This festival is worth to see and it´s almost free to visit. You just have to donate at least 30€ and reserve your camping place and you get the light version of Roadburn-Festival on the meadow.
In my age you survived as a musician and music consumer around two rebirths of 70´s rock; it was called Grunge in the 90´s or Stoner in nowadays. In between there was a lot of non-listenable music like Alternative Rock, Noise Rock, Americana and so on. All of them styles had their "Ace of Spades"-Moment in a song or in one record. And if you remind yourself you will find 10 or 20 songs to benchmark them. If this goes in a flow and without planning you will worship this album. Ze Germans...
A festival a bit aside of the usual suspects which will perform at the more mainstream oriented festivals. If you check out the ticket page of this venue, maybe you also will buy some tickets for the mighty Dätscha Mandala who will perform the 23rd of march.
I'm actually always skeptical when I listen to songs that last longer than 3-5 minutes. Somehow the intro lasts 1 minute, then the main riff plays for a minute, then either Cookie Monster bawls, an elf wails, or the vocals are distorted to infinity or mixed into the background. And after 5 minutes the song trudges towards its end in 8 - 10 minutes without any further ideas. There are also other 8 minutes, such as the pre-released single "Delusion" by the Dortmund band Scorched Oak. Their quite...
Just take a look at this monster of line-up: Blue Moon Festival added The Great Machine to Orange Goblin and Brant Björk. And not to forget The Devil and the Almighty Blues and, and,... It is already a well balanced mix between really heavy rocking bands like Orange Goblin, Godsleep, The Great Machine and Protometal, Psychedelic performed by Hippie Death Cult, Death Metal by Aptera, Doom and Sludge by Ahab.
Andrew Stockdale´s Wolfmother is definitely the biggest reason to get your tickets for this year´s edition. Click on the button below and get the rest of the tickets.