The crowd reacted so wildly even Anti-Flag themselves seemed a bit surprised. Anti-Flag’s bass player; Chris a.k.a. #2 held a short speech about unity and peace before continuing their set with Got The Numbers and, amongst others, This Machine Kills Fascists

After what seemed only half an hour they ended their set with the title song of their first album; Die For The Government.

Anti-flag certainly lived up to our expectations, leaving us anxiously awaiting the next chance we’ll get to see them live on stage.

The Donots
The next on the bill was the Donots. Unfortunately we didn’t get to see them since we had the pleasure of interviewing Anti-Flag’s #2 (see the interview page).

Although we’re not able to make any serious comments about the Donots’ set they did sound punkrock. In our humble opinion this German band couldn’t match the standard Anti-Flag set for the evening.

Millencolin
Finally Millencolin took to the stage. Although we’re no fans of them the gig they played wasn’t bad at all.

Mathias (Millencolin’s drummer) broke his arm some time ago, so for this tour they had a stand-in for him. However we have to note that if Millencolin hadn’t mentioned this fact we would have never noticed any difference.

When they opened their act with No Cigar the crowd went insane and within no time a wild pit appeared. After that we heard the songs Man Or Mouse, Fingers Crossed, Botanic Mistress and Black Eye, all songs of their new album (Home From Home).

Whilst the crowd continued to rage on we heard older songs like Duckpond, Olympic, Lozin` Must, 22 and Mr. Clean.

This highly enjoyable evening left us drained yet satisfied, eagerly awaiting Anti-Flag’s return to Europe. Perhaps with Millencolin opening up for them :)

(Review: Sven Svenson
Pics: Nico Vink)