Aug 18 (Sat) - Loudfest: BELLADONNA , MELIAH RAGE, CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, MASS, plus many more - Haverhill Stadium (Haverhill, Ma) +[view flyer]
www.loudfest.com at the Haverhill Stadium 8/18/07!!
[views:17216][posts:106]Haverhill Stadium (Haverhill, MA) - [a_pillar_of_flames][bad_karma][bleed_for_sorrow][candy_striper_death_orgy][fallen_shall_rise][joey_belladonna][kultur][mass][randomshots][run_to_the_hills][source_of_contempt]
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[Aug 18,2007 5:45pm - Dwellingsickness ""]
I wonder if it has to do with his new phone, I have seen more spelling and grammatical errors since he got it, than he ever has haha
[Aug 18,2007 6:31pm - the_reverend ""]
fallen shall rise: not sure what the big deal/buzz is with this band. Not really anything that I care about. 2 of the guys from the first band that I saw were in this band too. The singer had a really weird way of screaming. I didn't get it, but they are big on WAAF from what I hear. They set was made interesting by a ton of beach balls that sprung up. Watching the wizard security guys and girls play with them too was funny. After the band was done (no smashing pumpkins singer btw), there was a wicked loooog pause.
[Aug 18,2007 7:56pm - the_reverend ""]
extremely well done show. I mean extremely. more thoughts later.
[Aug 18,2007 9:19pm - the_reverend ""]
so sleepy I can't keep my eyes open...
but I'm working on the pictures
[Aug 18,2007 9:50pm - HeavensJail ""]
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the rev hard at work
[Aug 18,2007 10:26pm - the_reverend ""]
ahaha, you bastard!
that's what you were doing on your phone when I came over and said "whoah, I just fell asleep"
no rest for the wicked.
[Aug 18,2007 10:29pm - the_reverend ""]
pictures uploading slowly.
[Aug 18,2007 11:20pm - urinal turd ""]
hahah..i think it's a pillar of flames not a pillow of flames.
[Aug 18,2007 11:49pm - the_reverend ""]
that's what I had the first time.
then saw it written as pillow so changed it..
then looked up on myspace and changed it back.
[Aug 19,2007 11:06am - bobby APOF ""]
yeah its pillar that was a joke on Pete (and bleed for sorrows) part
[Aug 19,2007 12:18pm - horror_tang ""]
Whoever went wasted $20 on a show that would have been cheaper and more well-suited to KC's Tap.
[Aug 19,2007 12:48pm - todayistheday nli ""]
lol at the attendance at a huge stadium
[Aug 19,2007 1:27pm - cav ""]
yea someone must have lost a lot of money at this show. they were set up for metallica and got joey belladonna playing anthrax songs for 15 people. haha. i dont think they should have shows in haverhill, when we played that fest there, there were like 50 bands over 2 days and 7 people showed up that werent girlfriends of bands. fuckin sad.
[Aug 19,2007 2:15pm - the_reverend ""]
there was a previous festival lik this here? true, the turn out could have been better. I hope if they do it again, they get someone lik amon amarth or someone like that who will draw 800 kids themsevles. I would guess they sold 200-300 tickets looking at the people who where there, but the place is so big that you really can't tell.
[Aug 19,2007 2:33pm - cav ""]
the_reverend said:there was a previous festival lik this here? true, the turn out could have been better. I hope if they do it again, they get someone lik amon amarth or someone like that who will draw 800 kids themsevles. I would guess they sold 200-300 tickets looking at the people who where there, but the place is so big that you really can't tell.
there was a festival at club 125 which is at least near haverhill i think right?
[Aug 19,2007 3:01pm - aljy ""]
what we don't talk about joey belladonna???
joey belladonna this guy rules
[Aug 19,2007 3:30pm - todayistheday nli ""]
lol i just read in the boston hearld that the concert promoter said an estimated 15,000-25,000 people showed up?!?!?!!?!?? WTF
[Aug 19,2007 3:35pm - BONEDOG ""]
todayistheday nli said:lol i just read in the boston hearld that the concert promoter said an estimated 15,000-25,000 people showed up?!?!?!!?!?? WTF
THE PROMOTER MUST HAVE BEEN ERIC. ACCORDING TO HIM 15,000-20,000 PEOPLE SHOW UP TO EVERY CSDO CONCERT! LMAO!
[Aug 19,2007 4:57pm - the_reverend ""]
idk about that. I didn't really look at the faces in the crowd, but maybe each band had completely different crowds. anyhow, like I said, this show was really cool and someone needs to do thingvs like this for metal. make it so europe isn't the only one with awesome outdoor festivals. I think this fest would have been the shitbomb if they had gotten a headliner who would have drawn more than the usual crowd and their families.
