Fillmore/K-Town:although the PA system is not worth being called so ( wait a minute... i think they just have got some new monitors), this is always a nice place to be: the promoter is friendly, the catering is always excellent (french cheese, sausages, different kinds of bread, coffee, beer , water with or without bubbles....) and the crowd is ... a crowd like it should be! nothing more to say, we had a nice evening....and then we drove home, so no news about overnight accomodation and brakfast
JUZ Bietigheim Bissingen: j/ust in front of a police station, with the backstage-room window facing it, makes you kinda nervous when you want to relax, young punks with spiked hair in the lounge ,I really can´t tell if they liked us there or not, probably they didn´t get the joke! the PA was Ok, catering not because some hippy and punkrockshitheads ate our food and all what was left for us was some noodles and a little bit of fluid-sauce, as all the stuff in the sauce has been picked out by those famine suffering idiots. The sleeping place was OK, a big room upstairs with enough beds and a kitchen with a TV set... the people living there tried to tell us what we should watch, but we didn´t listen!. Breakfast was not that good, but not that bad either, there was coffe and bread, but not enough cheese. The girl at the bar and serving breakfast was cute!
Café Atlantik/Freiburg: A "professional" venue with a good PA, good lights, warm food and drinks at the bar (all kinds of drinks!). The backstage room is downstairs and it´s cold in there .We slept in the appartment of 2 nice and friendly girls.Why am i still thinking that this guy somehow cheated us?... probably because it was sold out, because the in-house PA was so expensive and because we had to pay two "local crew" guys who had the ability to make themselves invisible. In the contract we also had to pay more for our food than it actually costed on the list. Well, we got very seriously drunk and so probably said "yes" to everything.... so beware, smiling people are not always your friends
Exhaus/Trier: yeah, yeah, yeah. Trier rules!!!. Pelz, one of our tour technicians lives there and he put the PA of the "BIG ROOM"(takes about 500 to 600 people) into the "Schimmelkeller", usually the backstage room for the premier ligue rockstars. we shook the earth and the 157 people jammed into this small room!!!!!! nothing more to say...... Trier is always cool!!!!!!
Café Tauma/Marburg: unless the fear evocing name, it wasn´t traumatic at all. We rocked the house, drank their beers and ate their food (rice with either a vegetarian or a meat sauce, salad, arrival snack, potato crisps and so on) ...unfortunately, we didn´t mate with their women.... Later we went to a student first semester party which was traumatic for Jule, our host, because somehow she got a deep cut in her leg. we decided then to leave and had a few cuba-libre in the havanna 8 bar before we went to Jules place and slept there. Normally the bands stay in a different place overnight, so we can´t tell you about that. Breakfast was excellent, though the eggs were not "a point"!
Sporthalle/Metzingen: OK, enough of being nice!. this place sucks... We came there, were jammed up in a small dressing room for football players (actually it was the shower-room). There was NO COFFEE, almost no food (they ordered 3 giant pizzas for 6 bands - thank god we visited MC Donalds before). After the show thepromoters left without telling us were we should stay overnight. We asked the cleaning woman who gave us the adress of a hotel. At the Hotel they told us that they had already given the keys to the band, kinda strange, because we didn´t have any. As we found out, they gave 3 keys to MAD SIN the other band and another key to some unknown person. All in all 4 double rooms. We were a bit surprised because we knew that, together with MAD SIN, the other band, we were 15 people looking for a bed . The woman of the Hotel ( a sexy russian lady in the early 40´s) told us to look for the promoter who was in another bar, very drunk and absolutely not interested in helping us ( "i don´t care... that is not my problem...what do you want from me anyway"). I remember a totally weird situation: Polle, myself and Köfte, the singer for MAD SIN ( a big big tall man, with lots of tattoos)were talking to the promoter outside of the bar , while the Hotel-Lady was standing besides, rolling her eyes, and while some young psychobillys on speed were jumping around our little group, just like midgets around a fire - I could read their minds:" let´s just wait ´till one of the stars starts to yell at him, then we´ll beat the shit out of this rotten Hippie". Either this guy was a truly hero, or he didn´t get the seriousness of the situation he was in because he didn´t even try to cooperate!!! Well, anyway we decided not to kill him because Gaby, the Hotel-Lady offered us 2 more rooms and something to drink. We left the scene and went to the Bahnhofshotel Metzingen, where we met new friends. What happened there is none of your business...
Signalwerk/Mainz: No Punkrock venue, but an ancient railroad building where normally techno events take place. This wasn't the local promoter's own venue, so it's kinda hard to say whose fault it is that the circumstances kinda sucked: There was a terrible and dangerous piece of "art" hanging from the ceiling right in front of Mondial's face, the backstage room was a joke, we had to eat at the merchandise stand ("we can't let you do that in the kitchen, you might steal something!") and of course we had to start a little riot to get some more beer (TEN BUCK FUCK - good friends of us from Wiesbaden who supported us - are drinking professionals too). On the other hand the food (pizza service) was o.k. and after all the show was great: Drunk women falling on the stage, drunk guys supporting the backstage vocals and an enthusiastic crowd: Wiesbaden - we love you. By the way, Gero, why didn't you want to fuck the girl with the reen hair even if she's asked you for it so politely. Do you think it's gentlemanlike to put her in the trashcan?!?
Zebra/Staffelstein: Situated in the middle of nowhere (a small village consisting of three houses an a furniture factory somewhere between Bamberg and Coburg) this venue is a true highlight, mainly because the local promoters know what a band like us needs: A whole backstage appartment (!) with real beds, delicious arrival snacks, good food and drinks galore. There were'nt as many people this time as the last two times we played there (as you can see we really like it), probably because of the wheather, but with an atmosphere like that, nothing can really go wrong. .