spielwiese. (Posts about eulachhallen.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/place/europe/switzerland/zurich/winterthur/eulachhallen.atom2019-11-17T10:46:51ZfelixNikolabest concerts this year.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/25/best-concerts-this-year/2007-12-25T13:25:15+01:002007-12-25T13:25:15+01:00felix<div><p>i think it’s time to take a look at the list of <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/">concerts</a> i <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-want-to-attend-this-year/">attended</a> this year and to list the best ones. at these two links, you can find a pretty complete list of the concerts i attended. i decided to divide the top list into two categories: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock">prog</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music">metal</a>.</p>
<h4>prog</h4>
<p>for the third place, i cannot decide between three concerts, all which took place in pratteln in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>, namely, first, the <a href="http://www.spocksbeard.com/">spock’s beard</a> gig on the 16.05.2007, second, the <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> & <a href="http://moondawn.ch/">moondawn</a> gig on the 31.05.2007, and, third, the <a href="http://www.the-company.com/">fish</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/28/fish/">gig</a> on the 27.11.2007. all three gigs have been very good. most memorable was probably <i>spock’s beard</i> keyboardist, playing with both hands and feet, while his poor technician had to hold the keyboard construction together so it wouldn’t fall apart.</p>
<p>the <b>second place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.blackfield.org/">blackfield</a> & <a href="http://www.purereasonrevolution.com/">pure reason revolution</a> concert, which took place on the 24.02.2007 in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). i think this was the first concert where i really liked the opener, so much that i bought one of their albums. actually, i had to order it by mail, as the ones they had with them were sold out at the end of their concert (hence, i wasn’t the only one who liked it alot). the main act itself, <i>blackfield</i>, a collaboration between the <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/">porcupine tree</a> frontman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wilson">steven wilson</a> and the israeli rock star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviv_Geffen">aviv geffen</a>, was also really good.</p>
<p>the <b>first place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/home/">porcupine tree</a> & <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/13/anathema-porcupine-tree/">concert</a>, which took place on the 12.11.2007 in zürich (<a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a>). despite several people in the audience didn’t like <i>anathema</i> too much (“too boring”), i was pleased to see them <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/">again</a>. for me, their music expresses simply too many emotions to be boring, eating up energy until bursting into the listener’s ear. the main act, <i>porcupine tree</i>, one of my favorite bands, was as good as i expected them to be. even though they played a lot from the current album, <i>fear of a blank planet</i>, which i don’t like as much as some of the older ones, they also played many classics. unfortunately, they didn’t played <i>arriving somewhere but not here</i>, which i would really loved to listen to. but, besides that, i still think this is the best prog concert i attended this year.</p>
<h4>metal</h4>
<p>again, as before, i cannot decide on someone for the <b>third place</b>, but i have two canidates in mind. the first one is the <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.net/">dream theater</a> & <a href="http://www.symphonyx.com/">symphony x</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/01/dream-theater-and-symphony-x/">concert</a>, which took place on the 31.10.2007 in winterthur (<a href="http://www.eulachhallen.ch/">eulachhallen</a>). the second canidate is the <a href="http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/">apocalyptica</a> & <a href="http://www.sturmunddrang.fi/">sturm und drang</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/10/apocalyptica/">concert</a>, which took place on the 09.11.2007 in zürich (<a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a>). all these bands are really good, and the shows they delivered were so, too, featuring many small details, as neat decoration. but both of these concerts also have their sides. namely, <i>symphony x</i> played way too short (but then, i’ll see them again next february as headliner), the location was strange (the wardrobe was outside), and <i>dream theater</i> could have played longer, too (i heard the rumor that the local organizer fucked this up by not registering the concert with the authorities, which in turn resulted in the police ordering the concert to be ended earlier). at the <i>apocalyptica</i> concert, i didn’t like the opener <i>sturm und drang</i> too much; they played really good and professional, but it simply wasn’t the kind of music which i really like.</p>
<p>the <b>second place</b> is filled by the <a href="http://www.amorphis.net/">amorphis</a>, <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> & <a href="http://www.insomnium.net/">insomnium</a> <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/19/amorphis-swallow-the-sun-insomnium/">concert</a>, which took place at the 18.11.2007 in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). (videos from the concert can be found <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/22/videos-from-last-sundays-concert/">here</a>.) this concert featured three very good finnish bands, one of them, namely <i>swallow the sun</i>, being one of my favorite ones. their shows were good, the selection of songs was, too (i would have loved to hear some more <i>swallow the sun</i> songs, but then, i would probably have only been really pleased if they would have simply played all songs from their three albums, which is slightly unrealistic to expect from a co-headliner). i was headbanging a lot, met some friends, had a lot of fun.</p>
