Arch Enemy Tour Blog #3
Feb. 05 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Feb. 06 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
Feb. 08 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Center @ The Grand
Feb. 09 – West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My final tour blog! It has been cold the last couple of days in Canada:
Vancouver, baby! Love the city and the Commodore Ballroom is neatly situated in a good shopping part of town. We all rush out to buy comfort foods.
The show in Vancouver is just awesome!!!
Vancouver ‘My Apocalypse’ live (btw – Why did Metallica recycle our song title on their latest record? Great for us – all the kids searching for the Metallica song get Arch Enemy instead):
Do you ever wonder what we do all day before we hit the stage at let’s say 11pm?
Well, it depends on the person and its responsibilities. We all sleep pretty long, then sound check, then interviews, then jam backstage..
I am stuck in front of my laptop most of the day as I manage Arch Enemy. On this tour I had to advance 2 tours in Europe: A run in France, one in the UK and some early festivals. Go to http://www.archenemy.net/tours.php for info!
I also keep a very close eye on the current tour and its budget. We are self-managed since 2008 and it was the best decision we have ever made in our career. Suddenly we are not piss-poor anymore. The music business is full of leeches and cockroaches. They all take their percentage of the gross income and suddenly there is a big minus at the end of the budget after everybody else got paid. I am watching out for Nr. 1: Arch Enemy. These boys are my brothers and my family won’t get ripped off ever again. Power to the people!
Arsis had their van broken in twice. Total cost of the damage done about 1500 $. Not funny. Arsis really add value to the tour (I love them), so we decide to cover their damage. For us it’s a tax write off, for them it’s either eat or not to eat. They are my brothers too.
We got some awesome gear with us on tour. Sharlee is trying out Aguilar equipment – such beauties.. And if you are a gear nerd and wondered what we are hiding behind the scrims – here you go:
Border crossing again after Vancouver into Seattle. The 4th time. We are getting used to it and are all pretty much stoned out of our minds. I mean, you can’t waste any herbs, can ya? Well, the border patrol is cool, just wants to see our faces quickly and spares us the dogs and sticky little fingers through our bags bullshit. We are not stupid. They know that. Our history is as clean and smooth as a freshly powdered baby bottom. Never ever had any trouble.
Seattle, San Francisco and LA – 3 awesome shows left to play!
Seattle – absolutely raging show:
I recently saw a documentary about the likeliness of an all-destroying sea earthquake plus tsunami in Seattle. Beautiful city. Lets hope mother nature has mercy and it wont ever happen. But its so very likely.. How does it feel to live at the edge of total disaster? I guess it feels like boarding a plane in Venezuela.. haha. Mint-coloured 70ies interior and you know that routine inspections haven’t been done since then. You also know you will be flying through at least 2 thunder storms with lightning bolts and heavy rain. So its not quite sure you will land in Colombia. But still you board that plane..
All 3 shows are raging. Lots of press and familiar faces. We got average a 1000 kids per show, the House Of Blues in LA is sold out.
Michael hangs out with his buddies from Proudflesh in SF:
Exodus get Zetro up on stage in SF. Awesome stuff! Both Zetro and Dukes are awesome front-men. I love it when people don’t hold a grudge, but move on and remember the good times they had. Life is way too short to waste one minute on negativity. Have your revenge if you must have, but don’t look back. Usually, living a happy life is the best payback anyway.
Check out Exodus with both Rob Dukes and Zetro in SF:
And Arsis tearing it up:
Go and pick up Arsis just released CD ‘Starve For The Devil’! It is worth the money!
We have a killer show in San Francisco:
As usual, we end our tour in LA. We get all the insanity that is Hollywood. The biggest display of oversized plastic-ones. Those ladies.. when they turn a corner, their bosom shows up first, the rest of their usually tiny body about 5 minutes later. Is that fun? The triple D’s? What’s wrong with the modest B or C cup? I run every day for 90 minutes. Imagine I would have 5 pounds in front of me, bopping up and down. My back would kill me. F**k no.
The Hollywood show is a fantastic ending to an uber-fantastic tour!
After the show its time to say heartfelt good-byes to our friends in Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within.
Too many strangers backstage, people from the business with AAA passes who really are just in the way.. All I wanna do is hug my brother ins metal, instead I get pulled left, right and centre for some stupid pictures with folks I really don’t care about. I hate being a facebook / myspace profile pic trophy. And we have to mark all our gear for shipment, get that sorted and then get thrown out of the bus by the company at 4am, because the driver wants to pick up another job the next day. That was not nice and not very funny, kewl comfort! Not so very ‘kewl’. Fuck you very much. What comes around, goes around..
We all made it back home safely despite snow storms and delayed flights. This was by far the best US Tour we have done in the last 10 years! A huge ‘Thank you’ to Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within for being so easy going, professional and kick-ass on and off stage! Also our crew Beau, Shawn, Eddie, Clem, Josh for keeping the wheels running. Our FOH Clem provided me with pretty much all pictures for this blog! We love you and we will miss you terribly ‘til the next tour!!! Our label Century Media, Steve Joh, Brian Rocha and Ryan for an overkill of press – It helped a lot making this tour such a success! And Gerardo and Loana from Nuclear Blast for working their butts off for a band, that is not even on their roster – Arch Enemy! You both rule!
And last, but not least, the good metal heads at Vans for an endless supply of awesome sneakers and clothes and promo support!
Let’s just do this again end of 2011 – ok?!?!?! With a new Arch Enemy album and the will to kill.