[Aug 19,2007 6:54pm - Dankill ""]
This was pretty much a kick-off year. They are hoping to use all the sponsors and connections they gained in order to do this again next year with some SERIOUS headliner quality bands to fill a place of that size.
They had real shots to book bands like UNEARTH, THE RED CHORD, ALL THAT REMAINS and MASTADON, but on short notice it didn't work out.
[Aug 19,2007 7:12pm - the_reverend ""]
heavensjail mentioned getting ozzfest offday bands to play
[Aug 19,2007 7:15pm - bobby from APOF ""]
it was fun to play, they should set this up as an annual thing or something similar. then with that kind of notice they should be able to get some really well known bands to play. I would KILL to play with unearth haha jake and i (as guitarists) take a lot of influence from them and with a bigger crowd we would really get more into it. you know?
[Aug 19,2007 7:18pm - bobby from APOF ""]
oh, and its Bleed *FOR* Sorrow not "the" haha.
[Aug 19,2007 7:24pm - the_reverend ""]
fixed
[Aug 20,2007 2:56am - CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY ""]
Here we go again... A couple of faggots shitting on something good. This festival had many shots against it..... Ozzfest in CT., a battle of the bands with some dope from American Idiol headling it on the other side of Haverhill, and a big airshow at Pease Airforce Base. Plus, this was the first time in over 25 years the stadium has had a concert.
What's with this made up promoter stuff in the Hearld? I wasn't the promoter..... I helped put some good bands on the bill : Belladonna, Run To The Hills, us (CSDO) and Badkarma (took the place of Meliah Rage).
Next time this show will be bigger!! Radio ads have to be done on many stations. It wouldn't made a difference who was on this show.... It just wasn't going to pack in first time around. A lot of people didn't believe that a show was going to happen at the stadium........
Anyway, we all had a great time. Me (Eric) and Joey (Belladonna) sold a bunch of merch. We sold over 40 t-shirts
[Aug 20,2007 8:39am - succubus ""]
i was shooting the download fest
http://thephoenix.com/onthedownload/PermaL...8df94b9-c97b-49f5-bbc7-d389f0c7ee78
[Aug 20,2007 2:04pm - disapointed ""]
So pointing out obvious flaws is considered "shitting on something". This shows attendance was a joke, period. Blaming an air show at Pease and the American Idol at the castle is bull, the demographics are different. You think all the 12 year old girls screaming for "Idol" would have been at the stadium instead? Please! Same goes for the middle aged men at the airshow. This show failed due to poor promotion and lack of a headliner. I hope this show becomes an annual event and that it becomes a huge success, but that will never happen without a legit headliner.
[Aug 20,2007 2:14pm - cav ""]
if you want enough people to come to a stadium sized show, the music/musicians need to be relevant these days. everyone knows that an ex whatever 80s band singer isnt gonna draw more than a bar room full of people, not a friggin stadium. no offense to anyone who played this show but the only thrash band that anyone cares about these days is municipal waste and thats because they played with a lot of hardcore and metalcore bands the past year or so. plus haverhill is too far out of the way and too unheard of. and honestly you guys would never be able to book any of those bigger bands that were mentioned, pretty much every one of those bands is under the mighty rule of scott lee and would never play a mass show outside of worcester or sprinfield, unless its ozzfest or sounds of the underground. sorry guys. but if you do this fest next year, id pretty much expect the same type of turnout/bands unless you book lots of emo/screamo and youth crew hardcore bands, cus thats what draws in mass besides bands that are on headbangers ball.
[Aug 20,2007 2:19pm - xanonymousx ""]
If Anthrax did play there would of been a bigger draw.
Although it looked like a fun time.
The day really wasn't the best for a show.
[Aug 20,2007 2:59pm - Bobby from APOF ""]
im pretty sure you could get a decent headliner to play that, and people would come. i live in southern RI and i would drive to mass, or conn to see a band i liked....
[Aug 20,2007 4:52pm - horror_tang NLI ""]
CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY said:Here we go again... A couple of faggots shitting on something good. This festival had many shots against it..... Ozzfest in CT., a battle of the bands with some dope from American Idiol headling it on the other side of Haverhill, and a big airshow at Pease Airforce Base. Plus, this was the first time in over 25 years the stadium has had a concert.
What's with this made up promoter stuff in the Hearld? I wasn't the promoter..... I helped put some good bands on the bill : Belladonna, Run To The Hills, us (CSDO) and Badkarma (took the place of Meliah Rage).
Next time this show will be bigger!! Radio ads have to be done on many stations. It wouldn't made a difference who was on this show.... It just wasn't going to pack in first time around. A lot of people didn't believe that a show was going to happen at the stadium........
Anyway, we all had a great time. Me (Eric) and Joey (Belladonna) sold a bunch of merch. We sold over 40 t-shirts
Your band still sucks.
