Hail all !
I just feel the need to write something about the last days in the life of Evergrey.
Monday
morning we got the long awaited phonecall from our manager Edward who for
the 2 last months have tried to land us a opening act slot for one of the
worlds most known artists.
The tour would only consist of 5 dates in Scandinavia with one gig every other
day in arenas that takes in between 13000 -16000 spectators.
The opening act slot was offered to us and three other bands in Scandinavia
and we were of course sure of not getting it, seeing that the other bands
were more mainstream than us, but it would all be up to the management of
the headliner.
So Monday morning all
of us in the band except Michael were sitting in our studio having coffe while
talking about different song structures for the upcoming album when the phone
rang , I saw in the display that it was Edward , I picked up and just awaited
the bad news but as soon as he opened his mouth I heard that he was all excited
-WE GOT IT - he said and I screamed the same on the top of my lungs to my
fellow band mates and everything was like hitting the jackpot on the lottery.
We walked around in bliss for the rest of the day and called our endorsers
and sponsors making them give us more stuff since we were now doing this high
profile tour, everyone all of a sudden treated us with the biggest respect
and I think we could have gotten everything we wanted at that point , at least
it felt like it : ) .
We planned the crew the bus and a film crew to film one of the shows in The
Globe Arena in Stockholm ( about 16000 seats ) for an upcoming DVD.
The cool thing about this thing was that we were the ONLY band to open, Special
Guests !
So that night I went
to bed and the last thing I thought of was of course the tour and what it
would surely have meant to us , the first thing I thought of when I woke up
the next morning was of course the same thing.
So I went to pics up Henrik in the morning to go to the studio and I have
never ever seen him so awake at that time in the morning , he sat down and
we immediately started to talk about the tour and that we could not believe
it and that it felt to good to be true , in the same breath the phone rang
and it was Michael, he only said - This will ruin your day , there has been
an accident and the tour is cancelled !
I could not believe what I just heard so I called someone to check the news
and of course it was all true ....
It felt like , have you ever have dreamed that you won a million dollars just
to wake up and find out its not there but still having the feeling of being
filthy rich.
So of course this sounds like a hell of a lot of complaining and people might
think -be glad for what you have and so on .. and I am ..and I am not looking
for pity , merely writing what I had to get out , life goes on ".
So
to Ozzy and the Osbourne Family .
Hope that you will recover soon.
all the best
Tom / Evergrey