You all stay pure fucking metal until then,
Yours truly,
Angela
Feb. 06 – Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
Feb. 08 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Center @ The Grand
Feb. 09 – West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My final tour blog! It has been cold the last couple of days in Canada:
Vancouver, baby! Love the city and the Commodore Ballroom is neatly situated in a good shopping part of town. We all rush out to buy comfort foods.
The show in Vancouver is just awesome!!!
Vancouver ‘My Apocalypse’ live (btw – Why did Metallica recycle our song title on their latest record? Great for us – all the kids searching for the Metallica song get Arch Enemy instead):
Do you ever wonder what we do all day before we hit the stage at let’s say 11pm?
Well, it depends on the person and its responsibilities. We all sleep pretty long, then sound check, then interviews, then jam backstage..
I am stuck in front of my laptop most of the day as I manage Arch Enemy. On this tour I had to advance 2 tours in Europe: A run in France, one in the UK and some early festivals. Go to http://www.archenemy.net/tours.php for info!
I also keep a very close eye on the current tour and its budget. We are self-managed since 2008 and it was the best decision we have ever made in our career. Suddenly we are not piss-poor anymore. The music business is full of leeches and cockroaches. They all take their percentage of the gross income and suddenly there is a big minus at the end of the budget after everybody else got paid. I am watching out for Nr. 1: Arch Enemy. These boys are my brothers and my family won’t get ripped off ever again. Power to the people!
Arsis had their van broken in twice. Total cost of the damage done about 1500 $. Not funny. Arsis really add value to the tour (I love them), so we decide to cover their damage. For us it’s a tax write off, for them it’s either eat or not to eat. They are my brothers too.
We got some awesome gear with us on tour. Sharlee is trying out Aguilar equipment – such beauties.. And if you are a gear nerd and wondered what we are hiding behind the scrims – here you go:
Border crossing again after Vancouver into Seattle. The 4th time. We are getting used to it and are all pretty much stoned out of our minds. I mean, you can’t waste any herbs, can ya? Well, the border patrol is cool, just wants to see our faces quickly and spares us the dogs and sticky little fingers through our bags bullshit. We are not stupid. They know that. Our history is as clean and smooth as a freshly powdered baby bottom. Never ever had any trouble.
Seattle, San Francisco and LA – 3 awesome shows left to play!
Seattle – absolutely raging show:
I recently saw a documentary about the likeliness of an all-destroying sea earthquake plus tsunami in Seattle. Beautiful city. Lets hope mother nature has mercy and it wont ever happen. But its so very likely.. How does it feel to live at the edge of total disaster? I guess it feels like boarding a plane in Venezuela.. haha. Mint-coloured 70ies interior and you know that routine inspections haven’t been done since then. You also know you will be flying through at least 2 thunder storms with lightning bolts and heavy rain. So its not quite sure you will land in Colombia. But still you board that plane..
All 3 shows are raging. Lots of press and familiar faces. We got average a 1000 kids per show, the House Of Blues in LA is sold out.
Michael hangs out with his buddies from Proudflesh in SF:
Exodus get Zetro up on stage in SF. Awesome stuff! Both Zetro and Dukes are awesome front-men. I love it when people don’t hold a grudge, but move on and remember the good times they had. Life is way too short to waste one minute on negativity. Have your revenge if you must have, but don’t look back. Usually, living a happy life is the best payback anyway.
Check out Exodus with both Rob Dukes and Zetro in SF:
And Arsis tearing it up:
Go and pick up Arsis just released CD ‘Starve For The Devil’! It is worth the money!
We have a killer show in San Francisco:
As usual, we end our tour in LA. We get all the insanity that is Hollywood. The biggest display of oversized plastic-ones. Those ladies.. when they turn a corner, their bosom shows up first, the rest of their usually tiny body about 5 minutes later. Is that fun? The triple D’s? What’s wrong with the modest B or C cup? I run every day for 90 minutes. Imagine I would have 5 pounds in front of me, bopping up and down. My back would kill me. F**k no.
The Hollywood show is a fantastic ending to an uber-fantastic tour!
After the show its time to say heartfelt good-byes to our friends in Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within.
Too many strangers backstage, people from the business with AAA passes who really are just in the way.. All I wanna do is hug my brother ins metal, instead I get pulled left, right and centre for some stupid pictures with folks I really don’t care about. I hate being a facebook / myspace profile pic trophy. And we have to mark all our gear for shipment, get that sorted and then get thrown out of the bus by the company at 4am, because the driver wants to pick up another job the next day. That was not nice and not very funny, kewl comfort! Not so very ‘kewl’. Fuck you very much. What comes around, goes around..
We all made it back home safely despite snow storms and delayed flights. This was by far the best US Tour we have done in the last 10 years! A huge ‘Thank you’ to Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within for being so easy going, professional and kick-ass on and off stage! Also our crew Beau, Shawn, Eddie, Clem, Josh for keeping the wheels running. Our FOH Clem provided me with pretty much all pictures for this blog! We love you and we will miss you terribly ‘til the next tour!!! Our label Century Media, Steve Joh, Brian Rocha and Ryan for an overkill of press – It helped a lot making this tour such a success! And Gerardo and Loana from Nuclear Blast for working their butts off for a band, that is not even on their roster – Arch Enemy! You both rule!
And last, but not least, the good metal heads at Vans for an endless supply of awesome sneakers and clothes and promo support!
Let’s just do this again end of 2011 – ok?!?!?! With a new Arch Enemy album and the will to kill.
You all stay pure fucking metal until then,
Yours truly,
Angela
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