Flyctory.com is growing and growing – and this also means that I it is getting more difficult for you to retrieve all the information which may be interesting for you. In mid September 2020, when I published this page for the first time, I was just about to release my 300th music review. When I exceeded the number of 800 reviews, I reached technical capacities and thus had to split the overview into two parts, see below:
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Postings about Concerts
All postings about concerts I visited:
Looking back to… Puddles Pity Party at the “Bigger & Weirder Tour” 2025
In the mid of June, on 20th and 21st June 2025. I visited the Weird Al Yankovic Bigger & Weirder Tour 2025 ...
Dasha (1st July 2025, Cologne)
I really loved Dasha at the C2C 2025 in Berlin. The US-American country-pop musician gave the German capital crowds an ...
Caylee Hammack (21st May 2025, Cologne)
On 21st May 2025, I headed to another Sound of Nashville show in Cologne. Caylee Hammack closed their short four ...
Rock of Ages (Duisburg, 18th May 2025)
I did it at the beginning - and I (almost) was there when it closed down. I was very thankful ...
Alexandra Kay (12th May 2025, Cologne)
On 12th May 2025, it was time to cover another Sound of Nashville show. Alexandra Kay headed to Cologne's Club ...
Jackson Dean (3rd May 2025, Cologne)
The weekend after I covered the Swedish Floorball Finals, I was somehow back to Sweden again. Cologne had Swedish artist ...
Anne Haigis (30th April 2025, Erftstadt)
On 30th April 2025, it was time for another show streamed by Muxx.tv. While I have been at the Song ...
T.G. Copperfield (12th April 2025, Hagen aTW)
Gaststätte Stock again - some six months after I saw the Laura Evans show there in the lovely Teutoburger Wald ...
Alina Sebastian (5th April 2025, Hamm)
Going to Hamm in the Northern German Ruhrgebiet on 5th April 2025 felt like closing a major gap on Flyctory.com ...
CMA Fest 2025 Lineup Announced – My Guide to the Festival
It calls itself The Ultimate Country Music Fan Experience and there is indeed likely no festival of that genre somewhere ...
Dirkschneider (Frankfurt, 17th March 2025)
Right after I traveled to the handball matches between the Netherlands and the Faroe Islands (match in Torshavn / match ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Splitter and Reprise
Country To Country 2025 in Berlin is in the books. Three days and the kick-off Bluebird Cafe session are over ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 3 (09.03.2025) – Evening Session
Country To Country 2025 in Germany came to an end. The Sunday Main Stage (and the Spotlight Stage) hosted the ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 3 (09.03.2025) – Day Sessions
Three days of country music (or even four, if you include the Bluebird Cafe session on Thursday) are tiring and ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 2 (08.03.2025) – Evening Session
The second day in Berlin was slowly coming to an end. Country To Country 2025 in Berlin hosted the second ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 2 (08.03.2025) – Day Sessions
Saturday in Berlin - the Country To Country festival went into its second day. 8th March 2025 again featured some ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 1 (07.03.2025) – Evening Session
Welcome to the main event! While I really enjoy the daytime stages with the variety of comparably less popular artists, ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Day 1 (07.03.2025) – Day Sessions
Ladys and Gentlemen, welcome to the Country To Country 2025 in Berlin! After the Passionskirche in Berlin already hosted the ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin 2025 – Opening Event (6th March 2025) – The Bluebird Cafe
6th March 2025 was time to kick off the Country To Country Festival 2025 in Berlin. While the main festival ...
Nathan Evans (5th March 2025, Berlin)
The Wellerman gave fame to two bands almost in parallel in the early 2020's. While I already featured the Cologne show of ...
Drake Milligan (25th February 2025, Cologne)
Another Sound of Nashville country concert right before I headed to Pittsburgh: on 25th February 2025, Drake Milligan had a ...
My Country To Country Berlin 2025 Preview
In exactly two weeks, on 6th March 2025, Country To Country (C2C) Berlin is kicking off with the The Bluebird ...
Carly Pearce (17th February 2025, Cologne)
Carly Pearce has been back to Germany. On 17th February, the last of her Sound of Nashville shows brought her ...
Jenn Bostic (16th February 2025, London)
Even though it was quite a lot of traveling for a single concert, I was really looking forward to traveling ...
