As we are already in Olten, we recieved a warm welcome from Nathalie. We first conquered the routine with loading out the van, soundcheck with Jack and in the dressingroom there was nice pasta and chickensoup that Nathalie's mom made for us. It was delicious! We socialized with the crowd by hanging at the merchsection while the supportband Hot Running Blood was rocking out on stage. As I checked a few songs in front of the stage I turned around and what the... it was almost packed baby! Hot Running Blood are relatively big local band that sounds a bit like QOTSA. Our show went great. Best stagesound so far. The crowd went mental and we shot some awesome footage what will be online soon somewhere.
Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKiDqUR--94&feature=share
We sold alot of merch that night. All of our limited tour shirts left the table that night. Keep your Ebay internet eyes open for that! After the rock-workout the cocktails and shots were flowing. Olten has treated us good! Afterparty in the bar attached to the venue we drank till lights were turned on and finally hit the sack.
Day 20: Appetite for MENTALity/I'll see you in Manchester when I'm 18
Hangovers are a bitch! Especially after not being able to drink after 3 months. The jack 'n cokes were flowing last night and I guess the lemon cocktail got me over the edge.
Today we have a 3 hour drive (with me behind the wheel this time and Ben's awesome mixtape on the stereo) so we did some sightseeing on our way to Geneva. Where have we been? Montreaux! We went to see the Freddie Mercury statue!
Enjoyed the nice seaview, grabbed a bite and continue driving to the next show. Actknowledge a beautiful city as we drove through it. The venue where we played is a youth/socialcenter funded by the goverment. Lots of kids coming to the show. Soundcheck was pretty long by the way, a bit frustrating because we were forced to keep the volumes low. Owh well. The count of attenders reached between a 100 to 120 I believe. This started to get crazy before the show as I had to sign (a kid called Yann) his Fender Telecaster. His band Last Minute Sex plays in the Blink 182 style. While smoking a fag outside we met Alice and Flora and they went mental over our beards. Joe turn up and they went mental again... and with Ben coming along they went super mental! Unbelievable!
Trying not to let the tiredness get to us we just went with it. Taking lots of pictures with “the new fans” I was pretty pumped up for the show. During our time on stage the kids went mental and lots of them were singing each and every word of the songs. Unbelievable. Off the stage there was room for pictures, chitchat with the kids and finally after years and years another BOOB signing!
Mike, the awesome dude who booked the show took us for a drink at his favourite pub. We had free shots and beer... Finishing off with kebab we headed to our sleeping place (at the bassplayer for Signs of Misfortune's house) I took a nightshower and went to sleep on a lovely couch. 4 hours of sleep. Coming up is a 6/7 hour chickenfeather drive.
Next up: Last show in Le Mans, France!
Last day: 21
Waking up dead early to conquer a 8 hour drive to Le Mans. Funny thing was that this drive was shorter than the 6 hour drive to Olten. Anyway, last show coming up. Everyone is knackered and even I who always gets pumped up for a show, has a hard time finding the last energy left in my body. Once arrived in Le Mans at the English pub “Union Jack” we got a warm welcome from Clemonts and Phil.
We ate some fine french cold food and watch the Liverpool vs. Norwich football game. We were really impressed by the supports: TotorRo, The Forks and Underfuse. Show was awesome... Not our best but we got some really got some nice shots by Anthony Favennec.
At the end I had my “Nirvana moment”
We destroyed everything and I fell flatback on the drumkit.
Clemonts took us to a cool bar to have the last drink of the tour. Fucking great!
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