Loudfest comes to the Haverhill Stadium in Haverhill, Ma. on Saturday August 18th....... All day all ages show with alcohol, food, give-aways and much more!!
Two stages rain or shine........
JOEY BELLADONNA (former voice of ANTHRAX doing all of the hits : "Indians", "Caught In A Mosh", "NFL", "Madhouse", "I Am The Law", "Antisocial" etc.)
with : MELIAH RAGE, CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, MASS, plus many more........ Plenty of room to slam & mosh!!
to bad belladonna can't hit any of the notes he could in the 80's.
post by Dankill at Jul 12,2007 11:03pm
I know the guys doing this show. They want to bring back the old spirt of locobazzoka before it turned into an over expensive nightmare with shitty bookings and WAAF up the ass
Soon, they'll book bigger and better metal bands.
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Jul 13,2007 12:57pm
I helped put this show on with Dream Weaver Entertainment. Yeah, next the next big metal event in Haverhill will have bands like : Nuclear Assault, Over Kill, Agnostic Front, Brutal Truth, Sick Of It All etc. We'll see who's available at that time.
Yes, the Dream Weaver guys are good peoples. I'm going to be a booking consultant of sorts for them in the future for GOOD metal shows.
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Jul 17,2007 3:36pm
Got the tickets for this last night. Already sold 10..... If you want them ($20.00 in advance) get in touch with me. CSDOband@aol.com or hit me up on the myspace. www.myspace.com/candystriperdeathorgy
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Jul 19,2007 2:32am
Our good friends "Run To The Hills" (Iron Maiden Tribute) just got added also........
This is the same day as the haverhillrocks.com battle of the bands at Winnie Kinnie Castle.
post by reign of terror at Jul 22,2007 3:05am
bump for metal !
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Jul 27,2007 1:34am
It looks like "BLOOD METHOD" John Connelly from NUCLEAR ASSAULT's side project might be playing If they do..... They'll be playing some NUKE tunes like : "WAKE UP" & "NEW SONG" from HANDLE WITH CARE. I'll know within the next couple of days.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW who CAME UP WITH THE IDEA of having BAND NAMES in ALL CAPS.
post by divine intervention at Jul 31,2007 2:34am
if it tastes like fish it's a tasty dish, if it smells like cologne then leave it alone
post by brad weymouth at Jul 31,2007 7:34am
will Joey Belladonas band have a better drummer than Charlie "always cheats" Benante?
post by CADY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 3,2007 1:23am
BLOOD METHOD won't be playing.... A lot of people wanted to see John do some NUKE songs. The singer from SMASHING PUMPKINS WON'T be doing something with FALLEN SHALL RISE (just heard it through the grapevine). Stay tuned to : www.loudfest.com, www.csdo.net & www.myspace.com/candystriperdeathorgy.
theres a young kid with a metalcorish band, that works at the store next to my house, im pretty sure he was able to get his band onto this bill. They arent my thing at all, but seem like nice kids, and relatively new to all this, so hopefully it works out.
post by Dankill at Aug 3,2007 3:29pm
xanonymousx said:
that be crazy if smashin pumpkins or nirvana end up playing at haverhill stadium.
Those are kind of the goals for next year, at least.
saw the article in the paper today....
hopefully nothing crazy happens and it will be able to happen again.
post by CADY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 5,2007 2:35am
This show keeps making the paper The church across the street was trying to shut the show down...... 'Cause they've got a wedding that day plus regular mass. Well, too bad!!
post by CADY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 8,2007 1:27am
The only thing bad about the show is.... We all have to watch our mouths on stage. No 4-letter words.... We're trying to be cool with all of the people living around the stadium. That shouldn't be a problem. I think that I can watch what I say.
this show is sort of huge... 2 gigantic stages. the entire football field is open. the only thing i didnt like was going to the door on one side and having that be the wrong door so i had to walk allllll the way around. but im just bitching. this show is down in a grant scale.
post by the_reverend at Aug 18,2007 4:03pm edited Aug 18,2007 11:48pm
source of contempt: remember the band, but not the name. I was a little busy getting everything set up while they played. They singer and bassist switched up at one point.
kultur: the crowd pitted around a bit. The bassplayer threw out a ton of CDs this was while he ran through the crowd. I figured that the wizard staff would have gotten a little antsy about that, but they just watched. It seemed that they didnt care at all. The music was ok. Not really what i would listen to, but i think would be more fun at ralphs or a smaller place like that.
