We’ll be bringing you the 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs over the next few weeks. As usual, Gustavo Hochman captured the festival for us.Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival, celebrating gothic, Victoriana, steampunk, and related subcultures. The festival happens yearly in Leipzig, Germany.We will return to cover the festival next year.
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Lost in translation. Definitely.
words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro); photos Telma Mota
Temples are a band of dreams. The magic feeling is constant throughout the band’s performance. Atmospherically very rich and diverse in the structure of their songs, they take us to rest in meadows that stretch far as the eye can see. An immensity of nostalgia and divine emotions that, in fact, can only be reached in temples of sound in which music is the supreme divinity.
You almost feel a cool breeze on your skin that gives you goose bumps, a constant throughout the concert. In Move With the Seasons I almost levitated, in The Guesser I dreamt and in Fragment’s Light I almost cried. What more could I ask for?
As the songs flowed, bodies moved to the rhythm of the band’s sound, applause was effusive and appropriate for the marvellous setting. The band felt that the audience was with them and James Bagshaw, the band’s singer, ended up saying that this was thee crowd of the tour. I bet it was.
I dare say that Temples are one of the best bands of the last 20 years, for its originality and musical creativity, and that Sun Structures is a masterpiece of musical art.Outside, the city is perfectly suited to what was experienced and witnessed indoors. Perhaps because its the city of temples. I still feel it all very much alive and present in me. Thank you, James, Tom, Adam and Rens. Don’t make us wait another 10 years for your return to Portugal and, in particular, to Porto.
words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota
The preamble serves to highlight the aesthetic evolution of the band at all levels. Whispering Sons developed well and got a place in their type of European rock.
The band is instrumentally cohesive with a very remarkable and secure well-structured rhythm section. The symbiosis between bass and drums works perfectly. In the melodic section, the guitar delivers sharp, strident and melodic riffs and knows how to respect the silences and dynamics that characterize the songs of Whispering Sons. The keyboards work as a safe network in a nostalgic tone that gives all that fog, at times thick, at times soft, sailing between chilling breezes. Up there, on the trapeze, Fenne Kuppens’ voice, dense, semi-hoarse, deep and disturbing makes the difference and imprints the stamp that characterizes the Belgian quintet.
Whispering Sons’ performance at Hard club presented a growing and coherent setlist starting with Balm, Something Good and Surface, moving on to Walking, Flying and Try Me Again. It was a concert in crescendo that left everyone, myself included, satisfied. The Great Calm, the band’s largest record is to be heard from beginning to end. And it was with a feeling similar to the album title that I set out on my way home.
Hello! My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights is back with new editions. The first one, called The True Love Edition airs Monday 23, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The name of this editon comes from the opening and closing songs, True Love the new song by Jane’s Addiction, and True Love Will Find You In The End by Daniel Johnston. Between them there are fifteen other songs some of which also mention love. As often in my Amazing Songs & Other Delights there is a variety of genres, well known bands and artists along newcomers and hidden gems.
Tracklist:
01: Jane’s Addiction – True Love
02: A 90s new man called Stan – Sushi feat. Adamski
03: Anthony Moore – Earthbound Misfit
04: Black Toska – Three Silver Nails
05: Cosmic Room 99 – E Corp
06: Fernando Triste – Escuro
07: Franz Ferdinand – Audacious
08: Good Sad Happy – Shaded Tree
09: Jonas – Bato À Porta
10: Kingbird – There Were Things That Needed Forgiven
11: Laurie Anderson – Road to Mandalay
12: Primal Scream – Love Insurrection
13: Terry Gross – Sales Pitch
14: The Heavy Heavy – Feel
15: Tindersticks – Always a Stranger
16: Virgem Suta – Amor Ao Avesso
17: Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud/ | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
We conclude our photo view of Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig, 2024 portraited by Gustavo Hochman with the fourth photolog of the series. Links for previous photologs below the photos. We will bring you Wave-Gotik-Treffen again next year.
Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 photolog 1
Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 photolog 2
Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 photolog 3
Here is the third part of our Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 photolog. Links for the other photologs below the photos.
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Second round of Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2024 by Gustavo Hochman lens. Links for previous photologs and other years below the photos.
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As usual we have a photographic overview of Wave-Gotik Treffen, the world’s largest gothic, cybergoth, steampunk and rivethead festival, captured by the lens of Gustavo Hochman. Over the next few weeks we will be showing Gustavo’s amazing photos of this year’s event in four instalments.
Links for following photologs, and other years, below the photos.
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words: Marcos Leal (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Marcos Leal.
Hull band Bdrmm awaited first concert in Porto finally happened. Bdrmm came to download their electric showgaze mantle upon an audience split between a sound delight and happy talk.It was remarkable the way the band was applauded and cherished by the audience, leaving the quarter rather pleased, and, in a way, apparently surprised with such reaction, multiplying thanks you at each song. For about one and a half hour Bdrmm downloaded a stream of songs that satisfied the wishes of their fans, starting with Alps, carrying on with Be Careful.
Then, melodically loud with songs like Gush, Push/Pull, Happy, one of their greatest hits, here almost unrecognisable among a deluge of distortion, until, at, last, arriving at a good Port, um thrilling cheering by from the audience and thanks by Bdrmm.
Gustavo Hochman photographed Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival 2023, in Leipzig, for Mondo Bizarre Magazine. What better time to showcase is amazing photos than the mourning and festive season of Halloween/All Saints Day/Dia de Los Muertos?
You can see more of Gustavo’s photos from Wave-Gotik-Treffen on our Instagram: Instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine over the next few days.
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