Angela Gossow’s ARCH ENEMY Tour Blog – Part 4: Tyranny & Bloodshred!
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+++ Hey guys! It’s Angela from Arch Enemy here. Over the next few weeks I’m gonna be checking in with updates from our U.S. Tyranny and Bloodshred tour, which starts on May 9 in Philadelphia and ends on May 30 at West Hollywood’s House of Blues. With supporting acts Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy and Firewind, it should be a crazy time. So keep checking back each week to get the inside dirt! +++
Well, it’s finally here: the first update from the Tyranny & Bloodshred tour! We are one week in and it is going well!
So far, all places were nicely packed, some actually sold out! Given the current economical situation in the USA we are more than happy that people still come to see the show!!!
Canada is a different story – ALWAYS full house, no worries attached! Great place to visit if you’re a touring a metal band! If only there weren’t those awful border crossings. But we’re lucky to not have any criminal records/weapons/drugs onboard and even manage to look very innocent and sober at 5am in the morning 
It also helps having all the paper work in order – but the customs still manage to keep us on our toes for at least three hours every time. We don’t have anything like this in Europe.
Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy and Firewind – a diverse and really good package – the fan response is very positive! Things go smooth and quiet backstage. All bands are grown up and know the secret of a good tour: Respect for each other…and keeping the shower clean for the next person to get in!
It’s a bit of a clusterf**k backstage, small and midsize U.S. venues tend to have little room backstage (and still often no shower – why???) . Especially the first show at the TLA in Philly (9 of May) – That venue scared me! The ceiling is six-and-a-half feet high, which means [bassist] Sharlee [D’Angelo] basically touches it with his hair. Plus there’s only one shower, which you step out of and right into the guys from Firewind, as their ‘dressing room’ is in front of it. No privacy – but a good hug from [Firewind guitarist] Mr. Gus G instead makes up for the claustrophobic atmosphere!
The show is ok, if a bit tame maybe. And all the bands kinda have to warm up as well. The first two shows are always a bit shaky, with new or very old gear, finding that right mindset again and simply working as a team.
Talking gear: Look at these beauties:
And here is a good clip of Dark Tranquility’s ‘ Wonders At Your Feet’
And Divine Heresy, tearing up the stage with new singer Jake:
Towson, 10 of May, Recher Theater is great actually! The venue itself doesn’t look like much, but there is so much space backstage! And a pool table too! We get more people that night then last time when we played in the area on the Black Tyranny tour. I am happy we are able to still tour over here and enjoy the ride! Thanx for having us back and coming out to the shows!!!
Check out “Blood On Your Hands” from that show:
All happy and clean we make our way to New York, Irvine Plaza (11 of May). No shower backstage. Nice. But the venue is packed and we play our best show in New York that day! I also get to meet the good people from MetalKult.com for an interview and we have our first fanclub meet’n’greet, which is a lot of fun actually!
I manage to give away our New York pizza to the fans outside. They looked so hungry. And we just get too fat eating that stuff EVERY night anyway!
Here are some cool pictures from the show:
Here’s “Ravenous” from NYC:
We all get to bed late, despite the next early morning’s IRS office visit we have to face. Yep, we are paying taxes in the U.S.! We are good people! All that and more in the next update! The office visit was quite exciting by the way. A woman fainted in the waiting line. She came out of it quickly, but it caused quite a commotion! And the very friendly lady at the desk helping us with the paperwork had a big fat smile on her face, after I told her that she “fucking rocks.” Haha.. I don’t think they get too many metal bands coming through.
Hails and horns,
Angela
Great updates ……………. as always. Thanks so much!
Hey, was at the show last night in Chicago, and all I have to say is that Arch Enemy fuckin’ rocks… First Time I saw you live, right in the middle of the front row… Kick ass show…
By the way, feels strange for a french guy to cross the ocean to finally see European bands here…
Haha good stuff, thanks a lot for the update and thanks for a fucking awesome show!
You guys and lady fucking rule. I have been a fan of Arch Enemy since your first CD was available in the U.S. It sucks you guys didn’t come to Denver for this tour, but I’ll be at the next one for sure. YOU FUCKING RULE! Angela YOU’RE HOT!!!
IRIVING PLAZA, IS ONE OF MY FAVE VENUES, IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE KILLER TO HAVE SEE ARCH ENEMY THERE, PROBABLY THE BEST SHOW I WOUD’VE HAD SEEN, I SAW EM ON THE 19TH, BUT IRVING PLAZA IS SICK!
Awesome show in Chicago. Loved your setlist. You totally kick ass.
Saw Arch Enemy in Detroit last Saturday night, my second time seeing them, and they were great. The place was far from a sell out, but the all the bands played like the place was sold out. That shows how profressional everyone was, Arch Enemy played like they were having the time of their lives, all smiles, that to me makes a concert a great one when the people have smiles on their faces and love what they do. Hope they come back to Detorit area or Grand Rapids in Michigan again. Arch Enemy going to have a live CD soon?
Arch Enemy people, looking forward to seeing you for the first time in Vancouver BC next Monday!!
Saw you in Winnipeg last night!! Best show of my life. Aside from your flawless, classy showmanship I was especially impressed by the setlist- only the best of the best. The inclusion of Daniel’s fury on the skins for a few solid minutes and Mike and Chris’s unchallengeable strategy on the fret with two instrumentals from two different albums really made it a special, unforgetable experience for me.
I saw you in spring ‘06 and I’m so glad you came back! I was recording the whole thing on my cell phone but a crowd surfer went right over my head and snapped off the top half of the phone…I was pretty mad but I wouldn’t let it ruin the 90 minutes I was waiting for! I hope you guys come back to Winnipeg in the fall or at least before you step into the studio again.
Lastly, another awesome live DVD is in order!!
I saw you guys last night in Calgary!!! It was Amazing Right at the Front rocking my face off!! Long Live Arch Enemy!! \m/ Come back to Calgary!!!!
I am a avid music fan and have been for 40 years and this band makes nothing but Noise Noise and More Noise.There is no musical integerity at all when I hear this kind of so called music.How can anybody think that this is good music is beyond me.If there was some type of decent structure to the songs they might be better and also they need to get a vocalist who actually can sing besides scream and growl.Hell a lion can growl but they can’t harmonize and neither can Angela.
Waste of Time
heavy show in calgary!!
I like how the celing started to fall apart