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 AT THE  FESTIVAL, 2004
ASF & CREW CHILL OUT ON THE DAY BEFORE THE FESTIVAL  Gez, Nik, Toby & Moz hanging out at the beer garden.  Photos : JB Chris OB, Mrs F & Ross waiting for the sunset  Photo : Wolfie SUNSET OVER THE RIVER RHINE... THE VIEW FROM THE FESTIVAL BEER GARDEN
AT LAST - IT'S SHOW TIME!
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The festival ran for 3 days across 16th, 17th & 18th July. It is the longest-running gothic rock festival in Germany, the first event took place 1993. This year saw the 10th anniversary of the festival. The venue was LORELEY FREILICHTBÜHNE in St. Goarshausen near Frankfurt. It is an amazing amphitheatre on top of the Loreley mountain with the Rhine valley at its foot. The terraced auditorium guaranteed a perfect view of the stage even from the back, and the sound is brilliant, regardless of where you are. THUNDER RUMBLED OMINOUSLY... LIGHTNING STRUCK FROM THE SKY DOWN TO THE EARTH.... GALE FORCE WINDS BLEW TENTS UP INTO THE AIR AND PUMMELLED THOSE WHICH HAD REMAINED FIXED IN PLACE..... SOME FLAPPING WILDLY AS IF AN EXPRESS TRAIN HAD JUST PASSED BY WITHIN A FEW INCHES… OTHERS FLYING UP TOWARDS THE HEAVENS THEN SWINGING WILDLY BACK DOWN TO EARTH AND THEN OFF UP INTO THE AIR AGAIN…. THOSE STALL TRADERS WHO WEREN'T ATTEMPTING TO HOLD DOWN THEIR TENTS RAN FOR COVER ALONG WITH FESTIVAL STAFF AND SECURITY, BUT NOT THE FIEND FANS, THEY HAD WAITED MORE THAN FIVE YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT, THEY KNEW SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL WAS ABOUT TO OCCUR…. A RUMOUR WAS GOING ROUND THAT ALIEN SEX FIEND HAD CONJURED UP THE STORM THEMSELVES..... AS NIK FIEND MADE HIS WAY TOWARDS THE BACK STAGE AREA HE SEEMED TO BE INVINCIBLE.... IT WAS AS IF EITHER HE WAS IN THE EYE OF THE STORM - THAT STRANGE QUIET PLACE IN THE MIDST OF MAYHEM - OR THAT THE STORM WAS EMANATING FROM HIM.… AFTER ALL IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF JULY SO WHY WAS NIK FIEND DRESSED IN A LONG COAT AND HAT LOOKING LIKE THAT GUY FROM THE EXORCIST? DID HE KNOW SOMETHING WE LESSER MORTALS DID NOT? A SQUIRREL FELL FROM A WILDLY SLASHING TREE, BLEEDING FROM IT'S EYES, IT HAD BEEN BLOWN FROM IT'S SUPPOSED SAFETY … BACK STAGE THE ASF CREW DIVED AROUND COURAGEOUSLY COVERING MRS.FIEND'S DRUM MACHINES AND KEYBOARDS FROM THE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR THAT HAD SPILLED STAGEWARDS…. 15,000 PEOPLE HAD NOWHERE TO HIDE THEY TOOK THE FULL FORCE OF THE WIND AND RAIN.... FOR AN HOUR IT RELENTLESSLY PISSED IT DOWN, IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IN THE AFTERNOON IT HAD BEEN WARM AND SUNNY AND A LAID BACK ATMOSPHERE HAD PREVAILED ON THE FESTIVAL SITE... AS ALIEN SEX FIEND BROKE INTO THEIR FIRST SONG... E.S.T (TRIP TO THE MOON)... MRS.FIEND'S POUNDING BEAT AND PUMPING BASS FILLED THE AMPHITHEATRE …. AND.... THE WIND AND RAIN STOPPED! 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - FIVE ..…. 