Warren Zeiders (3rd February 2025, Cologne)
After I had quite a lot of sports reporting at the beginning of 2025, January of that month did not ...
BAP (13th December 2024, Cologne)
The most famous Cologne band in the most important (and famous) venue of the city - how could there be ...
Kameron Marlowe (10th December 2024, Cologne)
After I missed two early December 2024 country music concerts in Cologne due to trips to Switzerland and the United ...
The Kolors (30th November 2024, Mons / Belgium, Pict. Story)
On a road trip through Italy in 2021, I ran into a song, which made me fall in love with ...
Laura Evans (20th November 2024, Hagen)
On 20th November 2024, I was able to report from an artist I had on my "bucket list" for quite ...
Koe Wetzel (7th November 2024, Cologne)
Club Volta again - just three days after I featured the Stephen Wilson Jr. concert there, I was back at ...
Stephen Wilson Jr. (4th November 2024, Cologne)
Time for some country music concert coverage again: On 4th November 2024, I headed to Club Volta in Cologne. Sound ...
Blackberry Smoke (29th September 2024, Cologne)
Just the evening after the Visions of Atlantis show in Essen, I headed to the E-Werk in Cologne. On 29th ...
Visions of Atlantis (28th September 2024, Essen)
Finally, I made it - after featuring so many concerts of different genres, I headed to Essen in the German ...
Percival (Song of My Life Show, Erftstadt, 12th September 2024)
I absolutely loved the intimate, personal, but also very professional atmosphere of the Jessica Lynn show at the Muxx.tv grounds ...
Sound of Nashville Open Air 2024 (25th August 2024, Day 2, Cologne)
After a one day break, the Sound of Nashville Open Air2024 was back in Cologne. Sunday, 25th August 2024, featured ...
Sound of Nashville Open Air 2024 (23rd August 2024, Day 1, Cologne)
Not only due to the high effort of Sound of Nashville, there seems to be quite a bit of development ...
Jessica Lynn (Song of My Life Show, Erftstadt, 12th August 2024)
After featuring the Giovanni Zarrella concert the week before, another very special show was on my list on 12th August ...
Giovanni Zarrella (6th August 2024, Cologne)
After I had quite an intense series of concerts in May 2024, there has been quite a break in my ...
Andreas Dorau (25th May 2024, Essen)
I follow Andreas Dorau and his music since the mid-1990's. The more I was happy to be able to cover ...
Sasha (24th May 2024, Düsseldorf)
I so far featured the German pop artist Sasha only once, with his children album Toto und der Mann im Mond ...
49 Winchester (21st May 2024, Cologne)
Right after I returned from a weekend trip to Norway, my home town Cologne hosted another really interesting country music ...
Kacey Musgraves (5th May 2024, Cologne)
End of April and beginning of May 2024 featured a couple of very interesting country music gigs in Germany. For ...
Charles Esten (3rd May 2024, Hamburg)
End of April and beginning of May 2024 came with quite some photographic dates for me. Right after the Carrie ...
Carrie Welling & Kasey Williams (2nd May 2024, Hengelo)
After I recently chatted with Carrie Welling about her tour through Germany and the Netherlands, I was happy to be ...
Darius Rucker (19th April 2024, Cologne)
What an honor - Darius Rucker kicked off his Starting Fires Tour World Tour in my home tome Cologne. The Live Music ...
Restless Road, Redferrin & Carter Faith (6th March 2024, Frankfurt)
Right the day after the Sound of Nashville show in Cologne on 5th March 2024, I headed to Frankfurt. Again, ...
Alexandra Kay, Hannah Ellis, Lakeview (5th March 2024, Cologne)
Especially as I could not make it to one of the Country To Country shows the weekend before, I was ...
Jenn Bostic (20th February 2024, London)
There are not too many artists, which make me travel on a day trip to London. Jenn Bostic did so ...
Alex Diehl (2nd February 2024, Cologne)
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
Eric Paslay (13th December 2023, Cologne)
His show in Aschaffenburg 2019, the main stage appearance at the C2C Berlin 2020 and now Cologne 2023: Eric Paslay ...
