Monthly Archives november 2010

Helvation festival 2010

A first edition of a very successful festival took place on the days of 12th and 13th of November, 2010 in Helsinki at the venue called Dante’s Highlight. It is a venue that regularly hosts smaller sized concerts, having a capacity of about 650 people (including top floor/balcony) as far as I understood. Plus, downstairs there is a separate bar that opens before the venue hours and where eventually you can grab some food or maybe some of the drinks that are not available at the venue. But the most important ingredient for the success of the event was the crowd in my opinion. It totally rocked. Almost every band had at least few enthusiasts in front of the stage, while the headliners had half of the audience singing along and screaming their name...

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Stan Bush: Dream the Dream

Frontiers/BAM

STAN BUSH har varit med länge, detta är faktiskt skiva nummer elva. Låtskrivare som Bobby Barth (AXE, BLACKFOOT), Curt Como (KISS, EDDIE MONEY), samt Holger Fath, som även producerar och spelar gitarr, har bidragit. Övriga på skivan är Matt Laug, trummor (ALICE COOPER, ANASTACIA, RICHARD MARX etc.), och Matt Bissonette, bas (DAVID LEE ROTH, RICK SPRINGFIELD etc.). Nu ska väl rutin och musikalitet flöda?

”Yeah-yeah” modell BRYAN ADAMS glansdagar öppnar inledande ”Never Hold Back”. Positiv och optimistisk högkvalitativ AOR med touch av senare TRIUMPH är det första jag kommer att tänka på. Produktionen känns klockren dessutom. Holger Faths keyboardslingor är så väl avvägda, inget i ljudbilden är en slump...

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