After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, I looked forward to be back at and around the O2 Arena for the 2019 edition of the amazing country music event. From 8th to 10th March 2019, the British capital again hosted a massive lineup of world-class and upcoming artists of that genre. In contrast to my original planning, I do one (lengthy) diary and review instead of three daily bulletins.
There is a major size picture gallery for this posting including 755 pictures.
C2C London 2019 – The Arena / Area
I wrote quite something in my previous year review about “The O2” and the surrounding. The ICON outlet mall (I wonder if there is any connection to the similar name Orlando entertainment district ) has recently been opened so that you now can really circulate the arena completely. With the lovely combination of stores, restaurants and minor clubs around the arena, it is one of my favorite venues. The Jubilee Line connection gives a good connection to the city. This time, I stayed in the ibis Canning Town , just one stop away from the arena (Stratford direction, so the trains were comparably empty), which made it quite perfect. The Town Square venue and vending area felt to be smaller than previous year with less stores, though.
I took all pictures without photo pass, i.e. with standard pocket camera equipment. Especially the pictures inside The O2 (row 23) and in small and comparably dull venues may not be perfect quality.
C2C London 2019 – Day 1 (Fri 8th)
I started a bit later on Friday, as I was testing the Emirates Aviation Experience, which is very close to O2 Arena. Thus, I just had one “minor” act (most of them are quite big already) before entering The O2. I decided to visit the Country Music Week Hub, which is located on top of the All Bar One in the entrance area. I haven’t visited the venue before, but I absolutely loved it. More than that, I was lucky to find a second row seat to listen to the show of Sarah Darling , who I met in Berlin already. She is doing very melodic country music. I absolutely liked her set – not just as it sounded even more familiar to me now. Have a listen at Where Cowboys ride , a country-music love letter to Wyoming. I included it to my favorite C2C 2019 songs in the respective posting.
Main Stage & Spotlight
After having a quick bite, the admission to the arena was a bit chaotic and very slow so that I just made it in time to see Chase Rice as the first act of the evening in the main arena. A very nice start of the main stage part of the festival. I saw Rice for the first time and absolutely liked his performance, which is quite typical, melodic modern country.
The second act of the day was Cam , who I already saw in Berlin. Cam is charming, she is a great singer, doing good lyrics. The UK loves her and so the arena was already partying. She just does not touch me. Somehow, I even feel sorry for that, as I cannot see any reason for that. If you like slow, partially romantic modern country with good and straight lyrics, you will love her, I am sure.
After Cam, there were two more acts I already saw in Berlin. I loved the friendly and truthful performance of Brett Eldredge . You saw that he loved to be on that stage – and the crowds liked him. After that, Keith Urban burned the floor as he did in Berlin. What an amazing performance. However, I felt he was even closer to the audience in the German C2C. Again, he gave away his guitar. There are rumors that he gave it to the same girl he gave it to on his Wednesday London concert, though. I listened to that part of the show on the radio already, as a cold had hit me the previous week.
The first ten minutes of the 30 minute intermissions to prepare the main stage for the next artist are used at the Spotlight Stage, where upcoming artists may present themselves for ten minutes with a limited set. The artists were young US artist and songwriter Adam Hambrick , the amazing Abby Anderson and the US female trio Runaway June . As these acts start right next after the main stage act has finished, I typically have no pictures of them.
C2C London 2019 – Day 2 (Sat 9th)
There were quite stormy winds in London – and as they blew directly into the Big Entrance Stage area, I decided to prefer the tent-covered Town Square stage, which has a lot of stores and bars around. The roof and tent construction shaked quite a lot – though starting artist Jake Morrell gave a really good performance, this was (unfortunately for him) just due to the weather. His sound was really great. I recommend to listen into his Englishman and the title track of his latest EP, Home .
Kaylee Bell is likely the artist with the longest trip into London for the 2019 C2C. Bell travelled in from New Zealand. I enjoyed listening to her, who was by herself, just with her guitar. Not as powerful as Morrell before, though.
The Adelaides , a UK female vocalist and guitar player trio, were the third act on Town Square. Quite impressive ladies and voices, it definitely makes fun to listen to their music. However, having three strong vocalists on stage was a bit too much for the rather basic and quick-to-change Town Square stage setup.
