K-Town/Fillmore: nice venue, as already mentioned before...
we came, rocked the house and drove home!
Bühl/Café Pharagaff: a clean youth centre with a noisy concert room (glass and stones) and a crowded backstage room.The PA was too small for real punkrock and the local technicians had a hard time with us, especially the light-guy who tried to be creative with his lightshow (once again we're not hippies,and we don't need no colourful flashing lights and especially no darkness when a song is finished, even punkrockers have to tune their guitars from time to time) The locals were mainly friendly, the food was good, we had enough beer and then we drove home...
Later we heard that the promoter is fed up with putting on shows because somebody destroyed the toilet. As the rogue who did this will never plead guilty and apologize, we do this as we feel responsable for our fans. SHAME ON YOU, YOU DIRTY LITTLE FUCK!go kill your parents or some nazis if you can't handle your agressions
Ansbach/Spekdrumm: Bavaria, a small-town outer district right between a factory and the railway, an old hall made mainly of glass and stones, 3 undescribable support acts, drunken punkers on the streets at 7 pm, dogs, neighbours calling the police, public puking, chili con carne but enough becks, Jägermeister, friendly promoters and technicians. After the show a guy offered us to sleep in his tower but several other people warned us to do this, so we drove home.
Bochum/Blackout: even if the last show there sucked due to different reasons, we decided to give Tobby a second chance. Big surprise, the catering hadn't changed very much, (sandwiches, fruit and sweets, huge fatloaden pizzas), but we had enough beer and Jägermeister and this time the crowd was very cool, we had a lot of fun on stage, especially with Peter, Frank and his weird Ruhr-Area Friends. The accomodation was absolutely not bad (a penthouse with enough beds, a badroom, and a stereo, but no kitchen, therefore, the view over Bochum was very impressive). The next morning we had breakfast without having to ask Tobby for it. He's fast in learning how to treat a guest, you just have to tell him...
Zweibrücken/JUZ: Again, stones and glass and a PA that's not worth of being called so. sandwiches, lasagne, beer and Jägermeister. The backstage room had a TV-set. The promoter was a bit angry because we came too late (anyway, a soundcheck was useless with this equipment). This town is just a few miles from Home, so we drove back...
Schopfheim/Café Irrlicht. Nice small place with sleeping places, backstage room and a kitchen over the concert room. Unfortunately, Chumbawamba played a few kilometers away, so the "crowd" was rather small. Later, when some people arrived from the other concert, we had a good party with DJ Polle and DJ Safari Bob, Longdrinks galore, waahey. Unfortunately, Rocket and I brought our bicycles to cross the Vosges the next day; sports and hangover do not go together very well, but we managed to come home somehow....
Eichhofen/Brauereigaststätte:BEWARE OF BAVARIA!...was what we thought, but hey, what a nice surprise. The show was organised by two nice elderly punkrockers in a brewery in a very tiny village in the middle of nowhere. The PA was good, the catering excellent, the accomodation perfect (hotel rooms in the same building with a view to a small river full of fish). The after show party very funny, with Jägermeister galore and a petite drunken punkrockchick trying to mate with Rocket before passing out on the stairs. Those people knew how to party, but unfortunately it was the last show there, due to the usual conflicts with the local squares..
Linz/Ottensheim OpenAir(Austria): Hell yeah, we'll come back any time, kittys en masse, a great crowd, one of our best shows ever (you know, motivation is everything). unfortunately, we had to drive after the show, because we had to play at 12.30 in Bonn the next day. I think we missed a good party, RATS. Anyway, you can listen to our show here
Bonn/Rheinkultur Festival: Very tired after driving through the night and the morning we didn't expect very much, also because big stages give us the creeps! But we were surprised again! We had everything we wanted, drinks, vouchers for food, a nice roulotte, the mighty DUMBELL playing before us, a huge thunderstorm sweeping away the crowd with a lighning hitting a Döner-stand right after we finished playing (Thanks, Lord, excellent timing, the best lightshow we ever had), a kinky weird band (Soulwax) with a stage manager 8how ridiculous) trying to put up their show in the chaos after the storm, Madel visiting us, drinking, eating, yelling at the potatowoman because she didn't want to give us food for the vouchers, calling the promoter who solved this problem and any other problems we had (thanks, Sabine and Alex). Nevertheless a big fuck you to the policewomen on the motorcycle...
