::: 28/11/2009 ::: And so it seems that even this last time,  playing together with Dredg and Judgement Day, Klimt1918 haven't changed at all the usual play-list they've been proposing for over one year and half, therefore you can even have a look at the past News of May or June, just in case of need to refresh your memory :P (Actually, just some months after this show, I've known that there have been some lil' changes instead - and I thank Marco Z1918 for giving me the set-list: ''Passive'', ''Just in case we'll never meet again'', ''Skygazer'', ''Ghost of a tape listener'', ''Suspense music'' and ''Dopoguerra''). At bass there was again Paolo, vocalist/bass-player from Kardia (that you can even see near here in a very nice pose right after the show; what a pity having only a couple of photos like this...), replacing Davide, who had some biz engagements, if I have well understood. And then, to tell you the truth, I haven't had enough spare time to look for comments, live reports or pictures of this performance, but since I'm here I just wanted to tell you that I've added some other nice live photos and not only taken from 'Ferrara sotto le stelle', since that I've finally got the complete cd from my travelling companion   Angelo  (many thanks again!!! You made me swear to get 'em all!). There are also a few seconds with a clip of ''Skygazer'', the  passage in which Marco sings the following verses '... the universe is mine in this basement I hold. My hands are so cold, my face is so pale, with more sky than words I live, season has changed, each loss of my breath, I gaze the blue...'. Of course it would be really nice if they could support once again Editors, who's gonna play exactly next week here in Italy - in Rome and in Milan - but unfortunately this time seems that the English will play together with another couple of bands.

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::: 09/10/2009 ::: Hello everybody! Back to you with the confirmation of the live date that Klimt1918 (plus Judgement Day) will held in Rome, at Blackout, the 25th of october, as supporting act of Dredg, as you fans from abroad and not will have already had the way to know some weeks ago, since the flyers of the gig have been standing out for days on the their space, but I hadn't been able to come 'round here earlier. That's a very good chance for the Roman act: I well remember how much the guys appreciated at that time and guess still like the debut album of Dredg, ''El cielo'' (Paolo wore exactly a t-shirt with the logo of Dredg on the stage of 'Ferrara sotto le stelle') and, among other things, I've known Dredg exactly thanks to Klimt1918. It's a pity that I cannot move so easily during working days and that november will be completely full of other concerts, so I can't go to Rome neither this time to catch 'em live but, as usual, I confide in someone of you out there to get some comments on the event and especially about the performance of Klimt1918  (... shall we bet on their set-list?!? :P) and maybe some live photos as well.
And since I mentioned Ferrara, I've also added some pictures together with the guys from  Klimt1918, though they didn't come out so well, perhaps because it was raining a little (on the contrary those with Editors came definitely better). Unfortunately I haven't gotten yet all the remaining live ones of the above-mentioned date (wake up Angelo!). But since I'm here, although about one year after, I've finally found some live photos of the band in occasion of the last night of 'Triora Gothic Halloween Festival', on 01/11/2008 (all these pictures are by Giorgio Uccellini, even editor of HMP, that in the past featured Klimt1918 for the release of ''Undressed Momento'' and relative interview, as well as with the review of the following ''Dopoguerra''; I thank him for allowing me to share 'em with you and I invite you to visit his personal website): you'll find funny looking at Klimt1918 all wrapped themselves up, with hats, scarves, jackets and so on, because who knows how cold it was that night playing outside!