After listening and loving her debut album “No Saint” , I was that much looking forward to see Lauren Jenkins back on stage. She did the Introducing Nashville main stage opener in Berlin. Like the album, which I rated a Top Pick , I enjoyed her songs on stage. There is also a posting about her short movie , which has been shown in Berlin. I am sure she will be big very soon.
A short visit to ICON stage
The new ICON outlet area is definitely an amazing part of the O2 Arena area. The more it is nice that Country 2 Country set up a small stage there as well. I had a quick meeting with the very talented Vic Allen (who was in one of my country picks already), who very sadly did not have stage time in London. I happened to see the young and talented Remember Monday , a three-girl combo previously named Houston . They are at the British “The Voice” currently. Not that surprisingly, quite many people gathered around the stage. Very nice, harmonic country songs – sadly, the screen at the back of the stage gave unfortunate photo conditions.
I headed back to Town Square stage, as there were two more amazing acts on the lineup. The amazing Raelynn was the second last act to play in the packed tent. Coming with her full band, she did an amazing show. She also gave a preview to her album to be released in 2019, together with current songs like Queens don’t lie and classics like God made Girls , which was a Top 10 in the US Country Billboards. She is amazing and the people loved to sing and dance with her.
A twitter video told me that Town Square is the place to go on the late afternoon. If you follow my country music coverage, you know that Catherine McGrath is my huge female country music love – and she was the “Special Guest” artist to conclude the day on Town Square. No matter if you read my Liverpool concert review or my thoughts on her album , I just love her music, her stage appearance and the way she is acting with people. However, it definitely touched me to listen how many people she is attracting with her songs – so many people singing with her.
Main Stage & Spotlight
The Saturday main stage sessions started with one of the artists I looked forward to see (again) most. Carly Pearce , the Kentucky country girl, boosted her career after I saw her at the lovely Red, White and Boom Festival in Lexington, Kentucky, 2017. Especially her debut single Every Little Thing shot on top of the US Country Airplays. She even gave some Bluegrass in her 40 minute show, which covered her first album. Loved it. She was followed by The Fairground Saints on Spotlight.
Dustin Lynch is amazing on stage – and made The O2 dance and party with his main stage performance. I made this show from the very back of the floor level to be sure to stand in first row for Catherine McGrath ‘s Spotlight Stage performance. I just loved to see her there and enjoyed the crowds.
Catherine is typically an artists who takes plenty of time for each and every fan. However, she felt to be in a hurry after a certain time of chatting with the people – which was good news. For the song they did together, Don’t let me forget , she shared the stage with main stage artist Hunter Hayes . Unfortunately, Hayes had a bad throat in addition to his not that inspiring performance in Berlin. In their lovely duet, he even missed one start at the begin of one stanza. Hayes is an excellent and talented artists as well as an amazing guitar player. I felt he just pushes himself too much. I left after the duet for a food break, thankful for the lovely duet with Catherine.
Michael Ray , Carly Pearce’s fiance, did a great three-song set on the Spotlight, before Lady Antebellum gave an absolutely amazing and professional show. They are just perfect (again) in interacting with each other on stage and with the people in the arena. Both, artists and crowd, had an amazing time. Great performance definitely!
C2C London 2019 – Day 3 (Sun 10th)
Some of the minor venues were packed on Saturday so that you could not enter them any more. Thus, I decided to go for one stage and stay there most of the day. I chose The Loft, which I already loved during the 2017 C2C. It hosts very intimate recorded sessions with the artists, which typically just last some 25 minutes. There are acoustic instruments only, no drums or e-guitars.
The James Barker Band , which I saw at the amazing Sound of Nashville in Cologne , did not make it in time (traffic), so that the first slot was, 40 minutes late, held by Runaway June . I learned that one of the three US girls is a grand-daughter of legendary John Wayne. The girls really did a classic songwriter session and told a lot about themselves and their songs. Lovely band!
After my debut of seeing the US female trio on stage, there were some “already known ones”. The second band on stage that day were the UK female trio The Adelaides , which I enjoyed much more in that intimate acoustic set compared to Town Square the day before.
I was absolutely looking forward to see Twinnie again after meeting her in Berlin and Cologne. Bad luck I could not see her at the major BBC Radio 2 Stage at the Indigo – but she smashed The Loft definitely! Such a straight way to act with herself, her songs and the people – you just have to love the Hollywood Gypsy. For example, she made some comments about her dress (“Mixture of leopard and ostrich”), which was not too suitable for dancing on the major stage (“The audience may have seen more than they paid for”). Her performance was great again, including the funny (I hate) Cupid or the current single Better when I’m drunk. There are more Twinnie concert pics in my review of her CMT Next Women of Country concert in Liverpool .
