![Short Update Intro](/images/konzert.gif)
Already for a longer period of time I have not posted anything on my website due to personal reasons. Meanwhile I am busy with reworking the remaining events and writing the reviews for them. One after the other the following concerts and other pictures will go online:
![Norway / Sweden Intro](/images/phocagallery/landschaft/2014_06_10_Schweden/Preview/2014_06_10_Schweden_Intro.jpg)
It has been some time that you heard from me but due to my job and house movement the time for preparing photos was very limited. These days I had some time and so at least the pictures from my tour through Norway and Sweden got ready. These I do not want to keep back from you. They are online and you can find them at the "Landscape" section.
![Annihilator Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2013_07_31_Wacken_Open_Air/2013_08_01_Annihilator/Preview/2013_08_01_Annihilator_Intro.jpg)
Also if I made myself scarce on the website, there are some news: I just returned from my concert trip through the Netherlands and the picture from that will soon follow (I was at the record release show of Epica with Insomnium as support act, as well as on the tour concert of the current "Hydra" album of Within Temptation with Delain as opener of the show).
![Straubing Tigers - Krefeld Pinguine Intro](/images/phocagallery/eishockey/2013_12_22_Straubing-KEV/Preview/2013_12_22_Straubing-KEV_Intro.jpg)
Yesterday was the day: this-years party train started towards Straubing with more than 500 participants. There you saw a great game with a 2:4 victory of the Pinguine against their bogey team the Straubing Tigers. Afterwards this victory was celebrated during our way back home together with the team.
![Alice Cooper Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2013_07_31_Wacken_Open_Air/2013_08_03_Alice_Cooper/Preview/2013_08_03_Alice_Cooper_Intro.jpg)
After you have been grilled like a chicken in the burning sun, the last day it one heavy shower of rain went down. Due to that the infield was one big puddle of mud. Anyhow, nobody was in a bad mood because also the last day had great acts like Alice Cooper, Nightwish or Sonata Arctica.
![Staubkind Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2013_10_26_Staubkind_Oberhausen/Preview/2013_10_26_Staubkind_Intro.jpg)
Last weekend a very special concert should take place at the Turbinenhalle at Oberhausen. This you already got aware after you entered the hall fully provided with seats. First the band from Berlin called Staubkind came onto the stage, supported by a cellist and a violinist, to play a wonderful and energetic acoustic set during that not everybody stayed on his seat.
![Eisbrecher Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2013_07_31_Wacken_Open_Air/2013_08_02_Eisbrecher/Preview/2013_08_02_Eisbrecher_Intro.jpg)
On the second official festival day it was not only hot on the stages but in front of them as well. Temperatures of up to 36 degree Celsius among the shades and a cruel sun burning onto the main area that offered no shadow. So you had to pace oneself very carefully and should not drink too much alcohol. A great thankyou to the helpers and paramedics that had to help a lot due to sunburns, sunstrokes, dehydration, etc. during the festival.
![Deep Purple Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2013_07_31_Wacken_Open_Air/2013_08_01_Deep_Purple/Preview/2013_08_01_Deep_Purple_Intro.jpg)
This time it took something much longer then usual but finally I did it and so the first two days (Wednesday and Thursday) are online. Especially on Thursday they really brought the big guns up. With the Canadian trash metal old hands Annihilator there was really something going on at the stage while the reactivated band Thunder took it more easy. With the hard rock heroes of Deep Purple and a bombastic show of Rammtein this evening really got to a "Night To Remember" that earned its reputation.
![Scotland Intro](/images/phocagallery/landschaft/2013_07_11_Schottland/Preview/2012_07_11_Schottland_Intro.jpg)
During July I spent my holidays at Scotland where I first wandered across the West Highland Way from Glasgow to Fort Williams and afterwards via coach and car to Inverness, the Isle of Skye and finally Edinburgh. Some impressions of this tour are now online.
![Testament Intro](/images/phocagallery/konzerte/2012_08_01_Wacken_Open_Air/2012_08_04_Testament/Preview/2012_08_04_Testament_Intro.jpg)
Next Wednesday the largest metal festival in the world will start: Wacken Open Air 2013! No matter what kind of weather there will be (it will be anyhow the usual lottery), everybody will party with well known persons and many new faces. It was until now the fastest sold-out in the Wacken history. Already after the announcement of Rammstein as headliner during last years fall a real run on the tickets started and everybody who received one can call himself a lucky one.