Headlining and closing Bodyfest, was another classic band, The Klinik. They are also from Belgium and comes from the same era as A Split Second. But The Klinik leans more to the industrial sound and is very far from rock'n'roll.

I have always considered The Klinik as an interesting band and I love their more melodic songs. But there is also a more experimental and ambient side of The Klinik that I doesn't appreciate as much.

Thankfully the band is concentraiting on there more accessible songs and the show is excellent. Sadly my batteries is running low and I don't have the energy to join the dancing and havoc that is going on around me. I settle for standing in the back, with a huge smile on my face, just enjoying the music. And I am already looking forward to next years Bodyfest.

To be able to see A Split Second again in 2011 is a real treat for me at this years Bodyfest. The band was one of the first electronic band that I appreciated in the late 80's when my focus was mainly targeted at Hard Rock and Heavy Metal.

I learned about them from my younger brother who of course had chosen a music taste that was as much opposed to mine as possible. (How things have changed :D) But hearing records like A Split Seconds ...From the inside and Nitzer Ebbs That total age I just had to admit that there where some stuff from "the dark side" that was really interesting.

Ever since then I have been a huge fan of this cool Belgian band. They have succesfully combined dance rythms and electronics with rock attitude since the debut in 1986. I've seen them live once before on 1993, in Gothenburg, when they toured with the Vengeance C.O.D. album. It's almost 20 years ago, and it's 25 years after the debut. Can they possibly have something to offer an audience in 2011?

It only takes a couple of songs until I realise that A Split Second still is a really cool live act. It's not three youngsters that enters the stage, but what they may lack in youthful energy they make up for with lots and lots of stage presence and experience. They are really generous and play all their classic songs. It's also a really special feeling to hear Scandinavian bellydance live in Stockholm. A lot of happy feelings after this reunion with A Split Second.

I realise that it's almost a month since Bodyfest, and I am only half way through my report.

The two members from Orange Sector enters the main stage and unload a very energetic and hard hitting set of old school EBM. The event starts to live up to it's name Bodyfest and the crowd starts to dance, jump and shout.

Sadly I must admit that I am not as familiar with Orange Sector as I ought to be. They seem to have managed to fly beneath my radar all the way since 1993, when they released their first record. I like what I hear and see on stage and I will most definetly start to pay this band the attention they deserve from now on. They put the "fest" back in Bodyfest.

I don't know what happened, but this was just weird. Jean-Marc Pauly enters the stage and hits his forehead hard on the microphone and starts bleeding. Then he pats his bloody head and shows his bloody palm repeatedly to the audience.

The sound is crap with a backtrack that is without both volume and base. The guitar is cranked to ten and drowning all other sounds. The vocals get's throug but are drowned in reverb and delay.

I don't know if there was to much drugs going on or if it was a desperate attempt to deal with a crappy sound. Sad, cause i was looking forward to hear some of Parade Grounds quite beautiful songs and was given a bloody mess instead.

The first band on the main stage for the evening was german duo Schwefelgelb. I am only familiar with a few of their songs through Youtube, and I have liked what I found there.

Their music is a mix of techno, electro, 8-bit and some healthy EBM-attitude. A bit of a surprising booking for a venue like Bodyfest, but a very healthy one. We have to let the genre evolve and expand if we want to be able to visit Bodyfest X a few years into the future.

Sadly I must admit that Schwefelgelb was not really my cup of tea as a live experience. I think that the music was leaning a bit too much towards techno, cool beats and sound effects. The band has some very good songs in their catalogue, but it seems like the band do'nt trust them to stand on their own.

But I don't think that my opinion was shared by the younger part of the audience who seemd to enyoj the bands performance immensly. And apart for my whining they were really entertaining to watch and the sound was great.

It´s usually not easy to be the first band out, especially if you have to be on stage 4.30 in the afternoon. But the EBM:ers at Bodyfest are loyal to their bands and the turn up is great in front of the small stage at Nalen even at this early hour.

On stage are two bands from Gävle, Sturm Café and Kommando XY with, Gustav Jansson as member of both bands. The concert is divided in two parts where Sturm Café is in focus during the first part.

When they start the intro to Koka kola freiheit early in the show I instantly get the feeling that this is the start of a great evening. The sound is not the best, but Sturm Cafés songs are really effective EBM-stompers that gets the audience dancing and moving anyway. It really gets good when they play Stiefelfabrik later in the setand and the whole room starts to shake.

Then they switch singer from Jonatan Löfstedt to Jocke Mohlund and the Kommando XY part of the show starts. Jocke works with the audience and gets good response. It's fun to see parts of the audience on the floor doing push-ups during Lyfta Skrot. Lots of testosterone flying around. I get very happy when they play my Kommando XY favorite Genesis Does (What Nintendon't).

Bodyfest gets off to a really good start and the last note from the stage barely rings out before the next band starts to play at the main stage. Here we go!

Malmö - 110819
I admit it took me a while to warm up to this duo. I guess I have to blame the beards. Before Malmö I still had this resistment to them, though my girl friend had weakend my barriers some, by playing their music every now and then. Still I was reluctant to admit that they were great and kept them in the "interesting" category.

It was a cold and very windy evening in Malmö. Summer had departed just a few days ago and autumn was greeting us with a cold hand. Malmöfestivalen seemed like a really strange place for CocoRosie. A town festival mainly targeted at families who prefered listening to coverbands playing the classics at the big stage a few hundred meters away. The freaks had to gather in the outskrits of the festival, just beyond the two merry-go-rounds and the sidestalls and games.

The two sisters enters the stage accompinied by two guys. One sits down behind some synths and the other just stands there with a microphone. Then he starts to make strange sounds and I realise that he is a beatboxer. Normally a funny, interesting oddity that works for one song, but this guy provided the rythm for the whole show using only his mouth and voice - impressive!

But it's the voices of the two sisters that provides the real magic. One angel-like and almost operaesque, and the other a bit harsher with a strange, childish quality. Inspiration for the songs seems to come from all over the place, ranging from opera and folkmusic all the way to hip-hop.

After a few songs I get drawn in by the music and all the external stuff ceases to matter. The music alone is breath taking, beautifully weird and seems to be from another world. A world where Bianca and Sierra Casaday rules, and make music from harps and toys. A world I suddenly wan't to be part of and that suddenly seems to make very good sense. I leave converted and a true believer.