Raelynn gave Catherine McGrath no Chance to see her show
Maybe the sub-title is a bit too much yellow press, but when the Texas powerball Raelynn entered The Loft , there was really no space to somehow see something of the amazing performer. Among many others, Catherine and her sister tried to find a spot, which was useless. An absolutely densely packed venue just listened and loved Raelynn in this atmosphere as well, who not just said but also made you feel how much she enjoyed to play in that club. Wow!
I did not know Abby Anderson before her set at the C2C Sessions , but from the very first session, her all-over smile and spirit made people love her in a short three-song set. If you happen to have the chance to see her, do it – you will definitely enjoy her way of singing country music with a very soulful voice.
Next act on the small circus-alike stage were The Fairground Saints . If there was a C2C Award for the highest joy of playing, they could be the right choice. Funny guys, funny lyrics, excellent acoustic guitar play – look forward to listen into their 2019 to-be-released album definitely.
Sarah Darling was the nominal finisher of the C2C Sessions. The session was similar like the intimate one I attended in Berlin – Darling is just very good in getting in touch with the people’s souls. The James Barker Band did their missed set at the end of the day, but I preferred to have a snack before heading to main stage.
Main Stage & Spotlight
Drake White & The Big Fire promised to have a rocking and powerful beginning of the day. Like in Berlin, they amazed the people and heated them up. Just a very nice, lovely-to-follow performance. Apart from the Queen cover Fat Bottomed Girls , the country fans liked songs like Story , which tells about White’s family member dreams.
The second act of the day was Ashley McBryde , who is extremely popular in the UK. Honestly, I did not get into her music so far, but with her performance, the Arkansas Powerhouse absolutely made me fall in love to her. Rocking, cheeky, straight, I just loved it! My highlight of her show was Fat and Famous , which she wrote for the tenth anniversary school class reunion and pays back how people treated her at school times.
There could hardly be any bigger contrast than having Lyle Lovett right after McBryde. Lovett was great in the 1980s and 1990s, having won four Grammy’s with very classic country music. Like Lovett, the musicians had a lot of life and music experience, but the music quality was amazing. Of course, it was not country music you stand up and dance to (maybe you could at the end…), but I absolutely loved it. His performance had a touch of Bluegrass, some Jazz-alike elements and a lot of soul and Black Music elements, majorly given by the fantastic vocalist Francine Reed. Some people took the performance for a dinner or drink break – I felt they did a mistake!
The final act of the day was Chris Stapleton , maybe the most impressive male voice in country music. A very puristic show, just with him, his wife (vocals), a bass player and drums on the stage, which felt far too large for him. He also somehow “hides” behind his huge cowboy head, so that you can hardly spot (or take pictures of) his face. A fascinating performance, which did not touch me too much. Much more touching to me were the Spotlight Stage performances of Caroline Jones, The Wandering Hearts and especially the amazing Jimmie Allen , which I did not take pictures of.
C2C London 2019 – My View
C2C in London was amazing! It will be interesting to see how the event will develop in the future. The artists seem to take it as a UK event, but in fact there are quite a lot of non-British guests in the arena. The Brexit may move it out of (political) Europe and harden the easy-to-travel-in characteristic of the capital. Furthermore, Berlin and Amsterdam seem to be alternatives, which are both inside the EU, even inside the Schengen area. It will be much easier to travel to and between these venues. C2C is no longer a UK event, it is a European one. Keith Urban and Brad Paisley sell out their (smaller) Berlin venues as quickly as they do in the UK already.
The second risk to the C2C in London to me is the C2C itself. Many participants, artists and visitors, state how massively the festival is improving in quality and size. There are already more and more organisational problems. You have to queue before the first concert to get into a minor venue like The Loft. The Bluebird Cafe additional tickets have never been in public sale, the pre-sale took it all. The daily wristband visitors (all venues apart from aftershow, separately ticketed and main arena) paying ten pound per day may even avoid a multiple hundred pound VIP ticket holder to see the act he would like to. You need to have even more venues to compensate it – and maybe stop selling wristbands.