<p>the <b>first place</b> goes to the <a href="http://www.moonsorrow.com/">moonsorrow</a> & <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> concert, which took place at the 09.04.2007 (easter monday) in pratteln (<a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a>). actually, there was a third band playing as an opener, whose name i forgot. this concert was one of the most incluencal concert for me this year, not only as it introduced me to two bands, namely <i>moonsorrow</i> and <i>swallow the sun</i>, which i now count as two of my most favorite bands. besides that, the atmosphere was simply perfect, and so was the audience. i still remember headbanging with eric (a guy i met on this concert and on another one a bit later, who’s also an <i>opeth</i> fan), even though headbanging right next to the mosh pit can be pretty painful…</p></div>dream theater and symphony x.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/11/01/dream-theater-and-symphony-x/2007-11-01T00:28:13+01:002007-11-01T00:28:13+01:00felix<p>i haven’t felt so young on a metal concert for a pretty long time now, as on today’s <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.net/">dream theater</a> show in winterthur. on the outside, i really felt dressed strangely, as the number of metal t-shirts was pretty small and most people looked pretty normal. inside, the situation looked a bit different, probably the metalheads were a bit earlier :-)<br>
another pretty strange thing was that the wardrobe was located 100 m outside from the entrance. that means, you have to give away your jacket, queue up in the line for the entrance and stay there, freezing, just wearing a t-shirt. but at least it was not raining…<br>
well. besides all these strange things, and also besides the insane pricing of the tickets, the concert was great. even though <a href="http://www.symphonyx.com/">symphony x</a> had just around 40 minutes to play. at least, the break for cleaning up the stange was pretty short (around 20 minutes), so one had no chance to fall asleep in between… (i remember some breaks which came near to one hour…) the stage was decorated with giant ant puppets, although i couldn’t see them, too many heads in my way… another gimmick was a traffic light hanging above the stage, which showed red, then turned to yellow when the intro music started, and changed to green when the band began to play.<br>
well. dream theater played for almost two hours and, as usual, produced a really good show. they played a lot from their current album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_Chaos">systematic chaos</a>, some other songs and, as an encore, a long medley, going through different epoches of dream theater.</p>concerts i want to attend this year.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-want-to-attend-this-year/2007-08-13T06:54:57+02:002007-08-13T06:54:57+02:00felix<div><p>here’s a list of concerts i plan to attend during the last four months of this year. if i put a link to a bands’ homepage, this means i’m going to that concert to see this band (and as a side effect, also the non-linked ones).</p>
<ul>
<li>13.09.2007: <a href="http://www.thresh.net/">threshold</a>, communic, machine men and serenity are playing in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (progressive metal);</li>
<li>22.09.2007: fjoergyn, wolfchant, nastrandir und nuclear winter are playing in the <a href="http://www.dynamo.ch/">dynamo</a> in zurich (symphonic black/pagan/viking/death metal);</li>
<li>27.10.2007: <a href="http://www.moonsorrow.com/">moonsorrow</a>, <a href="http://www.korpiklaani.com/">korpiklaani</a>, excelsis and battlelore are playing at the <a href="http://www.rock-rainbow.ch/therockrainbow/index.php?section=calendar&cmd=event&id=31">viking/pagan festival</a> in the <a href="http://www.stadthalle-dietikon.ch/">stadthalle</a> dietikon (folk/pagan metal);</li>
<li>31.10.2007: <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.net/">dream theater</a> and <a href="http://www.symphonyx.com/">symphony x</a> are playing in the <a href="http://www.eulachhallen.ch/">eulachhallen</a> in winterthur (progressive metal);</li>
<li>09.11.2007: <a href="http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/">apocalyptica</a> (with special guest not announced yet) is playing in the <a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a> in zürich (violin metal);</li>
<li>12.11.2007: <a href="http://www.porcupinetree.com/home/">porcupine tree</a> and <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> are playing in the <a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a> in zürich (prog, atmospheric rock with metal influences);</li>
<li>16.11.2007: <a href="http://www.accento.ch/">orchester accento musicale zürich</a> is playing in the <a href="http://www.st-peter-zh.ch/">st. peter</a> in zürich (classic);</li>
<li>17.11.2007: <a href="http://www.boobmusic.ch/">boob</a> is playing in the <a href="http://www.helsinkiklub.ch/">helsinki klub</a> in zürich (alternative/punk rock);</li>
<li>18.11.2007: <a href="http://www.amorphis.net/">amorphis</a>, <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> and insomnium are playing in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (prog metal, doom metal);</li>
<li>27.11.2007: <a href="http://www.the-company.com/">fish</a> is playing in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (progressive rock);</li>
<li>29.11.2007: <s><a href="http://www.helloween.org/">halloween</a>, <a href="http://www.gamma-ray.com/">gamma ray</a> and axxis are playing in the <a href="http://www.stadthalle-dietikon.ch/">stadthalle</a> dietikon (power metal);</s> (skipping that one because of lack of time)</li>
<li>05.12.2007: <a href="http://www.bademeister.com/">die ärzte</a> are playing in the <a href="http://www.hallenstadion.ch/">hallenstadion</a> in oerlikon/zürich (fun punk);</li>
<li>14.12.2007: <a href="http://www.ensiferum.com/">ensiferum</a>, turisas and insania are playing in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (viking metal).</li>
</ul>
<p>unfortunately, i will miss <a href="http://www.finntroll.net/">finntroll</a> playing in the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> on 05.12.2007…</p></div>