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::: 26/07/2009 ::: Finally I've completed the English translations of the tales that Marco Soellner wrote the past summer for Loud Vision, in occasion of the release of the last album ''Just in case we'll never meet again''!!! So it's nothing new for the Italian fans who will have read 'em for sure at that time, but I also wanted to translate 'em for the fans from abroad and I really hope you'll read and enjoy 'em all as much as I liked 'em into Italian. And maybe these tales passed unnoticed even to someone from Italy and this may be a good chance to discover 'em: ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea)'', ''Skygazer'', ''Ghost of a tape listener'' and ''The Graduate''. It's a pity that Marco stopped writing after four songs only, isn't it? During summer holidays I'll try translating into English even another 'particular' review written in Italian and published always on the pages of Loud Vision, that practically summarizes all the songs from the last album and relative suggestions in one only tale.
In the past days I've also been finally able to listen to the brand-new song published on the digital ep of ''Ghost of a tape listener'', entitled ''Blackeberg 1981'' (neverending thanks to Federico for sharing the ep with the undersigned who, in spite of the great care - but probably never enough - has left with no original copy of the cd :/ ): the song's got a lenght of about four minutes and half and musically has nothing to do with the sonorities of ''Just in case...'' or better, in my opinion seems reminding more of songs such as the rarefied version of ''They were wed by the sea'' or some passages of ''Never ever'', published on the bonus cd of the previous album ''Dopoguerra'', as well as the more acoustic moments of Novembre, those from ''Arte Novecento'' just to be clear, as I had already written some months ago, when I listened just a few seconds of the beginning of this song. There's the low voice of Marco and the acoustic guitar and in fact, in the opening, reminds me very much of the quiet vibes evoked by the above-mentioned couple of songs or by ''Will'' of Novembre. Then after the middle of the song, enter even the drums and the guitars become sharper, while the voice, yet solemn and almost trembling, lead us to the end of this new and sincere episode.
And that's all from me even for this time. I just regret I haven't been able to publish the other live pictures from the gig in Ferrara, especially those shot together with the guys from Klimt1918, but I'm leaving for holidays and I didn't get 'em in time. Wish you to have wonderful summer vacations and talk to you again in September!!!

::: 04/07/2009 ::: ... and there is also the clip of the song ''The Graduate'', by microssl, shot during 'Ferrara sotto le stelle'.

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::: 28/06/2009 ::: Back to you with my live report of the supporting gig of Klimt1918 for Editors in Ferrara. There is even the live clip of ''Snow of '85'' by gloria978. Hope to come back soon 'round here with more live pictures of this wonderful night, but thanks anyway to Angelo for those provided so far.

::: 23/06/2009 ::: Just a short news on the eve of the supporting date with Editors in Ferrara fixed for tomorrow: Davide of Klimt1918 will be replaced at bass by... Paolo from Kardia! Probably you'll remember this band, because they played a few times together with Klimt1918 in the past - and I also talked about their stuff here and there on this fansite. I don't know the reason why of this substitution, but maybe I'll get more info tomorrow when I'm on the place. By the way, though it's kinda strange taking part to a gig of Klimt1918 without Davide, I'm so happy to see how Paolo will perform on stage the songs of another band, as well as to have the chance to meet again an old friend. Talk to you during the week-end for more details on the show.
 

And then, as to the live appereance of the band at Santo Rock Fest. of the past Saturday, the 19th of June, just a short comment by a friend o' mine from Genova who told me that has personally found their set quite weak, the vocals especially; on the contrary, the performance of the headliners Zu has been really schocking.

::: 17-18/06/2009 ::: Hi guys! 00:50 hour. The set of Spiritual Front, who performed for about half an hour, has just finished a few minutes ago. As their vocalist/guitarist Simone Salvatori - what a front-man! - repeats among a song and the other, 'tonight they're only three and will play songs in minimal version'. Yeah, I have to say the same even from the point o' view of the audio, since for almost their whole set in streaming via web radio (thanks again Perelà from Radio Gagarin for the precious information!), I've heard like kind of a background echo  in  the vocals and in the instruments too. Excellent the final ''Slave'', with a fantastic pronunciation of the letter 'r' when Simone sings the line of the chorus saying '... and tight your slipknot 'rrrrround my white neck'. Idol. Unfortunately I can't say the same of another fave songs o' mine from this cult act performed even tonight, namely  ''Jesus died in Las Vegas'', that didn't turn out very well in my opinion. However I had taken part to a real gig of this band just one month ago 'round here, hence I've nothing to complain about. By the way, the night started around 23:00 (though I connected about one hour before and I've been able to also listen to the soundcheck of  Klimt1918), with the set of Divenere first and The Jersey Line to follow, who play both about 30 minutes, 4 or 5 songs each. To tell you the truth, I didn't particularly liked the voices of their singers though, perhaps, in studio are surely better. Or simply, from the musical point o' view they didn't involve me so much, because I was lookin' forward to hear  Spiritual Front and especially Klimt1918 adored playing. By the way, Divenere were more interesting with English vocals than Italian. The Jersey Line sing in English and their vocalist thanks even Klimt 'don't remember which year'... we're going well, ha, ha, ha!!! Spiritual Front say goodbye to the audience and Simone Salvatori let us to 'the great Klimt1932' - ... again!?!... - who start some minutes before 01:00 and end half an hour later: 'Welcome to Caribs', says Marco. I don't know when you live guys, but here in Italy's been very hot in this last week. And maybe the heat has affected a lil' the course of the show, because I'm not so satisfied at the end of the gig. Of course, I'm not phisically there, but I felt like the band could've played with some more verve, that's how. They begin with ''Rachel'' and luckily the audio is alright, even if initially the voice seems a bit higher than the instruments, but then it gets better. Follows ''Skygazer'' ('... it's fuckin' warm up here', adds Marco in a typical Roman way of saying), with an outstanding drumming in the opening, Marco mistakes some verse here and there, but however sings with much inspiration and even the choirs in the background by Francesco are pretty good. Then it's time for ''Snow of '85'', but I lose the final part, since my connection fails for a few minutes, ''The Graduate'', ''Ghost of a tape listener', dedicated to all the fans there and the last one ''True love is the oldest fear'', that made me a better impression live than on the record, perhaps because of the version a bit more in the style of The Cure in which was performed tonigh. There's not enough time for encore, though the fans shout for it with one voice. However I've been told from Marco Z1918 - the guy who sent me the set-list of the gig together with Casinò Royale - that the fans asked the band to play ''Because of you, tonight": all the others but Marco had already cut off power from their instruments, so he decided to play it on his own and let the fans sing it!!! Cool, isn't it? Hello to all the guys from the radio chat with whom I entertained talkin' and makin' witticism during the night at Init ('Klimt182' was very bad anyway! :D) and continue to keep an eye on these pages, because maybe we will even get the interview done by someone from the radio with Klimt1918 the same night of the gig. And thanks to jonny90rm for the flyer of the show!