Gregor McEwan (6th December 2023, Cologne)
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
Loi (19th October 2023, Cologne)
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
Nacht der Gitarren (14th October 2023, Reutlingen)
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
Kelvin Jones (8th October 2023, Frankfurt)
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Ron Pope (23rd September 2023, Cologne)
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
Home Free (20th September 2023, Hamburg)
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
Randall King (15th September 2023, Cologne)
It's been quite a while since I covered the last Sound of Nashville show. On 15th September 2023, the Semmel Concerts country ...
Heart To Heart Event (29th August 2023, Düsseldorf)
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
Ben Zucker (28th July 2023, Monheim)
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 3 Concerts (2nd July)
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 2 Concerts (1st July)
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Day 1 Concerts (30th June)
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – A Preview
I am not a Harley rider and I will travel to Pfullendorf by rental car. But I am really looking ...
Rock of Ages UK Tour – A Personal Farewell and Thanks
This weekend will be a tough one, a very emotional one for me. After 52 shows with the British production ...
Rock of Ages (9th June 2023, Solingen)
After there was some confusion about my coverage of the German debut of the Rock of Ages musical in Munich, I was ...
The Deslondes (6th June 2023, Cologne)
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
Everette & Austin Jenckes (23rd May 2023, Cologne)
On 23rd May 2023, the Sound of Nashville concert series had a very special even in Cologne's Helios37. Despite being ...
Kip Moore (14th May 2023, Cologne)
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
The Longest Johns (21st April 2023, Cologne)
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Rock of Ages Opening Night – Red Carpet Impressions
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
Rock of Ages (German Tour Opening Night in Munich, 5th April 2023)
I had seen the musical Rock of Ages 73 times before this show - but show #74 made me kind of extra-nervous ...
Matthias Reim (24th March 2023, Oberhausen)
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Weird Al Yankovic tours Europe 2023 – My Reprise
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Mitchell Tenpenny & Morgan Evans (3rd March 2023, Hamburg)
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
Weird Al Yankovic (19th February 2023, Tilburg)
That day in Tilburg, Netherlands, was some sort of highlight of my Flyctory.com history so far. Almost five years after ...
Julian Taylor (15th February 2023, Cologne)
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
Kane Brown (27th January 2023, Cologne)
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
Brett Young (19th November 2022, Cologne)
Quite a lot of interesting music on Flyctory.com in November: after the Alexander Ludwig and Nik Wallner show in Cologne, ...
Milky Chance (18th November 2022, Cologne)
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
Alexander Ludwig (2nd November 2022, Cologne)
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
Five Weird Al Yankovic Shows in Florida – Some Concert Pictures
During the second week of October 2022, I have been tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic on five stages of his The ...
Carly Pearce & Sarah Darling (12th September 2022, Hamburg)
What a lovely combination of two amazing female country artists: on 12th September 2022, Sound of Nashville presented Carly Pearce ...
Lindsay Ell (with Kyle Daniel & Shy Carter, 23rd August 2022, Cologne)
23rd August 2022 has been a very special day to me. Always great to be able to cover a Lindsay ...
Gipsy Kings & More Than Words (11th August 2022, Cologne)
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
Johnossi (12th June 2022, Cologne)
Home town Cologne instead of Nashville: after my trip to CMA Fest in Nashville had to be cancelled due to ...
Kicking Off The Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 (Day 5, 29.4.2022)
Somehow, a sad moment. The last show of Weird Al Yankovic on this trip. Day 5 would take me from ...
Kicking Off The Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 (Day 3, 27.4.2022)
Day 3 of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022 likely had the most relaxed schedule of all. No ...
Grand Ole Opry Show (18th March 2022)
I did do the Opry Backstage Tour before, but ninth day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 also ...
The Country Music Week turns Digital
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
Björn Heuser (28th May 2020, Drive-In Show, Bonn)
During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
The Bourbon Room / Rock of Ages Hollywood
Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – The Main Stage
The last four big acts of the C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - the three days have been ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – Splitter
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – The Side Stages
Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – The Main Stage
After a good start on Main Stage on Day 1 with Luke Combs, Jimmie Allen and Darius Rucker headlined the ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – The Side Stages
After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – Splitter
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – The Main Stage
Time for the big party - after the side stage artists of Day 1 have cheered up the audience, it ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – The Side Stages
C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – Splitter
The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
Country 2 Country 2020 in Berlin – A Preview
A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
Olivia Lane (8th February 2020, Hassocks / Brighton)
Going to Hassocks, a village North of Brighton, was a very special moment to me on Saturday, 8th February 2020 ...
