Oliver reemplaza a Coen en la gira por Norteamerica

Epica's North-American leg of the "Design Your Universe" Tour with "Threat Signal" and "Blackguard" will start next week. Coen will not be joining Epica because of personal reasons. He will be replaced by Oliver Palotai (Kamelot, Sons of Seasons, Doro)

Dear Fans,

I wanted to inform you all about the fact that I will not be joining Epica on the road during the North-American leg of the "Design Your Universe" tour. Having been in the band from the start and never having missed a single show made this a very hard decision, but a decision I had to make.

I feel blessed being in a band like Epica, with whom I can make the music I like, play great shows all over the world, meet a lot of people and live the "rock & roll" life. However, if I had to name one negative thing, it would be combining "work" with my private life. It is always a struggle which of the two comes first. As you probably agree, most of the times the band wins. That is why you are always on the road when it's your girlfriend's birthday or your parents' anniversary. Luckily for me the homefront is, and has always been, very supportive of me and they let me do whatever needs to be done to get Epica to a higher level. This time however, I have to choose the other way.

As you might have heard I am getting married to my girlfriend Linda in April of this year. Having released "Design Your Universe" last October and basicly having been on the road promoting the album ever since, we found ourselves lacking the time to get everything arranged properly. Because Epica's schedule is very tight, there was also no room anymore to "live towards the moment" together that should be one of the most important days of our lives. I gave this a lot of thought and finally have decided that I had to choose for the "homefront" for once.

Fortunately, the band reacted very positive towards my decision and a replacement was found pretty easily. I'm very honoured that Oliver Palotai (Kamelot, Sons Of Seasons, Doro) will guard the Epica keys during the tour. As I know Oliver, I am sure he will do his outmost to give the crowd what it needs and even make Epica a bit more handsome at the same time...

I hope that my guys and girl will have a lot of fun in the USA and Canada and I will follow their adventures closely. I was really looking forward to rock the States, see the fans and have breakfast at McDonald's with Willem. I'll surely miss being on stage with the guys and I wish them all the success they need!!

See you all next tour!

Cheers Coen

Se casa en Abril... O.o Vendrá para la gira sudamericana?????

I hope that my guys and girl will have a lot of fun in the USA and Canada

A los yankis mucho no les debe importar el reemplazo.

marck_epicadrums escribió:ess todo una tramoya de Oliver para controlar a Simone el la gira!!! malditoooo!! grrr .. jajaj se re re hacia la cabeza el chabon,