Vacation's over

Even if it has been a few hectic weeks it sure has been fun ones also. I actually get tired just by thinking about the schedule. Starting off with visiting my mom in Sandviken for a few days. Got home for a quick repack and off to Metal Magic. Sunday after the Festival we visited Peter's grandma and after that Peter dropped me off at the Malmö station so I could go home and do some laundry while he drove to Uddevalla and Gothenburg to pick up the Exciter shirts and the originals for the cover for the upcoming Void Moon album.
Monday we had a quite calm day, tuesday was rehearsal with both Void Moon and Cult Of The Fox which lasted for about 6 hours in total. Wednesday we left very early for Bang Your Head. After Destruction on the last day of the Festival we drove straight to the Airport to catch the flight to Stockholm and Ac/Dc. Home monday and off for Markus BBQ party. Got home after midnight and started to prepare the food for HOA. I've realized that Pulled Pork is great Festival food. Tuesday morning we picked up Nina at the station, went out to the cat-shelter to meet Lillof and Maddox. Then the final festival shopping, home and pack before the rest of the guys arrived and the Headbangers team was complete. Then the Festival and now straight back to work...  Sure need vacation from my vacation!
But yes, it has been good weeks with many really good gigs. I like that! And Tomorrow Death Angel and Flotsam & Jetsam plays at Sticky Fingers! Gonna be awesome! Both has been great at BYH & HOA!

So it actually feels good to be on a more regular schedule again now. Took the opportunity to start reading a new book. Finished The Dirt before the vacation started and according to the notes on the cover the Kee Marcello book should be even more crazy, hard to believe that though... We'll see!

Cheers
E

Capture the Magic

So, back home again after an amazing weekend in Fredericia and Metal Magic Festival. Peter though took the car and went to Uddevalla to pick up the Exciter Merch (yes, official T-shirts is on the way) and the cover artwork for the coming Void Moon album. I feel a little egoistic for going home instead of going with him but it has been great to stay in the house all alone this afternoon. Have had some time to dig into the vaults of photos as well as checking the ones from MMF...

The Festival started with Maltese Falcon for us, first band we saw. They were great, sounded awesome really but the set... Mainly Black Sabbath and Deep Purple covers. Why? They have enough material of their own, so why play covers? A bit disappointing I think even if I couldn't complain about the music... Still not what I wanted to hear. 
Candlemass kicked ass as always. I do miss Leif of course but they're still great to see and Pär is doing an awesome job with the bass.
Outrage was also very good, they're fun to watch and it was funny to see people walking around with a red dot on their foreheads after the show. The front row got the blessing (or the curse) with the red blood or whatever it was.
Grim Reaper followed and of course, they rocked too. They got a really nice crowd also which hasn't been the case for all Classic Heavy Metal bands at MMF. 
Sigh was the last band we saw of the Friday billing, damn cool and I regret a bit that I didn't listen to them prior to the festival, then it would have been even better.
Saturday was a tough day as we realized it would start early and end late. But it was defenitely worth it to drag out of bed and go and see Wasted who opened the last day. So much fun to watch, so great energy. 
Terminus sounded amazing as always! The best thing this time was that they rocked harder than last time I saw them. 
Atlantean Kodex is always good but it's strange to see them with a rather sparse crowd since the response they got at KIT and UTH was really crazy. But it was good anyway.
The festival ended with Girldschool. The atmosphere was great, people were charged to see them and for sure that helped. But these ladies know how to rock and they still perform with a lot of energy and dedication. So a really fantastic ending of a great weekend...

 

MALTESE FALCON

 

 

CANDLEMASS

 

GRIM REAPER

 

WASTED

 

TERMINUS

GIRLSCHOOL 

Then I've started to go through some of my B&W negatives, I can scan them but it don't turn out very good. Some pics look ok but in most cases they come out rather milky after the scan. Had some troubles finding software that could handle it since the regular windows scan didn't manage it at all. But I think I need more practice and learn the program a bit before I give up... I would like to set up a dark-room somewhere but I doubt I would use it very much. We'll see, perhaps a project for the future. 

Anyway, the first try was with the Vicious Rumors film from Dynamo Warm-up 1994... Never seen pictures since they only got to the negative album... Quality is not so good but at least it's a bit fun!

So I guess I have an hour or tow more to kill before Peter comes home after his extra roadtrip today! What to do, what to do?

Cheers
E

NP: WASTED - Halloween...The Night of