This weekend saw Franco-German arts channel ARTE running a documentary about this year's Hellfest festival, which was held in Clisson from June 15-17.
Every year since 2006 the town, near nantes, hosts one of Europe's biggest metal festivals, this year featuring some of the biggest names in rock from Guns 'n' Roses and Ozzy Ozbourne to smaller bands representing pretty much every genre in contemporary rock music.
While hugely popular, rock music has never attracted the serious critical attention that it deserves, so it's hugely encouraging that a channel like Arte taking it on board.
Over 110,000 fans attended the event this year, and Hellfest returns on June 21, 22 and 23 next year.
Sadly I wasn't able to watch the documentary online, as music rights are a complicated things for broadcast companies and while they may have permission to broadcast music from an event and put it online, they don't have the right to do so in other countries, hence the video of the broadcast is geoblocked.
If you are in France or Germany, you might be abel to watch the video here http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/hellfest_2012-6841496.html
Anyway, a number of the performances at this year's festival have been made available to watch online on the Hellfest website, I thought the Dropkick Murphy's with their celtic punk particularly appropriate for a Brittany (almost) based festival. Their intro tape, Foggy dew, was of course covered by Alan Stivell.
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