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[...] , before I was so rudely interrupted 4 years ago... ...Depeche Mode have finally made it to Terra Vibe last Friday. So, did we... all of us? Apparently not, but I promised myself that this time I [...]

[...] Never again (at Terra Vibe) is what we swore the time before. May 12 2009 to be exact. Because this is what happened: We [...]

[...] and started throwing tear-gas. You get the picture. Anyway, nothing like that can happen at Terra Vibe, it's far away from the nearest night club, in fact it's so far away from everything, it's [...]

[...] last July in all its glory. In the day when the legendary Eric Burdon was due to appear Terra Vibe was nearly empty! Now, isn't Eric Burdon popular in Greece? Well, he is, but he's certainly not [...]

[...] even played a rock cover of Kraftwerk's "The Model") After the new year, I saw The Western Ramblers 2 more times. But I will cover these in another post... [...]

[...] guests from the Greek rock scene. Opening for them were our favourites of this blog, The Western Ramblers with a different setlist from the usual After The Western Ramblers, SoundtrucK took to the [...]

[...] After more than a year, The Western Ramblers were back in April, with a new drummer, at the Double Trouble club in Athens [...]

[...] have finally decided to call it a day with a final gig at After Dark a few days after The Western Ramblers and Penny Dreadful played there and documented on this blog's previous post. Meanwhile [...]

[...] on this blog and in fact it is my second Bruce Springsteen LP review. My first was for "Wrecking Ball" nearly 2 years ago. Between then and now, there has been a world tour with two legs in [...]

[...] ;Long Tall Sally" instead) And then "Loose Ends". He then went back to the "Wrecking Ball" album, but still found time after a couple of songs from that to play "Atlantic [...]

[...] English post which was a translation of my review of Bruce Springsteen's latest album "Wrecking Ball" and you can read it here. Plus, I always thought that we're not alone, Greece is NOT the [...]

[...] proceed to play it without a moment's hesitation! After a couple of songs from "Wrecking Ball", it was time for my personal best moment of the night: "Cadillac Ranch". [...]

[...] I've been meaning to see Arcade Fire live since The Suburbs album, but never quite had the chance. I remember there was a great gig [...]

[...] buying my concert tickets for the summer, I discovered that I was so lucky that not only Arcade Fire were playing in Rome the day after The Rolling Stones, but Motorhead were playing the day [...]

[...] if there was anything else I'd like to see nearby. And there was. In fact two of them, Arcade Fire and Motorhead in the two days following The Rolling Stones. But more about these later, [...]

[...] Scorpions) is Puressence (now disbanded). Then it's James, followed by Placebo, even Depeche Mode. All these bands visit Greece on every one of their tours. And if, in the case of [...]

[...] , "God Save The Queen" by The Sex Pistols, "Just Can't Get Enough" by Depeche Mode, "Don't Go" by Yazoo, "Friday Night Saturday Morning" by The Specials, & [...]

[...] this is what happened: We had gone to Terra Vibe, a place in the country outside Athens to see Depeche Mode. But we didn't, for reasons which have been well documented by now. And the day looked so [...]

[...] As I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted 4 years ago... ...Depeche Mode have finally made it to Terra Vibe last Friday. So, did we... all of us? Apparently not, but I [...]

[...] It was on the 22nd of June at Circo Massimo in Rome. Mick Taylor appeared with them, plus they sang some recent songs that probably most [...]

[...] Stones concert was the big event for Rome this year. It was taking place on a historic site (Circo Massimo) and although I've been to several Bruce Springsteen concerts in Italy (one of them in Rome) [...]

[...] I had to move to another hostel closer to the train station (Roma Termini) as opposed to Circo Massimo. Then I had to figure out how to get to Ippodromo Delle Capannelle. All I knew was that Bruce [...]

[...] After I had bought my ticket for the Bruce Springsteen concert in Paris, I checked the web to see if there were any other interesting gigs there around [...]

[...] Greece I will tell you this: When some friends of mine had gone to  Barcelona for a Bruce Springsteen concert in 2008, they sat in a fast-food restaurant to eat and suddenly Marsheaux started [...]

[...] After that it was "Growin' Up" as usual. (But is there anything usual during a Bruce Springsteen concert?) And that was the end of this miniset, giving us a small taste of what was going to [...]

[...] in advance online so the journey is a pleasant one. Last year, when I was here for the Bruce Springsteen concert at Stadio San Siro I discovered a very good and cheap hotel only one minute walk from [...]

[...] : The jazzy "Meeting Across The River". Sometimes we feel like we are in a minority of Bruce fans who like that song. After the "Born To Run" album was played, the choices for the [...]

[...] more listens. Finally "The Wall". This is the favourite song on the album for most Bruce fans, but not for me. It is supposed to be one of those longs that tells a story, in the unique way [...]