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June 2011
The following three days are from Siesta Festival 2011 Her Bright Skies - This was the great screamo-day. These guys we're somewhat different than the genre-standard end featured some Iron Maiden-styl
Bullet - These guys remind me of Steel Panther, BUT the seem to be doing it without a sense of humour and they were kind of crappy musicians. Sounded much like Accept but in a cover-band, not really d
Kadawatha - I liked these guys! Dramatic and melodic withgreat songs. Heavy guitars and emotional lyrics. Could have used some variety though. The songs all sounded the same. But it was a good song.
Asking Alexandria - Screamo/post-metalcore blablabala. Boooring. They couldn't play in-time either. What does it take to get on the big stages at Siesta?
MusikFall - The kind of happy partymusic with ska-drums that all swedes seem to enjoy, especially students. Need I state that it makes me want to through up?
Plain white t's - Famous for the smash-hit "hey there Delilah". I was suprised. The other songs were close to power-pop. Crappy lyrics (one two I love you...) but good harmonies and melodies (somethin
August burns red - Grindscreamcore.... They all sound the same. I think a young man said everything that needs to be said: "I was at the gig - it was an amazing moshpit!!". You don't listen to this ki
Ladytron - Kind of cool synthband. Even the drums were triggering drums so there were no "real" instruments. A little boring but a few songs were awesome.
Adept - Last moshpitband of the day. One of the guitarists had just learned the songs. In other words they weren't that hard. I withstood two bars of a song and left.
The Kooks - Nice guys and a singer that looks like John Macnroe and sings like Bono. Popish but without the melodies. No good songs at all but everyone seemed to know the lyrics. I'm sorry for the you
Hercules and love-affair - Amazing!! I love disco! They should get a live-band though. Do you really need two guys to push "play" on a computer? I'm going to start a disco-band of my own :)
The Ark - Last summer they sucked ass. This is their so called last tour. (Does ANYONE believe in that???) It seemed to do them good to think about that it was finally ending because they were in good
Dundertåget - Fat 70s rocknroll in swedish. Not really my cup of tea. Very talented musicians though and great guitarsolos :)
This is head - Won the swedish grammy for best pop. POP?!! How can anyone define this as pop? Jazzy alternative odd music. They should sing more and cut down on the long improvised parts. It didn't af
Amy's Ashes - Lame AOR with a singer that competed in a talent-show on tv some years ago. He seemed to be blind because ha was constantly screaming "Come on everybody!!". Everybody were the people in
Slagsmålsklubben - Very entertaining computergamemusic. Thankfully they had most of it pre-recorded. They didn't spend that much time playing their instruments. That's OK if you put on a show and it'
Me and my army - Swedish technostar Kleerup joined by members of Timo Räisänens band. It was some boring country-music and Kleerup isn't that good of a singer. Looking forward to another Timo-tour.
Sahara hotnights - The best SH gig I've ever been to. They still haven't got any great songs but this time they seemed happier and talked to the audience. THAT I liked a lot!
Hundhuvet - I was doing anything to avoid Oskar Linnros so I watched these guys trying to play pop. The singer was hooooorrible. That took all of my attention so I can't really tell if they had any go
The Sounds - Great band, great songs, great show. If only they would smoke a little less onstage. I'd love to play bass in this band. You just hammer out the root of the chords. No basslines ever! Won
Radio Luxemburg - Nice popband with some very promising songs. Hope to see them soon again.
Siesta by night. The beauty of early summer in Sweden.
Håkan Hellström - He was brilliant of course. If you have that many good popsongs you can't go wrong. BUT: 1. Why is he singing in tune all of a sudden??? Isn't his gimmick the out-of-tune singing?
Twin atlantic - Double-bassdrums and two-handed tapping. Metal? No sir it was pop. I was amazed of course! Of only they had had more good songs..
Imperial State Electric - Nicke Andersson only seems to be able to make one kind of music. All his bands sound the same. It's very similar to Kiss but without the show and bombs. Kind of boring in oth
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