Festerfest in Baroeg. That means two good reasons for heading to Rotterdam today. Festerfest celebrating it's 10th and final version. As if that is not enough Baroeg holding it's first try-out open to general public, which includes me. Two years after starting the demolishing and rebuilding Baroeg officially re-opens 25 April. I was very curious to see live what the new Baroeg looks like, instead of short movies on FB. Well I can say it looked all fine to me. Two bars, also one inside the hall is an improvement. The hall itself looks big and the stage is high and huge. Today the balcony remained closed, but new capacity is 500 people, which allows them to book bigger bands too. As it was a try-out comments are still welcome I guess. Well the beers in hard plastic cups were somewhat unfortunate when looking at size versus price. Further the price of 400 ml being the same as two times 200 ml is not how it is supposed to work. The garderobe is free and open, which I guess can be less comfortable when people buy vinyl and other merch. Cash is out, like many venues, but I don't like that. Enough complaints as both the building and hall look very fine
Festerfest is the festival where genres mix and blend. This was edition 10 and over the years the festival travelled between Baroeg, Delft and Musicon. Last year was my first one as it was in Musicon. I loved the open-minded blending of styles and the number of bands I would not play that quick at home, but were live very nice. This year it turned out to be not very different.
Arriving around 16:15 I saw a part of the final song by a singer/songwriter. The entrance had DJ's inbetween, but I did not pass much time there. When I did a duo took experimenting very serious and send most people out for food. The first band I saw on the main stage were Headless Hunter. I saw them before and their Thrash Metal is closest to my comfort zone today. A nice show even if I thought drum and bass a bit loud compared with vocals and guitars.Next band Dutch doom band Akelei. They sing in Dutch and while they were with six and the stage was huge, their music was better than their static presentation. Day Drinker play punkrock in the vein of Dropkick Murphys. Typically one of them nice surprises on stage, while I don't need to get their CD. It was than when I started to feel an irritated ear, possibly also by putting earplugs in and out a lot. Those plugs needed to be in during Ontaard. The prize for vocalist that ruled the stage today went to them. The female vocalist spoke, shrieked and screamed to us. I liked the energy of this band as well as their show. Probably my surprise of the day. My final band of the day was a bit of Samavayo. These Germans play stoner rock and with good vocals to match. My ears told me I better got an earlier train, also as tomorrow Musicon awaits. So thanks to Frank for putting Festerfest together and congrats to all involved in Baroeg as it seems they will give us many nice evenings in years to come in this improved venue.
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