Brett Eldregde / Lauren Jenkins (29th January 2020, Amsterdam)
Five days after I saw Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins at the Carlswerk Victoria show in Cologne, Germany, I traveled ...
Brandy Clark (29th January 2020, Amsterdam)
Right after the show of Brett Eldredge and Lauren Jenkins in the large venue of the Paradiso, the Dutch Sound ...
Brett Eldredge / Lauren Jenkins (24th January 2020, Cologne)
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
Noah Guthrie (9th December 2019, Cologne)
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
James Barker Band (20th November 2019, Zurich)
After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
Mrs. Greenbird (Frankfurt, 7th November 2019)
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
Ben Zucker & Van De Forst (6th November 2019, Cologne)
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
Willie Jones & Tyler Rich (29th October 2019, Cologne)
An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
Logan Mize (26th October 2019, Cologne)
While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
Scotty McCreery (24th October 2019, Cologne)
I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
Country 2 Country 2020 Lineup – My View
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Andy Clark (19th October 2019, Dusseldorf)
As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
Sarah Darling, Kenny Foster, Robert Counts (13th October 2019, Frankfurt)
Right after I returned from a vacation trip to Tenerife, I headed from Frankfurt Airport to Das Bett (literally: The Bed), a Frankfurt ...
Rock of Ages (Zons / Germany, 28th Sep 2019)
Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
Lauren Jenkins & Austin Jenckes (16th September 2019, Amsterdam)
Just one week after I had seen Lauren Jenkins together with Jilian Jacqueline and Gary Quinn at the YUCA in ...
British Country Music Festival – Day 3 (15th Sep 2019)
The final day of the British Country Music Festival differed significantly from the two days before: the program started slightly ...
British Country Music Festival – Day 2 (14th Sep 2019)
After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
British Country Music Festival – Day 1 (13th Sep 2019)
Friday, the 13th - not the most luck-calling date for the first day of the debut of this new country ...
Sound of Nashville Press Event & Logan Mize Concert (11th Sep 2019, Cologne)
Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
Jillian Jacqueline & Lauren Jenkins (9th September 2019, Cologne)
The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
Thompson Square (5th September 2019, Cologne)
September 2019 is a country music concert months full of highlights. Just one day after I returned from my Aschaffenburg ...
Eric Paslay (3rd Sep 2019, Aschaffenburg)
Eric Paslay and his song Friday Night was one of the first songs, which really made me get in touch with ...
Weird Al Yankovic – “Strings Attached”, Indianapolis (29th August 2019)
As part of my Weird Al and Grass Court Tennis 2019 trip, I already visited two concerts of Weird Al ...
The British Country Music Festival (Blackpool) – A Preview
After taking the first steps into country music and country music concerts in the early Flyctory.com days, the website is ...
Wade Bowen (6th August 2019, Cologne)
The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
Weird Al Yankovic, Strings Attached Tour (Bank of NH Pavilion, Gilford, 18th July 2019)
String Attached - the 2019 tour of Weird Al Yankovic is backed up by (local) symphonic orchestras. I traveled into Gilford, ...
CMA Fest 2019 – My Meet & Greets
During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
Visiting CMA Fest 2019
The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
Write Like A Girl (London, 13th June 2019)
Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
Christina Taylor & Carolyn Miller – Two Upcoming Country Artists
Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
CMA Fest 2019 – Fan Events with Cassadee Pope and Jana Kramer
The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
Kenny Foster & Friends at the Listening Room (Nashville, 6th June 2019)
Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
Maren Morris & RaeLynn GIRL Tour 2019 in Amsterdam (22nd May 2019)
While country music feels to have a first boom in Germany, the Netherlands are slightly ahead and have a quite ...
CMT Next Women of Country, Liverpool (10th May 2019)
On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
My Favorite Country 2 Country Songs 2019
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
Country 2 Country in London 2019
After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
“Sound of Nashville” in Cologne (6th March 2019)
How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin
I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
Danielle Hope at “The Crazy Coqs” (London, 17th Feb 2019)
The first time I saw Danielle Hope on stage was in the female lead character Sherrie in my favorite musical ...
