A quick update

Hi everyone.. I haven't written anything in a while so I would just let you know that I'm alive. :-)

I love the new version of Battle Hymn, the sound quality is AMAZING!

Looks like MANOWAR finally returns to Birmingham, England on March 27th! It looks like I'll be there! Don't want to miss the return to English shores.

Hail and Kill!

Johan

The MANOWAR shows I've seen

I thought it would be nice to put together some text and links to the shows I've seen with MANOWAR. Here's links to my stories, videos and more from the shows I've seen. I will complete this list as it happens.

Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg, 1999
Malmö, Sweden, 1999
Gothenburg, Sweden, 2002
Copenhagen, Sweden 2002
Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark, 2002
Hamburg, Germany, 2007
Bad Arolsen, Germany, 2008
Bad Arolsen 2nd show, Germany, 2008
Norway Rock Festival, Kvinesdal, 2009
Loreley, Germany, 2009 (link 1, link 2, setlist)
Offenbach, Germany, 2010

Planned:

Magic Circle Festival IV, Tolmin, Slovenia, 2010

(Eric on the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, 2002)

Happy :)

I'm happy to see that the band have announced their first tour dates for next year! Fürth and Cologne in Germany. It will not be any shows I will go to, though but I'm sure there will be plenty of shows that I will attend to later :-)

See you on tour!

Band suggestions for Magic Circle Festival 2009

It's possible to give band suggestions for the next festival on the official forum.

Register yourself, then read the forum guide lines, and you can post your wishes in this thread.

I'll hope to see DIO there. I saw him in Malmö, Sweden a couple of months ago and he still kicks ass.

June 29, 2002 - Roskilde Festival - Roskilde, Denmark

I went to the Roskilde Festival and I paid a lot of money to get there and be there but when you finally are in front of the stage waiting for Manowar to turn on full-power, to get out there and blast you really don't care about such things. There can't be any more great feeling when they get out there, I nearly started to cry during the first songs since it was so great to see the band on stage again.

I woke up late on Saturday morning and by this time there was not anything called hangover since last night, because in a couple of hours I knew that Manowar was going to blow away that stage and that made me feel happy. The day started out as usual during the festival, a breakfast consisting of beer and more beer ; ).

A few hours before the show would start I left the camping to find Marjo and Theo from the Manowar-crew who were doing the merchandise this day. We had a lot of fun and I also got the opportunity to meet Hinrich Stuerken. I also met our new guy in the Worldwide Web Warriors, Olaf from Norway. We had a great time togheter and both me and Olaf agreed to be in the front-row when Manowar was going to play.

hen they started to take people in to the front-rows I managed to push myself right into the front of the stage togheter with a lot of other crazy fans. The atmosphere was great and everyone was cheering "Manowar, Manowar, Manowar" and "Hail, hail, hail and kill". I even heard someone sing Nessun Dorma. ; ). A few minutes before the show would start, the manager Tom Miller came out on stage to warm up the audience and he sure did. The air was filled with excitement and magic. You could see the crew on stage get prepared for the show and suddenly you hear the Manowar-intro. Then Scott takes his place, Joey and Karl comes in and "BAM!", they start out with "Manowar" as usual. A show like this couldn't start better with a song like this. "Manowar" is directly followed by "Blood of my Enemies" and then comes "Kill with Power". Then it's time for a new song, the single "Warriors of the World United". Scott starts to bang his drums, Joey starts with the bass and the crowd gets totally crazy! This song works very good live and was one of the songs I remember most from this evening. After the song everyone left the stage except for Karl who are doing "My spirit lives on" perfectly. Then comes a surprise, a song that I didn't expect but how I loved it! When Joey first started out with his bass-guitar I thought it would be "Gates of Valhalla" but I realized that it was "Heart of Steel"!. Eric started to sing and then the crowd were singing the rest of the lyrics, it was so awesome! After this song Eric told us about Hell on Earth pt 1, 2 3, and that they were filming this show for HOE pt 4 (!). "Heart of Steel" was followed by a bass-solo by Joey and he really got my ears to ring that evening. When Joey was done, Scott started playing on "Fighting the World". This song was directly followed by "Kings of Metal" and "Sign of the Hammer". Then everyone else except Joey left the stage and he told us a lot of both fun and serious things. He made the whole crowd go crazy and everyone was cheering "Manowar, Manowar, Manowar" again. Then it was time for the fast songs starting out with "The Power", directly followed by the new song "House of Death" which also was great to hear live. They continued with "Hail & Kill" and by this time it was like hell standing down there in the crowd, which went so fucking crazy! The show ended with "Black wind, fire and steel" and the outro "The Crown and the Ring".

Setlist:

1. Manowar
2. Blood of my Enemies
3. Kill with Power
4. Warriors of The World United
5. Heart of Steel
6. Sting of the Bumblebee
7. Fighting The World
8. Kings of Metal
9. Sign of the Hammer
10. The Power
11. House of Death
12. Hail and Kill
13. Speech (Joey DeMaio)
14. Black Wind, Fire And Steel

Stories from the road

This is where I collect stories from fans who have seen the band live. If you want to contribute to this page, please send me an e-mail with your MANOWAR story.

Magic Circle Festival 2008
Steen's Festival Report on Revelationz.net

Warriors of the World tour 2002
December 19, 2002 - Columbiahalle - Berlin, Germany
December 17, 2002 - Stadthalle 7 - Bremen, Germany
December 16, 2002 - Westfalenhalle - Dortmund, Germany
December 14, 2002 - Ballsporthalle - Frankfurt, Germany
December 11, 2002 - Messehalle - Erfurt, Germany
December 7, 2002 - Forum - Bamberg, Germany
December 6, 2002 - Palladium - Cologne, Germany
December 4, 2002 - Haus Auensee - Leipzig, Germany
December 2, 2002 - Zenith - Munich, Germany
November 30, 2002 - Messeparkhalle - Trier, Germany
August 17, 2002 - Ringfest - Cologne, Germany
Behind the scenes of the Ringfest show, 2002
Manowar press-conference at the Popkomm Fair, 2002
Top of The Pops TV recordings, 2002
13 and 14 August, 2002 - Manowar at the Popkomm Gala - Cologne, Germany

USA Tour 2002
May 4, 2002 - El Torreon - Kansas City, MO, USA
April 28, 2002 - M ( formerly The Metropol ) - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
April 27, 2002 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia PA, USA
April 2, 2002 - Fester And Friends@CLUB 125 - Haverhill, MA, USA
March 30, 2002 - Ziggy's - Winston - Salem, NC - USA

Tour 1999
Moscow, Russia, 1999
Helsinki, Finland, 1999
Karlskoga, Sweden, 1999
Los Angeles, USA, 1999
Sweden Rock Festival, 1999

Hell on Wheels Live 1997
Argentina, 1997
Munster, Germany, 1997

Tour 1996
Orlando, USA, 1996
USA, 1996

WWWW events
WWWWfanparty Greece, 2002
CD listenings session, Warriors of the World, 2002
WWWWfanparty Belgium, 2002
WWWWfanparty Portugal, 2001
WWWWfanparty Greece, 2001
WWWWdiary meeting, 2001