Wuthering Heights

Every year, there’s a sold out venue in Atlanta’s Midtown that makes the local parking mafia scratch their heads. A sold out venue means that they should make, and probably pocket, lots of green bills as people show up to attend Earthlink Live, located on one of Atlanta, Georgia’s (USA) many and confusing Peachtree Roads. Only during these three nights (pre-party included), no cars show up! No parking money is made, and you can be sure the parking mafia’s heads and fingers are both sore. You see, this is no local event — this is North America’s prime festival for the “more demanding” Heavy Metal fans … the fans who care for musicians who can tune their instruments and write challenging music … and its fifth edition just went down in history – welcome to ProgPower V! Promoter Glenn Harveston, known as the “Harvester,” refuses to upgrade to a bigger venue. This event sells out every year in a few days – he knows his budget and decides to play it safe and keep the same crew in order to make the show better, successfully so, every year. Fans, not only from North America, but the whole world, start to gather in Atlanta a few days before the festival takes place. There is always a pre-party, but because the Progressive Metal fan in the USA isn’t too spoiled with happenings of this sort at the time being, this year people have a pre-pre-party, one not organised by the promoter. It seems like the audience chose to get into town a day early – and who could tell where this will all end? Possibly a week of hanging out in Atlanta before the main event – so everyone could go to the airport and create “Beatles mass hysteria” when the bands’ …READ MORE