The Finnish metallers will pley their first concert in Sofia, Bulgaria tonight (24 January)В at the HristoВ Botev hall.

Three Tangra Mega Rock listeners won SIX FREE TICKETS fo the show through our Stratovarius competion on the radio:

Mihail Rechnikov
Vladimir Dimitrov
Ivaylo Petrov

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STRATOVARIUS drummer, Joerg Michael talked to Tangra Mega Rock and he told us lots of interesting things:

"Basically, I am a guy who’s coming out of the 70s and the 80s when I grew up with music. And this is where my heroes and my idols came from. And many times I still listen to the same old bands I’ve been listening to for 20 years – Deep Purple, Cream, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden.

"There are of course many cool bands that came a little bit later, like Metallica, Rammstein – these are also bands  I like to listen to. I also have my heart in certain classical composers, like he greatest of all greatest – Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Also Mussorgsky of course… a Russian composer, but in general, most of the stud I’m still listening to is basically stuff from the 80s. heavy metal music. New Wave of British kind of stuff. So this is what I’m still listening to.

"And there are certain artists and styles I admire for certain things. For example, what sounds probably a little bit unusual for you but I was also a big fan of Michael Jackson. Especially the way he was doing all his rhythm things with the computer or with the playing, whatever. I think he was an absolutely impressive artist. Well. I was never a real fan of him, if you know what I mean."

ENTIRE INTERVIEW