Oh, where
should I start? Mobb Deep had their concert on the 11th of June in Grelle
Forelle in Vienna. When I arrived at the underground station Spittelau, I had
my problems to get there. I got lost for 20 minutes. Google Maps and GPS
couldn’t really help me. When I finally found that location that is situated
close to the Danube, I couldn’t find the entrance. Hahaha! WTF! Security men
that didn’t stand in the entrance showed me the way. I got relieved, entered,
paid the entrance fee of 28,90 Euro and explored Grelle Forelle. It was my very
first time there. And I found out, Grelle Forelle is not in an official
street, so that’s why my GPS couldn’t find it!
Grelle
Forelle has three big rooms, two bars and an outdoor lounge. The rooms were not
higher than 2,5 metres and had no windows, nor an electric fan, neither an air
condition. The biggest room is in the very back of Grelle Forelle and had a
stage that was not higher than one metre. Before the concert started, I smoked
my Villiger Kiel cigar and danced to oldschool hip hop songs. Oh, how I enjoyed
it! :D Especially when they played “Dear Mama” by Tupac.
Böser Wolf
and Fant were the first ones to perform on stage. It was 8 or 9 o’clock in
the evening when they started, so the location was not really full. I can only
say to the people who came too late, “You hella missed something!!!!” Both performed Böser Wolf's EP called “Halbschlaf EP” (half sleep EP)
very professionally and made it hard for the next acts to overcome their limit
of standards. In the end, these Viennese rappers have made me proud to come
from Vienna!
Their songs
are dark, rhetorical and metaphorical at a high standard, very deep in their
meanings/messages, easy to hear and
perfectly made for a performance on stage. Full of energy, very entertaining,
including their audience in their performances in an unusual way, they have
done a very good job. And me as an artist, I got highly inspired. Thanks for
the inspiration, guys!
In another
blog entry, I will write more detailed about their songs. So stay tuned!
Peace,
Kath
P.S.: Here
is the link to Böser Wolf and Bob Chief’s “Halbschlaf EP”: http://boeserwolf.bandcamp.com
and here’s
a link to a music video of Halbschlaf EP’s song “Minzgrün”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSYFM3mg7U
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