Barend Arets

Ah, the god of Metal has arrived.

Nice initiative, I'm most certainly willing to help out as much as possible and share my immense knowledge of the Popouniverse with everyone here.

You are also welcome to PM me ingame, but with good clear questions, and not for invites

I'll see if I can create a manual or maybe a few, later today or tomorrow

Dammit, I knew it was a bad idea to bring you here. Now everyone will love you and will stop loving me cause you're so much better :'(

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Welcome, I love you!

welcome to the forum.

Well, welcome to the forum.

Welcome GHAA Barend, we're proud to see you here..

Wanna be 'god of metal' or being queen is ok for you?

ok, short introduction about me then :)

I started off in February 2005, a long long time ago. Back then there were only 10,000 players, only 7 cities (although Barcelona was added soon after that) and many many things weren't there yet. I was introduced to the game by Don Broos, who only started a few days before me. First off I created my own band, but soon joined Don's band. Didn't do me good, and I ended up in the hospital all the time. It was time to stand on my own 2 feet again.

I created BFF, an electronica band, and started off slowly. Tourbusses and travel routes weren't there yet, so without money it was hard to fly to every city. I skilled up the basics slowly, and played better and better. Once I got 5 stars Basic Record Production, I managed to get a good deal: record someone's album and receive a lot of money for it. This was the start of my company.

I went on with BFF till around January 2006, when I left the band to join Cindy Taylor and Magnus Gerhardsson in the Purple Penii, to conquer the Modern Rock genre. She was my first Popo-love, and joining up together was the good thing to do at the time. We played shows up until Great showratings, and I was very pleased with that. However, things didn't go that well between Cindy and me from summer 2006 onwards, so after a terrible Popofest-preliminary, I decided to leave.

I created Brenda Buttsecks, a disco-act, to show how easy it was to tour really fast and to jump up the charts really fast, if you're willing to give up everything for that. Soon however I had enough (after only 3 weeks) and left for Love & Death, the Heavy Metal band I am in now.

The idea of Love & Death was to let Doom Metal rule, and to kick the Bruinsma Brothers off their throne, but that was easier than we thought. Then the Popofestival came up once again. We decided to go for it, and we did the best we could. Sadly we peaked too early, and we ended up on 3rd place, in what Jonas Holtenerberg himself claimed to be "the closest finish ever to have seen in a popofestival".

Nowadays we're touring along with Loving Death, the Love & Death supportband of my lover Jamie Sagrera,

love the story.

Love the man behind it!

Jamie Sagrera wrote:

Dammit, I knew it was a bad idea to bring you here. Now everyone will love you and will stop loving me cause you're so much better :'(

not everyone will stop loving you, thats for sure

anyway, welcome Barend!

i won't. . lol

Anthony Guerrini wrote:

Welcome GHAA Barend, we're proud to see you here..

Wanna be 'god of metal' or being queen is ok for you?

Queen of Metal sounds great ^^

You can put me in the group of Oracles (or Whoracles, whatever suits you best)

Hey Barend, welcome here.

Say hi to Arvid when you have a bandchat of any sort

woohoo! more metal.. xD


welcome.. ^^