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22 Shows 13 countries
October 3-Bremen/Germany-5th
Psychobilly Earthquake
October 4-Copenhagen/Denmark-High
Voltage
October 5-Moss/Norway-Queens
Pub
October 6-Gothenburg/Sweden-Kom
music bar
October 8-Cologne/Germany-Sonic
Ballroom
October 10-Berlin/Germany-Wild
at Heart
October 12-Valdoie/France-La
New Tone
October 14-Pfarrkirchen/Germany-Bogaloo
October 16-Kiel/Germany-Schaubude
October 17-Essen/Germany-Turock
October 18-Regensburg/Germany -Goldenes
Fass
October 19-Dornbirn/Austria-Kulturcafe
Schlachthaus
October 21-Bratislava/Slovakia-SK
Randal Club
October 22-Budapest/Hungary-Mika
Tidvar Mulato
October 23-Vienna/Austria-Arena
October 24-Warsaw/Poland-Chmury
October 25-Krakow/Poland-Kotkarola
October 28-Ljubljana/Slovienia-Orto
bar
October 29-Milan/Italy-Blue
Rose Saloon
October 30-Munich/Germany-Kranhalle
October 31-Utrecht/Netherlands-dB
November 1-Sint Niklaas/Belgium-De
Casino
Before
we start,lets get a few things straight.Its hard sometimes to convey things
like humor and sarcasm
when writing and so I will use these symbols to express myself as best
I can here.Sometimes people read
things (especially on facebook) and don’t realize something is a
joke or sarcastic.
If you see this- :-) it means I’m smiling or its supposed to be funny.
If you see this- ;-) it denotes sarcasm or I’m joking. Ok? Good.
We arrived at the Psychobilly Earthquake ready to Quake.The backstage
was a who's who of psychobilly.
It’s always great to hang out with the people that we have been listening
to and performing with for almost
30
years now. It was great to see Richie Taylor from The Nitros
who was playing drums for The Pharaohs.
Richie played a few gigs with The Quakes back in the 90’s.
We didn’t get on stage until real late. I remember slipping on the
wet stage and falling right on my ass :-)
Im hoping Billy Tombstone has the footage.
On To Copenhagen and a great club called High Voltage. Opening the show
was our friend Peter Sandorff.
I talked about piano rebuilding and furniture refinishing with Mark and
Onkel from Java Skull and last but not
least Jess from the Taggy Tones was the dj and he played all the coolest
records (yes records).
I really enjoyed that gig. There was a good mixture of people in there.
Farther
north to Norway and Sweden for Sunday and Monday where we did our most
rockabilly laden sets of the tour.
The hotel in Norway had the best coffee of the tour and I would have to
say the breakfast buffet was
best in Sweden...after all the word smorgasbord is Swedish right? :-)
Day off in Hamburg,we did our laundry next to the hotel we usually stay
at
when we are playing there....sorry we couldn’t make a show happen
this time.
When we got to Köln we finally had some time to go see the cathedral.
I have been there many times and never been inside.
Of course its unbelievable and you have to see it. The gig was at The
Sonic Ballroom, a place I have played twice before but
we had not played in Köln since 2007.
Opening the show was our friends The Dark Shadows.
We played our heaviest psychobilly set of the tour that night and it was
a great gig.
Thanks to Lonesome and others for preventing the wrecking pit from ending
up on the stage :-)
open for business :-) I have played Wild at Heart many times. For some
reason I would always have a bad show there. (I mean myself) The last two
or three times have been spectacular.(meaning I didn’t make lots of
mistakes :-) so what ever the jinx was there, I nixed it.
We had the next day off in Berlin.The more time I spend there, the more I
like it. The city is alive! At 6am Sunday, the nightclubs were still open!
There was still musicians busking at the train station and people walking
everywhere. Truly a 24/ 7 city. I think I had a kebab all three day we were in
Berlin :-)