go to this venue called Star Live. Our new buds from Rock Hard Power Spray plays there. We all get drunk, and the rest is a blur. Check the pictures I did and enjoy.
Will be back tomorrow with a report of our second show.
Jacob
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HateSphere China Blog Part 2 - ´China rules!´
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Okay! now I have some sick shit to write about. China rules!
We got on the plane to Beijing - had a safe flight and all. Landed - no problems with the customs - everything went smooth. Met up with our Danish guy, Martin, over here.
Checked in at our hotel and had a rest before we went out for dinner and drinks.
1st of May and 1st show: The Midi Festival
Everything seems to be a bit chaotic when we arrive at the festival. And chaos is the main subject over here. More about that later. Time for a soundcheck. Normally it´s pretty fast, but there are issues because of the language. Only 1 person of the crew (out of 100 or so) speaks English. And we don´t speak Chinese. So things are a bit more tricky. But it works out okay, and we play a couple of songs to make sure that everything works fine. Around 300 people are already in front of the stage screaming for more.
There is no real backstage - there is a press tent where we hang out a bit, and talks about todays schedule.
All good so far, but still everything seems a bit chaotic.
We take a walk around the festival area, and get a few beers, and check out the tents with shirts and other stuff.
And then the madness begins: This is no joke. I think we got something like 500 photos taking during the afternoon .With fans that knew who we are - and with people who just wanted to take pictures with those tall, weird looking guys from some other country.
Every 5 minute some guy came to us and said: "Please - take picture?"
So weird to be in that situation the whole day - but fun. Met a lot of fun people.
Later on we got told that people are considering us as being the headliners that day.
Interviews are being made and more photos are being taken.
I already got a bad thing going on in my body - had it from the early morning.
So I am forced to visit the toilet 3 times that afternoon. And it´s no fun being 2 meters tall, and then take a shit in a small closet with a hole in the floor, ha ha - check the pictures and you know what I mean.
Showtime.
Mayhem - that´s all I can say. Never found out how many people that were there.
But somewhere between 15.000 and 20.000. And everybody is into it. Crazy!
After the show we go to this venue called Star Live. Our new buds from Rock Hard Power Spray plays there. We all get drunk, and the rest is a blur. Check the pictures I did and enjoy.
Will be back tomorrow with a report of our second show.
Jacob
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HateSphere China Blog Part 1 - ´Ready To Go´
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It´s Saturday night - late and very tired.
We had our release party last night, and what a party!
More than 300 people showed up, and all was in a good party mood.
No wonder since there was free beer from 9 to 11. So everybody got pretty wasted.
We showed our new video, "Forever War" to the crowd, and of course played the new album - loud!
And it seems like people enjoyed it. Also had a competition so the clever ones could win the new album.
All in all a good night. .
Earlier on the day we had a signing session in the local guitarshop, which was pretty crowded too.
One lucky guy won a signed Schecter guitar - and he actually had a show himself the very same night, so he was very happy to perform with his new guitar. Yihaaa! .
So my army bag are packed and I´m ready to go to China and rock the fuck out.
Just need to finish up interviews here... China? Don´t know what to expect. Hopefully it´s gonna be a hell of a ride. We are actually the first hard band ever to play 5 shows over there. So it´s metal history, ha ha... We are all so excited about it! I am pretty sure that it´s gonna be something very unique.I will keep you updated as soon as we arrive and have played the first show. .
Our schedule looks something like this:
01.05.2007: Midi Festival, Beijing
(Blog lesen)02.05.2007: The Star Live, Beijing
(Blog lesen)08.05.2007: Zhengzhou
10.05.2007: Xi-an
12.05.2007: Shenyang, afternoon show
I´ll be back
Cheers
Jacob
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Interview"Nightfall Over Hamburg" soll DIE Metalparty in der Hansestadt werden. Klär´ uns doch mal über Sinn und Zweck auf, stell´ uns das Projekt doch mal vor und berichte von der Geschichte.
