5:45PM — Friday — Hotel Mercure, Tilburg Well, there was some sleep to be had, but not much. I got to bed at around three and gave up trying at nine this morning, after nodding off and waking up, putting on headphones to try that, pillow over the head and the rest. I’m notoriously a […]
I’ve “elected” not to shoot my own video this year, both to concentrate on live photos and because the camera I have with me can’t handle the volume. As such, mi amigo the Drunken Monkey has been handling video captures, and he posted this Acid King clip late last night. Live at Roadburn 2011. Hope […]
2:00AM — Thursday night/Friday morning — Hotel Mercure, Tilburg It’s late now. I did indeed get that much-needed cup of coffee, and it’s probably what let me make it to the end of Godflesh‘s epic set, which was a full hour and a half and featured the whole Streetcleaner album and then some — as […]
8:41PM – Thursday – Hotel Mercure, Tilburg A little bit ago, I watched Wovenhand lay waste to both the crowd and every other band I’ve seen today. Seriously. Heaviest Roadburn set so far was Wovenhand. David Eugene Edwards put more passion into the song “Your Russia” than I’ve put into anything in my entire life. […]
10:54AM – Thursday – On Train Out of Schiphol Airport Train full of weirdos headed to Eindhoven, I must be in the right place. I could walk car by car right now and tell you who’s going to transfer at Den Bosch. The doom uniform (doomiform? Nah) is easy to pick out of a crowd, […]
11:08PM/4:08AM – Over the Atlantic – Wednesday into Thursday I’m running on borrowed time, and by that I don’t mean the Boeing 777 in which I’m seated has depressurized and is about to crash into the ocean (the What About Bob? principal: if I say it, it won’t happen). I mean batteries. The laptop’s on […]
04.20.18 – 11:25PM CET – Friday night – Hotel Mercure Rm. 224 You know what I did this afternoon before the show started? I slept. For about an hour. It was fucking crazy. A post-‘zine, pre-Roadburn-day-two nap. I’m not sure I can convey to you the novelty of such a thing. With a 3:10PM start […]
I know that Hexvessel‘s return to Roadburn and Skepticism playing a fan-picked set of favorites from out of their groundbreaking catalog are probably more likely to grab the headlines, and I get it. I saw Hexvessel there in 2012 and it’s still a pleasant memory, and the thought of hearing Skepticism play something from Stormcrowfleet is enough to get the doomer in […]