a pillar of flames: pretty brutal death metal. Super young kids. The guitarist that did leads for the slayeer song was either like 12 or has that kid from webster's disease. Very interesting to shoot a band i dont know. Towards the end of their set, the vocalist did some ballady vocals. Eh. Isort of think they should get someone else in the band to do it. His gutterals where so good and the cleans werent really. Usually bands stick the person they like least with this job. Like the bassist they are going to kick out or something. I also hink the siner could easily be the giant from seed's younger brother.
bleed the sorrow: the dude's voice sounded an aweful lot like trevor (unearth) with some additional gutterals throw in. They were also super young and also from RI. This leads me to believe that 100% of bands from RI are youngins. My logic is fool proof. Towards the end of their set, the bassist vaulted off the stage. I would have broken my.. Er..well, everything.
bad karma: i didnt even know they were playing! Ex-meliah rage and worth going to the show just to see. These guys rule. The siner said they were filling in for meliah rage, but I'm not sure if he's lying or not. Then again, i dont see them on the stagelist. So I guess they arent playing. Anyhow, the bad karma set was bad ass and that is all that matters.
run for the hills: pretty killer versions of the best of iron maiden. Guess which ones were wearing wigs. I thing you will be surprised. The crowd (a lot of which are too young to remember an iron maide let alone an all long haired version of iron maiden) were into it. I'm guessing plenty of them got into maiden through people cover them. It don't matter what path leads you to maiden as long as you get there eventually.
mass: some old school metal band that i dont know who havent been together on a stage in a long time. I think Pete said 15 years? That could or could not be true. They were pretty good. They did a cover of led zeplin or someone like that. I forgot to write down the song and as of this minute, it's escaping my memory.
candy striper death orgy: set started off kind of week, but built it up after the set drew towards the end. I was all the way on the other side of the wall when I saw their big pit. By the time I got back over there, the pit was back down to one dude stomping around. I'm wondering how many pairs of those flame shorts can eric own. He's worn them like every single time I've seen then since the 90's and they still look bright, neon, and clean. He's gotta use that color safe bleach. eric lamented that there should have been more people here, but the turn out seemed pretty good to me. after CSDO hopped off the stage, they tore down that side of the stages.
fallen shall rise: not sure what the big deal/buzz is with this band. Not really anything that I care about. 2 of the guys from the first band that I saw were in this band too. The singer had a really weird way of screaming. I didn't get it, but they are big on WAAF from what I hear. They set was made interesting by a ton of beach balls that sprung up. Watching the wizard security guys and girls play with them too was funny. After the band was done (no smashing pumpkins singer btw), there was a wicked loooog pause.
yea someone must have lost a lot of money at this show. they were set up for metallica and got joey belladonna playing anthrax songs for 15 people. haha. i dont think they should have shows in haverhill, when we played that fest there, there were like 50 bands over 2 days and 7 people showed up that werent girlfriends of bands. fuckin sad.
there was a previous festival lik this here? true, the turn out could have been better. I hope if they do it again, they get someone lik amon amarth or someone like that who will draw 800 kids themsevles. I would guess they sold 200-300 tickets looking at the people who where there, but the place is so big that you really can't tell.
there was a previous festival lik this here? true, the turn out could have been better. I hope if they do it again, they get someone lik amon amarth or someone like that who will draw 800 kids themsevles. I would guess they sold 200-300 tickets looking at the people who where there, but the place is so big that you really can't tell.
there was a festival at club 125 which is at least near haverhill i think right?
post by aljy at Aug 19,2007 3:01pm
what we don't talk about joey belladonna???
joey belladonna this guy rules
post by todayistheday nli at Aug 19,2007 3:30pm
lol i just read in the boston hearld that the concert promoter said an estimated 15,000-25,000 people showed up?!?!?!!?!?? WTF
post by BONEDOG at Aug 19,2007 3:35pm
todayistheday nli said:
lol i just read in the boston hearld that the concert promoter said an estimated 15,000-25,000 people showed up?!?!?!!?!?? WTF
THE PROMOTER MUST HAVE BEEN ERIC. ACCORDING TO HIM 15,000-20,000 PEOPLE SHOW UP TO EVERY CSDO CONCERT! LMAO!
idk about that. I didn't really look at the faces in the crowd, but maybe each band had completely different crowds. anyhow, like I said, this show was really cool and someone needs to do thingvs like this for metal. make it so europe isn't the only one with awesome outdoor festivals. I think this fest would have been the shitbomb if they had gotten a headliner who would have drawn more than the usual crowd and their families.
post by Dankill at Aug 19,2007 6:54pm
This was pretty much a kick-off year. They are hoping to use all the sponsors and connections they gained in order to do this again next year with some SERIOUS headliner quality bands to fill a place of that size.
