Post by anaix3l on Oct 28, 2022 6:05:01 GMT -5
I may have broken my foot. My fluffy socks slipped on the hardwood floor and my left foot smashed into the edge of the door. Now it's swollen and in pain.
Back in September 2019, Kreator announced their first tour in over a year would start in late March 2020. The first show was supposed to be in Stockholm, in the same arena where I had seen Helloween and exactly a week after my birthday. For the first time in forever, they were going to do a proper European tour outside the winter months. I wasn't going to freeze my ass off in December or January-February as for the previous tours. This tour was also going to have fewer bands. The plan was to go for the shows in Northern Europe (Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo), a handful of German shows and the Swiss show in Zurich, which was somewhere in between.
Well, no tour starting in late March 2020 happened as planned. This one got postponed to late 2021 and dates mixed up. What had been a continuous string of dates for me... got fragmented with awkward gaps in between. The Oslo show was not part of the same run anymore, as that was a festival show, which was going to take place on Easter weekend as usual. I scrambled to exchange a part of my German show tickets to get rid of those weird gaps. I would have given up the Swiss show altogether, now not tied to anything, except the fuckers were unwilling to offer a refund.
Then the singer of the opening band, Power Trip, died.
And the tour had to be postponed once more, from late 2021 to late 2022. I gave up the Oslo show, which eventually took place this spring. Dates got messed up again. Power Trip got replaced with not one, but two other bands, the bill swelling up to four bands. Shows are in late November and throughout December. The Danish, Swedish and Finnish shows shows are still pretty much grouped together fortunately and I could squeeze in a Powerwolf show in the gap between Helsinki and Munich. Then see the Berlin show and forget the other three German shows, now awkwardly scattered throughout December. Maybe go for Strasbourg, which is an out of tour show with fewer bands, especially since I could see another U.D.O. show in Strasbourg the day before. And maybe sneak in a Frank Turner show in Dresden on the way from Berlin to Strasbourg.
But with exactly three weeks before the tour start in Copenhagen... this happened. Fuuuuuck!
Denmark and Finland are ridiculously expensive. And tickets there are through TicketBastard. Who charge 40 fucking euro from delivery from Finland, which effectively forced me to go for an e-ticket, even though I fucking hate those as I like to have a physical memory. And who delivered my ticket for the Copenhagen show in late March 2020, with just a week to go until that show was originally supposed to happen. And about two weeks after the tour got postponed to what was at the time a still undecided time in the future. This concert trip was supposed to be a once in a lifetime.
Back in September 2019, Kreator announced their first tour in over a year would start in late March 2020. The first show was supposed to be in Stockholm, in the same arena where I had seen Helloween and exactly a week after my birthday. For the first time in forever, they were going to do a proper European tour outside the winter months. I wasn't going to freeze my ass off in December or January-February as for the previous tours. This tour was also going to have fewer bands. The plan was to go for the shows in Northern Europe (Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo), a handful of German shows and the Swiss show in Zurich, which was somewhere in between.
Well, no tour starting in late March 2020 happened as planned. This one got postponed to late 2021 and dates mixed up. What had been a continuous string of dates for me... got fragmented with awkward gaps in between. The Oslo show was not part of the same run anymore, as that was a festival show, which was going to take place on Easter weekend as usual. I scrambled to exchange a part of my German show tickets to get rid of those weird gaps. I would have given up the Swiss show altogether, now not tied to anything, except the fuckers were unwilling to offer a refund.
Then the singer of the opening band, Power Trip, died.
And the tour had to be postponed once more, from late 2021 to late 2022. I gave up the Oslo show, which eventually took place this spring. Dates got messed up again. Power Trip got replaced with not one, but two other bands, the bill swelling up to four bands. Shows are in late November and throughout December. The Danish, Swedish and Finnish shows shows are still pretty much grouped together fortunately and I could squeeze in a Powerwolf show in the gap between Helsinki and Munich. Then see the Berlin show and forget the other three German shows, now awkwardly scattered throughout December. Maybe go for Strasbourg, which is an out of tour show with fewer bands, especially since I could see another U.D.O. show in Strasbourg the day before. And maybe sneak in a Frank Turner show in Dresden on the way from Berlin to Strasbourg.
But with exactly three weeks before the tour start in Copenhagen... this happened. Fuuuuuck!
Denmark and Finland are ridiculously expensive. And tickets there are through TicketBastard. Who charge 40 fucking euro from delivery from Finland, which effectively forced me to go for an e-ticket, even though I fucking hate those as I like to have a physical memory. And who delivered my ticket for the Copenhagen show in late March 2020, with just a week to go until that show was originally supposed to happen. And about two weeks after the tour got postponed to what was at the time a still undecided time in the future. This concert trip was supposed to be a once in a lifetime.