Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Haltern rules!

oh yes! Haltern rules...
Who would have thought that after the Rosenmontag which is the craziest day during Carneval here in Germany that people still would be alive after 4 days of partying... we came here on monday and partied too, John and Kasper certanly did :-) The Groovemeister tuned into Jägermaister and Kasper is now officially Jägermeister Junior :-)
Anyway, what a great audience on a hungover tuesday! Thank you SO much for a great night here in Haltern.
Many thanks go to Frank and Punk Floyd, Guni at the Schenke (venue) as well as Harry for helping out once again.

Tomorrow Hereford ... here we come!

Gute Nacht,

Ben

Sunday, February 22, 2009

German tour so far...

Good old Germany never fails :-) we've done 3 shows so far and it's great to be here again.

After an early wakeup on thursday at 4 o'clock we finally arrived in Wetter at around 12 o'clock. Gunter Erdmann the promoter is an old friend and we had a lot of things to talk about ... it's always easy to start a tour somewhere where you feel safe and know everybody.

We had a good but maybe slightly nervous first show... lot's of friends around, Harry & Lothar, Bernd Auffermann, Andreas Kloppmann, Christian Tolle to name a few. I was dead tired when I finally got in bed around 1.30 in the morning... didn't sleep well and was really tired when we arrived in Stuttgart LAB. This is a new venue for us and it's always exiting to see if anyone is coming :-) AND come they did!! Almost sold out and a great gig!! suddenly I wasn't tired anymore, ha, ha

Stayed up to long and didn't get enough sleep again...

Village in Habach is a special little venue in the middle of nowhere. It's like a big living room with a stage in the corner. Only real music fans come here and it's very popular and almost everyone has played here. Good gig again, some very enthusiastic fans :-) got in bed late but slept really well. Today is an offday and tomorrow is a travel day (no gig). This a much needed break for me because I almost lost my voice yesterday because of lack of sleep.

I've just had an enormous plate of pasta and some nice red wine, now I'm going to watch a movie and just relax.

By the way, the band is "hot" so don't miss a show if we're playing close to you! It's also nice to have a great crew, we get along great and laugh a lot!



Cheers,



Ben

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Wow!

A big thanks, to all who came to the first 2 shows, Tampere and Helsinki!!
Especially Helsinki On the Rocks was awsome!! I went to bed with a BIG smile :-)
Even though we've always had good crowds at both places now they were packed with happy faces.

We're still going to rehearse a couple of times before the German tour to fine tune the set.
I know there'll be a lot of good musician friends ( Rock Polizei ha,ha ) coming down to Wetter, the first show.
But we'll be ready :-)

Cheers,

Ben

PS. Soon we'll have merch and CDs available from the site... just give us time to get everything organised.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Kaleidoscope

The new album is out now!
Support good music! Come to the gigs and buy the new album!
Today we start in Tampere... end on may 8th in Mikkeli.

Take care and C U out there,

Ben

Monday, February 02, 2009

rehearsals...

Yes, we're rehearsing again for 3 days before the first gig in Tampere...
Joni is back from Thailand where he spent 4 weeks! Bastard! :-)
We have 15 songs in the set...or at least that's the plan with a total of 7 new songs + an oldie or two that we haven't played for awhile.
All smiles in the room and it's great to go out again...

I just wish I would have a better brain 'cos there are so many friggin lyrics to remember :-)

The album will be out on wednesday and we'll have it + t-shirts etc. for sale at the gigs.

Cheers, and C U soon,

Ben