The Welsh Metalband Bullet For My Valentine is the first confirmed band of three performing at T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds. For 2007 it’s the their only and exclusive gig in Germany live at the Velodrom in Berlin! On October 12th/13th the world-beating Skaters and BMX Pros from all over the world will rock the Street Session at the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds. The Berlin-based BMX Pro
Tobias Wicke will also come across. MTV will present this event on Saturday, October 13th 2007 at 8 pm.
The world elite of action and sports: The Street Session is the first World Cup Skateboarding Event on German terrain ever since the Monster Mastership 2005 in Münster! The best riders of the skateboard and BMX scene will kickoff in Berlin for the very first time in two categories “Street” and “Vert”. Among of others
Simon Tabron (England),
Kevin Robinson (USA),
Eduardo Torreros (Spain),
Benni Kopp and
Tim Eichert (both German) and
Jean Marie Bärtsch (Switzerland) will demonstrate their talents with an overflowing bag of tricks in BMX Vert.

The discipline “street” is pure thrill. The local hero Tobias Wicke, the summer session winner on the mini ramp
Ben Wallace and
Ben Hennon (both English),
Alessandro Barbero (Italy) and
Björn Mager (Germany) will fight against each other for the title. The complete list of participants will be announced in the following days.
Bullet For My Valentine, best known for great live performances, are going to play their only 2007 concert in Germany at the Street Session of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds. Influenced by Bay-Area-Thrash and the New-Wave-Of-British-Heavy-Metal, Metalcore and Emo, their album “The Poison” reached gold. These real experts combine 25 years of music history with high energy. It is no miracle that this metal-band is praised by the press after numerous amazing performances at big festivals. The fans always celebrate them and they will for sure take of a powerful performance with a massive crowd of rock-, skateboard- and BMX maniacs at Velodrom.

In the forefront of the Street Session the best BMX rising drivers can be eke out at the T-Mobile Wildcard for the Velodrom on the 22th of September at the Local Support Street Challenge in Emmering near Munich. The Skateboard Rookies have the chance to get the Wildcard at the mega-finals of the C.O.S. Junior Cups in Hamburg on September 28th. The winners will attend in the finals and compete with the international stars. However, even if you are just regarding, you can be sure: The slogan for Berlins Street Session of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds is extreme!

What is T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds? It is one big melting pot of extreme sport and fantastic music in an unprecedented way. The organizers of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds are
Andy Zeiss (rebeljam),
Achim Kujawski (BMX-Pro),
Ralf Middendorf (former Skateboard-Pro, Monster Mastership) and
Lars-Oliver Vogt. The three initiates of the action-sports-scene and the declared festival-expert already work on a concept with the idea of arranging an own event series including extreme-sports and cool sound for quiet a while. Events from the scene for the scene – and with T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds they created an optimal event. After Dirt Session and Summer Session with bands like Good Charlotte, Boysetsfire and The Hives three high-class bands will entertain the international action-sport-stars in Berlin.
Tickets are now available for 30 Euro plus fees at all ticket agencies. These Tickets count for the qualification day on Friday and for the final including the performances of the three bands on Saturday. The 5-friends-ticket is for low budget. For 120 Euro plus fee 4 people pay and 5 get in. Besides that there is also a ticket for Saturday October 13th only (final & band program) receivable for 19 Euro. All possibilities include the ticket for public transport.
Further informations and tickets among: www.t-mobile-playgrounds.de
The T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds 2007 is presented by: T-Mobile & Sony Ericsson
The Street Session BMX Street/Vert und Skateboard Street/Vert 12th-13th October, Velodrom, Berlin
TV-Date: Saturday, 13th September from 8 p.m. at MTV