So far, though, the excellent conditions of the C2C venue in London guarantees its survival. Berlin, for example, will never be able to move to Mercedes-Benz arena if the festival will stay at that time, as the arena also needs to be used for hockey playoffs. 2020, the C2C in Berlin will collide with the tourism trade fair ITB and thus will face limited hotel capacities. The Verti Music Hall is too limited, using cinemas and bowling alleys for the (ticketed!) minor events cannot produce the unique London spirit.
It will be very interesting to see how the festivals will evolve in future years. The music is growing and more and more widely accepted. Country music will soon be played in other countries’ radio stations as well – at least the “not that country-alike artists” like Keith Urban. This may be a chance for young and powerful artists like Twinnie to take their claim in international music business.
C2C London 2019 – The Gallery
755 pictures I took during the C2C 2019 weekend can be found in the posting’s associated gallery:
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It feels a bit like Ilse deLange wants to push towards the German music market nowadays: the Dutch country and ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Despite having some big songs with multi-million streams already, Beer's Better Cold is really of Travis Denning. The Georgia-origin artist released the ...
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Sara Evans is back with a new album - and the title Copy That can be interpreted quite literally: her tenth ...
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While I ran into similar issues the last weekends already, Friday 8th May 2020 was even special in regards of ...
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I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of ...
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There are still so many talented and high quality music acts in Nashville, which I haven't been aware of so ...
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While quite some major country music artists moved their release dates to (hopefully) better times in the future, Kenny Chesney ...
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There are various reasons why I select music for review. I did not have Drake White's EP Stars on my list, ...
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Ryan Upchurch is called Upchurch or also Upchurch The Redneck. He is has touched quite a couple of genres through his career. Despite ...
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The Canadian West Coast trio The Washboard Union is quite established in the country music scene of their home country. Though ...
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Lena Stone is already quite well-known to insiders of the Nashville country music scene. After a good debut EP in ...
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Lucinda Williams is quite a big name in the US music business. The 67-year-old, who made it big in folk ...
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I recently saw a feature about British country music, when I ran into the Welsh artist Bob Fitzgerald. I did ...
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Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
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Bree Doster draw some attention her her during the last year already, when she released her Chasing Ghosts. Now, on 17th ...
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Buy her incredible debut album No Saint during the C2C in Berlin in 2019 was maybe one of the events ...
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Famous was a great hit for Adam Doleac, which draw quite a lot of attention on the US country artist. On ...
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Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...
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Though Liv Austen is originally from Norway, she is an established artist of the British country music scene. On 10th ...
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I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...
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Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...
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In this edition of my Spotlight interviews, I ran into a very interesting - and nice - artists in the British ...
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Rhett Akins once said about Sykamore "I read her name, I was curious...I saw her face, I was intrigued...I heard ...
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The Corona crisis keeps me buzy - and thus, it again took me quite a while to have a new ...
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Ruthie Collins' musical career is one which is so similar at many Nashville artists: she decided to go to Nashville ...
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Hard to imagine - but Sam Hunt's album Southside, which has been released on 3rd April 2020, is just his second ...
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Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...
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Reading the list of songs written by Brett James is like a Who is Who of the country music business ...
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33 studio album just states that you had a massive career so far. Even though Jim Lauderdale was likely more ...
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After More Hearts Than Mine boosted Ingrid Andress country music career to a major level, the US country artist released her ...
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Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
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I ran into Dan Smalley as I ran into many young and upcoming artists: after the CD reviews I wanted ...
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After Delta Rae has been quite successful in the beginning of the 2010's, the band has not been too present ...
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Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...
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On 13th March 2020, there was some sort of national holiday for the British country music community: not only that ...
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After her career with Gloriana, Rachel Reinert decided in 2017 to leave the successful project and go solo. On 13th March 2020, ...
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Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
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The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
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My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
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Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
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C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
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The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
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After I enjoyed a great show by Brandy Clark in Amsterdam in January 2020, I was really looking forward to ...
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Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...
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The Secret Sisters siblings had quite quick success after they formed in 2009. Last Friday, on 28th February 2020, they released ...
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Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
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A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
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Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
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In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...
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Some five years after his solo debut album, William Prince is back in the list of country music album releases. Reliever has ...
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Going to Hassocks, a village North of Brighton, was a very special moment to me on Saturday, 8th February 2020 ...
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When an artist turns from metalcore to country and folk music - he just has to be an interesting guy ...
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The Cadillac Three are quite popular in Europe as well as in the USA. Not too surprising, the Nashville trio ...
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It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...
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Not just because Tenille Townes will be part of the European Country 2 Country festivals in March 2020, she is ...
