Opeth: Watershed

[mark b]

Ha, I was standing right behind you in the line with my Arcturus shirt... thinking about how I was going to try and get your kid in!

HAHA I remember the shirt

 

[progmetaldan]

Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane all sold out, but then cos of the underage thing there were about 100 tickets made available for Brisbane again... Adelaide had a good crowd, not quite sold out though I don't think...

 

[HackerX]

Mikael at the brisbane concert said that all the shows were sold out and that they'd be coming back in 8 months.

 

[progmetaldan]

btw, Opeth got in the news about it...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24308740-5012980,00.html

 

[mark b]

btw, Opeth got in the news about it...

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24308740-5012980,00.html

They were also on channel 9 and could be on a current affair?

 

[progmetaldan]

wow, some pretty unexpected mainstream exposure for Opeth, at the venue's expense...

 

[SilentRealm]

i love seeing them make commercial media headlines tho!! and are you serious about them maybe coming back in 8 months??? i would soooooooooo go again!!

 

[HackerX]

That's what he said, and like a lot of people have said, he seemed quite certain about it. So maybe something is already in the works.

 

[mark b]

definately 8 months

 

[SilentRealm]

fuck yes! god i love those guys. what other band in their world tour would make 2 trips to australia? some bands can't even make 1 haha.

 

[progmetaldan]

I've heard them say that it's like a holiday for them to come here, apparently Mikael and his wife had a belated honeymoon here, and they love it, so they always want to come again, which is awesome for us! Other bands could learn from their example...

 

[SilentRealm]

damn straight, coz we are the best.

 

[progmetaldan]

Exactly!

 

[Swabs]

I've been to Australia twice and it is awesome (I went to a place called Manly near Sydney).

But I couldn't imagine living there, it's just too far away from where all the cool stuff happens.

 

[SilentRealm]

manly isnt 'near' sydney. its a suburb of it. it is a nice place, but dude don't go to sydney it kind of sucks there (i know im from there haha) - i do agree with you though, its too far from the cool stuff, like you guys had BLOODSTOCK not long ago *so jealous*, and well wacken is pretty cool too (i liked the bloodstock lineup alot more than the wacken one this year tho)

 

[DoomsdayZach]

The wacken lineup this year ate dicks. There were probably only about 5 bands on the entire bill that i would have really wanted to see.

 

[Swabs]

The wacken lineup this year ate dicks. There were probably only about 5 bands on the entire bill that i would have really wanted to see.

I think saw 20 bands in total... I guess our tastes vary quite a bit then

The reason I say "think" is because I don't think I was really sober until the plane back to England.