::: 16/06/2009 ::: Here is the set-list of the gig that Klimt1918 held a couple of weeks ago at Qube in Rome, supporting Casinò Royale (thanx Marco Z1918 for providing it!): "The Breathtaking Days (Via Lactea)'', "Skygazer",  "Snow of '85", "The Graduate", "Rachel", "Ghost of a tape listener",  "Because of you, tonight" (personally dedicated by Marco Soellner to the fans attending the show!) and "True love is the oldest fear". It's more or less the same one as the past month, except 3 or 4 songs less that surely the band couldn't perform because of lack of time for their set.
Just another couple of lines to remind you that tomorrow, Wednesday, the 17th, the band is gonna play once again in Rome, exactly at Init, together with  Spiritual Front, The Jersey Line and Divenere; unfortunately I haven't been able to find a decent flyer for this night, as the only one appeared on the website of the club, is an old promo photo shot for the release of  ''Dopoguerra'' (actually I would've found one and I asked to get it as .jpg, so that I can add it later on). Furthermore, Klimt1918 will even play Saturday, the 20th, at Santo Rock Fest., together with several other bands from our beautiful Italy. I haven't decided anything yet for this Saturday and so I think I won't go neither this time and that I'll patiently wait till the next Wednesday, the 24th, when the band will support Editors in occasion of the summer fest. 'Ferrara sotto le stelle': I've been hoping to the very last moment since the day I knew about the come back of Editors  for their only summer date in our country that Klimt1918 would've played as supporting act, since the gig was organized by DNA Concerts, that's exactly the same roster to which even our Klimt1918 adored make part, as I had already mentioned somewhere in the news of the past month. You can't even imagine my reaction when I connect this evening just to remind you about the couple of live dates of this week and then, surprise!surprise!... I read that my lil' dream will come true. 'Hurraaaaah!!!' - it's the only word I wrote by sms to Paolo ha, ha, ha!!! Therefore, I confide in someone of you who's gonna attend the gigs in Rome and Genova: I'm already lookin' forward to get some comments, set-lists, pictures, clips and so forth. As for the date in Ferrara, if everything goes fine, I'll finally be able to personally tell you something about!
P.S.: Back to you once again, 'coz I've just received a mail saying that the gig of Wednesday, the 17th, at Init in Rome will be broadcasted via web radio to promote the re-opening of that club, hence you can connect to  http://www.radiogagarin.eu and listen to all the bands playing, supposed that the audio is good, of course.

::: 07/06/2009 ::: Klimt1918 played once again at Qube in Rome this Thursday, the 4th of June, supporting  Casinò Royale. It seems that the band played very well, though the well known audio of that club has inevitably penalized their set. Compliments to the authors or however the printers of the manifests of this gig, who renamed the band from Klimt1918 to Klimt1932, and who also made a mistake in writing the monicker of the headliners!!! 
As to the performance of the band at the Wave Gotik Treffen of the past week-end, here is a clip found on youtube which will make you feel sick, because of the shots a bit blurred by devalab, for the song ''Snow of '85''.

