Welcome To The Ball

The concertseason really is getting started now! My plan was to try and stay home and take it easy as much as possible the rest of this year. Don't really look like that at the moment. Ripper, Dream Evil, Primal Fear, Wasp, Annihilator, Blind Guardian, Dimmu Borgir, UFO, Candlemass, Pretty Maids, Helloween and many more... I've spent some time today to get tickets, contact promoters etc for all these events. The most stupid thing though must be Ticnet. It's possible to chose pick up at ATG (and pay with banktransfer), Pick up at ticnet (pay with card) and reserve tickets and pick up at ATG within 4 days or something but it's not possible to check out those tickts. You still have to pay with banktransfer! Morons! And then I realized how stressful it is with Eventim, the little clock in the corner telling I have this many minutes to finalize my transaction.... GAAAH!

But the most important at the moment is the Jon Oliva's Pain tour. It felt really bad that I couldn't attend the DVD shoot when it was scheduled during the spring so no one was happier than me when they announced they had to move it to October! It's gonna be awesome!

The plan is to go to the DVD shoot in Tilburg and then the last gig of the tour at Biebob, would have been cool to see one of the first ones too but I doubt that will fit in the schedule! Only two gigs is quite little though but it has to be enough for this time. The concert at BYH in July was awesome so I can't really wait for this tour.

Check out the Metal Temple Jon Oliva Interview

Then, at the same time we get the chance to see another favorite band of mine! Vicious Rumors

They're out on the road too at the same time and a few dates together with Circle II Cricle. A really great package for me, the new tunes from Circle II Circle sounds nice and Vicious Rumors are always Kick Ass live!

It's going to be one hell of a weekend, that's for sure!

It's a little bit ironic though, I don't think there ever has been as many cool concerst and mini-festivals as it is now. Swordbrothers, Mario's Metal Meeting, Heavy Metal Maniacs, Hammer Of Doom, Play It Loud... The list goes on and on and I would love to go to all of them but it's not possible to bounce off to Germany every second weekend... Unfortunately...

//E

NP: Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator