Your REALISTIC dream-lineup for 2009

[Madrigal]

Dream-Headliners:

Riverside (perfect after they have kind of been "discovered" by PP when they first played there as mere nobodies)
Pain Of Salvation
Evergrey
Vanden Plas
Nightingale
Enchant (more than one other has wished for them, too, so wouldn't it be about time to fly them in?)

Other dream-bands:

Heaven's Cry (even if they don't have any new material)
Soliloquy
Andromeda
Serenity
Poverty's No Crime
Tiles
Into Eternity
Borknagar / Vintersorg
Abigails Ghost
Machinae Supremacy
Divsion By Zero (again, yes, but higher up in the bill where they belong! They could become BIG soon like Riverside)

Bands like Pendragon, Arena, Galahad or Sylvan I reckon are too soft for PP...?
But then... Pure Reason Revolution aren't particularly heavy either - still I'd love to see them on the line-up next year, too!

Last but not least: ProgPower to me also is so special because I can always discover great new bands there - so please keep them surprises coming!

 

[Blueprint]

Nevermore are way too big for PP... not very realistic then.

Let's trade them for Seventh Wonder then and move the line-up around a bit

 

[muppie]

FRIDAY

* Triosphere
* Manigance
* Firewind

SATURDAY

*Kiuas
*Harmony
*Poverty's No Crime
*Power Quest
*Cloudscape
*Evergrey

SUNDAY

*Almah
*Communic
*DGM
*Seventh Wonder
*Serenity
*Vanden Plas

 

[renejanssen]

We had our first meeting with the Sjiwa crew and the organization that takes care of the line-up. There are few bands on the list of requested bands that we try to book, but the first band we have booked was not on the list of anybody . And there is one more band we are talking to that no one has mentioned so far.

We will announce the first bands at the end of november, early december, as you are used from us we once again try to book an interesting mix of known and unknown bands in a very wide range of the progscene.

Stay tuned!

Rene

 

[Dandemon]

Some bands I'd love to see are:

- Symphony X!!!!!
- Evergrey
- Opeth
- Pain of Salvation

And now for something a bit more realistic:

- Machinery
- Serenity
- Darkane
- Dark Tranquillity
- Into Eternity
- Cloudscape
- Katatonia
- Andromeda
- Nightingale
- Vanden Plas

Well, the list goes on and on... hehe!

 

[Jeroen Geraedts]

Sabaton (Let the party start )

No offence meant, but what part of prog is there in sabaton?
Sounds like pure power metal to me.

Oh, and of course.. I would gladly replace the whole line-up by one single show by ZILTOID

Couldn't agree more on that one

 

[FarmerDude]

Ok, here's my dreamlist:

Pure Reason Revolution
Riverside
Frost
Sylvan
Lalu/Shadrane
Ghost Circus
Evergrey
Darkwater
Katatonia
Porcupine Tree



I really have to add another band from Poland
,in case Riverside are toooooo busy.
- After

 

[Stormaniac]

Would love to see (again):
Lite
Lanfear
Disillusion
Zero Hour
The Armada
7 For 4
Birds & Buildings
It Bites
Meshuggah
Pyramaze
Porcupine Tree

 

[Maikie]

Symphony X as headliner would kick ass. They blew me away as support for DT. They would be a great prog-metal act. I would sell my grandma just to see them again in the Netherlands.

 

[Bringa]

Which might be the problem, and an interesting question to boot: are there bands that are "too big" for ProgPower? As in, if Rene books Band XY (Sym X, DT, Opeth, whatever) there will be Problems (the festival being booked out too soon, the venue being too small, the elitists being too annoyed...) I'm not even sure if that is a really meaningful question, at least not this way. So let's look at it from another way:

Is there any band that is too big for ProgPower to book? As in, they're asking for too much money, they have a list of conditions that the venue/team/whatever can't meet?

We're always talking about realistic suggestions, but what makes a suggestion unrealistic in this context?

 

[wyrm]

I hope to see more surprises like 21 eyes of ruby last year!
Maybe Noir could be the band that can do this...?

Also Mind Odyssey is high on my list. They release their comebackalbum 27-02-09. It is time to see Victor Smolski live again....

 

[Ayreonaut]

Damian Wilson & Band is high on my list now, as Damian will be doing some shows with stuff from his entire career in october

Might be some stuff is not heavy enought though for progpower...

 

[Raimond]

Mindflow
Deexpus
Andromeda
Thessera (missed them in 2007)
7for4
Mind's Eye
Ivanhoe
Atmosfear
Strange Land
Transmission
Panzerballet
Thought Chamber
Shadrane
Cloudscape

are on my most wanted list.

 

[Raimond]

Oh my, I forgot Shadow Gallery. I have now idea how realistic that would be, but it would be progpower, christmas, birthday and Easter at once!

 

[ration]

Oh my, I forgot Shadow Gallery. I have now idea how realistic that would be, but it would be progpower, christmas, birthday and Easter at once!

The lead singer Mike Baker died last year, so this is rather unlikely

Or at least I haven't heard that they've got (or even seeking yet) a new singer, but you never know..

 

[Raimond]

I know, what a tragedy. We lost a genious vocalist and musician there, and obviously a great person.

But progpower hopefully will continue, so we better keep the band in mind for later festivals.

 

[wyrm]

Thought Chamber

Great Choice!

 

[ProgressiveLunatic]

some thoughts:

Riverside
Sylvan
Indukti
Parallaxe
Ivanhoe
Lanfear
Pantommind
Tomorrow's Eve
Dominici
Fates Warning
Deadsoul Tribe
Andromeda
Pain of Salvation
Vanden Plas
Atmosfear
Redemption
Circus Maximus
Forgotten Suns
Fragile Vastness
Beyond Twilight
...come to my mind!

...and Psychotic Waltz reunion
...and Conception and/or Ark reunion

not very realistic though

 

[ProgressiveLunatic]

Mindflow
Deexpus
Thessera (missed them in 2007)
7for4
Mind's Eye
Strange Land
Transmission
Panzerballet
Thought Chamber
Shadrane

are on my most wanted list.

...and I double these excellent choices by Ray as well!

 

[wyrm]

Anyone here ever heard of Ansur? They really surprised me with an excellent mix of pure prog and extreme metal. Check it out: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=69309415
...Hope to see them on PP2009!