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::: 24/05/2009 ::: Here is the complete set-list of the gig held held at Qube in Rome, on Thursday, the 7th of May: ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea''), ''Skygazer'', ''Passive'', ''Snow of '85'', ''The Graduate'', ''Rachel'', ''Ghost of a tape listener'', ''Because of you, tonight'', 'Nightdriver'', ''True love is the oldest fear'', ''Parade of adolescence'' and ''Just an interlude in your life''. Thanks to °Iri for having provided it in a topic about Klimt1918 on the forum of the Italian site dedicated to Billy Corgan & The Smashing Pumpkins: I would've liked that someone had shot live clips even of most dated songs proposed that night, such as ''Passive'' or ''Parade of adolescence'', and even of the most recent ''Just an interlude in your life'' that in my opinion alive, just like on the record, must have such a huge impact, but haven't found anything so far.
As to the appereance of the band to the gig organized last Thursday, the 14th of May, at the University La Sapienza in Rome, you can see a couple of live pictures (by vin.ds) right sideways and the clip shot for ''The Graduate'', found on youtube (by ilsolenudo): they absolutely have to perform a song entitled like this, when playing at the university, don't you think :) ?!?
The next live gig with Klimt1918 is fixed for Sunday, the 31st of May, in occasion of the  XVIII Wave Gotik Treffen, that is yearly held in Leipzig, Germany: is there anyone of you going there? Meanwhile I've just recently read that the band is playing once more in Rome, and exactly at Init, on Wednesday, the 17th of June, together with other Italian acts and namely Spiritual Front (which I highly recommend you!), The Jersey Line and Divenere: certain that those from the capital had several chances to catch the band live from the release date of the last album. I hope I could move at least to take part to the Santorock in Genova, on Saturday, the 20th of June, though my biggest dream currently would be catch 'em live supporting Editors a few days after always here in Italy, in occasion of  the summer fest  'Ferrara sotto le stelle', since the show is organized by DNA Concerts, that's exactly the same roster to which even our Klimt1918 adored make part.

::: 10/05/2009 ::: Well then, this time, after having read some short comments on the 'Fragile Dream' Forum, it really seems that during the last gig of Klimt1918 at Qube in Rome everything turned out well and that the sounds were even better than those of the concert of end October 2008 held at Circolo degli Artisti: the set-list has been exactly the same as the last gigs dated 2008, except the performing of the less recent ''Passive'' from the promo ''Secession makes post-modern music'', as I had however already told you about at the end of February, when the performance in the same club was stopped and then postponed. Here you are some live pictures by Dyeing Atheist (thanks), as well as several nice live clips of some of the songs performed, by jonny90rm: ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea)'', ''Skygazer'', ''Snow of '85'', ''Rachel'', ''Ghost of a tape listener'', ''Because of you, tonight'' e ''Nightdriver''. Among other things, it seems that Klimt1918 will play again in Rome, next Thursday, the 14th of May, in occasion of a free show organized for the Children from the Roman jail of Rebibbia: the gig will be held at the University La Sapienza. I read that there will be even other Italian artists, but to tell you truth I haven't found so many info about this show. Anyway, it's been organized for a right cause and probably some fans from the capital will go there and we may have the chance to get some other comments for these pages, though probably the band won't play a real gig, but just a couple of songs, at least that's what I think.

