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| Figment Tour 2007 |
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Figment Profile |
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| Friday 27th July |
Munich |
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Saturday 28th July |
Weimar |
| Monday 30th July |
Berlin |
| Wednesday 1st August |
Wurzburg |
| Thursday 2nd August |
Nurnberg |
| Friday 3rd August |
Schwarzenberg |
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Day 1 - July 29th, 2007 |
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Day 2 - Weimar - July 29th, 2007 |
| Day 3 - Nurnburg - July
30th, 2007 |
| Day 4 - Nurnburg - 1st
August 2007 |
| Day 5 - Schwarzenberg -
2nd August |
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Germany Day 1 - July 29th, 2007 |
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After 758.3 miles (Sandy was counting), a stop over
in a Belgian layby and
seemingly endless traffic jams on the autobahn we arrived in München,
welcomed with an onslaught of Pasta and Hell Bräu (the local beer)
and met
up with our tour mates Bad Punch line and Coma. Gigs in Germany seem
to run
later and we didn't get on stage until 1am. (They also pay, feed and
house
the bands!) Coma played a great set to a receptive crowd and then BP
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on for some rock domination. All good! Almost. |
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The local rag had managed to get the date of the gig
wrong so most people
thought we were playing the following night but people still managed
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make their way to the show - maybe through more luck than judgement.
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| It was good to play a show after such a
long drive and we piled through a short set before passing out in
the local girl scouts dorms(!!!).with a bottle of Tequilla in
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Day 2 - Weimar - July 29th, 2007
Delivered by the Drummer. |
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Cannot sleep from Club Mate!!!! (local
stimulant drink - think Red Bull that tastes like Grannies). Free
Mumia! Kick the man out. We were taught this wise phrase from
the upstanding men from the anti-nazi league good brothers, every
last one. The drive to Weimar was a a bit crazy, potholing through
crazy German forests with some beautiful (and spooky) abandoned
buildings. 7 withering hours later we arrive.
Weimar, we stumble about, and are wined and dined again. Mammoth
problems like trying to eat pasta from a plate.
Then we watch some kick ass sets by.. (cardinal sin. we are writing
our own private diary. arse) Coma and Bad Punch line play absolutely
stonking sets and we play a blinder to a club full of crazy kinetic
people.
Supercharged!!
The people in Germany certainly know how to party! Good times, good
people and a weird gate crasher.
I think by the end of the night I was married.
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Day 3 - Nurnburg - July 30th, 2007 |
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I'm writing this from sound check in
Nurnburg. Unfortunately the Berlin gig was cancelled so we had to
endure 3 days of German hospitality topped off by a fantastic bbq at
Hausen the Bad Punchline drummer's house (Germans love their
meat!). Last nights gig in Wurtzburg was in a beach shack at the
end of the universe. All was
good until the police arrived- apparently English bands are
too loud. We were fed, paid and had a completely free bar.
Germans certainly know how to look after bands...... |
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Day 4 - Nurnburg - 1st August 2007
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When I wrote the last update we were
sound checking at Avalons Dust in Nurnburg. This was probably the
biggest venue that we've ever played with a huge stage, massive
lighting rig and fog machine. I couldn't bring myself to throw in a
Motley Crue cover. Unfortunately it was also the smallest crowd
we've ever played to - 4 people (plus the other bands). There didn't
seem to have been a lot of promotion done by the venue but this was
the exception. The venue seemed more like a tribute band club which
seemed strangely familiar...
And after another night of sleep in a silver transit with 3 grown
men (settle down)...
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Day 5 - Schwarzenberg - 2nd August |
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Woke up early this morning, mainly due
to being asleep in a van in the town centre so decided to head to
the Czech republic (Schwarzenberg is about 20 miles from the
border). We were pulled over by the Traffic Police and stopped at
the border - I guess
musicians in a van look suspicious and then spent a few hours
walking around a town who's name escapes me...Currently a lot
escapes me...
The journey to the venue took in some beautiful (read Scary from
the back of a van) moutainous scenery. Finding the venue was a bit
tricky - all the kids seemed to know it, all the adults did not.
Because...
...it was a squat! A squat with a stage, a sound system and a
bar which fed and paid the bands. The venue filled up with local
kids and punks eager to here some English rock music. The gig was
fantastic and the crowd were crazy. We made the most of the open bar
afterwards and the prepared for the 18 hour drive home.
And what did we learn?
Bands seem to be treated very well in Germany. We were paid, beered, fed
and offered somewhere to sleep at all the gigs (bar Nurnburg
but they still fed us). Bad Punchline, our tour mates were shocked
that we were shocked. This kind of treatment is normal in Germany
and is in stark contrast to the way that many UK venues treat bands.
Because of this we were actually able to break even for the tour,
something
we probably couldn't do in the U.K.
Cheers to Bad Punchline and Coma for being great tour mates
and Tricky for some super human driving.
Roll on the rest of Europe...
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