4…… 3…..... TWO………. ONE! THIS WAS HARDCORE, THIS WAS OLD SCHOOL FIEND, THIS WAS FOR THE FANS! NIK FIEND : "IT WOZ GREAT THAT WE WERE ON EARLIER RATHER THAN KEEP OUR FANS WAITING, ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT STORM WHEN THEY ALL GOT WELL SOAKED. SO WE STEAMED THROUGH 9 FIEND CLASSIC TRACKS - RATHER THAN PISS ABOUT WIV LIKE "HERE'S TRACKS FROM OUR NEW…. YAWN…. YAWN, ALBUM MAAAAAN!" - WE GOT HOLD OF THE OLDE SONGS AND PLAYED ABOUT WIV 'EM, MRS. FIEND WOULD GO OFF ON ONE, AND I COULD JUST LET THE MUSIC GO, DO A SPECIAL ONE-OFF LIVE 12" MIX RIGHT THERE AND THEN!" AS "E.S.T" ENDED, THE ENORMOUS THRONG WHO FILLED THE LIVE ARENA LET OUT AN ALMIGHTY ROAR TO LET ALIEN SEX FIEND KNOW THAT THEY WERE WELL UP FOR IT THAT NIGHT.... MRS.F LET RIP WITH THE BEAT FOR "SMELLS LIKE…" NIK'S LUNGS FILLED UP AND HIS CHEST EXPANDED AS HE SCREAMED OUT GUITARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! … SECONDS LATER MRS F'S BOTTOM END WEAVED IN AND OUT OF THE HEAVY ROCK BEAT.... "STANDING NEATH A RAINY SKY….LOOK THAT CHEESY BASTARD IN THE EYE"… NIK SANG MOCKINGLY AT THE PITCH BLACK NIGHT SKY. NEXT UP WAS "R.I.P. (BLUE CRUMB
TRUCK)" .... AND THIS WAS TRUE TONIGHT. IT THUMPED ALONG WITH RASPING KEYBOARDS AND A WALL OF DOOM GUITAR, MERRILY DEVOURING ALL IN IT'S PATH, R.I.P.'S A ROCKER! HOW WOULD THE FIENDS FOLLOW THAT? A BLISTERING VERSION OF 1986'S "I WALK THE LINE" PROVIDED THE ANSWER. THE SOUND REACHED YET ANOTHER PEAK, AN EVEN HIGHER LEVEL. THE COMPLETE SEVEN AND A HALF MINUTES OF "LINE" WILL BE APPEARING ON A COVER MOUNT DVD - ALSO FEATURING OTHER BANDS FROM THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL - TO BE GIVEN AWAY FREE WITH THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF ZILLO MAGAZINE. NIK FIEND " IT WAS A GREAT FEELING TO BE BACK WHERE WE BELONGED. RECORDING IN THE STUDIO AND PLAYING LIVE ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER, PLAYING LIVE IS "BE HERE NOW". WE'D WAITED A LONG 'OL TIME FOR THIS MOMENT, AND THERE WAS NO WAY THAT WE WERE GONNA DISAPPOINT OUR LOYAL FANS.... I MADE MY WAY PAST MRS.FIEND'S KEYBOARDS TOWARDS THE BACKSTAGE AREA TO GET THE BIG RED "IT" BOOK FROM SIR. MOZ, AND TO GET A CIGARETTE AND DRINK OF J.D.!!!!" "GET INTO IT", AN ALBUM TRACK FROM '86, REALLY COMES INTO IT'S OWN IN A LIVE SHOW, A VIBRANT PERCUSSIVE TRACK WITH A DARK FUNK EDGE TO IT…"GET AT IT..GET AT IT…GET INTO IT… IT'S A HIT…GET INTO IT!" AND JUDGING BY THEIR REACTION, THE CROWD DEFINITELY AGREED. |
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UP WAS THE EPIC "KATCH 22", THE OPENING TRACK ON 1990'S "CURSE"
ALBUM . THIS IS A FULL-ON NUMBER FOR MRS.FIEND MUSICALLY, SHE PLAYS EVERYTHING
ON IT AND ALL OF IT BY HAND! THE ROAR FROM THE AUDIENCE AT THE END WAS
DEAFENING AS NIK TURNED TO BOW TO THE KEYBOARD WIZARDRY OF MRS.F… "NOW
I'M FEELING ZOMBIEFIED" FOLLOWED, THIS IS POSSIBLY ALIEN SEX FIEND'S
BEST KNOWN SONG, MADE FAMOUS BY THE PROMO VIDEO'S NUMEROUS APPEARANCES
ON MTV WORLDWIDE AND THE BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD T.V. SHOW.
