| wave gothic festival leipzig 2010 |
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| Written by i j |
| Saturday, 27 February 2010 12:34 |
Its 10:20 of the 27th February and in only 82 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes it Will Start the…
Update 10-05-2010 new bands confirmed!
Update 10-5-2010: New bands confirmed!
I suppose this is going to be the last update on bands that attend to the wave Treffen festival… ¡¡It’s almost here!! In only 10 days it will be here…
If you want to check the new additions just check the list below, the bands are shorted by countries and you will find new additions in bold.
Update 7-4-2010: New bands confirmed! Some days ago I received a new update in confirmed bands in the WGT 2010, here is the list updated and ordered by countries so it’s easier to read and find a group, since I’m Spanish I placed the Spanish group the first one hope you don’t mind ;). Update 8-3-2010: first bands confirmed Here they go the first list of confirmed bands for WTG 2010, as you can see you Hill find the name and then their nationality… they are so many that i don’t find a easy way to organize them so you can read and find them easily, any idea is welcome.
España:
- Eldar - Los Carniceros Del Norte - Nahemah
Francia:
- Alcest - Chrysalide - Jabberwock - Joy/Disaster - Kryptonix - Punish Yourself
Italia:
- Alight - Argine - Ashram - Ataraxia - At the soundawn - Militia - Rose Rovine e Amanti - Sigillum s - The Lovecrave
Reino Unido:
- Alien sex fiend - Andrew Liles - Attrition - Bollock brothers - Chameleonsvox - Colin Potter - world premiere - Demented Are Go - Freya Aswynn & Patrick Leagas - Gene Loves Jezebel - HTRK - Joe Black - Luxury Stranger - Modulate - Satori - S.E.T.I. - Sex Gang Children - Solemn novena - Sol Invictus - The PCP Principle - The Sun And The Moon - Twisted Nerve - voices of masada
Suiza:
- Arcana - Auto Auto - Biomekkanik - Elegant Machinery - Fejd - Morlocks - S.P.O.C.K - Seventh Harmonic - turnbull ac's
Croacia:
- Ashes You Leave - Loell Duinn - Omega Lithium
Alemania:
- Beloved Enemy - Bettina Köster - Bloody, Dead & Sexy - Bury Me Deep - Catastrophe Ballet - Cinderella Effect - Cobra Killer - Diary Of Dreams - Der Fluch - Dr. Mark Benecke - Eisheilig - Endanger - Endless - Fjernlys - Future trail - reunion - Escape With Romeo - Geneviéve Pasquier - Kiew - Lacrimosa - La magra - Liquid Divine - Lola Angst - Long Distance Calling - Lord of the lost - Lyronian - Madre Del Vizio - Mona Mur & EN Esch - Mono No Aware - MS Gentur - My friend skeleton - World premiere, my insanity - Novalis deux - Noyce TM - Nude - Oberer Totpunkt - Orange Sector - Orgonautic - Phallus Dei - Raum41 - Rawkfist - Reaktivate - Richard Ruin & Les Demoniaques - Rotersand - S.I.T.D. - Samsas Traum - Schallfaktor - Schneewittchen - Slave Republic - The grapes of wrath - The Pussybats - The violet tribe - The Vision Bleak - Trial - Violet - Welle:Erdball - X Marks The Pedwalk - exclusive reunion - Zeraphine - Zwielicht
Estados unidos:
- Amber Asylum - Big Boy - Caspian - Christ Vs. Warhol mit Eve Ghost - Conjure One - Diamanda Galas - Faith & The Muse - Genitorturers - Ghoultown - Gitane Demone - Jarboe - Koffin Kats - Kommunity FK - Revolution By Night - The Crystelles - The Deep Eynde
Australia:
- Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows
Grecia:
- Decadence
Finlandia:
- Flint Glass - Ghost brigade - Hide & Seek - Insomnium - Poisonblack
Polonia:
- Indukti - job karma
República Checa:
- Lealoo
Portugal:
- Moonspell
Canada:
- The Brains - The Creepshow
Paises bajos:
- Leaether Strip - Svartsot - The Essence - The Legendary Pink Dots - The Wounded
Bélgica:
- The Klinik - This Morn' Omina
Dinamarca:
- Adivarius - Dark Orange - Dark Diamonds - Dead United - Donner Trummel - Filia Irata - Hekate - Nachtwindheim - Nothing End - Omdulö - Pink Turns Blue - Sardh - Sonne Hagal - Tibetrèra - Trittfest - Untoten - Valravn - Veljanov - Vroudenspil - Zwielicht
Santiago de Chile:
- Vigilante
Rusia:
- Ambassador 21
Irlanda:
- Lisa Cuthbert - Brendan Perry
Austria:
- Kitty in a casket - Wûtas
It seems that there is very little official information about 2010 edition of the biggest and probably best gothic festival in the world, in deed we only know for sure that it will take place from 21st may to 24th may.