They had real shots to book bands like UNEARTH, THE RED CHORD, ALL THAT REMAINS and MASTADON, but on short notice it didn't work out.
heavensjail mentioned getting ozzfest offday bands to play
post by bobby from APOF at Aug 19,2007 7:15pm
it was fun to play, they should set this up as an annual thing or something similar. then with that kind of notice they should be able to get some really well known bands to play. I would KILL to play with unearth haha jake and i (as guitarists) take a lot of influence from them and with a bigger crowd we would really get more into it. you know?
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 20,2007 2:56am
Here we go again... A couple of faggots shitting on something good. This festival had many shots against it..... Ozzfest in CT., a battle of the bands with some dope from American Idiol headling it on the other side of Haverhill, and a big airshow at Pease Airforce Base. Plus, this was the first time in over 25 years the stadium has had a concert.
What's with this made up promoter stuff in the Hearld? I wasn't the promoter..... I helped put some good bands on the bill : Belladonna, Run To The Hills, us (CSDO) and Badkarma (took the place of Meliah Rage).
Next time this show will be bigger!! Radio ads have to be done on many stations. It wouldn't made a difference who was on this show.... It just wasn't going to pack in first time around. A lot of people didn't believe that a show was going to happen at the stadium........
Anyway, we all had a great time. Me (Eric) and Joey (Belladonna) sold a bunch of merch. We sold over 40 t-shirts
So pointing out obvious flaws is considered "shitting on something". This shows attendance was a joke, period. Blaming an air show at Pease and the American Idol at the castle is bull, the demographics are different. You think all the 12 year old girls screaming for "Idol" would have been at the stadium instead? Please! Same goes for the middle aged men at the airshow. This show failed due to poor promotion and lack of a headliner. I hope this show becomes an annual event and that it becomes a huge success, but that will never happen without a legit headliner.
if you want enough people to come to a stadium sized show, the music/musicians need to be relevant these days. everyone knows that an ex whatever 80s band singer isnt gonna draw more than a bar room full of people, not a friggin stadium. no offense to anyone who played this show but the only thrash band that anyone cares about these days is municipal waste and thats because they played with a lot of hardcore and metalcore bands the past year or so. plus haverhill is too far out of the way and too unheard of. and honestly you guys would never be able to book any of those bigger bands that were mentioned, pretty much every one of those bands is under the mighty rule of scott lee and would never play a mass show outside of worcester or sprinfield, unless its ozzfest or sounds of the underground. sorry guys. but if you do this fest next year, id pretty much expect the same type of turnout/bands unless you book lots of emo/screamo and youth crew hardcore bands, cus thats what draws in mass besides bands that are on headbangers ball.
If Anthrax did play there would of been a bigger draw.
Although it looked like a fun time.
The day really wasn't the best for a show.
post by Bobby from APOF at Aug 20,2007 2:59pm
im pretty sure you could get a decent headliner to play that, and people would come. i live in southern RI and i would drive to mass, or conn to see a band i liked....
post by horror_tang NLI at Aug 20,2007 4:52pm
CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY said:
Here we go again... A couple of faggots shitting on something good. This festival had many shots against it..... Ozzfest in CT., a battle of the bands with some dope from American Idiol headling it on the other side of Haverhill, and a big airshow at Pease Airforce Base. Plus, this was the first time in over 25 years the stadium has had a concert.
What's with this made up promoter stuff in the Hearld? I wasn't the promoter..... I helped put some good bands on the bill : Belladonna, Run To The Hills, us (CSDO) and Badkarma (took the place of Meliah Rage).
Next time this show will be bigger!! Radio ads have to be done on many stations. It wouldn't made a difference who was on this show.... It just wasn't going to pack in first time around. A lot of people didn't believe that a show was going to happen at the stadium........
