Winnipeg idiots

9.00 in the bus approaching Regina, SK. Weather looks beautiful, but is actually freezing. I want to go to California!

Was yesterday's show better than cancelling it? Not really sure. The venue was shit. Gear was shit. Turnout was shit. But there were people wearing Moonsorrow and Korpiklaani shirts and they got good shows so I guess it was worth. The original promoter had probably known already for a while that he's not going to organize the show. Practically no advertizing and even the venue had posters of the Testament show happening on the same day, but not Paganfest posters. Oh well, live and learn. In Europe we've grown out from the venues like that but obviously there's still some ground work to be done in some parts of the world. Luckily the venue was in the same building with a motel. Woohoo! Shower!

Oh yeah. Not a day without an idiot. This time it was four of them. Already from the early evening there were also four motorcycle gang members in the venue. Or some other gang, maybe not motorcycle but still wearing the gang vests. When we were about to start our show and Cane walked in wearing his "Happy Little Boozers - Beerland" vest those idiots surrounded him and started to push him around asking about the gang he's in. They couldn't understand that it's not a gang, it's a band. Suddenly one of them approached him from behind and just tore the vest off. I can only admire Cane keeping cool. In the same situation, someone attacking me, I would've gone berzerk. I am a nice, calm person, but touch me and you're dead. Maybe with the four idiots it would have been me dying so it was good it was Cane. All this added a nice little touch to the show. Are we going to be beaten up after the show? Later I heard that they had been harrassing also our merchandiser Nick because of our common "Korpiklaani - Finland" skull t-shirts. What a bunch of wankers.

Today's venue is the smallest of the tour. Do they have shower? Do they have internet? I can only hope.