People are getting restless on the fb page. These are the signs of desperation. Andy ffs, pull us out of our misery! Yea people are turning on each other.....dog and cats living together..total chaos. MASS HYSTERIA! :lol: --Come to think of it, that'd be a pretty good name for a band.

Well you are lucky. In Switzerland interest rates are hovering around 0. I'll get 0.4% for my savings. Oh and should you have more then a quarter of million you will have negative interest rates. That's right you will need to pay the bank interest rates, not the other way around. Students can get u...

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Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:46 pm

last_candle wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:03 am

will day 1 and 2 bands be announced before tickets go on sale for friday and saturday?

Looks like Milton will announce Day 2 bands soon

Oh, just STOP.

Last gig: Ayreon "Electric Castle Live" Sunday matinee and Sunday evening shows in Tilburg NL (fucking amazing)
Next gig: SlaughterQue in Atlanta this Saturday

Out of pure curiosity, what are the interest rates for bank accounts like in Australia? My savings is earning 1.9% at the moment, which for the US is pretty solid, but it’s probably terrible compared to the rest of the world. Well you are lucky. In Switzerland interest rates are hovering around 0. ...

It covers "all Taxes, Pre-Paid Gratuities, Port Charges and Fees, including, without limitation, a Booking Fee." lSo two things it could be: a) The ports that 70K visits could be more expensive; and b) it includes "a booking fee". So 70k utilise that to recover some of their costs. It's also possib...

I haven't seen anything in the theater since the final Avengers movie. :( If you're looking for something new to watch though, the new Dark Crystal series on Netflix is fucking brilliant . Agreed! I'd read the books the new series is based on -- bought them at the Center For Puppetry Arts here, whi...

SoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOooooOOOOOOoooOOOOooooon.

-ish.

My new prediction is September 14th, because it’s two weeks later than last year (which doesn’t sound *too* bad, if you forget the fact the we sail 3 weeks earlier), and 10 days (assuming booking opens one day later) for booking seems like just barely enough. So I expect a warning shot on Friday, a...

So, I'm very confident 70k is happening, but let's just say it somehow didn't. RC is still going to have a cruise set for that day and so everyone who will already be there could probably just get a cruise for really cheap since they'll try to get people on it last minute. Not that it would be near...

Y'all seem to think that UMC can process gold sales in a day or two. The number of Gold sailors increases every year, and in previous years they had like a business week to process these things. And you want them to cram all that work into a DAY? If that's the plan, this is setting themselves up fo...

Robes, what robes? 5 years and I've never seen robes. If you signed up for the Crown and Anchor benefits, you are supposed to get bathrobes after a certain number of nights from the cruise ship. I forget how many cruises it took. RC seems to not be honoring the benefits anymore but our stateroom at...

ProgPower got exclusive 2020 US appearances for the following bands, so they can be ruled out. :-( Conception The Night Flight Orchestra Eternal Tears of Sorrow Shattered Skies Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Ihsahn theGathering Arion [.......] It’s on their FB page which ones are US exclusive. And I woul...

If there is to be a cruise with a 4-payment plan at all, we HAVE to hear something really SOOOOOON. Will it be a huge pile of bands announced all at once, or will it be the usual dribs and drabs? With the amount of outright disgust (especially on Facebook, yipes) at the lack of announcements this ye...

Coming back from the ever awesome ProgPower USA. Still no announcements here? Goddamn! Ihsan and Eternal Tears of Sorrow were announced for ProgPower next year :headbanger: Yeah! I need to figure out how to go to Prog Power, EToS is very spicy. I'd've made them contractually required to play "Angel...

ProgPower got exclusive 2020 US appearances for the following bands, so they can be ruled out. :-( Conception The Night Flight Orchestra Eternal Tears of Sorrow Shattered Skies Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Ihsahn theGathering Arion Was that mentioned in the roster presentation video, or was it mentione...

Star Trek: The Cruise?? WAH?????? https://www.startrekthecruise.com -- it's sold out. Apparently you don't get the "amazing levels of interaction" with Trek actor-guests unless you pay extra. :shock: Interestingly, the Walker Stalker Cruise (for fans of The Walking Dead ) made its last sailing back...

So I was just wondering, for those of us who have visited Cozumel on the cruise before, how is it? What is there to do? How does it rank among other destinations? Not as bad as Nassau (shudder) or Labadee (blech), not as good IMHO as Grand Turk or --if we get to go there someday -- CocoCay. I'd lik...

Last show: PPUSA XX
Next show: Ayreon in Tilburg, NL this weekend

Once again, another amazing year in Atlanta. Had a blast with friends and some good quality bands. Even found some survivors and spoke with forum users Sgt. B and Pellaz during the festival It was a great year. Aside from a slight delay on Saturday everything ran right on schedule and the sound and...

I've been away from the forum for quite a few months, just got back, and I'm frankly quite surprised to see so much activity. Love your energy and passion, guys :) That's also called "frustration." But thanks. :D . I'm seriously disappointed by the lack of news. That is, more disappointed than usua...

