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Oh yes. As i wasnt able to spend Christmas or new years with my dear beloved brother, i went shortly afterwards down for a quick and waaaaay too short visit. Had a wonderfull time down there, as always, and as if not mentioned enough: thank you so much! To everybody! It was good to be back in Africa ;-)
But back to this very special event. I arrived abit late as it took me longer then expected to get from the Airport home to G. and then down to the venue and i wasnt even in the big mood for this to be honest. I was so happy just to be there and see him (you) again that we could easily have stayed at home and talked while drinking beer. But of course it was good to take to the venue as i also had agreed with Roger to meet up there in forehand, as he didnt had time the next days. Suprisingly i met alot of familiar faces there. Holger (electrolurch) from Berlin was there too just for the weekend, so it was nice to see him again and talk. I think we havent met since Maschinenfest or maybe even his Festival in Berlin (Information wants to be free, December 2003!). Thomas was there too, also long time no see and so with Diana who is very very nice, Darius, Justus and his girlfriend, Sylvia and hell knows who else. Real cometogether that night!
We just managed to miss Bocksholm, which i was bit of dissapointed of as i really like their albums and as far as i can remember i havent seen them live yet, so i was bit of courise. Coph Nia i had no problems with missing, dont care too much about em. So first time we spend with socializing, grabbing some beers and just waving hello to everybody. I have a strange relation to beer at this place :) but thats just for outsiders (Haha: the "blond idiot" is back in town!).
When Raison d'etre started we went into the "big room" to hear them and managed to get a spot in the middle so we could still see everything. Well, everything is bit overrated.. there was nothing to see. Just fog, a video in the background on the blanket which again was just theoretical visible as there was so much fog. Otherwise there was darkness and in the right corner on a little school table was Mr. Anderson sitting and doing whatever. That again was not really visible.. i got bored of this after some time and as the music was as present outside as inside i went out again to talk to Roger, Holger and Thomas. Okay, it wasnt possible to talk to Roger as he was busy with some goth chick (good to know that some things in life never change :D). So i talked to Holger instead and then also Graeme showed up. I cant really say much about Raison's set as i was not too impressed.. i am not the big fan of them anyways and truely its more interesting to hear them at home as to starre into a big fog cloud inside a smelly club with lots of swiss goths surrounded. But the music was standard dark Ambient stuff. So it was not bad.. but just not good either.

After that Lina Baby Doll went on stage :) I just love Deutsch Nepal and he got me into the mood for the first time that evening, i really enjoyed his songs even thou he had problems (as always) with the technique and the electricity went twice during his show. I wonder how thats possible actually :) but hell, so many things happen when you perfom drunk.. on the otherhand, he was still very available compared to some other shows i have seen with him. But it didnt reached the standarf of the last show i saw with him here in Albertslund playing before Blutharsch. That was one of his best sets i think, talking of sound quality now. Also i finally had some minutes to talk with Roger during the show, so that was a good thing too. Later he dissapeard without saying good bye. Not nice.. but as i got a text message from him later it was fine, i just hoped that we could talk more as it has been such a long time and i really miss my folks up here.

So coming to the highlight of the evening and a couple of beers later, Brighter Death Now entered the stage. Hell, this was really what i needed. I hadnt the big expectations to his show at all to be honest but it was a pure old school power electronics set we got there with a wonderfull live show! And my participation in it was actually without any will.. i just wanted to hand one of them the mic, i dont even know why i got it in my hands.. but.. as they didnt seems to want it back i ended on the stage singing along with Lina. The Coph Nia guy turned up with a new feminin look and also Lina dressed up in a little skirt :) now after i read some reviews of this evening from others, i must say people dont understand this or take em self too serious. I myself had a wonderfull time and a good laugh and i think the same goes for the swedes. Besides that, during the show i met two guys from norway, as he asked me if i am from Denmark hearing that i shouted something in danish up to the stage. Really funny.. so as a present they got a beer shower from Peter Anderson. Maybe its a scandinavian thing that people think we are fanboys? I dont know, i felt that later after the show while sitting backstage we all had a very good and fun talk. This was pretty amusing as i was speaking danish, Lina and Peter swedish and the two others norwegian and somehow we understood eachother. I guess beer helps :)
So this show was really really good, i had so much fun and it was so intense and authentic that it really gave me the hope of back to Power Electronics. This was a real old school set and i dont know how the other shows of them went, but as the audience (at least in front lines) were willing to participate and not just standing there and looking evil, it must have given them also a great feeling of really waking people up. I totally missed this for long time and was very refreshing.
As i got a bit wasted that night, i have no remembrance of when we got home but thankfully does G. live close to the venue so it took us no time to get there.

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