Sara Hammerzmith

Right in time just for Frankfurt to come, I finally did what I have been planning to do for oh so long.

Get my hands on HammerFall’s “Legacy of Kings” whiskey. I was so certain it would sell out before I’d be able to afford it, but apparently not! So I took a little trip to the liquor store and I didn’t even need to go far – I spotted the bottle right from the door, so you could say it was an easy and quick catch.

With that being said, I have now sent all small Frozen and Eurovision Song Contest memorabilia down to davy jones locker (really just a shelf in my massive shelf) in order to make room first of all Kristoff, but also all my general music things, like the Serious Black box, “all” the wines and whiskeys and what else I don’t drink but really like having there to look pretty, signed booklets and just everything. Everything and nothing.

How that shelf will turn out though, I’ll show to all of you once it’s done, like, once Kristoff is back on track.

But hey – TWO DAYS TIL AMARANTHE. Who’s excited? No one, because I’m the only one among the blog readers who will go, BUT STILL!

// Sara

It’s only three days left or so before it’s time to catch Amaranthe live for the second time in my life. I’m looking SOOO forward, it’s insane! But not only that, today we recieved some big news:

BILLY IDOL IS COMING TO SWEDEN! TO PLAY AT GRÖNA LUND! Which is awesome, because it means VERY LITTLE expenses in order to see him, and ohhh. I’m just getting so excited and pumped over how this “semester” and summer is turning out. I literally have more gigs and festivals planned up until August this year than I saw in 2013. How insane is that?

And on top of that… I have finally gotten my hands on a Kristoff doll. Do you know what this means? It means my collection is now complete. Now I’ll have all the classic dolls. Anna, Elsa, Hans and Kristoff. FINALLY. Took almost a YEAR to get him! Oh god. I also got the Anna mug and two bags. Hopefully the lunchbox and the Elsa mug will come back, but we’ll see about that.

Gotthard’s “Tomorrows Just Begun” is playing in the background, kind of reminding me to get off the computer and get to bed for a long and exciting day tomorrow.

// Sara

It is now just a little over a week left before I’ll be seeing my dearest monsters again, in Germany of all places. Scare Force One is just an AMAZING era if you ask me, and thus I just can’t afford not going to see as many of their shows as possible. I’m really looking forward to Spain though, but next week is going to be epic, not only because of Lordi but also because of Serious Black, Orden Ogan and HammerFall. And this Friday is going to be awesome because of Amaranthe.

The carousel is just rolling now. And to add a little extra spark to it all, Argo managed to dig up that Stala&SO. are doing an acoustic show in Helsinki on the Friday that I/we will be there before Amaranthe. I mean. How fucking perfect isn’t that? I didn’t make it to Sabaton in Belgium, but right now I’m like ONE GIG away from having a gig every single day on the week… It would be convenient if someone happened to throw in a gig in like I don’t know, On The Rocks on that Thursday too. You know, just to help me out a little. Perhaps I should have checked the gig scene in Stockholm before I made up my mind about when to go to Helsinki.

But yes, Stala&SO. Will be fucking Awesome. SlipKnot, Stala, Amaranthe, Slipknot. I like it.

// Sara

You know, on days like this, when it’s getting closer and closer to a gig or a bunch of gigs, the days are mostly filled with preparations. Like booking the last things (Frankfurt hotel – CHECK!) getting all the necessities, starting to map out what the days will look like and like I mentioned before, also plan on what to wear.

I’ve been running around downtown today picking up a lot of new accessories and a new jacket (love it!) and also a few extra things to customize a few things, but most importantly, I got this little baby:

So it kinda makes it official: The first gig of this year will be Amaranthe, next week in Västerås. It’s so convenient, it will end about half an hour before the last bus leaves, so I won’t even need hotel. Those concerts are the best kind of concerts.

So yeah. The updating might be a little shitty the following days, and you all know why.

See yah later!

// Sara

This video perfectly explains my mood right now. The tour for this winter/spring is slowly starting to come together and I’m literally SQUEALING over here over all the amazing things that will happen. Concerttickets and Flighttickets were booked today and as soon as I get my money hotels and busstickets will be booked and in just a mere couple of weeks we will be on our way to one of the most intense and amazing little trips EVER. I’m looking forward to it like crazy, and I’m beyond certain it will be amazing.

Ahh. I can’t even be bothered over the fact that I did one of my school assignments completely wrong. Can’t even care about that right now. On February 4th. Me. Paula. Michelle. Germany. Epicness.

I’m so excited, I just can’t hide it…

// Sara

Currently listening to the new U.D.O album as I try to calm down after a “long” day with getting quite a few things done. Job applications, school assignments and meetings in the stable. I’m finally out of my illness, so it’s back to life now I guess.

With back to life, I kinda mean 2% schoolwork, 2% work 2% horses and 94% planning concerts and travels. This is actually one of my favorite parts about traveling for shows – the planning part. When you are looking up airplanes, hotels, trains, buses, tour dates to find the most suitable ones, and when everything is a perfect match… there’s no better feeling than that. When everything just falls into place.

And then the booking process starts and once you’re done with that, all the small planning begins. How much luggage are we going to bring, what are we going to wear (stop metal heads. It’s absolutely okay to plan this ahead if you are interested in it) plan out the schedule of the day – where will we eat, who gets what, how long will we queue, are we going to try to meet the bands or what are the plan?

The “pre-production” of traveling for shows seems to be a bit underrated in my opinion, or maybe it’s just me who loves it, but it’s the anticipation you know? When you have all your flight tickets and concert tickets and what not and then you just know that soon, SOOON. Soon we will have the best time of our lives.

// Sara