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STDs: Bigger, Better, Harder Stuff That Doesn't Suck Berlin 10_03-16_03

Wednesday 10th March

Driftwood Fairytales, Smile & Burn @ Wild at Heart

Name: Wild at Heart
Street Address: Wiener Str. 20
Additional:
City: Berlin
Postal Code: 10999
Country: Germany
Phone:

Start: 03/10/2010 - 20:00
End: 03/10/2010 - 23:59
 

Driftwood Fairytales (punk, de)

Smile & Burn (pop-punk, de)

@ Wild at Heart

 

This is Der Schöne Jan, Makke, Benis and Mr C, and we are THE DRIFTWOOD FAIRYTALES, Berlin's first All-Fool Band. The four of us played and still play in some other bands but this is rather boring to speak about here. Still you gotta know, that this is an attempt. An attempt to write simple and good music.

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Bigger, Better, Harder Stuff That Doesn't Suck -Praha- 04_03-10_03

STDs: Bigger, Better, Harder Stuff That Doesn't Suck Praha 04_03-10_03

Thursday, 4th March

Antikrist @Institut Francais de Prague

Name: Institut Francais de Prague
Street Address: Štěpánská 35
Additional:
City: Praha
Postal Code: 111 21
Country: Czech Republic
Phone:

Start: 03/04/2010 - 19:00
End: 03/04/2010 - 22:00

Antikrist

@Institut Francais de Prague

Lars von Trier (Dánsko, Německo, Francie, Švédsko, Itálie, Polsko, 2008, 1h44)

Hrají: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

 

In english version, with czech subtitels.

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REYKJAVIK SAYS NO

Icelanders were out on the streets Sunday celebrating the results of a referendum that overwhelmingly rejected the reimbursement of Britain and the Netherlands for savings lost when Icesave collapsed. German commentators say that Iceland is right.

by John Ward

Original article from Der Spiegel

Photo DPA.

 

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OCEAN VS DAUGHTER @ Palác Akropolis 12_03

Ocean vs Daughter

an informal chat with Flanna Sheridan

by Antonio Baroni

When you hear Flanna Sheridan's sweet and velvety voice opposed to the waterfall of vigorous piano-raindrops and the colourful, warm and thunderous violin and cello flows, suddenly the mysterious name of the band makes sense: their music is like a wide expanse of water that can be sometimes quiet and sometimes stormy, nevertheless the sound is always clean, defined, and it's not hard to imagine Flanna as one of the Nereids, the nymphs that accompanied Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.

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The Other Side of Tolerance (or, why people tolerate a pseudo-dictator)

Is Italy, post the fall of the Roman Empire, passing through its second period of decadence? Who knows? What everybody does know is that Silvio Berlusconi has provoked a lot of different reactions in public opinion, both in Italy and abroad...

By Antonio Baroni

Photo by Wenn

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"HEY, I'M TALKING HERE"

An attempted Henry Rollins interview

(by Marika)

I had been warned several years ago about the sharp bladed temperament wielded when conducting an interview with Henry Rollins, and they were so right. The truth of their warning hit me like an involuntary ice-cold bath.  In the seven years this writer has been holding interviews, never once have I been told to shut up or be quiet and listen, just listen. I could go to a lecture for that.

It was this moment that I realized the warning I had not heeded was more than correct – it was devastating…for days, hearing Henry Rollins’ voice in my ears shut me down, “Hey! I’m talking here!”

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