"BUN-HO!" (TIME AFTER TIME) WAS WICKED, A MUCH HEAVIER VERSION OF 1988'S 12" SINGLE…."TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK…TICKING AWAY….SO MUCH TO DO….SO LITTLE TIME!" NIK FIEND "JUST AFTER BUN-HO! WE GOT A MESSAGE FROM THE STAGE MANAGER THAT WE HAD TIME FOR JUST ONE MORE SONG! MRS.FIEND AND ME TURNED QUICKLY TO EACH OTHER AND UNIVERSALLY SAID….. FUCK…….LET'S DO "IGNORE THE MACHINE" THEN!" "IGNORE" WAS ALIEN SEX FIEND'S DEBUT SINGLE BACK IN 1983 WHICH WENT STRAIGHT TO NUMBER ONE IN THE INDEPENDENT CHARTS. IT'S AN AMAZING SONG, A TRUE CLASSIC WHICH HASN'T LOST ANY OF IT'S SPARK IN ALL THIS TIME. THE DIDJERIDOO RESONATED, RUMBLING THE VERY GROUND, LIGHTNING CRACKED AND THUNDER RUMBLED FROM THE KEYBOARDS, ECHOING BACK TO THE STORM THAT HAD PRECEEDED THE SHOW... A FULL CIRCLE. THE INFECTIOUS POUNDING RHYTHM KICKED OFF, CHUGGING GUITAR MORPHED IN AS NIK SINGS "I LIVE IN SIBERIA THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN, WE'RE A BLANK GENERATION IN THE DANGER ZONE, PARACIDAL SLUMBERS FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY THREE ONLY THE BLIND FOLLOW ME.... " "IGNORE" ROCKED ALONG LIKE A SCREAMING RUNAWAY TRAIN BEFORE BEING TWISTED INTO PARTS OF THE "UNDER THE THUNDER MIX" AS MRS.FIEND DUBBED IT OUT... THE CUTTING AND SCRATCHING TAKING THE MIX INTO HEAVY DUTY ELECTRO TERRITORY. "I DIDN'T HAVE IT!, I DIDN'T HAVE IT EASY! LIVED IN ALDGATE EAST, STEPNEY GREEN… BROMLEY-BY-BOW…… WHITECHAPEL…" ………"A" AND AS THE FINAL ROLL OF THUNDER FADED .... ALIEN SEX FIEND WERE GONE... IT WAS OVER.... THE ROAR FROM THE CROWD WAS TREMENDOUS... THE WAIT THROUGH THE STORM HAD BEEN LONG FORGOTTEN... WE HAD ALL BEEN WITNESS TO AN AWESOME EVENT, AS IF THE FIVE LONG YEARS HADN'T HAPPENED, YES ALIEN SEX ARE BACK! NIK FIEND "IT SEEMED AS THOUGH WE WERE ONLY ON STAGE FOR 10 MINUTES, THE TIME FLEW PAST! WE HAD MORE SONGS THAT WE WANTED TO PLAY, INCLUDING A SONG FROM THE NEW ALBUM "INFORMATION OVERLOAD", WE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE KEPT GOING ALL NIGHT! BUT WE HAD TO CUT OUR SET SHORT DUE TO THE CURFEW. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO TIME A LIVE SET IN ADVANCE, WE NEVER PLAY THE SONGS THE SAME WAY TWICE. ONE TIME A SONG MIGHT BE 6 MINUTES LONG AND THEN ANOTHER NIGHT IT COULD BE 10 MINUTES OR MORE, SO MUCH OF WHAT WE DO IS SPONTANEOUS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL IT HAPPENS. THAT'S WHAT KEEPS IT EXCITING FOR US." AND THAT IS WHY AN ALIEN SEX FIEND SHOW IS A PIECE OF MAGIC.... A UNIQUE CREATION.... AND THAT IS WHY EACH AND EVERY ALIEN SEX FIEND SHOW WILL ALWAYS BE A VERY SPECIAL EVENT INDEED. |
AUF WIEDERSEHEN |
 Mrs Fiend Photo : DJ Lyric Fiend -Paris |
MRS FIEND WRITES : WELL 'ello there m'dears. Yes we are back from playing the Zillo Festival - PHEW! WAHEY! WOW! ETC, ETC! We had an absolutely f'ing AMAZING time - it was the first time that the band & crew had got back together in over 5 years - since the October '98 US tour in fact... everyone slotted back into place so easily it was brilliant... - like the years hadn't passed.... our tour bus was full of beer (thanx Billy - you're a top chap!).. and we had combustible supplies aplenty, heh heh heh, so it was P A R T Y TIME !!!! not to mention a goodly supply of PG Tips for the tea fiends, which all helped to oil the wheels of the fiendish machine..... we played all the "old" classics, the crowd went mad, JB said he'd never heard cheering like it, the sound was LOUD, the lights were awesome, it's only a shame we didn't have a longer time onstage... MRS F xxx |
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