Unlike Emerald though the music didn’t quite seem to jump up a notch dynamically. There’s a lot of Film soundtrack intro-ing that reminded me of Caro Emerald at Kunst!rasen last year. When Gropper gets going his black hair isn’t the only thing onstage that’s slick. They very cleverly left their instruments on high pitched feedback at the close, thus insuring loud calls for an encore and subsequent eardrum relief.Ĭlassically trained multi-instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper from Mannheim leads ‘Get Well Soon’ and it takes a good 30 minutes to set up all the instruments alone – the whole band seem in fact to be multi-instrumentalists. Not quite my cup of tea live, but the CD ‘Loverboy’ is much rockier in the mold of bands like The Clash. They seemed a bit loud – little did I know what was coming to my eardrums on Saturday though. At one point guitarist Jari Antti seemed to be using a radio aerial as a slide. I was a bit wary after the internet labelled them ‘Doom-Noise Rock‘ but the ear-stoppers remained in my pocket. It is shall we say, a ‘comfortable’ crowd that greets Swiss grunge punk band Navel.
Well it is a Wednesday evening after all, and this evenings bands are interesting, but interesting doesn’t put feet in halls.
What tables on the floor for a Rockpalast? That can only mean one thing – there will be oxygen in the hall this evening, Hurrah!. Let’s head down to the bar now, grab a cool lager and a spot near the stage before the cameras start rolling.įULL PICTURE GALLERY HERE ROCKPALAST CROSSROADS FESTIVAL 20 – 23 MARCH 2013 Day 1
What expectations can you have for names like ‘Navel’, ‘The Chuck Norris Experiment’, ‘Flowerpornoes‘ and certainly not least ‘And you will know us by the trail of Dead’? You have no choice but to go into the sweaty cauldron that is Harmonie on Rockpalast Crossroads nights with both eyes and both ears open. Four days, eight bands, and no expectations.
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