MARS Festival 2012
Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012
Sigur Rós debut in Slovenia
Although called a festival, it was more a Sigur Rós concert with two supporting bands, since I doubt any of the visitors came just to see any of the other two bands, however good they were.
Since it was the only concert of Sigur Rós in the area (day before they played a sold out gig in Vienna and a bit before one in Verona), there were a lot of people from Croatia, Austria, Italy, Serbia and even Montenegro. That all made this evening, held under the patronage of the ECC, even more special.
Sigur Rós were just amazing this night, actually my first time to see them playing live. Their melodically-slowly-building-up-noise mixed with Jónsi Birgisson's known falsetto and bowed guitar, felt so good. Just beautiful. And magical. Even the rain and thunder waited for the band to finish.
It was a bit harder than usual in the photo pit, 'cause we could only be either on the left, or on the right side bellow the stage (no shooting in the centre) for the usual first 3 songs, which meant limited manoeuvring space among quite a lot of photographers there that night.
mojcArt @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
mojcArt @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
mojcArt @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
mojcArt @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
mojcArt @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Melodrom @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Mina Špiler (Melodrom) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Mina Špiler (Melodrom) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Melodrom @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Mina Špiler (Melodrom) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
MARS Festival 2012 @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Georg Hólm (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
MARS Festival 2012 @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
MARS Festival 2012 @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Georg Hólm (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Orri Páll Dýrason (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
MARS Festival 2012 @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
Jónsi Birgisson (Sigur Rós) @ MARS Festival 2012, Trg Leona Štuklja, Maribor (Slovenia), 05/09/2012 Photo: © Saša Huzjak
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- Melodrom: www.melodrom.com
- mojcArt: mojcart.blogspot.com
- Sigur Rós: www.sigur-ros.co.uk
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