Wings of Steel

After 14 years at school, we have graduated. We are free souls, or at least until University begins. Until then, myself, Julian Culme-Seymour, and my partner in crime, Robert Couldrey, have planned ourselves an ambitious and exciting summer. This blog is for our friend, family, teachers and anyone else who is interested to check out our progress. We will add to it when we can, and upload some photos whenever possible.

The plan : avid Heavy Metal fans, living in Singapore is not the best compliment for that. We listen to many bands that hail from Europe and are unknown around these parts. We have tickets for a host of metal festivals around Europe, and are taking the train and camping whenever possible. The aim is to see as many bands as we can, and most of all, get to some of the awesome festivals that go on every year. No odd misplaced bands at rock festivals - pure viking, hairy, drunken metal festivals.

We fly from Singapore to London on the 20th of June, and our tour ends on the 4th of August. I will now attempt to write out an itinery.

LEG 1:
20th June: Fly to London (pick up camping gear at Robert's house in Reading)
21st June: Travel to Brussels (Eurostar)
22-24 June: GRASPOP METAL MEETING
25 June : Back to London

LEG 2:
28 June: Fly to Athens, Greece
28 June - 1 July: Chill in Greece
1-3 July: ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL
4 July: Chill in Athens
5 July: Fly back to London

LEG 3:
8 July: METALLICA LIVE, WEMBLEY STADIUM
9 July: Fly to Cologne
10-17 July: Stay with my Dad in Bonn
18-20 July: Travel, by train, to Nuremberg, Germany.
19-21 July: EARTHSHAKER FESTIVAL

LEG 4:
22 July: Travel, by train, to Basel, Switzerland
22-24 July: Visit family + look around Basel
24-25 July: Travel, by train, to Tessin, Switzerland
25-29 July: Stay with Grandparents in Tessin

FINAL LEG:
30-31 July: Travel, by train, to Hamburg, Germany.
1 Aug: Travel, by bus, to Wacken, Germany
2-4 Aug: WACKEN OPEN AIR, 2007


I am now going to try and make a list of all the bands we are seeing at these various wonderful festivals!
Here goes:
GRASPOP METAL MEETING: Belgium






















EARTHSHAKER 2007:
Running Order

Motörhead (UK)
Kreator (DE)
Freedom Call (DE)
Dew Scented (DE)
Gamma Ray (DE)
Legion of the Damned (NL)
Mystic Prophecy (DE)
U.D.O. (DE)
Korpiklaani (FI)
Eluveitie (CH)
Within Temptation (NL)
Cradle of Filth (UK)
Testament (US)
Sepultura (BR)
J.B.O (DE)
Grave Digger (DE)
Graveworm (IT)
God Dethroned (NL)
Norther (FI)
Unleashed (SE)
Sabaton (SE)
Keep of Kalessin (NO)
Beatallica (US)
Hatesphere (DK)
Threshold (UK)
Melechesh (IL)
After Forever (NL)
Masterplan (DE)
Vader (PL)
Dezperadoz (DE)
Justice (DE)
Mors Principium Est (FI)
Deadlock (DE)
Runamok (DE)

ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL 2007

Heaven & Hell
Dream Theater
Anathema
Kinetic
Iced Earth
Metallica
Mastodon
My Dying Bride
Dirt Spawn Disease



WACKEN OPEN AIR 2007

1349
All That Remains
Amorphis
Animal Alpha
The Answer
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Belphegor
Benedictum
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Majesty
Blind Guardian
Blitzkrieg
Cannibal Corpse
ChthoniC
Communic
Destruction
Dimension Zero
Dimmu Borgir
Dir En Grey
Disillusion
Drone
Electric Eel Shock
Enslaved
Falconer
Fair To Midland
Fastway
Grave Digger
Haggard
Heaven Shall Burn
Hatesphere
Iced Earth
Immortal
In Flames
J.B.O.
Kampfar
Lacuna Coil
Letzte Instanz
Mambo Kurt
Maroon
Mennen
Moonsorrow
Moonspell
Municipal Waste
Napalm Death
Narziss
Neaera
Norther
Pharao
Possessed


There we go! As you can see, lots and lots of bands. For me, the biggest is Metallica. I am an obessed fan, and have been waiting years to see them. Iced Earth and Dream Theater are my other favorites so I really can't wait to see those guys as well. It's all good. I can't wait.

I'll try to add some maps later.