It's a full SMOON tonight

As someone who is known to be very shy around people I’ve NEVER MET BEFORE, I get how it is to have people falsely label you as something you aren’t. People have labeled me as “cold” or “rude” because I don’t respond or react to people how they’d like me to react to them. And Simone is known to be a very quiet and shy person off the stage. I’ve met her a couple times, and while quiet, she is very sweet when approached politely and without being too loud or overbearing or too forward.

Everyone screamed “racist” when she wouldn’t let anyone grab at her in certain countries, but if a bunch of people you don’t know personally just randomly grabbed at you, would that make you feel comfortable? Everyone accused her of hating Evanescence for saying that Epica and Evanescence’s music were incomparable because Evanescence was more “poppy” or “mainstream”. And later Amy Lee even agreed with what was said. And also, they ended up meeting and becoming friends, despite fans still bickering about it. Now this resurfaces. I’ve seen Simone interact with fans very nicely (when I’ve done VIP), you just have to know how to approach a person who’s shy.

Epica @ The Trocadero in Philadelphia September 28th, 2017 © Cherie Fairy’s Photography

Simone Simons (Epica) & Cristina Scabbia - The Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA - 9/28/2017

‘10 to 15 years ago, it was a relatively new phenomenon, [in the late 90s], more ladies fronting metal bands. Of course, it’s not an entirely new thing, but there was a different type of music attached to it, a different vibe to it, compared to early 80s with Doro and Lita Ford and more the heavy metal genre. More and more bands came and maybe had a bit of the same sound in the beginning. First it was called gothic metal, a name I didn’t understand…’

Epica live at Graspop Metal Meeting 2017

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