Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending (Mehr! Theater Hamburg, De Oosterpoort Groningen)

I don't like listening to the same kind of music over and over again. Especially I don't need tons of bands that all sound more or less the same. On the contrary, I'm always searching for new sounds and things I haven't heard before, bands that surprise and impress me. Which gets difficult after a …

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Muse – By Request (La Cigale, Paris)

If you had told me last summer that only six months after Muse's mindblowing gig at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London I would see them at another intimate venue for another 'by request' gig, I would have had a hard time believing you. The announcement of this gig at La Cigale in Paris came …

Kasabian – For Crying Out Live (Columbiahalle Berlin / Mehr! Theater Hamburg)

Is it still cool to be a Kasabian fan? Or are they too 'mainstream' by now and therefore automatically considered extremely uncool? Not that I'd really care about things like that - I have great memories from their last tours, so it goes without saying that I bought tickets for this tour again. And I …