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Review and photos from Amphi festival, day 2, July 25, 2010.

http://darkwave.ro/2010/08/11/amphi-festival-2010-review-day-2/

Review and photos from Amphi festival, day 1, July 24, 2010.

http://darkwave.ro/2010/08/10/amphi-festival-2010-review-day-1/.

Review and photos from E-TROPOLIS FESTIVAL, Berlin, June 26 on Darkwave.ro by Viva Music, Romania.

Lineup: PATENBRIGADE:WOLFF, KMFDM, SHE’S ALL THAT, LEÆTHER STRIP, CYBORG ATTACK, DAF, MERGEL KRATZER, FEINDFLUG, MIND.IN.A.BOX, COMBICHRIST, XOTOX, COVENANT, HOCICO, ANDYK

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In 2009, I saw Depeche Mode live in Israel, Italy, Hungary, Spain (two shows). I also had tickets for Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal, but the shows were cancelled due to Dave Gahan’s illness. Still, the trip to Porto was good fun!

I also went to two major Gothic festivals in Germany:

WGT, with 192 artists on the lineup. My review was posted on Darkwave.ro and

Blackfield, with 20 bands on the lineup. My review was also posted on Darkwave.ro.

2010 started well for me: on January 9, I saw Depeche Mode in Berlin, and on January 23, I saw them (again!) in Antwerp. The Belgian Depeche Mode experience was a real adventure that I will never forget! The fake tickets that I paid 500 euro for, Peddy the angel from heaven who helped us get in, the last metro, Andreea, me crying like a baby listening to Walking in My Shoes…it all seems like a detective story with a lot of suspense, and in the end the villain and the detective are a couple and they live happily ever after.

On May 8, I saw In Strict Confidence and Rabia Sorda in Prague at the Abaton electro festival. My review here.

On June 26, I am attending E-tropolis, an excellent indoor festival at Columbiahalle in Berlin, Germany (thank God it is indoors as the weather hasn’t been very friendly lately, and, hey, what’s a Gothic girl with drooling makeup . The lineup of the E-tropolis festival is impressive and compact. I expect to see 13 exquisite performances and take lots of pics! Next, Amphi festival! A new post on my blog will be dedicated to Amphi.

Until then, stay tuned to good music, and check Vivi‘s last.fm and blip.fm profiles!

I am writing this post having 3 things in mind:

1. One should never postpone sharing with other people things they find interesting/beautiful/funny/worth speding time on, etc so I am writing again about my favorite music.

2. I strongly believe that the electro/dark/Gothic scene will grow, attracting more people who are sick of the commercial music so strongly promoted these days. See my post “I wonder if my grandchildren will be listening to Depeche Mode or Beyonce…” on the same subject.

3. All music lovers should go to at least one Gothic Festival in a life time. If not absolutely fantastic in every way, it offers another totally different view on both music and fashion.

In 2009 I went to Leipzig to the Wave Gotik Treffen Festival, the largest and by far the most popular Gothic event of the year. It gathered 20,000 fans of the dark scene last year. According to the first organizer of this festival, the first edition had 200 visitors and it grew very quickly. Over 160 bands, tens of locations all around Leipzig, great performances and good fun. A review here. Link to photo gallery here.

I also went to the Blackfield Festival and I enjoyed it even more as the lineup was made up of bands I really like. It gathered 5000+ people and it was absolutely impeccably organized. The location is perfect both for taking pics and enjoying nature at the same time. Take a look at the pics I took, and read my review if want to find out more about German festivals!

In 2010 am going to Amphi Festival. The people who know my taste in music will quickly guess why I am so thrilled! This is the lineup…

Here is a list of the most popular festivals I know:

WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN – Germany

MER’A LUNA – Germany

BLACKFIELD FESTIVAL – Germany

AMPHI FESTIVAL – Germany

CASTLE PARTY – Poland

FESTIVAL KINETIK – Canada