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• FESTIVAL BEAT | Salsomaggiore, 20140703

  by Phil July 23, 2014
  This year's Festival Beat in Salsomaggiore was almost as pleasurable as in the best years. The Jackets were doing a great show on Friday night and I think they were the beast of that lineup consisting of the Dukes of Hamburg, Excitements, Kepi Ghoulie, and Standells, New Picadillys and Peawees and s...

• The Teamsters @ Alley Cat, 20140718

  by Phil July 23, 2014
  The Teamsters happened to play at the London's Alley Cat's Deviation Street event last friday 18th July 2014. They opened with "Girl (how could ya)", played all the other three tracks from their excellent debut single, and ended the set with two girls (I don't know the names) singing more hot tunes....

• The Giant Robots - Le Romandie, 20131109

  by Phil November 10, 2013
  Sometimes you wonder and ask yourself, why it might take so long to get someone's greatness. With the Giant Robots I took way too long to get them on my music radar. Lucky for me, that's over now, after having bought their second GREAT LP "Delightfully refreshing" some weeks ago at the infamous Soun...

• SOUNDFLAT RECORDS BALLROOM BASH VOL. 7

  by Phil November 10, 2013
  Truly the most exciting festival this year, even better than festival beat, which is always mega, but might suffer here and there from the poppiness of one or the other band, IMHO. Ballroom Bash is exceptional, in many aspects. This is due mainly to the great bands Marco, Lutz and Co. invited to Col...

• Roy and the Devils Motorcycle & Navel - ISC, 20130117

  by Phil January 18, 2013
  What a harsh night that was... After several moons of relative calmness, with some minor exceptions like the not-so-bad-but-not-so-wild Trashbones gig in Solothurn, I was quite excited to see and hear the Roys here in Bern again. As they were billed together with Navel, one of the very coolest and m...

• Come n' Go & Black Lips, Rote Fabrik

  by Phil July 23, 2012
  A fine evening in Zurich (too rich), who would have thought it? Off course with a lineup like this, you can't go wrong. Switzerland's Come n' Go ripped through their classic hits like in the earlier days. Surely missed Benno (and Straumy in the audience btw), but at the end, the result was close to ...

• Jackets - Heart-beating, indeed.

  by Phil March 30, 2012
  Must've been my 100th Jackets gig, yesterday down the street at Bern's infamous Reitschule. And boy (girl) were they great, again. Make sure you don't miss Jackie, Chris & Schmidi one single time! They will always be ripping through their great original sets! Yeah! And buy their new record, now!
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• Roy and the Devils Motorcycle Touring and Other Early Events 2012 in Switzerland

  by Phil January 8, 2012
  Slightly more relevant for me than some other cool cats' ocean pacific tour events, if thinking locally, will be the following dates of one of the finest combos around here... The Roys are going to play some mindblowing gigs again, I suppose. Go and have a look! Jan 28 2012, ROTE FABRIK, ZURICH, ZH,...

• Black Lips Touring

  by Phil January 8, 2012
  While not exactly on my way home, this should be of interest to you OZ/Kiwi/Thai punksters... Black Lips published some tour dates on January 6th, 2012: 1/28 Bangkok TH Nakarin Theatre 3/1 Coolangatta AU Coolangatta Hotel 3/2 Fortitude Valley AU The Zoo 3/3 Wisemans Ferry AU Playground Weekender 201...