Blood Red Shoes are going to play at the Hurricane and the Southside Festival here in Germany in 2009.

See here: www.hurricane.de

"Blood Red Shoes sind eine verdammt laute, verdammt rockige und punkige Popband. Die aktuelle Platte „Box Of Secrets" wirkt mit melodiösen Gesang tatsächlich streckenweise ein kleines bisschen poppig, doch davon bleibt live nicht mehr viel übrig. Auf der Bühne dominieren Drive, Dynamik und Energie. Nach Hunderten Konzerten in knapp zwei Jahren und umjubelten Auftritten bei allen großen Rockfestivals haben Blood Red Shoes auch allen Grund, weiterhin laut zu sein."

Other acts to play there include Franz Ferdinand, The Wombats, Johnossi, Kings of Leon, Die Ärzte (a really famous and really annoying German band) and, oh, wait a minute, YEAH, it's Katy Perry!

It's actually a pretty huge festival here, which is cool for the band, but I kinda hoped that they'd return to the Melt Festival, which is a lot nicer than the Hurricane. So, dear BRS: Please play at the Melt Festival, too. Last year's performance was awesome!

I guess Die Ärzte is the reason I'll probably never go to festivals in Germany. They play everywhere and their fans are like flood.

I hope nobody here is Die Ärzte fan

yes, when they play a festival there are billions of Ärzte fans, and those fans are probably the most annoying fans in the world. they're just there to see their favourite band, hate every other band and scream "Die ÄRZTE!" all the time.

most annoying fans in the world. that's why I hope BRS will play the Melt! festival, cause there is no way I go to the Hurricane this year

i have a feeling we wont be at melt - im pretty sure someone told us that they dont really ask bands 2 years in a row. that's why we didn't play hurricane/southside last year, because we'd played the year before.

it's weird that it was on the hurricane southside website before we'd actually said yes to it! but for the record, we have now said yes.

sx

shit. they better should ask you this year. otherwise, they'll have to bring some good arguments so I'll go there

quite off topic but nevermind, are you planning to play at some french festivals this year?

gotta think about southside...i'm hoping for open air st. gaLLen tho. which is very unlikely : (

wooo, awesome! See you at Hurricane!

Aha! That makes me hopes for Frequency!

PS: Worse than Ärzte Fans are Tote Hosen Fans

I'm thinking of Frequency too, my friends go there every year...

PS: Die Toten Hosen rule too, right.

man i feel like i've not been on the internet for ages

we have no idea about frequency festival or french festivals so far. i think most festivals are just starting to ask people now so we're kinda waiting for the emails basically. we've been asked to do a few bits but we're not supposed to announce them yet (even tho they said that about hurricane southside then put it on their own website).

we probably wont play as many as last year because i dont think we'll be asked to do all the same ones again, plus i have a nasty feeling some of the smaller festivals might sit this year out because everyone is economically fucked. but we're dead keen and we'll cover as many countries as possible over the summer, that's a promise.

in other news we sorted out loads of random t-shirts that were hanging around and we're gonna lower the prices on the webshop and sell off all the bits we've got kicking around, think it should go up tomorrow.

sx

You want me to terrorize the Frequency forum?

I hope that you'll do some Dutch festivals again, but I fear that it'll be Lowlands then. Which I really don't want to go to, so please be nice and do Pinkpop or something, again.

Why don't you want to go to Lowlands? I kinda plan to go there, depents on money and ofcourse lineup.
But BRS played Lowlands last year... still it's true, Editors made two years a row too. Hm.

woohooogirl wrote:You want me to terrorize the Frequency forum?

i'll help you...
what's your username?

hm. anyone from here actually going to hit southside? cuz my friends suck and prefer to go to rock im park -.-
and i don't know if i really wanna go alone to a festival

soulmate wrote:Why don't you want to go to Lowlands? I kinda plan to go there, depents on money and ofcourse lineup.
But BRS played Lowlands last year... still it's true, Editors made two years a row too. Hm.

I don't like Lowlands. It's like thé festival for Dutch people who think they are really cool and really alternative and really different from the rest of the world, even though there are thousands of people there at the same time thinking that same thing, slightly odd. And for many of those people you can do whatever you want or like all through the year, but if you don't go to Lowlands you suck. So, not my kinda thing, even though they have some great names every year. Also, it is almost at the same time as Pukkelpop in Belgium, which has pretty much the same bands because of that, and is much more fun.

I guess Werchter is the only Belgium/Dutch festival they didn't play last year, so they'd have to play something again? Since I don't see them play only really small gigs over here, and they also wouldn't ignore us completly. But I'm not sure which festival would give them two in a row, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Pinkpop.

Are you still gonna be in Amsterdam someday soon?

wohooooo. just bought the southside ticket.