live review

What is better on a Saturday night than watching a rock'n'roll show? This was the thought of all the rock fans who came together in De Boerderij in Zoetermeer to see Vengeance. But before the Dutch hardrock veterans entered the stage it was time for the...

Trans-Siberian-Orchestra (TSO) is back in Europe and also back in Holland. Yes! It was in March 2011 when TSO visited Amsterdam for the first time. Now, almost three years later, they are back. The audience of the show was very mixed. There were the oldschool...

It was a special night in Utrecht on December 5th. First of sll it was Sintaklaas, the Dutch version of Santa Claus, which has almost the same importance in Holland than Christmas Eve. And secondly one of the heaviest storms in the last 10 years caused...

Wisdom Of Crowds is the band project from Bruce Soord from The Pineapple Thief and Jonas Renske of Katatonia. They released th first album with the same title a few months ago and now they are on tour through Europe. It's not a big tour, just a few concerts...

Who has thought about seeing Black Sabbath in almost the original line-up on stage again? This was honestly beyond my imagination. But after the band released earlier this year the fantastic "13" album there was hope. And they are back - with Ozzy, Tony...

Volbeat is back in town. Amazing to see the rise of the band in the last years. I can remember when they played their first small club show in Holland, when they played Tilburg a few years later and the Heineken Music Hall. Now it was the time to go for...

A rainy, grey and cold November evening in Amsterdam. So a good day for having a hot rock show. That was almost the scenario on November 19th when Ugly Kid Joe and Skid Row played at the Melkweg in Holland’s biggest city. As opener “Dead City Ruins” joined...

This was one of the craziest shows I have seen - and the one with the smallest amount of visitors I have seen. The Baroeg in Rotterdam is not too big, but I think it wasn't more than 30 people who found their way to the venue tonight. This has most probably...

It was a quite nice and sunny November day in Köln, Germany when End Of Green played their show in the Undergound, a small club in city of Karneval. Support for this show, as already for some other shows earlier on this tour was Undertow. So it was a...

I was almost 23 years ago, when I have seen Queensryche for the first time live. This was in the good ol' Gorky Park in Senden, Germany and it was the "Building empires" tour. I still can remember that it was a great show. And at that time the band had...

It was a special night in Giengen, Germany on October 5. Stormwitch invited to a tribute show to honour Harald Spengler, also known as Lee Tarot. Harald was from the very beginning one of the two guitarists of The Masters Of Black Romantic and he was...

It was a strange night in the Boerderij that evening. To my surprise the venue was only half filled. Maybe this had to do with the fact that it was a Sunday evening, but however – it was surprising. The second weird thing were the silent breaks between...

The last time I have seen Soundgarden was in 1994 in Ludwigsburg, Germany on the “Superunkown-tour”. I have this concert as one of the really good ones in mind and I was not sure what I had to expect 19 years later from the band. The latest release “King...

After three years of touring with the “Relentless retribution” album the band played the final show for supporting th is album on Sunday August 11 in the Baroeg in Rotterdam. The timing for the gig was a little bit unusual since it took place on a summerly...