Regarding touring
2001-05-11
We will play Wacken this year. They gave us an offer we couldn't resist, he he! =)
We will start touring on the new album in mid October (South America and Mexico) and end it in November (Europe). There was some plans for shows in USA, but the organizers offers were so awfully bad that even if the musicians would have played for free, I would have lost money on doing the shows. It seems like there are almost no organizers in USA that have any sort of cultural interest in booking bands, it seems to be only a thought of making an unreasonably high economical profit on each show behind it. If poor countries like Columbia can afford to book us and pay almost as well as promoters in Europe, then it really is a shame that no US promoter even wanted to bring an offer of half or even one third of that.
We were of course looking forward to play there for the first time and the negative results of the efforts to book some shows there was indeed a dissapointment. But we have so many other shows to look forward to visit and play so the greatest pity is in my opinion that the american/canadian fans likely never will get the chance to see us - I feel mostly sorry for you guys. The only possibility I could think of bringing us over (besides double or tripple the recordsales) seems to be if the dudes behind any festival would want to bring us over. So to be honest; the american fans should rather than wait try to save some bux and see us in Mexico headline or in Europe on some metal festival (and get plenty of other cool metal bands on the same bill) if they wanna catch the chance of seeing us live before we get too old and retire from the band.
We will start touring on the new album in mid October (South America and Mexico) and end it in November (Europe). There was some plans for shows in USA, but the organizers offers were so awfully bad that even if the musicians would have played for free, I would have lost money on doing the shows. It seems like there are almost no organizers in USA that have any sort of cultural interest in booking bands, it seems to be only a thought of making an unreasonably high economical profit on each show behind it. If poor countries like Columbia can afford to book us and pay almost as well as promoters in Europe, then it really is a shame that no US promoter even wanted to bring an offer of half or even one third of that.
We were of course looking forward to play there for the first time and the negative results of the efforts to book some shows there was indeed a dissapointment. But we have so many other shows to look forward to visit and play so the greatest pity is in my opinion that the american/canadian fans likely never will get the chance to see us - I feel mostly sorry for you guys. The only possibility I could think of bringing us over (besides double or tripple the recordsales) seems to be if the dudes behind any festival would want to bring us over. So to be honest; the american fans should rather than wait try to save some bux and see us in Mexico headline or in Europe on some metal festival (and get plenty of other cool metal bands on the same bill) if they wanna catch the chance of seeing us live before we get too old and retire from the band.
