Meeting Arch Enemy Again

As I had managed to finish my Arch Enemy portrait in time, I was 100% ready for the meet & greet with Arch Enemy prior to their concert. There were quite a few “VIPs” this time and we only had a short amount of time with the band. Shortly after we had been escorted into the building, Arch Enemy already entered the room as well. It felt a bit awkward, though, as the band wasn’t really speaking for themselves but had some sort of “moderator” who did most of the talking to us VIPs. He explained the evening’s organisational procedure to us and then asked us to do something crazy to show that we “deserve” this meet & greet. In the end he even asked us to do push-ups. To me it felt like a total waste of time and money as I had wanted time with Arch Enemy, not with a trying-to-be-funny moderator. But that’s only my opinion and the rest of the meet & greet was fine. First, we got the chance to queue for getting a signed poster and for getting our own stuff signed. Once again, some of the band had already seen my drawing on the internet before and once again they complimented me for doing a great job. I quite vividly remember a little chat that I had with Michael about that drawing. When I handed it over to him the first thing he said was “Oooh, it’s you! You know, I’ve already seen this picture on Instagram. It’s great. You’re famous, you know that?” and I was like “Uuum…thanks. But I guess the only famous one here is you.”.  Then he signed as well and I felt very happy with holding the signed artwork in my hands. As soon as the signing session had begun it already ended again and we went over to taking our photos with the band. After that we all had to say bye and leave the venue again (which felt kinda stupid again, as we were allowed to get back into it for the show only a few minutes later – why did we have to get out then? Ah, never mind…). So after entering the venue for the second time I ran to get a spot in the front row (mission completed) and just enjoyed the show for the rest of the evening.