Friday, May 22, 2009

You're shot...

    So I'm at home for the next month before we start the 10 Band for $10 tour.  I'm very excited for this tour and to be out on the road again with Madball, Terror and Trapped Under Ice
   While I'm home, I'm working on some endorsements as well as replacing all my broken cymbals.  A chore for sure, but it needs to be done.  
   I took these pictures during our 6 hour layover in the Frankfurt airport at Mcdonalds.  We were a mess.  This is what our band looks like after a flight from Hamburg Germany to Moscow, a gig, an overnight train ride to St. Petersburg, a ton of walking around, a gig, and a late night flight from St. Petersburg to Frankfurt.  6am German time.  Enjoy.  You're shot...




Monday, May 18, 2009

After tour update






So I got lazy on tour and stopped updating for the second half.  The tour ended up being a whole lot of fun and I tried to take advantage of that rather than sitting on my computer.  We went to Russia and played possibly the greatest hardcore show I've ever experienced in Moscow.  St. Petersburg was great as well.  I'll post up some awesome pictures.  We're on a break right now so we're all at home relaxing.  See you on the road again July 9th.  Check out the pics!  They call me the breeze...

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Day 18/19

   I'm currently sitting in the Lobby of the ACHAT hotel in Bochum Germany.  The last two shows were Freiburg and Bochum.  Bother of the shows were pretty small but the crowd got in to it so they were still fun.  Good food at both venues and good places to stay as well.  Bryan got reeeeeeal drunk last night so our set was extra entertaining.  To anybody who has not experienced drunk Bryan Harris, buy him drinks on our US tour and witness the beauty.     
   There's not a lot to report otherwise right now.  We play Marburg tonight, then Berlin tomorrow.  There WILL be things to report after Berlin.   Other than that, I've been listening to the new CF and Steel Nation records a lot on our drives.  Also Dustin Kensrue, Atmosphere, Playa Fly and of course the new DBD record.  
   Since I really have no updates, I'm gonna post the pics from our ice cream escapades.  Enjoy.  They call me the breeze...



Saturday, May 2, 2009

Day 15





   Augsburg was amazing.  I don't know what it is about Germany but their hardcore scene is great.  Big ups to Germany.  Big ups to good meals, good beers, good shows, and good hotels.  A successful night for sure.  Frankie got wasted... enough said.
   We get along with the guys in Nations Afire so well and they're band is great.  Real melodic and veeeery good. I hope this band blows up for real.  If you haven't checked them out yet, please do so immediately by following the link.
   In other news, we got the cover art for "Better Ways To Die" as well as the hand drawn artwork for our 7inch entitled "Our Glory Days".  Both look amazing and I can't wait for people to get this record.  It will be out on Bridge 9 Records in late July and we'll be playing new tracks from here on out.  Dig it.
   We play Weinheim Germany tonight which should be a very good time.  We already had dinner, which was amazing, so I have high hopes for the gig.  Also the band got a couple cool pics from a castle and then ate ice cream.  I'll post one up here.  Gig life.  They call me the breeze...

Friday, May 1, 2009

Tour Day 14




   Currently in Augsburg Germany which is about 20 miles away from Munich.  In the last 4 days we've played 3 pretty good shows.  First was in Solothurn Switzerland with Death By Stereo.  The show was kind of weird, not a lot of movement but merch sales were good.  I got drunk as shit and the night ended at a hostel not too far from the venue.   I slept in a loft above the door.  Needless to say, it was not easy to get up there and DEFINITELY not easy to get down to piss 3 times.  Whatever though, I survived it.  
   We had a show scheduled for the next day in Decines France but that got canceled.... darn... I don't like France.  So instead we drove to Schweinfurt Germany and had a very pooring off day.  Nothing to report here.
   We woke up in Schweinfurt and headed towards Magdeburg.  Finally, a show in Germany.  For some reason there were no support bands on this show so it was just us and Nations Afire.  Either way, we had some time to practice and FINALLY played a new song.  The night ended with drunken consumption of a doner kebap.   Good show, good day.
   Yesterday was Niesky Germany which is about 8 miles from Poland.  On the way there we stopped in Dresden and saw some really cool architecture.  It was cool to do a little sight seeing because we haven't done much of that on this tour.  The show in Niesky was really good.  A lot of young kids, lots of mosh, really hot and we played another new song.  Load out was a motherfucker due to the lack of common sense on the average drunk German.  We got a very nice hotel though.  Since we've been in Germany things have been awesome. 
   Tonight is Augsburg.  We'll see how it goes.  They call me the breeze...

PS Nations Afire bought a hacky sack... will post video.