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Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...
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I typically do not present reviews of albums, which have been released more than two weeks ago. I just had ...
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Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
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Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
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The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
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Country music from Austria? Seems to be as special as the release date of the solo debut album of Austrian ...
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After I finished reviewing the albums by Dustin Lynch and Little Big Town, I ran into several interesting new country ...
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I got quite a lot into the international - and especially the US - country music scene the last years, ...
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When it comes to the best country music vocalists, Little Big Town is always a hot candidate for the title ...
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Two and a half year after Current Mood and the amazing single Seein' Red, Dustin Lynch tried to boost himself back into ...
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Her first album release under a record deal - I was very curious about Tenille Arts's second album Love, Heartbreak, & ...
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The likely first major country music album release of the year 2020 is by Brett Kissel. The Canadian published his ...
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While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
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December - Christmas time! Especially after I had so many postings about Christmas markets in here, I felt to add ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Despite it is rather the season for Christmas album and greatest hits, there were some really interesting studio album releases ...
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After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
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There were a couple of key songs which made me more and more get into country music. One them was ...
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Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...
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One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
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Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
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I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
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Some ten weeks weeks ago, I added another feature to Flyctory.com: the Country Music Playlists on Amazon and Spotify allows ...
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Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...
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Fans of the legendary band Hootie & The Blowfish had to wait for fourteen years, until the quartet around Darius ...
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An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
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Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...
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While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
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Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...
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I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
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While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...
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During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
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Maddie & Tae released another EP on 18th October 2018. After their career started with a blast, Everywhere I'm Going should ...
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British independent country music artist Vic Allen is not just a lovely person and friend of mine, but also a ...
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The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...
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Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
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Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...
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Blanco Brown gave us The Git Up, which even made it to the German charts. After that fun and party hit ...
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In addition to the Country Music Playlists, I still want to focus on certain songs in the Country Music Picks ...
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You may easily agree that there are more beautiful and less beautiful musicians in the worldl of country music. Nevertheless, ...
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Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...
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If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...
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Typically, I plan the albums and EPs I am going to review some one to two weeks ahead and also ...
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Two years after their last release, the Georgia Zac Brown Band is back in the record stores with their new ...
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At the very latest when I decided to select two songs in parallel for my current edition of the latest ...
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Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
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The final day of the British Country Music Festival differed significantly from the two days before: the program started slightly ...
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After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
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Friday, the 13th - not the most luck-calling date for the first day of the debut of this new country ...
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The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
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September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
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When my appetite for country music intensified some three years ago, I also ran into the music of Meghan Patrick, ...
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Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
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Trisha Yearwood - definitely one of the very big names in country music business. Nowadays the wife of Garth Brooks, ...
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Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...
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I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
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After taking the first steps into country music and country music concerts in the early Flyctory.com days, the website is ...
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Taylor Swift is back! On 23rd August 2019, the music superstar with country roots released her seventh album, Lover. As she ...
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While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...
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Can Midland top their rock-like rise to the line of fine country music acts? After a massive success of their ...
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After having this category of postings since quite some time, I decided to have more regular country music picks in ...
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If someone is publishing his/her 16th studio album, you must already be quite a constant in the music business. Country ...
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During my visit at the 2019 CMA Fest, I was just overwhelmed of the sheer mass of young talented musicians ...
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The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
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Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...
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For this 21st July 2019 edition of my Country Music Picks, I already had a couple of songs on my ...
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I was very happy when I received a message in June 2019, whether I would like to review the album ...
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After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
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The sheer number of talents in US country music is massive. Some even make it to Europe quite early in ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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Runaway June are a US country music trio. I saw them for the first time at the Country 2 Country ...
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June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
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While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...
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Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real are back - while Nelson is regarded as a great songwriter, his band ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
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Wonderland is the fifth studio album of US country singer and songwriter Sarah Darling. Sarah released it on 7th June ...
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Thomas Rhett, who has become one of Nashville finest artists the last years, released his fourth album Center Point Road on ...
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The Ontario-based James Barker Band was one of the crowd's favorite at the 2019 Country 2 Country festivals in London ...
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While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
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On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
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Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
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Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
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it's been quite a while since my last country music picks in late October 2018. While that time, I concentrated ...
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I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
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Running out of Road is not only a song of Lauren Jenkin's first album No Saint, it is also a short ...
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On 8th March 2019, just when the Country 2 Country festival in London was about to start, Maren Morris released ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
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Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...