... Coincidence? Probably, but here's hoping I'll finally catch my Big #1 on BOAT YES, need to see Behemoth again top side at midnight with black smoke billowing from the ship's stacks in the background... "The boat that was going straight to hell" - Cathartic epiphany moment 2015 Yep. Same here. I...

This is coming up very SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON......

Who's going? We should have a meet-up again!

We had the exact same conversation a year ago, with the same arguments. The money goes to UMC: https://www.70000tons.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5580&p=296981#post_content296981 (Side note: how did Iconix manage to author a table? Unfortunately, the white lines make it ugly) Interesting! Don't re...

https://www.nuclearblast.de/en/data/bands/equilibrium/releases/equilibrium-renegades.jpg?x=330&y=330 I have to say I am a huge Equilibrium fan but, while the album does not suck, this is not Equilibrium. They should have titled it Identity Crisis! There are a few awesome Equilibrium moments on it b...

Hasn't the taxes part almost doubled from the first cruise? I kind of remember them being in the 200's something. Correct. $249 for the first cruise. In kind of answer to your almost unasked question, I think this is the most important part of the clause about that cost: "...including, without limi...

Well, guys and Andy, I wish you a lot of successes in the next edition, I am out for the 2020 edition. Uncertainty in announcements (something very common in recent years), the high prices of international flights (in many cases exceeds 100% From the price of other years), lodgings, etc. He made me...

Top 10 for 2019 Amon Amarth Dimmu Borgir Blind Guardian Ne Obliviscaris Wintersun Eluveitie Gojira Ensiferum Behemoth Powerwolf Top 10 for 2020 Amon Amarth Alestorm Blind Guardian Amorphis Be'lakor Sabaton Gojira  Powerwolf Insomnium Iced Earth Wow, quite a lot of movement there, with Dimmu and Win...

Ghoultown Oh man, I don't even know if they're still active, but they were awesome when we booked them for DragonCon in Atlanta years ago. Fun but sad fact: "Count Lyle" told me he brought home more in royalties from Ghoultown (on BMI) than he ever did with Solitude Aeternus (on ASCAP), despite Sol...

What’s so special about having them come back 9 years later? Shouldn’t this logic apply to 2021? “Guys, this was great, let’s promise to meet again every nine years” While Andy will probably feel sentimental on January 24th 2021 since it'll be the 10th anniversary of UMC's first sailing, it's certa...

alex_canada wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:04 am

So tickets on sale September 30?

All tickets to be paid in full? Well, THAT should keep the tourists away.

Guys, it's a phpBB forum. Moderator Control Panel -> [thread] -> "Select Desired Action" drop-down - "Change to Sticky" - Submit. Edit: slightly different steps may be required depending on whatever Skin is being used. This can most certainly become a pinned thread / the Megathread. --Except that A...

Actually, a serious question.
If Andy makes an announcement regarding the start of bookings, does that count as an announcement for competition purposes, or does it have to be a band announcement?

Who knows, Andy might open bookings this year even before he announces any bands. :o

"It's just a TV show, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!" :lol: It's simple. If announcements happen today (hah hah), mbob can share the prize with Statsman and rebirth. So, each one would receive one-third of a free slice of pizza from Sorrento's...and one-third of the normal amount of adulation from their peer...

... mbob can share the prize with Statsman and rebirth Rebirth is not a forum user, I meant to say it was Dallas' second attempt to guess the date since he's our beloved statsman :lol: Good thing Andy obligingly didn't make announcements, then. I'd have looked silly (umm, more silly than normal, an...

I nearly jumped outta my chair and then read the 5 months post and....then...slowly sat down and felt the misery seep in again. Sigh......speaking of Sigh, let's get them onbroad please!? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OfOKC-Uo7hQ/WpcwyLVPsyI/AAAAAAAAGqo/WP7uU0a1OSs_nHv38m2Mwg5yrifARXl2gCLcBGAs/s1600/5...

How have I gone over! Going over the date would be to pick a date greater than the date the announcement is made Sir, you need to calm down "It's just a TV show, IT'S JUST A TV SHOW!" :lol: It's simple. If announcements happen today (hah hah), mbob can share the prize with Statsman and rebirth. So,...

We continue to take that abuse! Wacken is on right now (this weekend) and they already posted 2020's main headliners! Maryland Death Fest do much the same thing. ProgPower USA also. They run the video featuring next year's bands between bands' sets. Always fun to watch the crowd reactions, too. (In...

It's the only company that I know of that can get away with that kind of attitude and still get droves of loyal customers.... Oh, I dunno about that. Facebook, anyone? Apple? Both have annoyed segments of their user base for YEARS and still have diehard loyalists (Apple) or no significant waning of...

cowboy71 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:28 pm

Adding SELLSWORD to my wishlist
"Seriously Unserious Power Metal"
My kind of metal

Andy: "Well, I tried to book them, but their guarantee was too high...almost like they were mercenaries or something, looking for serious loot."