::: 03/05/2009 ::: Don't know how many of you out there will have had the chance of listening to the digital ep in this last month that I haven't updated the fansite... Unfortunately I didn't, because as already written before, I don't download music and I'm not su much interested in buying online or better still, I think it's a choice rather incoherent for a band who subtitled the last record   'Soundtrack for the cassette generation', but that's probably what times say nowadays (or simply the budget at their disposal) - and it seems I don't absolutely want to adapt myself to these  mordern times :). So, waiting for listening this blessed new song, ''Blackeberg 1981'' (to tell you the truth, I've heard just a few seconds of this unreleased track: just click on the title of the song itself), I just want to remind you about the performance at Qube in Rome fixed for Thursday, the 7th of May, when Klimt1918 will recover the gig of end February, which was stopped because of electricity problems. Hope things will turn out better this time.
Then I also wanted to report a chart I found on the web, concering similar bands and relative records to Katatonia, in which even our Klimt1918 adored appear, exactly at # 2, with the song ''That girl'' from their debut album of 2003, ''Undressed Momento'': perhaps you will have already run into such chart, just watching some clips here and there, but since I've read it only recently, I thought it would've been nice to quote it even here on these pages: although Klimt1918, in a certain way, have always been trying to keep distances from certain sonorities or however to distinguish themselves from such bands that in the past could've however more or less influenced their style, the band continues to be always more appreciated exactly by that part of audience who prefer those sounds. Obviously granted that this chart includes a song that the band recorded about 6 years ago. Further to Klimt1918, it's been mentioned even two other Italian bands, of which I've often told you about, and namely (disappeared?) Room with a view, and my all times fave Italian band, my darling Novembre, as well as other fave records o' mine, as those of Rapture and of The Loveless - included the one you can recognize in avatar of the guy who compiled the chart (though has nothing to do with Katatonia or similar sonorities), that is that jewel of alternative rock music entitled ''Twinaleblood'' thanks to Pyogenesis, weird German act who, unfortunately, lost its way a few years later... And just let me also add that is truly worth listening to or simply go deep into the bands here below mentioned.

::: TOP 20 BEST ALBUMS & BANDS SIMILAR TO KATATONIA :::
(by ujklp, from Source of deep shadows)
 

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::: 22/03/2009 ::: I didn't have the faintest idea that with the release of the videoclip of ''Ghost of a tape listener'' (finally!), our Klimt1918 adored would've almost released an ep at the same time (official release date for Prophecy Productions: 10/04/2009), which is gonna be available in limited digipack edition (250 copies) exclusively 'for Prophecy club members and from the ProMedia online store', as well as downloadable even in digital format. Meanwhile, to crown all this, ''Just in case we'll never meet again'' will also be released on vinyl! To tell you the truth, I would've preferred the actual 'material' release of this ep, that is I would've liked to find it directly in the shop where I usually buy records or maybe during a live gig of the band itself, since I'm not so much into these latest things to download or to be ordered by internet (fuckin' old style :D!) - therefore I already doubt I'll be able to get a copy, but however I can always try! - anyway, besides the song at issue for which the band shot its first video, the ep will contain another fantastic track taken from the last album, ''Skygazer'' and, especially, a new song entitled ''Blackeberg 1981'' (that reminds a lil' to the historic ''Schmerzwerk 1976'' from the 'construction' of the title...), which I'm lookin' forward to listening to, just to understand if it more or less follows the same musical paths as ''Just in case...'' or perhaps is already going somewhere else. I would've liked you to remind you to read once again the tale written by Marco some months ago for Loud Vision, but unfortunately I haven't translated it yet into English, though now I intend to finally do it in the next days, so I can even practise a bit (the funny thing is that while I write or read in Italian, most of the times I translate automatically even into English, the only problem is that I don't have enough time to write down even into English here at pc). As to the videoclip, well, maybe from the tale you'll sooner or later read from Loud Vision, it kinda comes out a more romantic and nostalgic side of a certain period of your own adolescence or youth in general, related not only to the listening of that particular cassette or that album, but even because of some places, people, moments, events, while from the vision of the clip clearly comes out sort of a message that makes you almost think about cassette such as something of 'sacred and untouchable' in this ultratechnological contemporary society, although in the last 15 years probably it's been considered old-fashioned and replaced by well other formats or other supports and put away who knows in which drawers, shelves or whatever in our rooms, while for others is still a reason of pride in memory of those years spent making tape-trading (I know well what it means, also my mother and even the old postwoman when still meets me nowadays, he, he, he) and consequently to make friends with someone, either with other listeners or members from the bands themselves (how forgetting those mountains of letters all rigorously put in order according to dates now lying in the boxes up there in the attic...), close and far friendships that sometimes, even today, have resisted the passing of time. Not only something related to the friendships born in those crazy years, but even to the way in which, I guess, those over thirty years like me, set themselves about listening to a new record or discovering some new bands. Well, here the subject gets complicated and I don't think these pages are the ideal place where discussing about the wild download and so on, but should be interesting for you to read what Marco says for some Italian interviews published after the release of ''Just in case...'', so that you could see that more or less we agree. By the way, I can't do anything else but thanking all those with whom, since the cassettes of the early 90s and later with the coming of cd, have always exchnged music with me, not only for the memorable music we discovered and shared, but even for the beutiful old friendship. For th rest, I think the clip is very nice, even the colours - as we had already noticed from the first frames put on line a couple of months ago, the location where it's been shot looks wondeful - even if I remind you that it was shot around the end of July 2008 and that it was sooo hot, though the band pretended to play, Paolo excluded, who took quite pains behind the drums, he, he, he - the bike is terrible, while the old freak Ford is fantastic indeed, as well as all the frames of the guitarist Francesco who, further pretending to play, even sing some verses of the song here and there... enjoy it and just interpret it as you think best!