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I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
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While I posted album reviews from time to time so far, there were two albums on 15th February 2019 I ...
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In parallel to the Floorball World Cup Qualifications in Trencin, Slovakia, there was also some special moment for my country ...
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As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
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Brett Young's 2017 debut album Brett Young was a lovely piece of country music. I especially loved his successful single "In ...
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It is already some two months ago since I posted the last country picks. After I made up with UK-based ...
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As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
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After posting a list of current country music favourites in June, here is another update on some recent music or ...
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After having seen Catherine McGrath twice at the 2018 Country 2 Country in London, I have become an admiring follower ...
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It is some two months since I posted my latest top country songs - thus, I felt to update you ...
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During my Weird Al Yankovic Tour trip through Georgia and Tennessee, I again listened to the country channels. Here is ...
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German wildcard Dennis Altmaier was almost swept by Belarus qualifier Egor Gerasimov. I just saw the second set - the ...
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I just stayed on the smaller Court 1 after Divij Sharan's 1st round match at the bett1HULKS Indoors in Cologne ...
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Due to all the Covid-19 regulations and local restrictions the male tennis ATP Tour set up some new tournaments in ...
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The Imperial War Museum operates five sites throughout Britain. While I already visited the interesting Churchill War Rooms, I was ...
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At least in the Cologne area where I live, Castle Arcen in the Netherlands, close to the German border, is ...
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The Californian In-N-Out Burger chain is generally quite well known under West Coast tourists. Aviation nerds especially praise the restaurant ...
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The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
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Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
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C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
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The De Havilland company is a huge name in the aviation history, especially regarding British aviation history. Close to the ...
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The match on 18th January 2020 was likely a tougher one for SB-Pro: trailing 0-5 against Swiss champtions Kloten-Dietlikon Jets ...
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Name the Emirates Palace, think Yas Island with Ferrari World or be historic and say it's the Louvre Abu Dhabi ...
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Pittsburgh is not only the city of the three rivers and countless bridges - on the southern bank of Monongahela ...
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If you look at the mega-airport of Dubai International nearby, it is hard to believe that Sharjah once was the ...
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Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
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As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
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Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
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Before I went to Zons and watched the German interpretation of Rock of Ages at the Zons Open Air Theater, ...
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A day after SSF Bonn's ladies home match versus Leipzig/Grimma, I watched the men's team in Holzbüttgen. Sunday Night Floorball ...
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Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
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Barra Airport is a very special place for any aviation enthusiasts: the airport located on the largest island of the ...
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Flying to Barra - an aviation nerd's dream came true on 7th September 2019, when I visited the Scottish Island ...
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Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
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Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
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The next cities around are Trier, Sankt Wendel or Idar-Oberstein - the small city of Hermeskeil could be seen as ...
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Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year! The traditional women soccer pre-season test match between my home ...
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String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
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After I dealt with visiting the Graceland Mansion in a separate posting, the second part of my review of Graceland ...
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Singapore's Marina Bay is known as one of the poshest destination in the city state - not just because of ...
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The Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi (Qasr Al Watan) has been built in just seven years. It is one of ...
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Ever dreamed of becoming a fire fighter or a policeman? Maybe the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield is the ...
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Just some sixth month I had a match between the Red Ants Rychenberg and UHC Laupen in the Women NLA ...
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At the beginning of April 2019, the floorball seasons worldwide were already about to reach their climax. On 6th April ...
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I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
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Travelling to the NHL Stadium Series match of the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Philadelphia Flyers in late February 2019, I ...
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Miracle Garden is a unique park on the edge of Dubai, which is having figures, items and buildings covered with ...
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The first time I saw Danielle Hope on stage was in the female lead character Sherrie in my favorite musical ...
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Sunday morning in Trencin started with a clash between Russia and Germany. The winner of that match would get the ...
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Austria had the tough task in their final match to learn against Finland and maybe gain some experience towards the ...
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On the road to Neuchatel, Hungary and Netherlands had quite bad positions, but at least the advantage that they knew ...
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After Slovakia had quite some trouble with the Netherlands the day before, the neighborhood battle between the hosts and the ...
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In the third match of Saturday, there was absolutely no discussion about the roles: Finland was the absolute favorite against ...
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While the match between Austria and Spain was majorly the battle against the last place in European Group 2, it ...
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Russia was the clear favorite for this second Friday match of the World Floorball Championship Qualification. Austria suffered from a ...
