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Back to work Monday
🕑 Added 2018-06-27 11:07:28 +0000 UTC Hey guys, just letting you know I'm getting super pumped to get back to work on Monday! Graspop was a blast, catching up with everyone and also meeting Mark and Simone from Epica and Tom from Evergrey was awesome. Mark in particular was really cool, doing Loser and Everybody Dies was super-fun. I had some amazing conversations with Tommy Karevik and it just sucks that there wasn't more time to talk to everyone. Marcela Bovio also has a patreon and I wish there was more time to hang out with her to talk about what her experience with it has been so far. I told Arjen about the "I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories" story and he loves it, but he thinks the title is too long! I, however, am a Jim Steinman fan and I love long song titles so I'm not changing it haha. Anyway so I spent the rest of the weekend just aimlessly wandering around the festival. I bumped into a few of you patreon subscribers so it was great to see some faces! I saw Sons of Apollo and they were insanely good, Tesseract were phenomenal. I got to hear Accept play frickin "Balls to the Wall" which was amazing haha. I think my balls are still on a wall somewhere out in a field in Belgium.. Such a wild experience warming my voice up singing along to Iron Maiden though. In fact, they were still playing Run to the Hills just before I went out onstage, and remembered watching a video of an Aussie band called silverchair playing a festival somewhere in Europe in the 2000s, and they were playing during Maiden's set. And their singer Daniel Johns is being an asshole onstage talking about how he hates Maiden or something.. What a dickhead. Ozzy definitely was my least favourite, he was so out of tune and oblivious to everything. It was really sad. I missed Baroness, I don't know why, I got the times mixed up. Arch Enemy were amazing but I got all my tokens stolen out of my back pocket while I was sitting on the grass. I saw Adrian Vandenberg's Moon Kings from one of those big tall tower things and his guitar sounded amazing. So I'm looking forward to getting back into writing when I get home, I have a few ideas gathered. I go out and play some shows in Australia the following week so if you're around, be sure to get down and say hi! OK cool I'm gonna hit "post" now #goodComments
Tour starts next weekend, will have something new done before then!
I'm in need for some shrooooom & riffs ! Are you okay MIke ? Already gone to your July Australian tour ? :)
Hanan DOA Argov
It was awesome seeing you and everyone both at the signing and the show. This time it looked like everyone was having more fun than you did in September, like you were meeting up to play and sing together. The festival itself was very good, with some let downs here and there (you didn’t see guns and roses - which were like Ozzy, off key, but as my friends and I say, we went to zakk wylde show, with someone singing in the background) Hope you’ll come to tour again in Europe, and also do another Ayreon show (I think once a year event will be awesome, for me and my wallet)
