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Reeperbahn Festival 2024

By now you all know how worthwhile a visit to Hamburg, Germany, is and for music fans all the more so in late September when the Reeperbahn Festival is on, the largest club festival in Europe as well as a meeting point of the music industry in all its variations. So here we went again from the 18th to 22nd of September in unseasonably warm weather. With all the hanging around and trying to take it all in and even catching a sunburn, I will not take you through it every springy step but sum the

· Alice Peters-Burns · 8 min Reeperbahn Festival 2024

That was my Reeperbahn Festival 2023

Looking forward to something like mad and then it swooshes past and you sadly see the back of it already: Those are the events that keep us going and there will surely be a next time. This year's Reeperbahn Festival was such an occasion. You know that I am not the roughing it in the tent, dabbing myself with wipes and dousing my head with dry shampoo type, so I only ever consider three festivals (of the ones known to me). One is the cosy Bruis Festival in Maastricht/ Netherlands where I can go h

· Alice Peters-Burns · 11 min blog

Reeperbahnfestival 2023

Credit: Christian Hedel Time flies but in this case it is a marvellous thing as we are nearing the annual Reeperbahnfestival 2023. In three weeks' time (20th to 23rd of September) it'll be hitting off and tickets for both the festival and the conference part of it are still available. It is a superlative event in as much as it is the most important European platform for the music industry and also Europe's biggest club festival. The 18th edition will offer interesting insights for the aver

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min blog

Interview Nina Persson and James Yorkston, Harmonie, Bonn, May 12th 2023

After collaborating on the wonderful album "The Great White Sea Eagle" James Yorkston, The Second Hand Orchestra and Nina Persson bring James Yorkston's latest songs onto a stage surely near you too. I had the fortune to see them on May 12th 2023 in the Harmonie, Bonn, Germany, albeit without The Second Hand Orchestra. It turned out an intimate and ever so tender, beautiful performance not least due to Nina Persson's magical voice. Thank you ever so much, Nina and James, for taking the time too

· Alice Peters-Burns · 22 min blog

The Burning Hell, Gebäude 9, Cologne, Germany, May 9, 2023

It has been a while, I admit it freely. There have been post-lockdown concert but I have not written about them. Not that they weren't any good. (At one of the very first events and also shortly after flooding events in our area, it was Mary Lattimore playing harp, as she does, and loops in a park. I actually cried with the emotion of it). But I did not have much time to write either as I would like to keep my radio shows at the level they are (allegedly, according to some very kind followers) a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 5 min blog

A Visit To Reeperbahnfestival 2022

Mixed feelings as I boarded the train to Hamburg to attend - beside a business meeting - this year's Reeperbahnfestival. It had been a long time coming due to the pandemic, the real thing. One virtual festival and one with severe restrictions later, how would it go? Would people enjoy it to the full or would less visitors attend and participate warily? Since it came and went in late September this year (as every year), I spare you the suspension: The Reeperbahnfestival was a success in every way

· Alice Peters-Burns · 7 min Reeperbahnfestival 2022

Liam Ó Maonlaí & Peter O'Toole

Liam Ó Maonlaí & Peter O'Toole @Überhaupt in Aachen, Germany, Feb 6th 2020 plus a chat with the two artists Here I sit, storm "Sabine", wailing around the house - elsewhere called "Ciara" - and it is going to get worse. The perfect time, so, not only to write those lines but to reminiscence about a perfect evening in a cosy location a couple of days back. The problem is a global one (not the storm, well, yes, that too): In every village and in every town, venues and pubs seem to close. But t

· Alice Peters-Burns · 15 min Liam O Maonlai & Peter O'Toole
Kirsten Ludwig renders sadness beautiful
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Kirsten Ludwig renders sadness beautiful

The Canadian musician visits Europe Calgary-born, Vancouver located musician Kirsten Ludwig has just released her fourth oeuvre, EP "Wasted Years" (Oscar St. Records). Here, again, she lets you into her world, willing to share her experiences and feelings, poetically encrypting her confessionals for a truly intimate and empathic, melancholic but hopeful atmosphere. All of this put to music that belongs to no genre but could be alluring to those who like fragile folk and hypnotic, multi-layered

· Alice Peters-Burns · 8 min Kirsten Ludwig

My personal Reeperbahn Festival 2019

And that was that again: Reeperbahn Festival 2019 in Hamburg, Germany, is over and done with and leaves many of us looking back fondly and looking forward excitedly to the next edition. Let me try and render my personal impression of the festivities that were. When you plan to attend a music festival, what becomes of your meticulously organised attack to take it all in? Exactly, absolutely nothing. Because all of a sudden you remember you will have to travel there, you will have to sleep a lit

· Alice Peters-Burns · 6 min My personal Reeperbahnfestival 2019
Wilco, Carlswerk, Cologne, Sep 13 2019

Wilco, Carlswerk, Cologne, Sep 13 2019

Some years back I had a short conversation with Adam Granduciel from The War On Drugs, him gushing about discovering The Waterboys and enjoying going through their back catalogue. But, I quipped, I had the fortune to hear The Waterboys' albums as they were published and Mike Scott's musical and life stages seemed to correspond so well to mine that his work had been a constant and supportive companion. To Wilco however, I came late in my life. There are obviously a number of reasons (and I hope

· Alice Peters-Burns · 5 min Wilco, Carlswerk, Cologne, 2019
Steve Gunn, Cologne Sep 9th 2019

Steve Gunn, Cologne Sep 9th 2019

I often get asked, would I like to turn music journalism into my day job? Of course that is worth a little daydream or too and both sides would benefit. Me, obviously, not wasting time on dreary tasks and more effort being able to be put into the support of artists. Practically, it would have it downsides: Every job has a plethora of bad days, competition and bickering to name but a few. So what if those disadvantages would taint my joy and love for music? Also, you don't bite the hand that feed

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Steve Gunn Cologne, Bumann & Sohn, Sep 9, 19

Coming up: Reeperbahnfestival 2019

A trip to Hamburg always comes highly recommended and of course you would throw in a stroll around St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn. When the annual Reeperbahnfestival takes places from 18th to 21st September, you will find music and everything connected to it in spades or till the cows come home (actually longer than that - it is 24 hour party people time). Germany's answer to SXSW consists of a conference and a festival part. To take in even one completely is impossible, trust me, it is. Less is m

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min Reeperbahnfestival 2019