Long time since anyone wrote anything in this blog!

Anyway, last weekend Sparzanza was of to Finland again. This time to play at the festival Sauna Open Air. We left Karlstad on friday afternoon. This time The Mighty Kim could not drive us so we got a nice new dude to drive and help us out named Karl. Cool dude!
Also Magnus could not play this festival so Krolle from Inferior helped us out once more! So 6 merry men in a minibus on a Finland ferry, well it could only mean one thing - KARAOKE!!!
Fred got lots of great feedback after singing some tunes, I did not! I wonder why?

We met the guys from Hammerfall on the boat aswell and had a few beers with them! Cool guys that we have not met before.

A little bit hung over we woke up the next morning and went our way to Tampere! Got to the festival area very early and met up with our friends from Headstomp and formerly bandmembers of Silver Moth. Just the sight of the stage at the festival area made Krolle a bit nervous (well, me too actually). The headliners, Motley Crue, (their crew) was preparing the stage so our soundcheck got a bit late, but that was no problem!

And then it was time to go on stage. When our intro started I looked out and saw thousands of people in front of the stage. We did a set about 50 minutes long and the audience was paralyzed! Best gig so far I must say. Everyone in the band played as good as they possibly could so…it was a blast!!!

Just before we had to leave Tampere to catch a boat back to Sweden we had time to say hi to Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue!

Check out pictures from Sauna Open Air in the gallery!

Now we are really looking forward to some other festivals in Sweden that we are going to play. We will also try to find some time to record a special treat for all of our fans this summer and write new songs!

Cheers!

Joey

Hey!!!

This weekend we first went to Gothenburgh to play at the Bandit party at Sticky Fingers. Before the soundcheck me and Fred went to Radio Bandit to to an interview. That was cool, they played “The Blind Will Lead The Blind” and “My World Of Sin” and after the interview they got lots of mails requesting more Sparzanza song! That is cool!
We did a soundcheck at Sticky Fingers and then went to check in to our 4 star hotel! At that time we were a long way from discusting junkie flats in Germany! Luxury at its best!

As you may have read, Calle could not play the gig, so we borrowed Kristofer from the thrash metal band Inferior! He did a great job on stage! Sticky Fingers was crowded and the audience was so cool! Our good friends in Dia Psalma did a gig after us on the top floor. We met some really cool people but could not stay that long so we missed the afterparty. Too bad, but what the hell!

We came back to the hotel pretty late and Fred was the first to notice the swedish popsinger Emilia in the lobby! Of course we had to say hi! Look at the picture below, she really loves Sparzanza, dont you think!!!

The next day we woke up at 7 am, packed the bus and drove back home to be on time for Calles wedding. This you really should have seen, never has the band looked so hot in our black suites. Of course Calle and his wife Jessie was the ones that really looked like a million dollars!
So, take a minute to sign our guestbook and congratulate the two!!!

Now I have to go back to cure my bad hangover!
Should it really have to be this bad? 2 days!!!

The rehearsal yesterday was great! We tried out our new lights in the rehearsal room, and the strobe blew the fuse out! We tried out some songs with just some guitars and vocals for some radio shows.

I went and visited some friends, and got great dinner and some conversation about distortion pedals, before going to Metal Club where Grand Magus did a good show!
It reminded me to check if Spiritual Beggars (where JB in Grand Magus was a member) is ever gonna do another album! Have to check that out! Does anyone know?

Less than a week to go before our releaseparty! It’s gonna be great, a lot of people at Metal Club asked me about it yesterday and the place was overloaded with Sparzanza flyers, so I bet there’s gonna be alot of people there!

// Joey