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So it’s official, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed & Stone Sour… plus more great bands… looks like our summer holiday plans are decided on…. We’re looking forward to causing an Uproar… and so are these guys!
We’re looking forward to not only seeing Avenged Sevenfold back in action, but to seeing some great friends again!
Today is the birthday of one of the loveliest men we’ve ever had the pleasure to meet and hang with on a venue staircase.
Back in February when Dead By Sunrise passed through town we had had the chance to spend some time with guitarist Ryan Shuck, we spoke about performing on the main stage at Sonisphere last summer, about his transition from hairdresser to Rockstar and how much he loves women!
See some snippets from our chat with Ryan backstage at the HMV Forum in London below, we promise to do a follow up with the full interview and more photos very soon.
Becoming a Rockstar:
I never really thought ‘I wanna be a rockstar’ I never really understood that you could do that. I was in band with Jon before he joined Korn, and they played a few of my songs, they got really big and I got a cheque and then I realised “Oh shit! You can do this for a living”.
Musical influences:
I love Lady Gaga
Dead by Sunrise:
I think the nineties was one of the best times for music.
A lot of the music right now is still trying to get out of the nineties, but we wanted to go back in and revisit it. Sort of like we did in Orgy, we drew from the eighties, without ripping it off we took the cool elements we liked.
I liked Nine Inch Nails the first time I heard it, I was “that’s like fucking good” – ‘Head like a hole, black as your soul’ – you don’t get that?! You don’t get that?! If you don’t get that then Fuck you!
Sonisphere:
People get very protective over Linkin Park… we wanted people to know that Chester wasn’t leaving Linkin Park.
Linkin Park’s new album:
I heard it and I was like “Cool – this will be my favourite record!” It’s awesome. It’s like Christmas presents for me. It’s fucking awesome.
Female fans:
But in this band there are more wives and stuff involved and we try to keep it more under control. But in Julien-K or especially in Orgy we liked having girls around, period, because they make things more fun and better…we just like girls around because we like girls – girls are cool!
It is decided – that it’s been too long since I’ve seen our liason in crime the awesome Rocio that we must take a trip to the US to see her for Mayhem Festival this summer! Touring is fun, meeting new friends is awesome… doing all this with music – score!
Added bonus = Atreyu yay!
Check out the Mayhem Festival & its line up here… we’ve not decided on our travel dates so watch this space. We’re also working on getting the latest upload of images up to the site this week – there has been a few hiccups lately and maybe a slight site re-design.
So keep checking back there… we’ve got some more to go up over the weekend including fans, Linkin Park & much later… more Avenged Sevenfold – there’s already a teaser up there
So after months and months of waiting, tomorrow night starts our Sonisphere Adventure… and we’re really looking forward to hopefully getting to meet some great new fans. We’ve travelled the globe and met fans worldwide!
We’ll be there from Friday night for any FMC party goers – and there for the full weekend checking out the festy and you festy goers!
This weekend we also really want to meet some UK A7X fans, or even anyone thats travelling over to catch Sonisphere and hear your stories, maybe make a new friend or two…
and of course anyone else who wants to say hi – well come say hi – in a non scary way…
August 22nd 2008 saw the first time we got to see Avenged Sevenfold live at Kerrang’s Week of Rock courtesy of the great people at Thrash Hits.
With Sonisphere Knebworth coming up in a few weeks time, it will mark our 7th – yes 7th time getting to see Avenged Sevenfold live since that fantastic night! Bizarre!
So we decided to go back in time and bring out our Kerrang Week of Rock 2008 photos into our A7X Flickr…. enjoy…
Avenged Sevenfold have helped to make the past year for us a great one, we’ve met some great fans and made some new friendships, the band always find time for their fans and put on a great show! To say we’re excited to finally get to see them again on our own soil is an understatement!
So, come join us at Sonisphere on August 2nd – If you haven’t got your tickets yet? What are you waiting for! Click Here to get your tickets! Please quote FMC Number:1k977196 when ordering -thanks!
