So, yeah, I was sitting here last night working with rooming for the festival, satisfied to have finished working with running orders, buying flights and orgaanzing Meet n Greets.
I opened an e-mail and the first name on that rooming list was Udo Dirkschneider. It suddenly hit me that the whole thing was real. Hell, I mean, UDO playing our little festival?! Fuck yeah! I filled that info in and continued writing down: Jack Russel, Lenny Wolf, Steve Summers, Ron Keel….Holy Fuck! Chris is fuckin nuts I thought to myself. What has he done? Does he know at all what he started?! It just became clear to me that he has done me and alot of others a great favour. All these rockin bands during two days with no worries bout the weather for us all to enjoy.

He asked me what I thought about the idea of an indoor festival in Stockholm with the bands we love in the beginning of the year. I of course said “No fuckin way!” right away. This part of the music business is the toughest most scary of them all. But, as you may have noticed, he didn´t give a flying fuck about what I had to say. I am happy for that now. =)

It strikes me as fairly odd (but also really cool) that more than half of the visitors at the Rock Out are from abroad. I was pretty sure that we had plenty of rockers with great taste in the vincinity…but I guess not. It just proves that the rest of Europe is more rockin than tiny Sweden. =)

I´m in charge of the VIP cafeteria, Meet & Greets, rooming, flights and logistics this time. So, a couple of weeks ago, I used my position for very selfish reasons. Chris was almost done with the line up and I saw my chance. One phone call later Kingdom Come was booked. I saw a lot of shows last year with them, since we were touring with them but I just had a serious craving for some more “Twilight Cruiser, “Get it on” and some of the new stuff. Lenny and the guys are really great people. Looking forward partying with them again.

I just have one huge problem… Time is not moving fast enough but at the same time I want to have plenty of time to organize this fucker. But one thing is for sure. The 10th and the 11th will be epic. I want to take this opourtunity to thank everyone around me and all the people who have bought tickets. Looking forward meeting y´all soon.

Oh, BTW, I´m Mike Hill from Badmouth. So, now you know. =)

Cheers,

Mike Hill

IMPORTANT!!!!!
P.S All the meet & greets are pretty much full but I still need a few more names of people who want to meet their idols. Those who have already sent in their request can relax. You are in the system. =) So, if you have the urge…please, send your name, ticket number and who you want to meet to the adress below and I´ll take care of it. Take the chance to make this experience even more cool. NEW FLASH!!! CRAZY LIXX also wants to meet you!!! Who do you want to meet? U.D.O, Pretty Boy Floyd, Kingdom Come, John Corabi, WIG WAM, Great White, Lizzy Borden, Dirty Penny, KEEL, Crazy Lixx or TUFF? Send you requests to: mikehillofbadmouth@gmail.com
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