THE ROCK 'N RAVE CIRCUSBAND FROM HELL !!!
11 tracks about to be finished.
synths check
drums check
bass check
guitar almost check
Scheduled: saturday and Sunday, studio Watergang, first floor, 5 tracks of nasty guitars ready to record… I’m looking forward to it…. can’t wait to give you a preview…
Guido
Wasn’t it nietzsche who said, four hours of sleep is more than enough? Always an optimist that nietzsche guy. . . Anyway, to continue, we had a great breakfest at a place nearby. I love berlin, for all the boutiques, crappy clubs and exciting eat/drink etablishments, but the problem of course was: NO SHOW. What to do? The booking agency was trying, but we thought of a different option:
Taking matters in our own hands…
How? By walking by several clubs asking if we could play. And already the second club owner thought it was a really good idea! So that night we played the lovelite club. But not alone…. Two other bands, one from denmark and the buddha cakes from England. All of a sudden we were promoted to being headliner of the evening, which looked like a good thing, until the other bands started playing. By the time we got on stage, most of the crowd had run home for the horror they had experienced already….
Nevertheless we had a great show, hugged every single person after the show, sold massive amounts of cds and T-shirts. It wasn’t what we expected before going to germany, but I think we showed everyone what we’re about.
After the show we had a great party night as well at the home of our friends Jim and Jen. Can’t thank them enough for their glorious hospitality. After that we managed to get some sleep before finaly leaving Berlin (but not before buying some great records just in front of the bus parking, including a 12 inch reel to real -really really really great-).
December 5th.
This means back to business and up to Kiel. Already the last show of the short tour and unfortunately it wasn’t the best. With our show wasn’t anything wrong, but there just weren’t enough people to make a good party. We had good fun though. Eating soup and salad in a former east german -never changed a bit- kitchen with old fashion brown green couches. Doors falling out, broken tile floors… I sink (think in german) it’s typical German, for a German club. Anyway, after the show we were allowed to sleep at the club owner, but we deceided to go for another drive. Heading to Amsterdam.
So we left the club at two, pulled in a crate of beer, put the stereo all the way up to eleven and hit the road. It is not possible to describe this roadtrip in words, but what I can say, that it godverdomme was a really good night. Completely broken we arrived at 8. (maybe the pictures make give a clue…)
It was short, it didn’t go exactly as planned, but we had one great show (which happende to be te most important one) and a good pile of fun. In april and may we’re coming back….
Guido
So we left on wednesday the 2nd to Berlin. What’s the fuzz about? Three German shows in Berlin, Hamburg and Kiel! What’s a MeloManic bus tour about? Mostly 8 hours of really, really, really loud music. But also unidentifiable food at the german tank stop, mit Kartoffeln, und sproutjes und viel fleisch, Anyway since we are masters of finding the right way, we managed to find our friends in Berlin straight away, which opened up the way for a true hangover on thursday.
December 3th.
Which happened. How do you get rid of it? Go to a german italian trattoria and order besides the pasta, a milk and a water. What do you get? You get cappucino like creamed warm milk in a glass, and german champagne… Don’t go to german italian trattoria. But okay, enough about the cultural habits of the berliners.
Cause we had to do our first show in the dunckerclub in Berlin. This you could describe as a cute dark underground club in the east of Berlin with a lot of music lovers. This is also the place where we met our new booking agency, who booked us this tour. And after the polite handshakes he immediately had a bad message. The show on friday in Hamburg is cancelled.
This was not what we had hoped. I wouldn’t say angry, but a little frustration was there, cause there wasn’t a real clear reason to cancel the show. Somehow my mind got back to the spinal tap movie, and I saw ourselves playing at a military base tomorrow at 1900 hours….
As there wasn’t much to do about, we decided to use the frustration, to give a fuckin energetic and killer show. It took some time before it got crowded, but when we finally started, al of a sudden the place was booming. Besides the german customers there were also a lot of ‘relations’ including of course our new german booking agency, which we had to ’smell a poopie’ . And that’s exactly what happened! It took a few songs, but in the end the whole crowd was shaking.
Now that we’ve played the rock ‘n rave circus for 2 months, it feels like we’ve really grown together. We’re becoming a machine, in the best and energetic way of the word. So the stage was a lot smaller than we were used to after te last months, but it didn’t make us feel uncomfortable. Veni Vidi Vici.
Later on someone told us, that if you are able to let the ’spoiled’ Berliners dance, you’re doing a really great job.
After the show, things got a little wild. Dancing contest, life saving belt (where did that come from?), air guitar , cowbell streaks and ‘how to get someone out of a wheelchair’ fought for the honour. By the way, the doorman didn’t like all of that. In the end we stayed in the club, cause they had a great, hotel like etablissement. Which basically was an attic with six matrasses. We slept like babies. Until the cleaning man came and trains started going again…..