[Aug 20,2007 4:54pm - horror_tang NLI ""]
bobby from APOF said:it was fun to play, they should set this up as an annual thing or something similar. then with that kind of notice they should be able to get some really well known bands to play. I would KILL to play with unearth haha jake and i (as guitarists) take a lot of influence from them and with a bigger crowd we would really get more into it. you know?
Do you think your band is so huge that you can put the initials for it? What the fuck is APOF? Jerk a fucking APOF.
[Aug 20,2007 4:56pm - horror_tang ""]
Forgot to log in. Umm, Candy Striper Death Orgu suck and Bobby from jerk an APOF is a tool.
[Aug 20,2007 5:12pm - horror_tang's mom ""]
Time to log off, tangy boy.....I finished fucking the dog, now my ass is lubed and ready for you.......
[Aug 20,2007 5:14pm - the_reverend ""]
the jerk store called. it seems they are all out of you.
[Aug 20,2007 5:20pm - horror_tang ""]
horror_tang‘s mom said:Time to log off, tangy boy.....I finished fucking the dog, now my ass is lubed and ready for you.......
Why are you posting anonymously? So, how's it going Bob from jerking an apeoff. You fucking faggot.
[Aug 20,2007 5:22pm - horror_tang ""]
the_reverend said:the jerk store called. it seems they are all out of you.
I hope that was for me. I had to leave the store because there's a lack of jerk on the board.
[Aug 20,2007 5:35pm - horror_tang‘s mom ""]
I want you to cum in my ass, Tangy, so I can get pregnant with an ass baby. That's how the dog and I made you!!
[Aug 20,2007 5:35pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
horror_tang said:the_reverend said:the jerk store called. it seems they are all out of you.
I hope that was for me. I had to leave the store because there's a lack of jerk on the board.
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[Aug 20,2007 6:41pm - HeavensJail ""]
I was surprised, afterward, that there were no bands from Haverhill or elsewhere in the Merrimac valley on the bill; contrary to some of the posts above, there's more than a few bands active in this region and people do go out to shows for them. Hell, Indignation and Death Defect have been known to charter (and fill) buses to lug their home fans to shows in the Boston area, and one would think that the same people, and probably more, would show up to see these bands playing on a fest like this right in their backyard.
Every festival has to start somewhere, and this was a decent start; the promoters might have added a band or two from the area instead of pulling from as far away as they did, and ideally they might have gotten a headliner from the bunch that Dan mentioned rather than someone who, honestly, wasn't really going to draw anyone who wouldn't've come to see Meliah and CSDO anyway. It could have been better, but this was the first year, and it turned out well enough.
I still can't explain this alleged quote in the Herald overstating the attendance by a factor of 50. Promoters, inevitably, will inflate the attendance at their gigs so that those who didn't go and don't know anyone who did will go "wow, I missed a big show, I better go next time", and those who do know people who went will hear "yeah, there wasn't that many people there, but it was still a good time", but the figures mentioned are a pipe dream. I've been on infields with this kind of space, and that many people, and it would barely be possible to get 10,000 people onto the ground at Haverhill stadium, with barely any breathing room. Accounting for movement in and out, somewhere around 300 people saw this show, and the organizers, from a point of view of security and services, were prepared for about 1000 max.
[Aug 20,2007 6:49pm - the_reverend ""]
here it is:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1017933
[Aug 20,2007 7:14pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
mortis deveia should have headlined
[Aug 20,2007 7:48pm - horror_tang ""]
the_reverend said:here it is:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1017933
Wow, what's even better than saying there were 15,000-25,000 people there was that Anthrax played.
[Aug 20,2007 7:50pm - the_reverend ""]
I'm pretty sure that reading that, the paper took some liberties with what the promoter said. 10,000 people is a pretty friggin wide birth.
[Aug 20,2007 7:54pm - the_reverend ""]
then again, I was at the hatchshell (babysitting) for this show, 100,000 people? wow...
http://greenday.net/policefile.htm
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid24929.aspx
they describe what happened.. I saw all that. I saw a kid get taken down with clubs and I was watching a 12&13 yo
[Aug 20,2007 8:22pm - bobby from APOF ""]
I'm sure that if you go to the top of this page you can put two and two together and figure out what band I'm from. unless you really are as retarded as you come off to be. i don't understand why there is so much tension on this board.... it was just a show. around 300 people came max alright? argument over and i am not completely sure how i am a jerk or a tool... but I'm ok. how are you doing horror_tang?
[Aug 20,2007 8:27pm - RichHorror ""]
Don't mind him, he's married.
[Aug 20,2007 10:13pm - Dankill ""]
Don't mind Rich either. He's naked.
[Aug 20,2007 10:18pm - RichHorror ""]
Two true things.
[Aug 20,2007 10:24pm - Dankill ""]
Right on, daddy-o