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HELLOWEEN Tour Manager Addresses BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors

January 23, 2006

HELLOWEEN's tour manager, Kosta Zafiriou of Bottom Row Promotion, has sent the following message to BLABBERMOUTH.NET:

"My name is Kosta. I am the tour manager of HELLOWEEN on their 'Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006'.

"After reading some of the postings on Blabbermouth, I really think it's time to drop a line to all of you.

"It seems to me some people in here get off on writing just negative things, no matter if true or not.

"The tour is going very good so far considering both, ticket sales and reactions of the audience. HELLOWEEN played two shows in Krakow and Warsaw late November last year: Both clubs were packed and the Polish fans got wild and had a great time. It is true we cancelled the show in Poznan, but it always takes two to promote a concert successfully… Alone the European leg of this tour includes more than 50 shows, followed by Southeast Asia, South America and North America. We can't complain at all about a lack of success so far, I just want to give you a couple numbers of ticket sales: Zlin & Pardubice (both Czech Republic) 3500 each, Helsinki 1600, Stockholm 1800, Gothenburg 2000, Madrid 2200, Barcelona 1600, Karlsruhe, Germany 1500… and so on. At the moment [as] I am writing this we are in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the guys rock their two-hour show in a sold-out club.

"One last word to the guys posting 'Get [Michael] Kiske back in the band':

"Michael made more than once clear that he is not into metal at all anymore, and we all should respect this decision. If you don't like the music of HELLOWEEN 2006 the band accepts this, luckily there still is a couple hundred thousands fans on this planet who still do…"

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