Anvil were rather huge in Europe in the early 80's but by the time the 90's arrived heavy metal was quite out of fashion. They still toured Europe, but these were all rather small underground venues.
10 years ago they were still touring Europe and each year they came to our local pub to play in front of 100 people. Always great fun, and who knows, it might have still been a yearly tradition if they hadn't released that documentary that got them popular again. Suddenly they could play Graspop and those corporate wolves forbade Anvil to play anywhere else. Glad to see they got success again though, a bunch of nice fellows if there ever was one.
Killer shirt.... Anvil deserves to be popular... but i guess the trend people will forget soon enough about them again... and they will end up at small places again.... sad but true... btw Titan Force; killer band as well with Harry the Tyrant Conklin
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Killer shirt.... Anvil deserves to be popular... but i guess the trend people will forget soon enough about them again... and they will end up at small places again.... sad but true... btw Titan Force; killer band as well with Harry the Tyrant Conklin
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Yeah, it's been a while since I heard any news about them...
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what an impressive shirt dude!!
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awesome shirt!
Couldn't imagine that Anvil ever played in my tiny remote hometown!
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Yeah, seems like they played some really small towns on this tour! Chaineux for example, is a village with probably less than 1000 population.