Rock of Ages – My favourite Musical
I love musicals in general - but two ones massively influenced my life. The first one was We will rock ...
Catherine McGrath at Arts Club Loft Liverpool
As part of her "Talk of this Town" tour, Catherine McGrath presented her equivalently named album. I visited the tour ...
LINA @ Kunst!Rasen Bonn
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
Trip Report: On Tour with Weird Al Yankovic (Day 4)
Day 4, back to Atlanta, heading to where the trip started... and to my final concert of this trip. The ...
Trip Report: On Tour with Weird Al Yankovic (Day 3)
Saturday, 14th April, has not been regarded as the most thrilling day of this trip anyway. Travelling from the very ...
Trip Report: On Tour with Weird Al Yankovic (Day 2)
So long awaited... Time for the first concert of my trip to the Weird Al Tour 2018! Tried to start ...
My favourite Country 2 Country 2018 songs
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
A Day at the Country 2 Country 2018
Country 2 Country, short: C2C, has established to be the largest country music festival in Europe. In fact, it is ...
Just blogging on music
Here is a list of my Just blogging on music postings on Flyctory.com:
Festivals and Open Airs – I Am Looking Forward to Summer 2025
Summer time is festival time. As there are more and more interesting shows coming up, I felt that it might ...
CMA Fest 2025 Lineup Announced – My Guide to the Festival
It calls itself The Ultimate Country Music Fan Experience and there is indeed likely no festival of that genre somewhere ...
My Country To Country Berlin 2025 Preview
In exactly two weeks, on 6th March 2025, Country To Country (C2C) Berlin is kicking off with the The Bluebird ...
Let’s Praise Modern German Country Music – My Artist Overview
I recently forgot a name of a German country artist and had to google it. I started typically by looking ...
The Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists – My Favorite Artists
It all started in August 2019 - and it has become a key delivery of Flyctory.com since then. The Country ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2024
Time to look back to the Flyctory.com year of music, part 2. In my 30th December 2024 posting, I am ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2024
The first one of my Best of postings at the end of the year is always reserved for looking back to my ...
Rock of Ages – 2025 International Dates of the Musical
Another year, another time for Rock of Ages. Similar to the previous years, I disclose some of the international dates I ...
Rock of Ages – Which song is better? Original or Musical Version?
I recently completed the 100th show of the musical Rock of Ages, while traveling to Munich for that reason. The musical ...
The Renewed Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists
The seizure of operation by Everynoise.com made it necessary to reform my country music playlists. I already mentioned this one ...
Andreas Dorau – My Most Favorite Songs and Lines
Andreas Dorau is one of the artists I follow for the longest time in my life. In 1997, just when ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2023
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2023
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Santa’s Soundtrack 2023? Some Christmas Releases This Season
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
The Day Music Neutrality Died (a bit) – Thank You Everynoise.com
When I wanted to work on 8th December 2023, preparing the base data for my two country music playlists, I ...
Naughty or Nice? – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2023
And then, it were three. I already shared Christmas songs by country artists twice as a playlist. For the Flyctory.com ...
Country To Country is back in Central Europe – Here are the Main Acts
At the end of September, some miraculous things were happening on the Instagram accounts of the Country To Country Festivals ...
Rock of Ages – 2024 International Dates of the Musical
It is just mid-year 2023 and I already start working on my 2024 Rock of Ages International Tour list. I am sure ...
Heart to Heart – Semmel Concerts Introduces the Songwriters Round to Germany
I am surprised that it has never been there before, stated Jackson Dean, one of the four artists, who will ...
Seepark Biker Days Pfullendorf 2023 – Atmosphere & Impressions
After I gave you three postings about the music at the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf already, it is ...
Rock of Ages UK Tour – A Personal Farewell and Thanks
This weekend will be a tough one, a very emotional one for me. After 52 shows with the British production ...
My Favorite Eurovision Song Contest Songs
I did a bit of an ESC week this week, featuring Guildo Horn's Guildo hat Euch lieb! in my Songs of the Week and ...
