Tinitus '03
Most people by now know about the Tinitus festival, which is held in Stockholm every year since 1999 and is usually in the first weekend of November. In the past years the festival has presented large names such as And One ('99) Apoptygma Berzerk ('99) Corenant ('99, '02) Das Ich ('00) Front242 ('02) Suicide Commando ('01) VNV Nation ('01) and several other well-known bands. This year large crowds came to see Hocico, DAF and Feindflug at Münchbryggeret this cold fall night.
First out were the Swedish band Solitary Experiment, but most of the visitors turned up just in time to see Spetsnaz finally play and the small premise was quickly filled from wall to wall. Yet the festival was already delayed one and a half hour after that Spetsnaz began their first drum strokes on the small stage. Probably the most energetic and straight played despite some musical mistakes. You could even catch a glimpse of the national known Fredrik Strage (first and foremost known as a journalist for the daily news and his work on ZTV) seen dancing to the rhythmic bass.
For some reason the festival organizer put the Swedish electric group Bobby on the big stage and after that to a crowded audience that seemed to stand there because lack of something to do. A choice I find completely unsuitable bearing in mind the night's crowdedness by the small stage. Dirk Ivens (Klinik) was again the guest at this year's festival after his performance as Dive last year, but this time as a figure Sonar.
About 45 minutes late the band Hocico could finally get on the big stage and meet the audience and do a longed-for performance (guests of last year's SAMA '02) on their tenth year tour. Solid, aggressive and tons of hits from the past years club hits by the Mexican band. After that sweaty experience with Hocico came a less sweaty Swedish band Lustans Lakerjer on the stage and produced a sort of an experience to the 80's for the audience, which showed to be very successful despite that most of the audience was to young to be able to experience that decade that Lustans Lakejers played.
To place such a longed-for band like Feindflung at the small stage showed to be a totally wrong idea by the organizers because just before Lustans Lakejer even had time to get off stage there was barley 1cm left to stand in front of the small stage where Feinflug was going to play. There were desperate attempt to try to get into the premises, but a large amount of the crowd had to stand outside and could only hear the band and occasionally see a drumstick wave in the air. A big disappointment for those who had travelled far too see them.
Last out was DAF who has the past years cancelled at other Swedish festivals and has been longed-for by many. They mixed tons of songs from their new album 'Fünfzehn Neue DAF Leider' (for example the hit song "Der Sheriff" in a faster version were the original would have been better) and other older classic hit songs.
Other then the band there was even a merchandise place upstairs were you would find Black Rain (Feindflugs label), Out of Line (Hocicos label) and the clothing store Seienstyle.
Afterwards first of all the organizers took a sweet thing like Spetznaz and Hocico and turned it into something bitter. The big delay due too lack of coordination on the show schedule caused irritation and confusion for those who tried to watch the band they wanted to see. It wouldn't have been that difficult for the organizers to put up a schedule plus the new times for delays.
A problem that many one-day festivals have (even Tinitus) is the large lack of sitting places. Sure, there was a "dinning room" with a bunch of chairs but they could hardly manage to take on hundreds of visitors that were at Münchenbryggeriet that night. After several hours of dancing, jumping and standing you'd want to sit and rest your tired numb feet. It is not an unreasonable thought to have enough seats for such a big event like Tinitus.
What Tinitus has done is make a name for them, which has increase their chances to book well-known artists to their festival, which makes us look forward to the coming years.
This article was written 2003 and initially published on Neurozine.com
Jan 01 2003
First out were the Swedish band Solitary Experiment, but most of the visitors turned up just in time to see Spetsnaz finally play and the small premise was quickly filled from wall to wall. Yet the festival was already delayed one and a half hour after that Spetsnaz began their first drum strokes on the small stage. Probably the most energetic and straight played despite some musical mistakes. You could even catch a glimpse of the national known Fredrik Strage (first and foremost known as a journalist for the daily news and his work on ZTV) seen dancing to the rhythmic bass.
For some reason the festival organizer put the Swedish electric group Bobby on the big stage and after that to a crowded audience that seemed to stand there because lack of something to do. A choice I find completely unsuitable bearing in mind the night's crowdedness by the small stage. Dirk Ivens (Klinik) was again the guest at this year's festival after his performance as Dive last year, but this time as a figure Sonar.
About 45 minutes late the band Hocico could finally get on the big stage and meet the audience and do a longed-for performance (guests of last year's SAMA '02) on their tenth year tour. Solid, aggressive and tons of hits from the past years club hits by the Mexican band. After that sweaty experience with Hocico came a less sweaty Swedish band Lustans Lakerjer on the stage and produced a sort of an experience to the 80's for the audience, which showed to be very successful despite that most of the audience was to young to be able to experience that decade that Lustans Lakejers played.
To place such a longed-for band like Feindflung at the small stage showed to be a totally wrong idea by the organizers because just before Lustans Lakejer even had time to get off stage there was barley 1cm left to stand in front of the small stage where Feinflug was going to play. There were desperate attempt to try to get into the premises, but a large amount of the crowd had to stand outside and could only hear the band and occasionally see a drumstick wave in the air. A big disappointment for those who had travelled far too see them.
Last out was DAF who has the past years cancelled at other Swedish festivals and has been longed-for by many. They mixed tons of songs from their new album 'Fünfzehn Neue DAF Leider' (for example the hit song "Der Sheriff" in a faster version were the original would have been better) and other older classic hit songs.
Other then the band there was even a merchandise place upstairs were you would find Black Rain (Feindflugs label), Out of Line (Hocicos label) and the clothing store Seienstyle.
Afterwards first of all the organizers took a sweet thing like Spetznaz and Hocico and turned it into something bitter. The big delay due too lack of coordination on the show schedule caused irritation and confusion for those who tried to watch the band they wanted to see. It wouldn't have been that difficult for the organizers to put up a schedule plus the new times for delays.
A problem that many one-day festivals have (even Tinitus) is the large lack of sitting places. Sure, there was a "dinning room" with a bunch of chairs but they could hardly manage to take on hundreds of visitors that were at Münchenbryggeriet that night. After several hours of dancing, jumping and standing you'd want to sit and rest your tired numb feet. It is not an unreasonable thought to have enough seats for such a big event like Tinitus.
What Tinitus has done is make a name for them, which has increase their chances to book well-known artists to their festival, which makes us look forward to the coming years.
This article was written 2003 and initially published on Neurozine.com
Patrik Lindström
info@brutalresonance.comFounder of Brutal Resonance in 2009, founder of Electroracle and founder of ex Promonetics. Used to write a whole lot for Brutal Resonance and have written over 500 reviews. Nowadays, mostly focusing on the website and paving way for our writers.
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