The number 7 was brought to you today by = A7X x 7th time, No 7 Brand – Jack Daniels but not Sesame Street – because Big Bird’s a git!
In our time travelling around the country and the world to see bands we love, we discovered, the greatest metal band of all time…
Since April 2009, catching them live at Avenged Sevenfold’s afterparty in Hard Rock’s “Wasted Space” night club, in Las Vegas, we were hooked. And we think you will be too!
Their long awaited album, “Feel The Steel” came out in the UK in June to tie in with their Download Festival & London headlining performance, where British music fans went crazy over them!
The band and its members also twitter so make sure you follow them – Satchel likes to (over) share ALOT.
Here’s some pics we took recently in London (June) and Los Angeles (July).
If you ever find yourself in Hollywood on a Monday night – be sure to head on over to the Keyclub on Sunset to check out their weekly show! You won’t be disappointed!
They also play weekly sets in Las Vegas – Friday & Saturday night.
Click the pic above for more hair styling tips from Lexxi!
Getting ready for Sonisphere, we’ve moved and added lots more Linkin Park photos to our new Linkin Park Flickr. Only 3 weeks until Linkin Park Headline Day 1 of Sonisphere Knebworth.
If you haven’t got your tickets yet? What are you waiting for! Click Here to get your tickets! Please quote FMC Number:1k977196 when ordering -thanks!
Click photo above to be taken to the Flickr Album for 2008 Linkin Park photos!
Chester Bennington of Linkin Park and co owner of Club Tattoo was in Vegas last night to celebrate the grand opening a his new shop at the Planet Hollywood Resort. The day included Chester appearing as assistant to daredevil magician Steve Wyrick for a ‘Death Drop’ escape. The strip was blocked by police as the road was filled with fans anxiously waiting for the magic show to start, suffering the heat, with no available water and crying my eye makeup off in the strong wind of the early evening air.
Chester Bennington prepares for the stunt
The show started, Chester came out to thunderous applause and whistles as he he introduced Steve and then explained what should happen – from the press release:
Bennington, assisted by members of Dead by Sunrise, will lock and shackle Wyrick into one of the band’s equipment boxes. Connected to a crane by only a few thin ropes, the box will be dangled over a bed of 500 flaming spikes 80 feet below. The ropes will then be set on fire, forcing Wyrick to make his escape before the last rope breaks and sends him plummeting to a fiery death. Wyrick will have to jump 20 feet off a burning box to a safety rope and rappel down while avoiding the spikes and tremendous heat. This type of escape has never been attempted by an illusionist anywhere in the world.
We were advised during the media briefing, shortly before the show started, that the crate would come crashing down leaving everyone thinking the trick hadn’t worked and then a helicopter would arrive landing on the strip and Steve Wyrick would emerge unharmed.
Sadly, as the ropes were set on fire due to the weather conditions the curtains surrounding the box unexpectedly caught alight leaving the box in a mass of red hot flames, felt by everyone in the crowd and covering the area in smoke. Chester, was pushed aside as on site safety teams attempted to put out the fire and he would occasionally tell the audience something had gone wrong and apologise…of course this being a magic show – no one believed him. The box containing a stunt guy was quickly rushed from the stage and the helicopter arrived containing a safe but confused Steve Wyrick, which was already on route from the secret location when the accident happened. Much to Chester’s surprise, he then had to introduce the magician to a jeering audience, feeling a little cheated that the “death drop” hadn’t actually occurred as no one realised how serious the situation was.
Something goes wrong
From communication with Chester’s wife Talinda via twitter, she says:
The stunt went horribly wrong!!! Whoever is here, plz understand.The magician is ok.. The stunt double is SEVERLY burned
Later that evening Chester continued with scheduelled events and performed an accoustic set with his side project ‘Dead by Sunrise’, their album due out in September (Chester has confirmed that they will be appearing with Linkin Park during the worldwide summer shows).
We were there in the Media pit and were able to get the official story on what had happened. We hope that the stunt double will be ok.
