FWIW, Primordial would LOVE to play this as well. Alan & I spent a good deal of time talking about the logistics, costs, etc.
Here are some hard numbers, btw:
- r/t airfare for all band members (example of Dublin -> NYC = $500 each, total $2500)
- hotel, 2 nights, 3 rooms = $250 weekend x 3 = $750 total
- band rider + fees for paying = I'm going to leave this undisclosed in Primordial's case, b/c I'm not sure if it's my place to be posting it in public. I will just say it's affordable. In fact, I think every one of us here would be surprised to find out just HOW affordable most of these bands would be; FYI, to give you an idea, less than 20 of the 80 bands invited to play Wacken are paid. I'm obviously not saying we'd be on par with Wacken, but you'd be surprised at how far "exposure" and the ability to sell some merch & records to a new crowd will go with some bands.
- work VISAs = $300-350 ea. = figure anywhere from $1500-$2000 per band from Europe
it's very doable IMO
We would need 3 Euro bands, maybe 4 at most, then anywhere from 4-6 "local" i.e. North America bands.
I personally think that Noltem, Nasheim/Lethal, etc. are brilliant ideas and would love if all the RC reg'lars could somehow be a part of this.
Anyway, that's just my $.02
