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This blog, also known as Robust Fellow, is lead by bloggers and musicians well known to the blog community, especially the Swampers, i.e. PhillO))) and Stonezilla. The latter, Stonezilla, is a highly endowed rock graphical artist and is militating in the cool Ukrainian band The Ethereal Riffian. This blog has always and undoubtely had a soft spot for live music, so it came almost as automatic that these bloggers ended up being among the people who organized a cool international festival in Kiel back in 2011.
The making of that first edition of the festival had been documented by a series of videos posted on the blog. I had particularly enjoyed the videos that showed the enthusiastic efforts for turning an anonymous industrial-looking location into a cool site for rock gigs. The first edition was so successful that these folks were encouraged and able to organize a second edition, RobustFest Vol. II, that took place on September 8th 2013 in Kiel.
The RobustFest Vol. II had involved 9 bands from 6 countries and covering genres ranging from heavy psychedelia, krautrock, fuzzy stoner, southern heavy blues rock, drone, doom and sludge metal: Samsara Blues Experiment (Germany), Frogskin (Finland), Le Scimmie (Italy), Brand Band (Russia), Methadone Skies (Romania) Mozergush, Krobak and Johnny B Gut (Ukraine). Most of these bands played for the first time in Kiev, Ukraine and in Eastern Europe as well, a part of Europe populated by hordes of enthusiastic heavy music lovers and hosting an ever growing and much intriguing heavy scene.
Well, recently an announcement was done about the imminent release of the official DVD of the RobustFest Vol. II.
The DVD will include high quality sound and video footage. In particular it will host main videos for 2 tracks from each band in a great sound and video quality and including exclusive tunes from Mozergush and Frogskin that weren't released yet and never have played before.
- teasers & trailers
- unreleased sketches
- poster gallery
- merch gallery
- 2 ways to play DVD (Robustfellow storyline or by schedule)
The DVD will also have a Ltd. Edition coming with :
- a printed Comics Book
- an original festival's bracelet from 2011, 2012
- a special Robust sticker
Above I wrote “imminent release”. Well, the DVD is almost out. PhilllO))) & mates say: “We’ll do our best to release this as fast as we can. But be patient please. It will be ready when it's ready. 2013 is the date.”
Anyway these lads are very active.
So get or keep in touch with the guys on their cool blog for the DVD, first, and then for knowing about next edition of the RobustFest!
Check out the post about the DVD here
Robust Fellow Blogspot
Words: Marilena Moroni