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Can`t help noticing that the poster says "plus special guestS". Does anyone know who, besides Ståle Storløkken, will be joining the boys on this tour..?
Thanks fillmore, for checking out on the Desertfest. Guess we have to keep an close eye on their websight.
Btw, it cannot hurt to write to Desertfest and enquire about the on-sale date of the one-day tickets and let them know that we appreciate that they booked MP. I was told they receive many mails, many of whom comment on the choice of bands. It seems the DF-crowd is evenly divided into MP-lovers and MP-haters. Many complained about MP being the headliner, asking if another band would play on the second stage while MP will be playing. Also we should really raise the pressure on DF for them to finally release the one-day passes so we can make travel arrangements. I am abit anxious they might ultimately not make one day passes available if the other tix will sell well.
Christ, what kind of attitude or "scene" is going to be present there eventually? Hope the anti people will be blown away!
It's not a hostile scene or attitude (maybe "MP-haters" was the wrong term to choose). It's the Stoner scene you know. They love simple formulas for their music and one thing MP isn't about is a simple formula. So there are many individuals from this scene who are not interested in seeing MP. Many of the city's stoner people have actually seen MP in 2010 at the same venue when local Stoner gods RotoR supported MP. I talked to some people afterwards and while some were genuinely impressed a great deal of them still claimed that RotoR put on the better show, a statement I simply cannot comprehend. The festival bookers however said they realise MP isn't a band for everyone but they deliberately chose them in order to bring some diversity to the program.
Update: My contact at DF just wrote me a Facebook message confirming that day tickets will be made available "next month"!
That poster is great.
If it's a reference to the latest Opeth record cover and the history behind that (one member leaving and thus his head falling from the tree) it might seem that these guys had some serious discussions during the recording process :lol:
@Alex: Ah, good news – on the folks & the tickets
The way i interpret that poster is that Bent, Snah & Kenneth are sceptical of letting new members into the band. That's why they're in defense mode, armed with knives against the new guy on their "heavy metal fruit table"…
Or I could be over-analyzing big time :lol: Cool poster, though.
Another tourdate confirmed:
Updated 19.01.2012:
17.03.2012 – Kongsberg, Energimølla (NOR)
12.04.2012 – London, The Garage (UK)
13.04.2012 – Groningen, Vera (NL)
14.04.2012 – Utrecht, Tivoli (NL)
15.04.2012 – Nijmegen, Doornroosje (NL)
17.04.2012 – Köln,Stollwerck (GER)
18.04.2012 – Bremen, Schlachthof (GER)
19.04.2012 – Leipzig, Conne Island (GER)
20.04.2012 – Berlin, Desertfest @ Astra (GER)
23.04.2012 – Ravenna, Bronson (IT)
24.04.2012 – Livorno, The Cage Theatre (IT)
25.04.2012 – Mezzago, Bloom (IT)
27.04.2012 – Kortrijk, De Kreun (BE)
28.04.2012 – Leuven, Stuk (BE)
29.04.2012 – Esch-sur-Alzette, Kulturfabrik (LU)
04.08.2012 – Bad Doberan, Zappanale (GER)
Great Poster!
The Pic is in the new Presskit, you can download it here: http://www.powerline-agency.com/MOPS.html
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