Tuesday 24 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 22th Dec: FRANKFURT


Frankfurt, last date of this spectacular tour: sadness and melancholy filled the air. The last soundcheck, the last live, the last day together...the venue, Batschkapp in Frankfurt is huge and modern, the dressing room shared with Coma very spacious, super catering, with a great breakfast waiting for us.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 21th Dec: LEEUWARDEN


The journey from London to Leeuwarden in the Netherlands was quite long, but we made a very good sleep after the previous sleepless night: rain welcomed us together with a super venue, a great center of music and culture including a theatre.

Saturday 21 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 20th Dec: LONDON


Finally esterday I had the opportunity to be in London: we played at the O2 Academy Islington , the best live music club of the city. We left Paris at 1am and we went to bed at 4...damn, at 7 we had to wake up for a control at the British border before taking the Eurotunnel. We showed documents and we got back on the tourbus that was loaded on a train that transported us through the submarine tunnel in awhile...I was a bit afraid but it was easy!

SOUND STORM European Tour - 19th Dec: PARIS




Le Trabendo in Paris was unfortunately far from the city center and we had not a chance to visit something:  club is located in the Parc de la Villette, one of the largest parks in the city designed by Schumi (memories from university :D) with the most famous live clubs of the city like the Zenith.

Thursday 19 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 18th Dec: PRATTELN



Here we are at Club Trabendo in Paris. Yesterday we played one of the best clubs in Europe, Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland. We arrived right on time at about noon and a large sweet and salty breakfast was waiting for us. Spectacular venue, a big stage and a huge hall, sounds and light really amazing, a cute backstage with showers and also washing machines.

Wednesday 18 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 16th/17th Dec: ITALY


Here we are at Club Z7 in Pratteln Switzerland, one of the best clubs in Europe, after two days spent in Italy. On monday after the date in Lausanne we arrived in Italy for the day off:  tourbus stopped at Milan Malpensa Airport, and from there we said goodbye to Heavenshine who finished their part of the tour, while some of my Sound Storm went back to Turin to meet their girlfriends.

Tuesday 17 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 15th Dec: LAUSANNE


Me, Christopher from Therion, Anton and Masha from Arkona

Yesterday it was the turn of Lausanne: we left from Eindhoven at 2 am and it was a really long trip, also because we stopped 2 hours at the border with Switzerland...we arrived very late at the venue Les Docks, it was 3 pm and because of the delay was not possible for us Sound Storm do the soundcheck.

Sunday 15 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 14th Dec: EINDHOVEN METAL MEETING

Sound Storm + Heavenshine dinner



Yesterday our tour made a ​​stop at the most important indoor metal festival in Europe, Eindhoven Metal Meeting. In the bill of our day played great bands like Arcturus, Coroner, Impaled Nazaren, and also Italian Aborym and Elvenking, whom I had the opportunity to meet on May 3 2013 with my Evenoire when we shared the stage at Honky Tonky near Milan.

Saturday 14 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 13th Dec: JENA


F -Haus, Jena, East Germany: looking out from the windows of the tourbus I immediately realized that this town must be really characteristic. There was a really rich buffet this morning, during breakfast Thomas Vikstrom and his daughter Linnea sang traditional Norwegian songs dedicated to Saint Lucia. You know, in Norway, in honor of Santa Lucia are big celebrations, but also in Cremona we celebrate her, when I was a child she brought me gifts with her donkey :)

Friday 13 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 12th Dec: BRNO


Today it was the turn of Brno, in Czech Republic! The venue Semilasso is a beautiful theater made ​​by wood: the concert hall when we arrived was full of tables, in fact at 2pm there was a traditional Christmas Fest with dances and music performed by children for grandparents....I took a look and it was really fun to watch the traditional dances and listen to music performed by very young but highly trained interpreters! 

Thursday 12 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 11th Dec: WIEN


Today we came back to Wien, this time on the stage of Club Szene: after the great venues of East Europe here the backjstage is small and also the hall is not huge as the previous clubs.
The morning began with a stop at a gas station where I drank a chocolate that tastes like dirty water.

Wednesday 11 December 2013

SOUND STORM European Tour - 10th Dec: BUDAPEST




Yesterday it was the turn of 202 Club in Budapest, we arrived quite early and we had the chance to make a walk in the city center, and it was not easy to figure out how to reach it, because no one spoke English! 

I must say that the downtown is really nice and we also found Christmas markets, full of traditional food and stalls. We also went to Hard Rock Cafè to buy some t-shirts and then came back to the venue: this is a very particular club, all made by wood and it's great for sounds.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 09th Dec: Day off in WIEN

9th December
In front of the Opera House in Wien

It's 2 am , tourbus is parked in the suburbs of Wien , and here we have just found a concert of the American thrash metal band Havok. Today we had a day off , and tourmanager decided to go to Wien. We arrived this morning around 9 am, while Arkona took a van and left for Romania, where they had a gig tonight, they will join us tomorrow in Budapest. 

Tuesday 10 December 2013

SOUND STORM European tour - 07th/08th Dec: WARSAW & WROCLAW

9th December 2013

Photo from first live in Krakow
I am in Vienna, today we have a day off in the beautiful Austrian capital after three dates in Poland. After Krakow we reached the Klub Stodola in Warsaw,  in snow and frost. I was impressed by the huge backstage divided into several floors, with several relaxation rooms, catering, bathrooms with showers , wifi ... I'm honest , I've never seen a backstage so beautiful, really amazing! The concert hall was larger than Krakow, already crowded when we went on stage: another positive gig, with an audience initially a bit calm but then they reacted very well to our concert.

Saturday 7 December 2013

SOUND STORM European tour - 06th Dec: KRAKOW




We arrived in Krakow at about 2 pm, you can't imagine the excitement for this first date of the European tour together with Sound Storm. The journey from Berlin to Krakow was really long, but we left at 4am and had a good night's sleep; in the meantime we met some component of the Russians Arkona. After had crossed Poland we finally arrived at Klub Studio.

SOUND STORM European Tour - 05th Dec: the long trip to BERLIN

5th December
Here we are in Krakow, ready for the first date of the tour! Yesterday morning we had an appointment at 9 am at our hotel in Dusseldorf with tourmanager that came to catch us with the tourbus... we were still sleeping when at 8 am Valerio's phone rang : "Guys get ready in 45 minutes". The tourmanager anticipated the roadmap, so we jumped out of our beds and quickly we got ready.

Thursday 5 December 2013

The European tour with SOUND STORM started!!


And finally this new adventure started, my first European tour, together with Sound Storm. At the moment I am at the Air Hotel Wartburg in Dusseldorf, Germany: we left from Turin, Italy this morning at 11am, we arrived here at about 11pm after traveling for 12 hours in the van. Tomorrow morning we are going to take the tourbus that will take us around the Europe for 15 dates together with Therion and Arkona.

Sunday 1 December 2013

EVENOIRE - Day 2 and 3: drums done!!



The second day of drums recordings here at Dreamsound Studios in Munich was very intense, Daniele recorded 4 more songs, we were in the studio from 10 am to 9 pm, but a good work is coming out. Dejan Djukovic works with big precision, and I'm sure that it's gonna be a great record! 
Today it's sunny, we are still in the studio in order to finish the last song and the bonus track, in the afternoon Daniele should have finished everything, then we will sadly take the way home...but a European tour is waiting for me :)