Kusel/Burg Lichtenfels: The location was terrific...a castle on top of a hill,a didgeridoo workshop, a freshly wed couple posing in front of the ruins, tourists, punkers, hippies, dogs, children, hiphoppers etc. Curse, a german hiphop guy with no groove, an apparently motion coordination handicap (he shaked his arms in a really strange way) and a religious attitude ("I want to see your souls") opened for us. We rocked the one or other guy and girl in the audience and then the stars arrived: BACKTRACK once the most famous band in Kusel and 10 years after their split, they came back for just one reason:HARDROCK! What was funny for the first two or three songs turned out to be a two and a half hours torture...endless guitar solos, covers from all those bad songs that once were one of the reasons we became punk-rockers, bandanas, long hair, beards, funny shaped guitars, handclapping... oh my god!!! And we couldn't leave because I lent them my drumset...bad bad bad
Neustadt/Hambacher Schloß: Another castle on top of a hill and the birthplace of German democracy, if I remember my history lessons well. The local initiative for a youth center set up this festival and apparently it was the first time they organized a concert. They were really set up about being 20 minutes late in their time-schedule and thought that we would leave without playing... The catering was abit lousy (some salads, and a kebap on top of the hill), the backstage tent was crowded with locals, drinking our beer and discussing tipical senseless and unimportant youth centre problems (you all know what I mean, right?).The accomodation was ok, and the breakfast too. I dont think that they will ever organize another show because they were really surprised how much work this is.
Heidelberg/Schwimmbad: WOW, we had the GREAT honour to open for the SUPERSUCKERS, one of our all time favourites...and what a big surprise: they weren't suckers at all. Really nice and friendly people, and pros if it comes to rock the house! "blabla the best rock'n'roll band in the world blabla the Supersuckers! blabla, rock'n'roll blabla." Their show was great but their encore was even better.... Chapeau!!!..oh yeah, we played there also...and if you ever come to the Schwimmbad, take a look at the huge pictures right in front of the bar....
Wiesbaden/Schlachthof: One of our favourite venues because usually the crowds there are great, the parties hilarious, the catering excellent and the sleeping room is just around the corner (if you're able to get some sleep...). This time though, some important people were missing (Hello to ten buck fuck) and the crowd seemed to be a bit tired, or maybe they were just too old (I mean even if I like a band I dont jump around anymore like a 20 year old). All in all it was not bad, but we had better shows there, and we feel really sorry for being so lame and tired at the party, (it probably was the weather!!).... Anyway, it's still a very nice place to go. Oh yeah, the breakfast was excellent
Trier/Schimmelkeller ExHaus: Again, small room, big PA, a new record in being loud, more people than last time. but we've been a bit lame (the audience too!). We somehow missed Linus, our stage hooverer!!. Anyway, great place and thanks to Pelz
Lehrte/JUZ ArpkeOne of the highlights of this little town is the duck-pond right in front of the JUZ... The Promoter (Humberto) is really friendly and so were the local PA guys. We played after a Bad Brains Cover Band...umh, they weren't too bad but they weren't good either, especially the singer had too much of a "metal" touch, and the guitar player must have been an asshole, according to several witnesses. Anyway, our show was great, and we wish to thank especially the Lituanian guy who covered us with spit!. Food and accomodation were OK, we spent the night in one of the probably most safe houses in Europe, the "Anti-War-House". And there we didn't just sleep well and safely but also found inspiration... if you're interested, over 18, not affected by explicit language and understand the German idiom go to www.coole-girls.de. !
Braunschweig/JUZ Drachenflug: Uuhhmmmm, not quite shure about that. A lot of people didn't show up because they were still hungover from the previous day's SNUFF-show. Chris, the promoter, tried his best (as he said) but probably it was our fault that so few people showed up, because we've played a month ago in Lehrte, which is some 30 km away (Anyway, we didn't see any posters, what really went wrong, Chris?). Catering, accomodation and breakfast were ok (sorry for flooding your bathroom). The PA-guy was kinda weird, because he was yelling at us not to turn the volume up too loud....what a jerk!!. Luckily enough, we had Jochen (our new Mixing-guy) with us. Pelz would have kicked his ass and then destroyed the speakers during the last song!! Staffelstein/Zebra: Still in the middle of nowhere and still a true highlight. Some more people showed up than last time, but they were kinda tired. The local promoter is still very friendly and we will go back there in Summer to practise some serious drinking and outdoor sports. Oh yeah... Hey Matthias, cheer up, better times will come!
Saarbrücken/KarateKlub Meyer: What should we say?! You don't shit on the place where you're drinking, right ?!? We had a lot of fun in this cool venue though we missed some people we were expecting to come...What's up with you?!? tired?!?!? old?!?!? sick?!?!?!? or simply dead?!?????