Anyway, we all had a great time. Me (Eric) and Joey (Belladonna) sold a bunch of merch. We sold over 40 t-shirts
Your band still sucks.
post by horror_tang NLI at Aug 20,2007 4:54pm
bobby from APOF said:
it was fun to play, they should set this up as an annual thing or something similar. then with that kind of notice they should be able to get some really well known bands to play. I would KILL to play with unearth haha jake and i (as guitarists) take a lot of influence from them and with a bigger crowd we would really get more into it. you know?
Do you think your band is so huge that you can put the initials for it? What the fuck is APOF? Jerk a fucking APOF.
I was surprised, afterward, that there were no bands from Haverhill or elsewhere in the Merrimac valley on the bill; contrary to some of the posts above, there's more than a few bands active in this region and people do go out to shows for them. Hell, Indignation and Death Defect have been known to charter (and fill) buses to lug their home fans to shows in the Boston area, and one would think that the same people, and probably more, would show up to see these bands playing on a fest like this right in their backyard.
Every festival has to start somewhere, and this was a decent start; the promoters might have added a band or two from the area instead of pulling from as far away as they did, and ideally they might have gotten a headliner from the bunch that Dan mentioned rather than someone who, honestly, wasn't really going to draw anyone who wouldn't've come to see Meliah and CSDO anyway. It could have been better, but this was the first year, and it turned out well enough.
I still can't explain this alleged quote in the Herald overstating the attendance by a factor of 50. Promoters, inevitably, will inflate the attendance at their gigs so that those who didn't go and don't know anyone who did will go "wow, I missed a big show, I better go next time", and those who do know people who went will hear "yeah, there wasn't that many people there, but it was still a good time", but the figures mentioned are a pipe dream. I've been on infields with this kind of space, and that many people, and it would barely be possible to get 10,000 people onto the ground at Haverhill stadium, with barely any breathing room. Accounting for movement in and out, somewhere around 300 people saw this show, and the organizers, from a point of view of security and services, were prepared for about 1000 max.
I'm sure that if you go to the top of this page you can put two and two together and figure out what band I'm from. unless you really are as retarded as you come off to be. i don't understand why there is so much tension on this board.... it was just a show. around 300 people came max alright? argument over and i am not completely sure how i am a jerk or a tool... but I'm ok. how are you doing horror_tang?
Wow, I live one town away and we play in that town, actually half of the band lives in Haverhill (Haverhill is a blast by the way) and I still never knew this was going on (not like I would have went) But still, talking about promotion, Basically I have been living in the jam rooms and didn't see any promo at all.
That is Reason 1) for what ruined the turn out.
Reason 2) I did know some peeps that went to that Air show and The guys that own the jamroom (who put the thing on) were definitely making a big deal about the battle of the band thing, I think they call it Haverhill rocks. It's like the semi for that dumb thing we did last year on TV.
Good luck next year on the fest in haverhill, hope it goes well, and hope I know about it next time.
Ohh and reason 3) the biggest reason. They definitely need a freaking headliner, that is just common sense, That is the biggest reason it failed by far. The only band that I ever heard on the bill was CSDO, and they are no headliner.
post by CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY at Aug 21,2007 1:32am
Hey guys,
dyingmuse is right........ The show needed way more promo. Next time I'll get street teams together with the promoter. For a stadium show stuff has to be put up everywhere........ Three to four people can't handle all of the promo for a big event like this. Plus, I think some of the bands could have done a lot more work.
Yeah, it's a bummer things didn't turn out better, because that is a great idea playing that place, and if it had worked out it could have been good for the scene. Will it happen again next year?
When we did our tour last year, it was kinda left to the opening bands to do promo, and the lack of even trying was just horrible in some cases. It really does come down to the local bands doing their leg work.
Ha ha ha, I have heard him in Anthrax, but seriously, who cares about that jack off, he's a has been and is nothing without Anthrax. Getting Anthrax on the bill, well, I think the thing would have done excellent. Same with Meliah Rage and all these other come back bands, as someone had mentioned before, They may have a small dedicated fan base scattered throughout the world, but let's face it, they really don't draw that well in America. Nothing against the re-forming bands, but unless you were huge before and sadly missed by many people, it's just not enough.
