Pop! Goes My Heart

PopUp in Leipzig last weekend. I forgot my camera at home so all I have is some crappy mobile phone pictures from Maximilian Hecker and Kissogramm. 

Someone should really tell Herrn Hecker to shut his mouth between his songs. Seriously. That was the crappiest shit I heard someone talking between song since I've been to a Kassierer concert when I was 15. Still, the music was surprisingly good. The usual "I consider myself the German Damien Rice"-stuff, but the band really rocked into noise inbetween that. 

Kissogramm really rocked, too, a surprise as well. For some reason I mixed them up and I thought they were something electronic. But it was actually fun indie rock, a nice surprise. I like electro, but I'm really a bit tired of it - now that even Spiegel Online has a electro column, it will probably be dead soon. 

Of course, these weren't the only bands. There were also Art Brut, September Leaves, Sugarplum Fairy etc.etc., all that little Indie rock stuff plus some good parties after that. Nice one, little PopUp. Much more like a family meeting than Popkomm.

Things for making ugly ears cute....

...and cute ears cuter.

My lovely friend Caro produces these wonderful earrings. You can watch (and get!) more of them here.

Cat Power AND Juliette Lewis??

Ouweeee. Sounds like I want to go a concert. I just read on Pitchfork that Juliette Lewis and Cat Power are touring together. Now that Chan has her shit together and doesn't have nervous breakowns on stage anymore, this might really be interesting. As ususal, Pitchfork doesn't say WHERE they actually play, so it might be one of these US only things and poor European me is locked out... I hope not! I would LOVE to watch a Cat Power concert that is more than 10 minutes long and Juliette Lewis is always fun on stage. 

Riga

Estonia pt.5: To The West

Viljandi. Estonia swings. Literally.

Soomaa National Park

Pärnu

MORE swings!!

Estonia pt.4: Peipsi Järv and the Russian border

This is not the sea. It is Lake Peipsi, the fifth biggest lake in Europe. Russia is on the invisible other side.

This is really a shop:

Pühtitsa, a Russian-orthodox convent of nuns

Narva

Welcome to Russia

Estonia pt.3: Tallinn

Estonia pt.2: People

Being social - barbecue in the countryside and going out in Tartu.

A warm welcome in the middle of nowhere, delicious saslok and grillvorst - the best way to get your vacation going.

We didn't all die after dinner, we just visited a little cemetry in village that was really called Ahja.

A crazy little jazz concert at Genialistide Klubi in Tartu. The club is much more like a big student apartment than like a real club, but its cozy and it offers great concerts and fun parties.

Open Air concert at Tartu's Botanical Garden. Great weather and flowers, funny Estonian Indie rock bands