::: 18/03/2009 ::: To the Cassette Generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6anvuA_H8.

::: 08/03/2009 ::: A few experimental pictures by Dying Atheist (thanx!) from the gig stopped because of electricity problems the past 26th of Februrary at Qube in Rome. This live date will be recovered on Thursday, the 7th of May,  always in the same club, hoping that for that night things will turn out better. Presumably we won't be able to watch the clip of ''Ghost of a tape listener'' till then... :/

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::: 28/02/2009 ::: I would've liked to conclude this month of February with some nice comments about the performance our Klimt1918 adored of Thursday but unfortunately, as I've known wandering here and there in the net in these last couple of days, the night didn't properly go as we expected. Reading some more detailed comments on the Fragile Dream Forum, by Blind Guardian and Kompany, after five songs only, electricity started dropping always more, till going completely off afterwards, putting an end to the show, since the problem couldn't be solved. And it didn't go well neither with the presentation of long waited clip for ''Ghost of a tape listener'', since electrictiy went off on the screens as well. As to the audience, it seems it was pretty quite. Sounds were more or less the same as the previous gig in Rome, held the past 25th of October at Circolo degli Artisti, with the voice a lil' lower than guitars, while drums was more marked this time. Unfortunately I have no idea how long the set would've lasted and which other songs the band would've played, but from those five titles you can read here below there is definitely one above all the others, since seldom you would've had the chance to hear it live, unless you didn't catch ours playing always in Rome, at Ex-Magazzini Generali, together with Novembre and VII Arcano, back in the distant May 2001: ''The breathtaking days (Via Lactea)'', ''Skygazer'', ''Passive'' (!!!)', ''Snow of '85'' e ''The Graduate''. After that, the blackout only :/ Hope to get some live photos. As regards the videoclip instead, hope to watch it soon somewhere in the net, but I haven't found nothing so far...

::: 15/02/2009 ::: Here I am just to remind you of the gig (for free! :D ) that Klimt1918 will held in a couple of weeks at Qube, in Rome, on Thursday, the 26th of February, when they'll also - and finally! - present their first live clip shot last July for the song ''Ghost of a tape listener''. As for me, I can't absolutely think to go down to Rome on Thursdays, because of my work (and in fact I ask myself why all these interesting gigs in the capital are always held on Thursdays, Fridays or Sundays - and even on Saturdays, right when yours truly has already bought tickets for other concerts since time...), but I wanna wish you to enjoy the clip and that maybe the band changes a bit the set-list if compared with its last live performances of end 2008, 'cos I think that the ''Just in case...'' contains even other worth playing live songs, as well as there would be several memorable oldies from the previous ''Dopoguerra'' and ''Undressed Momento'' which really had to be performed for the audience joy. Among other things, always at Qube, shortly will also play Novembre together with The Foreshadowing, that is not so bad at all. Bands like these should even play 'round here where I live, but actually I have nothing to complain about. In fact, and since I haven't been able to find any flyer of the gig that Klimt1918 are gonna held in Rome so far, I take advantage to advertise another live event that personally I've been waiting with anxiety for years and namely the come back of my old idols TiamaT - alive exclusively, since  from the point o' view of the last releases, in my opinion, they've unfortunately lost their way about ten years ago  - and The 69 Eyes. At least I will cheer up a little, considering that I won't be able to catch Klimt1918 live neither this time. As usual, if there is anyone of you out there who'd like to send me some live pictures or a few lines about the gig, I'm here. Thanx!
 

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::: 25/01/2009 ::: Here is the review translated into English of ''Just in case we'll never meet again'', voted as album of 2008 on the Belgian Indiestyle. Thanks Bart!

