Primadonnas

14.15 in the bus at Mokena, IL, suburb of Chicago. Beautiful hot weather, just been laying on the grass with some MSorrow guys. Really nice way to leave behind all the shit that went down last night. If Cleveland was bad, yesterday was just disaster. We did something that we've never done before, and hopefully never ever will. We walked off the stage after 5 songs. It was just waste of time playing there without any monitors. They were fine for a minute, then their power amp clipped and was cooling down for the next 2 minutes and the monitors were totally silent. You just can't sing or play a fretless instrument like violin like that. Since the crew didn't do anything about that we thought that why should we be there pretending that all is well and we're having a good time when everything is shit. So we left the stage. After about 15 minutes of screaming and shouting and everyone calling everyone with every possible bad name they managed to fix the problem. Why couldn't they do that during the show? I don't get it. We finished the set after all. So the audience in Covington got a really short set but an extra long encore.

As I said, today's a different thing. Beautiful weather, nice venue and showers. Don't have to wash myself in a bar's kitchen sink like last night. Let's just forget that there was yesterday.

No post without idiots though. During Groomborrow's set we suddenly noticed about 20 police cars rushing past us and stopping about 200 meters from the venue. A bit later we heard that someone had shot a police officer. Some of us decided to walk there to see what's going on. Quite idiotic, if you ask me.