I was really exited to these gigs and when I arrived at the venue to help a little two of the bands waited outside- April from Helsinki (Finland) and Exit Inside from Seesen (Germany). The other two finnish bands were not in sight and arrived later. April were not planned but had a day off on their tour and wanted to play 30 minutes and leave then to their next gig in Berlin so the opened and yes I fell in love, finnish metal ist the best, whatever comes...
Their sound was maybe a bit too much for the small venue but as we all know, metal has to be LOUD! In fact they are pretty good and also melodic! Check them out!

Exit Inside were next and at the first sight you just saw a school band of nice boys but I could not finde the typical school-band sound in their own rock songs. They sound more adult than they look and the singer glistend as a perfect entertainer. He knew how to stimulate a very tame crowd!

The Jade was the unknown quantity to me but I liked their show. Maybe frontman Wille Rosen trys to be a bit too much the Ville Valo but in the end it works. They have a women on the drums what makes them rare in the Rock 'n' Roll world. They play goth-rock or better call it dark-rock that is very typical for finnish bands and that is loved by so many people.

Matthau and his band-mates played at last and it was the first non-acoustic show I saw of this band. Hell yeah, Rock 'n' Roll is still alive and as some fans showed you can dance pogo to Rock 'n' Roll. Yeah why not. Ok the girls close to them were a bit upset but most people had fun watching it, and so had Matti.  You could really feel the joy of the band to start a tour like this, in a small venue with a few but good mooded people in private atmosphere. And we all enjoyed it too.

Berlin was different, not that the shows changed so much but there were a lot more people, more Teen-girls, that were screaming and pushing to the stage. The stage was way too small for The Jade and the atmosphere much hotter blooded. But it was also good, just different. The highlight was when Matthau took place at the drums an his drummer Simo sang Wicked Game... a bit off keyed but funny at all.  A video of it is in our Video section! The after show party satisfied all the fans and it will be hard to top such a tour next year!