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Sebastian "Basi" Roeder worked as FOH-soundengineer and tourmanager for KREATOR headlining the saturday at OUT & LOUD Festival in Geiselwind, which was also the band´s one and only german show in 2016.
We got exactly 24 hours at home after touring USA, Canada, Japan and Australia for almost 2 months before we had to take off again for the next festival run:
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder travelled as tourmanager and FOH - soundengineer for PRIMAL FEAR to GRASPOP METAL MEETING in Belgium, METAL FRENZY in Germany and ROCK HARD RIDE FREE Festival in Poland.
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder traveled to Australia as the tourmanager and FOH-soundengineer for PRIMAL FEAR.
We did 2 shows on this first live appearance of the band in Down Under - Melbourne on June 11th and Sydney on June 12th.
Repeating the successful run of 2014 Sebastian "Basi" Roeder traveled again as tourmanager and FOH-soundengineer for PRIMAL FEAR to Japan.
We did 3 shows there:
June 7th Tokyo
June 8th Nagoya
June 9th Osaka
In the picture: PRIMAL FEAR, european touring crew, japanese promoter - and touring crew team.
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder traveled straight from the end of the RHAPSODY / PRIMAL FEAR tour in Canada to the next festival run with KREATOR, in order to work as the tourmanager and FOH-soundengineer at the band´s back to back performances at METAL HEAD MEETING FESTIVAL in Bucharest / Romania on june 3rd, BARBA NEGRA TRACK in Budapest / Hungary on june 4th and ROCK IN VIENNA FESTIVAL in Vienna / Austria on june 5th.
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder went on a long north american tour as both - the tourmanager and the FOH-soundengineer for two bands, PRIMAL FEAR and RHAPSODY, alternating as headliners every night on this run.
28 shows in almost 6 weeks, all over the USA and Canada.
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder got the opportunity to work as the FOH-soundengineer for this year´s ROCK MEETS CLASSIC tour with 16 shows in the big venues of germany and switzerland.
Not always an easy task to mix 80 inputs simultaneously with the natural conflict of a loud rock band sharing the stage with an symphony orchestra and the shows taking place in venues not always exactly built for this kind of entertainment.
Supported by the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague and the Mat Sinner Band the following artists performed their biggest hits:
DORO
Pete Lincoln and Andy Scott from THE SWEET
Steve Walsh from KANSAS
Ricky Warwick and Scott Gorham from THIN LIZZY
Dan McCafferty from NAZARETH
Midge Ure from ULTRAVOX
Joey Tempest from EUROPE
Those were our tour dates:
30.03.16 GER-Würzburg - S.Oliver Arena
31.03.16 GER-Kempten - Big Box
01.04.16 GER-Passau - Dreiländerhalle
02.04.16 GER-Munich - Olympiahalle
03.04.16 GER-Stuttgart - Porsche Arena
05.04.16 GER-Frankfurt - Jahrhunderthalle
06.04.16 GER-Düsseldorf - Mitsubishi Electric Halle
08.04.16 GER-Berlin - Tempodrom
09.04.16 GER-Halle - Gerry Weber Stadion
10.04.16 GER-Magdeburg - Getec Arena
12.04.16 CH-Bern - Bern Expo Halle 4
13.04.16 CH-Zurich - Hallenstadion
14.04.16 GER-Ingolstadt - Saturn Arena
15.04.16 GER Neu Ulm - Ratiopharm Arena
16.04.16 GER-Regensburg - Donau Arena
17.04.16 GER-Nuremberg - Frankenhalle
An open air rock show surrounded by deep snow and over 2000m high up in the mountains !
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder went uphill in Champery / Switzerland to mix FOH-sound for the swiss national heroes of GOTTHARD during their performance in front of more than 3000 skiing fans.
26 days, 21 shows, 9 different countries...
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder traveled as FOH-engineer and tourmanager for PRIMAL FEAR and BRAINSTORM all over europe.
Opening act for all our dates was the canadian band STRIKER.
Those were our stops:
05.02.16 Barcelona (ES)
06.02.16 Murcia (ES)
07.02.16 Madrid (ES)
09.02.16 Colmar (FR)
10.02.16 Paris (FR)
11.02.16 Siegburg (GER)
12.02.16 Prague (CZ)
13.02.16 Cham (GER)
14.02.16 Hamburg (GER)
16.02.16 Hannover (GER)
17.02.16 Saarbruecken (GER)
18.02.16 Stuttgart (GER)
19.02.16 Pratteln (CH)
20.02.16 Munich (GER)
21.02.16 Budapest (HU)
23.02.16 Vienna (AT)
24.02.16 Krakow (POL)
25.02.16 Berlin (GER)
26.02.16 Würzburg (GER)
27.02.16 Essen (GER)
28.02.16 Vosselaar (BE)
Sebastian "Basi" Roeder just finished the first part of this year´s extensive touring as FOH-soundengineer for LUCA TURILLI`S RHAPSODY.
Much more to come... next part: USA and Canada in April and May !