2-6 JUNE 2006, LEIPZIG, GERMANY
Black, schwarz, noir, beltza, Zwart, preto, svart, annerire, µepHIÑ, negro...
That was the main color at the Wave Gothic Treffen Festival. Five days where the retina has dyed of the deepest black coming from everywhere all over the world. Gothics from Germany, Holland, Spain, U.K., Portugal, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Russia, Belgium, France...
More than 20 stages spread all over the city of Leipzig where more than 200 bands and DJs were playing. We still have a couple of things to learn about event organization from European countries. Only a couple of festivals in our country would be at the level of what we saw in Leipzig. We could taste the topic of German organization, live!: Strict schedules (it is helpful when several bands are playing simultaneously and you have to cross the city to see them), tidy waits (there are no hurries of any kind, we suppose it is five days of non-stop), a perfect sound in every stage, etcetera. In addition a very respectfull public fully given to the music, the result was a strongly correct festival on its 15th edition. But we missed something of the latin partying that defines us. The WGT is the perfect window for many bands that otherwise would be forgotten. That's why some of these bands play for free in the festival. The public knows that and merchandising and CD selling rises up those days.
Among the most acclaimed and awaited bands there were Deine Lakaien who went for the ballads, Clan of Xymox that only played a song from their older and electronic set. Corvus Corax was the main course for the Monday farewell. Far from his habitual style and with more than fifty persons on stage (orchestra included), they performed an adaptation from the Carmina Burana's texts. A few hours before they gave a surprise concert in Parkbuhne stage (this time with his habitual set, for the pleasure of their fans and of some other lost souls. Lacrimosa and Nitzer Ebb played on Friday as the main course as well.
At the market where fashionable Gothic designers do their best during the festival, we coukd find vests, corsets, tacks, chains, padlocks, leather, latex, boots, patches, pins, coloured contact lenses, coffins (yes, yes, coffins), rings, Gothic perfumes (¿¡), everything with the most sinister and extravagant aesthetics that you could imagine. Like in a fashion weekend event we could see all the looks from the different styles that this kind of music compeals. New Romantic, Gothic, Ciberpunks, death metal, EBMs, Folkis, and a long etcetera. We guess some of them are free from the mental institution where they are locked to wear its bests during the Wave Gotik Treffen Festival.
It is said that once you go to the WGT you can't let it go anymore... see you there next year!
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