Rock of Ages Opening Night – Red Carpet Impressions
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
Jim “Kimo” West is playing the very first German Weird Al Show tonight – he is back with “Nacht der Gitarren” in Fall
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2022
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2022
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
Some 2022 new Christmas Song Releases – Good Ones and Weird Ones
Just some ten days left until Christmas. Instead of my typical album preview, I this time go for a preview ...
Weird Al Yankovic is touring Europe 2023 – Tour Dates and Travel Hints
The 7th November 2022 is one of these days I will hardly forget so quickly. In a Weird Al fan ...
Steel Guitar Santa is Back – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2022
After I rolled out the Country Christmas Playlist 2021 in late November that year, I am this time a bit ...
Rock of Ages – International Dates of the Musical in 2023
After I gave you an overview of 2022 European appearances of my favorite musical Rock of Ages, I felt to ...
Rock of Ages – Central European Shows of my Favorite Musical in 2022
Last week only, I had to cancel or rebook four trip due to Covid-19 related reasons. Three of them included ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2021
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2021
Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
Some Non-Country Christmas Songs 2021
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
Ho Ho Ho – The Flyctory.com Country Christmas Playlist 2021
Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
The Hits of the Trips – My Summer 2021 in Music
Summer feels to be over - Fall 2021 is coming. Finally, I had much more - and better - trips ...
Music Publications – Does Nowadays The Length Still Matter?
I studied maths. This almost certainly means that I am weird. Or, at least, that I tend to have weird ...
Smooth McGroove – A Very Special Kind of Gaming Music
I got introduced to Smooth McGroove by a friend some half a year ago. At that time, the YouTube music ...
Jan-Marten Block is the German Idol – Some Thoughts After a Strange Season
At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
Cologne – My Ten Favorite Songs About My Home Town
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2020
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2020
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
My Ten Favorite Weird Al Yankovic Songs
Weird Al Yankovic is not only one of my most favorite artists, who I follow for some twenty years now ...
Some Christmas Present Ideas for Flyctory.com Music Lovers
Just about one month left until we are facing our very first socially distanced Christmas. Especially after hard times in ...
The Country Music Week turns Digital
During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
One Year of Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists
Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
Nashville, Let the Girls Play – Some Thoughts on Women Country Music
I was originally working on a posting about key challenges that Nashville and the country music industry will face in ...
Olivia Lane – “Living Instead” Podcast about Artists’ Life and More
I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
“Lady Antebellum” becomes “Lady A” – My Thoughts
Country music rarely makes it to German media - especially the major US acts, which are typically rather unknown in ...
Mrs. Greenbird: Strong Crowdfunding Start for New Album
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Kenny Foster – His Stories behind “Deep Cuts”
Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
Two new Flyctory.com-managed Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify
My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
My Favorite C2C: Country To Country 2020 Songs
Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 3 (08.03.2020) – Splitter
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 2 (07.03.2020) – Splitter
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
C2C Country To Country Berlin – Day 1 (06.03.2020) – Splitter
The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
Christmas Songs – Why not Hawaiian Style?
Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
My Favorite Music Albums 2019
I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2019
2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
Luke Combs – This One’s For You – The Record-Breaking Album
Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
Frog Leap – An Amazing Project Back On Tour 2020
Leo Moracchioli sounds very Italian, but in fact, the metal musician and producer is Norwegian citiizen. Despite his Youtube has ...
The Flyctory.com Country Music Playlists – The First Ten Weeks
Some ten weeks weeks ago, I added another feature to Flyctory.com: the Country Music Playlists on Amazon and Spotify allows ...
Country 2 Country 2020 Lineup – My View
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Sound of Nashville Press Event & Logan Mize Concert (11th Sep 2019, Cologne)
Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
Flyctory.com on Spotify and Amazon Music Unlimited
I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
A Preview to Country Music Concerts (European Tours)
After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
CMA Fest 2019 – My Meet & Greets
During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
Visiting CMA Fest 2019
The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
My Favorite CMA Fest Songs 2019
CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
Christina Taylor & Carolyn Miller – Two Upcoming Country Artists
Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
CMA Fest 2019 – Fan Events with Cassadee Pope and Jana Kramer
The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
Country Music Concert Summer 2019 in Germany – a small Boom?
Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
Shallow-ism – One Song in countless Versions
I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
My Favorite Country 2 Country Songs 2019
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
My Favorite Songs 2018
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
My favourite Country 2 Country 2018 songs
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...