Festival News

With riot brothers Kärbholz, Stainless Steel, Betontod, Holy Bruehdern and coma are the first bands for Gonder Festival 2012!
The first bands confirmed is accompanied by a date: from 12th-15th July 2012 increases the 7.G.O.N.D. in the Bavarian vineyards.
When G.O.N.D. 2012, it will be in the Riedener Festhalle, which provides for about 3500 people, again a side stage, when about noon-before-opens the concert grounds present young, ambitious bands can. The after-show party will be held every night there.
Are also GOND tickets already for quite a while. A new shop system you have at the start, now it is among others possible for both tickets and merchandise products (such as T-shirts, etc.) to be ordered together.

As probably the first confirmed headliners can be the first musical sign of life Dockville organizers probably already classified:
In 2012 Tocotronic will honor the Dockville!
Since the mid 90s Tocotronic are among the most influential German bands. Already with their debut album “Digital is better,” she continued early ’95 a milestone in the German indie history – a pop phenomenon was started.
With their third album, “We come to complain about” get off the spring ’96 as the first indie band in the German charts. It followed “but it does not matter,” “KOOK”, the self-titled album “Tocotronic” and 2005 “Pure reason must never prevail.”
In 2007, then came the acclaimed by all sides in the highest terms work “surrender”, the final Tocotronic will be to the greatest band of the hour. The third album of the Berlin trilogy “SOUND & MADNESS” was released in January 2011.

On 14.10.2011, invited legendary youth center in Leipzig Conne Iceland’s 20th birthday. For befitting metallic serenade besides Born From Pain provided the Thuringian-flyer Heaven Shall Burn. We report an extensive interview conducted by HSB festival Kay Hopper with Maik Weichert from HSB (coming here soon). Festival Hopper Thomas and Gabriel delivers the live report provides us with the visual images in the gallery.
The already known far beyond the region of Leipzig Conne beyond Iceland, which is a self-governed youth cultural center for various subcultures in the district Connewitz, celebrated its 20th anniversary. In addition to various bands from different genres, there were discussions, films, exhibitions and much more to experience.
On the evening of 14 October, it was now ready to be a hardcore metal evening was the occasion of the birthday party of the series. 19.20Uhr against “time” has arrived, thanks to the traffic leipziger operated on site and quickly found: Today, the club will probably be very crowded. Have been at the end of the evening it should be 800-900 Kidz, some of whom had covered 700km distance! The anticipation of the later evening went on and on.

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