Naja, die Idee, dass in Hamburg eine reine Metalparty fehlt, ist weder neu, noch ist sie von mir, ich habe sie lediglich zum Anlass genommen, daran was zu ändern und mal eine zu veranstalten. Es gibt hier zwar sehr viele gute Konzerte, aber nichts wo man mal eine breite Mischung an Metal aus der Konserve bekommt. Das soll in Grunde genommen der Anspruch des Projektes "Nightfall" sein - aus den verschiedenen Metalrichtungen (Death, Black, Pagan, Gothic, Thrash,usw.) für jeden etwas anzubieten, auf das sich alle Metaller einigen können.
Eigentlich war es auch ein ähnlicher Anspruch, der mich dazu gebracht hat, vor ziemlich exakt vier Jahren die "Best of both Worlds" in Münster ins Leben zu rufen. Da allerdings gab es schon eine reine Metal-Party, und auch mehrere Gothic-Veranstaltungen, allerdings nichts, was beide "Szenen" zusammenbringen konnte. Nach anfänglicher Skepsis, ob das klappen kann, hat die wachsende Publikumsresonanz bewiesen, dass sich Metal und Gothic durchaus nicht unvereinbar gegenüberstehen. Diese positiven Erfahrungen haben mich letztlich dazu gebracht, Ähnliches für das gesamte Metal-Spektrum in Hamburg auch zu versuchen. Spannend wird nur, ob es gelingen wird, Hamburgs Metaller, die gelegentlich als etwas partyfaul bezeichnet werden, am 18.Mai ins Fundbureau zu locken. Wenn das gelingt, ist eine Fortsetzung des Experiments "Nightfall" sehr wahrscheinlich?
Wer steht hinter dem Projekt?
Als DJs sind bei der Nightfall ausschließlich Leute an den Reglern, die diesen Job als reines non-profit Hobby betrachten. Neben mir sind mit Marc, ein alter Münsteraner Kollege von der "Best of both Worlds"-Party, und Peer von Schwarzlichtradio noch zwei weitere Teilzeit-DJs dabei.
Was erhoffst du dir von Premiere in Hamburg? Und warum im Fundbureau?
Eigentlich habe ich keine besonderen Erwartungen an die Party. Ich würde mir allerdings eine große Publikumsresonanz als Bestätigung für meine Partyidee wünschen. Zumindest war die Resonanz beim Bewerben der Party in den letzten Tagen sehr positiv! Auch die Wahl der Location scheint da gut anzukommen. Zum einen war es mir wichtig, zentral in Hamburg zu bleiben, damit alle Besucher gut hin und auch wieder weg kommen. Eine Anreise zu einer Metalveranstaltung mit dem PKW ist ja schon ein Widerspruch in sich! Zur Holstenstraße kommt nun jeder bequem mit der S-Bahn und kann so gefahrlos die ein oder andere Gerstenkaltschale genießen. Weiterhin sind die Konditionen in Fundbureau recht fair, sodass der Eintritt von 4 Euro in einem erträglichen Rahmen bleiben konnte.
Was erwartet die Zuschauer?
Wie schon gesagt - ein Querschnitt durch den gesamten Metalbereich - vielleicht etwas zu vergleichen mit einem Festival. Und hoffentlich ist für jeden was dabei. Ansonsten stehen drei Djs zur Wahl, die man mit individuellen Wünschen "nerven" kann? Eher weniger berücksichtigen wollen wir allerdings Nu-Metal sowie Hardrock. Es soll eben schon "echter" Metal sein?
Was planst du in der Zukunft? Wollt ihr eure Aktivitäten auch auf den Live-Sektor ausdehnen?
Gute Frage! Ganz sicher nicht machen wollen wir Konzertveranstaltungen - da gibt´s schon genug andere Leute, die das besser können! Eigentlich wären wir wohl alle zufrieden, wenn man "Nightfall" einfach nur in Hamburgs Partykalender etablieren könnte.
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