You can register to the newsletter but they never send anything.
You are free to check the band list, but it’s still empty (and it seems they don’t plan to make anything public until a week before the start of the festival).
They have a link to a selling point for tickets, but they are still not for sale.
They have a contact link but they don’t answer to it…
Yeah, it seems that public relations is not their strong point, but it doesn’t matter, this is a festival that we can’t miss, I have tried to gather some information that hope will make easier for people to join the festival.
All this information it’s “not official” that I have gathered from forums and fan sites to please don’t consider it 100% reliable but it will help making out self a idea of what to expect.
- Whats Treffen Gothic Festival?
Officially WTG is a Goth music festival but sincerely I think that its waaaaaaay more than that, In deed it’s the biggest Goth event in the world, the event gathers, once each year everything that its related with the Goth movement and its culture, that makes it terrible interesting.
In deed I would bet that its possible to go to WTG without steeping a single concert and yet have a complete experience sinking in the Goth ambient, checking the cinema projection, shopping and going to the events not musically related… but hey… that doesn’t mean that if we go we wont go to the concerts of course.
- When will be the 2010 tickets for sale?
It seems they will be on sale sometime on march.
- Is there any kind of map about the festival places?
There exists a map of the 2009 festival and there will be a 2010 map but we don’t expect many changes so you could start checking the old map and still get a clear idea of where are you going to be, you can check the map HERE although its in German.
- It’s alcohol and food cheap?
Food and beer in Germany is cheap, and the festival is located inside the city so it’s possible to use Leipzig locals for buying food and drinks, that mean its possible to eat and get drunk before entering the festival places where this kind of stuff is a little expensive.
It’s not allowed to enter festival locations with outside drinks and it’s not allowed to enter if you are clearly drunk, so try to maintain decorum until you are inside.
- City transport.
WTG ticket allow you to use the city tram for free and that will let you get to most festival points, it seems that there are a few festival locations outside of that transportation system
Here is a video of the medieval area just for breaking a bit the reading.
(Don’t tell me it’s not the gothic paradise on earth…)
Experience says that after every concert public transportation get crowded, some people prefer to have a bicycle for moving through leipzig, Leipzig it’s pretty flat and its possible to move around with a bicycle but its illegal to drive it if you are drunk, and you could get finned if you are catched in doing it.
- how can I get to Leipzig?
The direct approach for getting there is to use Ryan air although it seems that local time flights are not the best in the world, also if you come from a distant place the preferred way to get there is using plane for getting to Berlin and then train from Berlin to Leipzig.
Lot of people visit Berlin in the previous days before going to Leipzig, it’s a great idea to do so, if you like that plan you should check the gothic tourism article that I wrote some months ago HERE.
- Its hard to get a room?
Hotels and the like tends to get completed pretty fast and nowadays it’s probably complicated to get a room, lot of people has their room booked way before having their festival tickets, some people recommend to start looking for room in “the sleepy lion” and “Central Globettroter”.
There exists camping areas and they have a kindergarden at your disposal you can leave your little Goths at good care while getting lost in the festival.
- how the hell do you say “Do you have this corset in size…” in German?
Good news is that mot Germans speak English good enough for understanding you in English so you can just speak in English and they will hand you the correct size for your corset.
- How much money it’s needed in the festival?
Well if you already have a place to sleep and the transportation is paid then living in Germany is cheap.
The cheapest configuration would be to eat fast food and buy drink in supermarkets and such for drinking in wherever you sleep. that could probably be done for 20€/day for each person, but a most realistic number would be 30-40€/day, if you are going to drink a lot and want to get to real restaurants for eating then you could expend 50+ each day without problems.
But, if money is really a problem, then you better don’t come here or you risk of not having money for eating later.
I think those are the most common questions I have read, I only have to say that Leipzig is a Goth paradise, people wont look at you as if you were crazy no matter how are you dressed, they wont evade you, and they wont treat you as if you had a contagious illness, in deed most Leipzig people understood that we are good people and don’t want to harm anyone, hope that spirit expand to other locations soon.
Hope you find that information useful if you were planning to go there.
I’ll keep actualizing this article as I receive more information about the event so stay tuned, If you are planning to go there and want to leave a comment for letting other people know, feel free to do so, maybe you find someone to share the experience with.
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| Last Updated on Monday, 10 May 2010 15:30 |
