Wacken 2011: Meerkats, toilet quiz shows and dolphins in the mosh pit

In my last blog post, Wacken 2011: Every Band I Saw at Wacken, reviewed, I talked about one side of this incredible festival – the shit ton of incredible bands you get to see. Today I’m giving you a run-down of a different sort – the tale of our Wacken 2011 adventures from our arrival [...]

Wacken Open Air 2011: Every Band I saw at Wacken Reviewed

I’ve been putting off writing about Wacken for a few weeks, because trying to articulate the awesomeness of this year’s festival into a series of 500 words posts seemed like such a fruitless endeavor. Instead of just repeating my daily diary (which went something like this: “Dear diary – today, I at sausages for breakfast [...]

Wacken Heavy Metal German Phrasebook

If any of you have ever travelled with those little pocket phrasebooks, you’ll know how useless they are. They never tell you what you really need to know. “Die Kirche ist hinter dem Rathaus”? “Ich möchte einen Pullover kaufen.”? When are you ever going to say this stuff? Since I made a Heavy Metal Norwegian Phrasebook for my last [...]

Metal Mixtape: Wacken 2011

If you’re not at Wacken this week … well, I pity you. But here are some songs I’m probably listening to, and you can listen too, and it will be like you’re here, except without the beer and steak sandwiches and Wacken shenanigans. Blind Guardian – Valhalla This is STILL one of my favorite live [...]

Can’t Blog – Gone to Wacken