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Slovakia had their third match on Friday evening, concluding the first round of matches of Qualification Group 4. Being nominally ...
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After I made my way from Germany to Vienna and headed on to Trencin by car, the match between Germany ...
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It's been quite a while since I have been in Frauenfeld. The key reason for visits with unihockey-pics.de has been ...
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Saturday, 19th January 2019, featured an interesting match in the Women Floorball Swiss Nationalliga B: The Floorball Riders hosted Appenzell, ...
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The last match of my January floorball trip to Sweden lead me to Täby in Northern Stockholm. It was the ...
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A day after the Floorball Club Champions have been determined without any German competitor, I went from Scandic Hotel Gävle ...
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After IKSU did what they expected to do (and stayed unbeaten), it was up to Storvreta to complete the Swedish ...
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IKSU have been beaten the last time in a compulsory match in December 2017. How you include that in Vitkovice's ...
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After both teams had no chance against their Scandinavian opponents in the semis, the Place 3 Match felt to have ...
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The semifinal day of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup concluded with the 2nd Men Semifinal. Swedish Champion Storvreta IBK faced ...
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The matchup for the Women Bronze Medal match was quite unexpected, but also very interesting. After SB-Pro did not manage ...
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Playing the Swedish champion and reigning Floorball Champions Cup holder IKSU from Umea was likely the most unfortunate task Swiss ...
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Two days, two matches for each team to win the title - I already summed up the compressed route to ...
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Finnish Champion SC Classic from Tampere and Top-of-Switzerland Floorball Köniz opened the Men Tournament of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup ...
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After I visited the Sinsheim sister museum in February, I have been very curious about visiting the Speyer Technology Museum ...
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The area feels like nomansland in the desert - but when you take a 30 minute Southbound drive from Abu ...
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Right before the NLA match against UHC Laupen, the Red Ants Rychenberg hosted UHC "WaSa" Waldkirch-St. Gallen. The Ants placed ...
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The Winterthur, Switzerland, traditional women team Red Ants Rychenberg was one of the first teams I regularly worked with during ...
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As an aviation nerd, I just had to visit the quite well-rated Finnish Aviation Museum (Suomen ilmailumuseo), which is located ...
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Back to Nurmijärvi: on 6th October 2018, I headed to Finland to see my favourite women's club team, SB-Pro, out ...
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As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
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With the suprising Serbian doubles rubber upset on Day 2, the Sunday match just featured a dead rubber. It was ...
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Trailing 0-2, India was under pressure for the second day which features the doubles. However, the guests having the best-ranked ...
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The first day in Kraljevo: The teams' number ones were under special pleasure as it more or less their "mandatory" ...
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Thursday evening in Kraljevo. The city some two hours away from Belgrade is ready for the Davis Cup playoffs. It ...
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9th September, first matchday of the Men Bundesliga. One of the most interesting teams of the new season is likely ...
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I was looking forward to my second day of visit at the US Open. Divij Sharan's match was of course ...
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My fifth visit at the tennis US Open is the shortest one - arriving on Thursday afternoon by British Airways ...
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Casa Loma in Toronto is North America's only full sized castle. Though it might not be that well-known here in ...
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The "Jacobite" connecting the Scottish villages of Fort William and Mallaig has always been regarded to be one of the ...
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The Ripley's Believe it or not Museums are quite well known. As I never visited one so far, I was even ...
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Just some sneakers and high heels? The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto promises much more than that and wants to ...
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Visiting the women soccer pre-season between SV Menden, a team from my home town St. Augustin near Bonn, and the ...
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The island's capital is definitely a must-visit when you are on Curacao: here are some impressions and a review of ...
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The history of Curacao is closely linked to the history of slavery. Curacao was an outpost and trading station for ...
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Just having started as an "ordinary" farm at the edge of Willemstad, the Curacao Ostrich Farm is now one of ...
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The ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) are more and more becoming of the Carribean's top destinations. Staying a full week ...
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For cocktail lovers, the name Curacao is strongly linked to a liqueur named after that island - as a tourist ...
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Being a UNESCO World Heritage for its famous colorful city center and harbor area, it is not that surprising that ...
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While the Women match-up for the Superfinal has been the expected one, Happee as fourth-placed team in the regular season ...
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One has to admit that betting on that pairing of the two dominators of Finnish Women Floorball would not have ...
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Reviewer
Florian Buechting
Review Date
2019-03-11
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Country 2 Country London 2019
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