Original Portuguese version here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4545-reportagem-swr-porto-hard-1-dia » SWR Inc. brings us another festival destined to please both Greeks and Trojans. On the first day, the target were classic heavy metal and grindcore lovers. Extremely opposite genres, true, but the line-up seemed … Continue reading
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Original Portuguese version here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4539-reportagem-mr-big-motel-21-hard-club-2011-09-26 » It wasn’t quite 21:30 when the lights went out and, one by one, the four elements of MR. BIG got on stage. “Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy” was the opening theme, with Paul Gilbert and … Continue reading
Original Portuguese version here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4539-reportagem-mr-big-motel-21-hard-club-2011-09-26 » In the afternoon, Hard Club had announced the MR. BIG concert on its Facebook page, finishing with “tickets are still available”. I was left wondering if that was just a marketing strategy or if … Continue reading
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Original Portuguese version here: http://www.backstageforum.com/t4523-20110913-in-flames-noctiferia-hard-club#29491, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) For Joana Gonçalves » For IN FLAMES the house was full. The stage got set quickly, and seeing no more roadies on it, we thought the Swedes would go on … Continue reading
Original Portuguese version here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4523-20110913-in-flames-noctiferia-hard-club, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » Hard Club was yet pretty abandoned when the evening started – not only NOCTIFERIA are little known around here, as FCP played at home and the match was … Continue reading
I’d seen EUROPE in 2008, at Kobeta Sonik festival (Bilbao, ES). It was a great show, but it took place precisely one month after John Norum‘s wife, Michelle Meldrum (R.I.P.), had died. So the fun was somewhat refrained. This year, it was … Continue reading
Yeah, Samantha Fox… She played before EUROPE on this little fest, promoted in order to celebrate a new waterpark in Vila Real, so I had to endure it. I didn’t know she had any more songs besides “Touch Me”, let … Continue reading
Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » To close down the festival’s 3rd edition, the organization chose another kind of legend: old school death metal from America’s MORBID ANGEL. Although their latest work “Illud Divinum Insanus” … Continue reading
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Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » While the giant screens played a slideshow of “Townsendish” satires to several movie posters and famous images, Ziltoid Radio (frequency 93.5) turned the place into a ’90s disco, with … Continue reading
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Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » IHSAHN, the band, is formed by the man with the same name plus LEPROUS, a progressive metal band from the same city, Notodden. “The Barren Lands” kicked off an excellent … Continue reading
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