Meet & Bleed

A few weeks before attending another Powerwolf show, I spontaneously ended up buying a VIP ticket for their gig. I had two Powerwolf drawings that I wanted to get signed, that’s excuse enough to spend so much money on it, I told myself. So I carefully packed my drawings and took them to the show with me. It was a cold, windy and quite rainy day so taking these precautions was more than necessary. Just as always, I arrived at the venue way too early and so I had a long wait ahead. A few hours later the time to enter the venue had come. We were escorted into the building and told to wait for the band there. While waiting, we received the merchandise bundles that were included in the VIP ticket. Shortly after that, the band joined us and took a seat to let the signing session begin. Everyone wanted to be the first to get their stuff signed so I went to the back of the queue and waited for my turn there – I wasn’t in a hurry and it’s way more relaxed to get your drawings signed without having a bunch of people behind you. When it was my turn I got out the drawings and handed them over to the guys, starting with the old drawing from 2015. They were all really cute when they looked at the drawings and according to what they said the really liked them. They also mentioned that they’re not really used to getting drawn and that it feels a bit “weird” to them as they don’t see themselves as someone worth drawing. When they looked at the 2015 drawing they all went “Ooooh good god, look at how young we still look in this drawing – the good old times. Very nice of you to draw us in such a flattering way.”. That quickly changed with the 2018 drawing “Oh common, now we look old and wrinkly in this one. Couldn’t you have left that part out in the drawing? No seriously, the amount of details in this one is fascinating.”. When the drawing reached Matthew, he recognised the drawing and told me he had seen it on the internet before and that he even saved it to his favourites because he thinks it’s so cool. After the signing session we continued with taking pictures together with the band. What I really liked this time was the fact that we got the chance to have pictures taken on our phone AND on a professional camera by their photographer. All the meet & greets that I had attended before included only one, not both. After the photo session, the band went backstage again and we were allowed to wait inside until the concert started.