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Tonight I got to three conclusions. First one is the realization, that a tough pneumonia can be cured with beer. Next one is the nice feeling occuring out of the smoking ban in concert venue. And third of all is the price question: what have Holy Moses and Reggae Music in common?
Oh and before I forget, I have to apologize once again for my delay. Because that's the reason, that I missed the first band, opener Avatar. I can only excuse myself with the fact, that the showtime shown on the venue's website read a bit different to the actuall start. So it's not really my fold, is it?!
Sad but true is once again the lack of interest of the thrash-death... or whatsoevr society. I mean, when there are more than 3.000 freaks showing up, when Slayer, or like recently Machinehear are in town, then nobody can tell me this musical style is out of fashion. Okay, Obituary and Holy Moses don't exactly have the same status like the just mentioned artists. But you can't neccessarely call 'em beginners, can you?! Bad weather, smoking band since the beginning of the new year, or an evening in the middle of the week are reasons but no excuse. No, I presume, we won't get to the point, why there are only aprox. 350 fans here, and I don't wanna waste much more time with this. 

Holy Moses, holy Moses it's coming out of the boxes meant as the intro to a more or less sexy rendevouz with a band named Holy Moses and their apparently pneumonia suffering frontwoman. Yep, this intro got something about it, announcing the group what's up to the name, not so much stylistically. Because this here is more a raggae tune, originally penned by Raggae-Dub-Teccno artist Lee'Scratch' Perry. However, without him, Holy Moses might not be named Holy Moses. - For you average musical knowldege I just wanna say, that Lee'Scratch'Perry had a hitsingle with this song back in 1984. And it's from his album 'Mystical Miracle Star.


                                                                                       

  
                                                                                                click Cover for a Sample

Our  Holy Moses do even exist 4 years longer. Whereby singer Sabina Classen came in the band one year after their birth. She was just about 17. Respect Girl, you really kept yourself in shape since then, although you're out of your teen age. But don't worry, I'm still a bit ahead of you agewise. Last but not least it's always a matter how old or young we feel, ain't it?! 
But right now tonight, Sabina seems not to feel alright, and expresses this in form of at least 5 thank you's  to a certain Manfred, who took her to some miracle doctor here in Munich. Because doing such a show while beeing sick with pneumonia, - not even Rasputin did manage to do such a thing. And he escaped nine attempts of murder, as we all know. 
                                                                                                        
But our girl here is tough, and she really goes for it a 100 percent, like Mozart's Queen of the Night, - yeah almost.- 
And she does one announcement inbetween, which I do believe her straight away: 'I'm coughing almost as great, as I'm singing.' Bingo!  And a bottle of beer underlines this statement, or should I better say - Imagecare. 


Bier


oder doch lieber Wasser.
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Anyway, I presume the music and vocals of Holy Moses and Sabina Classen are in fact a matter of taste. And those, who are here tonight, definately belong to the lovers of this stylistic. For my personal part, I still prefer Lee 'Scratch' Perry. 
Last but not least, you have to give 'em that much. This lot does have a certain entertainment aspect, with or without pneumonia. 
Apart from that - get better soon and a blessing to munichs doctorship
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http://www.holymoses.de/ 

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Obituary, just imported from Florida, have taken quite something with them, but definately not the nice temperature from the northamerican sunshine state. And for that one, I'd give something right now, believe me. Therefore we got endless lots of hair, which takes our focus first of all when hitting the stage.These guys are also not what their name means, but they are very much alive and full of energy. And we do get that energy tranferred with lots of power acoustically. Holy shit....they are wakening up the dead ones, who pull back their obituary for even more life. 
Apart from that, those guys should really think about doing adverts for hairshampoo besides music. I presue, they would be quite successful.

Anyway, Obituary were founded in 1984, seperated in 1997 and got back together in 2003. In Germany this reunion went even pretty successful, as the album 'Frozen In Time' from 2005 went straight into the german album charts. Last year another longplayed came out named 'Xecutioner's Return'. The Line up is: John Tardy with the monster hair on vocals,   Donald Tardy with less hair, but with a baseball hat on drums , Frank Watkins on Bass, Trevor Peres on one guitar and Ralph Santolla on the other six string. 

Although the headliner does not that easy, because they do not have these little extraordinary bits, like Holy Moses. A female singer in this stylistig is unusal anyway accompanied by all these circumstances tonight. But it's also the way of the entertainment, which is a bit too straight through the eyes powered through the Backstage venue's carpet. And Aladin's lamp is exploding ten times as fast as the speed of light. The dance on the volcano has just started, but dare you, when you get into the eye of the storm right in the middle. I for my part prefer to shoot my pics from a certain distance just to be save. 
So what..... the thrashmetal symphony in a right aura finds a successful end with some olympic stage diving. And that's smoke free..... 

http://www.obituary.cc/