Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Rockwave 2025

 This year release did not interest me so much. So I decided to go to rockwave, although it's much further away, more difficult to get to and as such more time and money consuming. But I couldn't say no. A really crazy ensemble of so different bands.. who the hell thought of that?? Zeal and Ardor, Floor Jansen and Alice Cooper!! 


So I boarded a bus to the festival grounds. There was heavy traffic and we delayed 30 min. I was weeping inside the bus, knowing Zeal and Ardor will already be playing. I managed to see about half the set, basically running from the bus to the festival grounds 😆 I loved their set! I had seen them in Athens before, at a small club gig and it was of course so different. Still I enjoyed it so much, my neck was sore for 2 days from 30 min non stop heavy headbanging 🤣 awesome to have them here and although there weren't so many people yet, still enough fans really into their avant-garde afro black metal 🖤 


Next up was Floor, while it slowly got dark. I was determined to get my 3mile walk Garmin badge that evening so I basically walked around the huge festival grounds in circles, many times again and again, whilst singing and gently headbanging haha! Floor had been in Athens with Nightwish and now it was so awesome to see her again. She is a very remarkable person with a fantastic voice. 


And lastly on the bill, after I got my 3 miles in, Alice Cooper!! I admit I wasn't familiar, except for poison, school's out and bed of nails, but boy, he was just phenomenal!! 77 years old and still as witty, edgy, charming as ever!! Lots of theatrics, costumes, fantastic solos by the band, Nita being the huge star there, and of course great songs. Immediately you wanted to sing along. And during poison the whole malakasa area was just one big party. I'm so happy I went, it was worth every penny and with 50 euro for the ticket and 14 euro for the bus really cheap considering other festival prices in europe. Ate fried cheese with spicy sauce for 4 euro. You can't beat that!! 👍 All in all a truly unforgettable evening.


No concerts planned for now, but I'd like to see yoth iria in September and I have tickets for Metallica next may 😉