Friday, August 18, 2006

Summer Darkness, gothic festival in Utrecht

This post relates to my experiences at Summer Darkness.
I saw many bands/acts, talked to various people, was unsuccesful at picking up ANY chicks..
Dammit, i'm repulsive even to goth-chicks! This is unbelievable..really.
However, the four days of raving and watching bands was a memorable time in Utrecht.
Some of the bands i saw: Bauhaus, VNV Nation, Combichrist, Grendel, Welle:Erdball, Frozen Plasma, Front Line Assembly(CANADIANS!!!), Soman, FabrikC, Clan of Xymox, Moonspell.
I also managed to have a nice chat with the singer of Birthday Massacre, another Canadian band there... Funny enough, she grew up in St.Catherines.. small world.

Other than that, people dressed in latex, bondage clothing, elaborate dresses and the nicest corsets you can imagine. Good stuff...always something pretty to look at there. :)
Heres a few pics, the rest can be found in a subfolder on my Photobucket account.
This is Bauhaus.

And these are some crazy Germans I met. She was hot and totally open to suggestion. If it wasn't for the dude throwing a hissy-fit, they probably wouldn't have gone home then I would have had a very enjoyable night...Grazy Germans..

Photobucket Account: Click on Summer Darkness Subfolder

Heres a link to a Dutch online journal (VPRO 3VOOR12) and its report on Summer Darkness. Its in Dutch but each article has photos and their quality is substantially higher than mine...duh.

Ok screw the link, it doesn't work for some idiotic reason beyond my education. Just search for "3voor12.vpro.nl/utrecht" on Google and it should be the only result. That will take you to a page where you can find several articles that link you to the Dossier on Summer Darkness, on that site. Enjoy.

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