::: 18/01/2009 ::: A few artistic pictures by Ilaria (thanx!) from the gig at the Zoe Club in Milan of the middle of December and some frames from the clip shot for ''Ghost of a tape listener'' directly from the band's Facebook, though you would've probably already checked out everything in the past days. Well, it seems that sooner or later we will be able to enjoy this blessed video, doesn't it ? 
Then, as you will have also surely read lately on their myspace, ''Just in case we'll never meet again'' gained #1, as absolute best album of 2008, from Bart Somers' Top Ten of the Belgian Indiestyle. I've noticed that the record was even reviewed for this site and asked for an English translation, but haven't received an answer yet so far; by the way, I noticed that it gained an excellent rating (4.5 points out 5) and that it would've been included for sure in the Top Ten at the end of the year. Personally, from the musical point o' view, I don't really know the other bands mentioned in Bart's list, but since it's a Belgian site and that we're talkin' about bands or records that left a mark during 2008, I would mention a band from that country that really drives me crazy and namely dEUS, strong not only for a last new fanciful and weird record such as ''Vantage point'', but even for several live dates held here in my country, but even in the rest of Europem during the past year. Besides, as for me, actually I haven't listened to so many new or old bands in 2008, but for sure my faves have been once again Magenta Skycode, that I had already mentioned at the end of  2007 and, especially, Editors and Malory.
Ah! I haven't well understood yet if the Italian live date fixed for the 26th of February, at Qube, in Rome, is confirmed or not, as I cannot find more information about the events organized by RadioRock, but it's always mentioned almost everywhere in the web, so I presume it will be held and, however, I won't be able to attend neither this one :/
Hope to come back soon on these pages with more live pictures, reports and several reviews of our Klimt1918 adored, spare time permitting.

::: 11/01/2009 ::: Some live pictures of Klimt1918 during the gig at Monospaziobar in Pescara the past 26th of December: the set-list remained exactly the same as that from the previous live dates in 2008, as you can clearly see from the photo right here (the shoes changed colour instead, ha, ha, ha !!!). The club was packed, though not everybody was there to attend the gig of the two bands performing that night (our Klimt1918 adored as headliners and their fellow-citizens Kardia as support): in the beginning, Klimt1918 seemed to be a bit hesitant but then, already from the second song, took more confidence and Marco even made some jokes in Roman. The performance didn't last so much, but was convincing, with pretty good sounds, in spite of the small club. Excellent the new songs alive, not to mention those taken from the previous ''Dopoguerra'', definitely creepy! After performing the last song from the set-list, the audience unanimously shouted for another bis, and particularly for some songs from the debut album, while the guys from Klimt1918 would've preferred playing again some songs which had already been included in the set-list of the night... but after a while the club dj started to play his songs, putting an end to any kind of request for a further bis. Thanks a lot Simone for the pictures and the short report!

::: 06/01/2009 ::: Happy New Year and welcome back on these pages !!!
Let's start 2009 with a live report of the gig of Klimt1918 held at the Zoe Club in Milan the past 12th of December, taken from the blog of Stefano Bartolotta (who writes for Indie-Rock), awaiting to receive also some comments and some nice live pictures from the latest live date of the 26th of December in Pescara (c'mon Simone!).
Furthermore, there is an interesting Italian special dedicated to Gothic Metal (and generally to all the Metal releases of 2008), taken from Metallized, in which Stefano Asti, who reviewed the last ''Just in case...'', talks once again about heroes, writing as follows:  'Among the best successful records, and from all viewpoints, in my opinion there are a couple to contend for the crown: on one hand, there is Klimt1918 of ''Just in case we'll never meet again'', an album in which, abandoned almost completely metallic sonorities, the Roman band paints marvellously gloomy and decadent sceneries in whose loosing yourselves is a joy for the soul. It's a platter that completely captures you after many listenings, in the beginning I was even going to set it as the worse episode of their discography, but I had to change my mind. Trust me, give it some chances, and will be able to ravish you too'. Just for your information, the other band is Sopor Aeternus of ''Sanatorium Altrosa'' but please, just have a look yourselves to this special above said, even just to take note of some names and records.
And last - but not least, could they haven't yet a personal page on Facebook ??? Absolutely no, of course. And in fact they're just building one at the following address http://it-it.facebook.com/pages/KLIMT1918/29429361555, where maybe you can directly ask them about the phantom videoclip of ''Ghost of a tape listener'' (that rightly became 'ghost' as the one evoked in the song itself :D, considering it was announced for September 2008...) or anything else. Cheers !!!