Roadburn 2020

Sadly, Roadburn was rescheduled this year due to the damn Covid 19 virus epidemic that is raging through the world and causing untold damage. Anyway, the Roadburn Community has come together in such a cool and interesting way.  A virtual festival group was posted on Facebook, where people wrote as if they were at the festival and Walter threw in small comments about fake events with band members, band managers, etc.. all in good fun and I am sure based on experiences he has had in the past.  They also created Spotify playlists with all the bands that were playing each day.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/636288006951211/

Below is what I had planned to see this year and will perhaps see next year if they can reschedule all of these bands! 

Thursday

15:30            Vile Creature/Bismuth (DOOM)        Main Stage

16:40            Dead Neanderthals (Drone Jazz)        Hall of Fame

17:30            Lingua Ignota (insanity)                                   Main Stage

18:10            Torche                                                          The Terminal (Koepelhal)

Dinner and beers with friends!

21:10            Julie Christmas                                        Main Stage

2315             Russian Circles                                         Main Stage

01.10            Tau and the Drones of Praise              Main Stage

A lot of stuff that I am not into at all going on this day- female pop synth, death metal, black metal, industrial death

Friday

14:30            Johan Parzen- Johnson (Sax-electronics)    Hall of Fame

16:30            Lingua Ignota/Alexsis Marshall (Covers)  The Terminal

17:20            Warhorse (DOOM)                                               Main Stage

(I was really looking forward to this one!)

Dinner

19:30            Kodian Trio (Free Jazz)                                      Hall of Fame

21:30            Alber Jupiter (Space Rock Duo)                      Hall of Fame

22:20            Fooakzoind & Atom TM                                     The Terminal

23:10            Inter Arma (metal)                                            Main Stage

23:40            LSD and the Search for GOD                            The Engine Room

01:00            Blanck Mass (Insane music)                           Main Hall

Saturday

15:30            Jo Quail (cello and voice)                                   Main Stage

17:20            Dungen                                                                    Main Stage

Dinner

18:50            Dommengang (LA R&R)                                                Hall of Fame

21:15            Red Sparrows                                                        Main Hall

21:40            Red Kite                                                       Green Room

22:20            Acid Rooster                                              Hall of Fame

23:20            Oranssi Pazuzu                                         Main Stage

They were going to debut their new album.  Lucky for us on this day they put it up so you could stream it. I heard the entire thing, Wow… I am not into the vocals much but the music was awesome and so powerful and probably the most psychedelic they have made.

Sunday

14:15 Lankum (Irish folk)                                The Terminal

15:50            The Devil’s Trade (solo guitar)           Hall of Fame

17:50            Hillary Woods                                           Green Room

19:00            Earth                                                             Main hall

21:10            Dungen                                                        Main Hall

22:00            Mr Peter Hayden                                      Terminal

23:00 Kungens Män                                            Green Room

 They arranged that some of the people that were to play at the festival would do special live sets or interviews on Facebook or Instragram live or You Tube.  This included The Devil’s Trade, Dr Space, Conny Ochs, Emma Rude Rundle, JO Quail, Full of Hell, Darsombra, Dool, and Tau and the drones of Praise. I watched some of Conny Ochs, Devil’s Trade, Walter and Becky talk,  and Full of Hell.

I was lucky that Walter invited me to participate and record a special live set from my home studio just for Roadburn. It was a premiere on you tube so it was counting down til Friday 16 UK time and then I went live. Wow.. what a great experience. 306 people viewed it and by the next day over 700! I was so honoured.  Thanks Walter!

They put out a virtual Weirdo Canyon news letter each day.. Wow….   This is so incredible to be part of even virtually.  I had a lot of fun on these days reading funny posts, seeing crazy pictures and people just trying to make the best of things. 

http://www.weirdocanyondispatch.com/

For many of us Roadburn (I have been going every years since 2005) is much much more than just a festival.  This is a meeting of people from all around the world who are true music fans, not afraid to experience something strange, challenging, noisy, crazy. There are also people who mainly come for the social interaction and hangout with friends, band members and just anyone who wants to share a beer with them on the Weirdo Canyon bars. They see a few bands but mostly just hang with folks and have a great time.   I never seem to find enough time to hang out with people as there is always such an amazing music program and I can’t drink that many beers!!!

Roadburn has something for everyone, even if you can’t handle hours and hours of high decibel music, there are interviews, forums, record release listening parties, movies,  and more. It is so diverse and interesting.  There is no festival like it anywhere in the world.  This makes us all miss it even more so we had to experience it through the internet this year.  We will be back in 2021 and people will be extra hungry for an amazing experience after being denied the “real” Roadburn this year. I will see you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://roadburn.com