Evolution

So we are in Milan. Oh no we're not. We're lost. Just a little though. We're close. The promoters send a guide car to drive in front of our bus and we find to the area. It was a park-like place with one big stage and dressing rooms built behind it from these container things. Nothing spectacular but definitely ok. Especially ok when we realized that the dressing rooms were air-conditioned. Cool! Literally.

We were once again playing quite early in the afternoon. I think we were the fourth band of the festival so we didn't really have much time to waste since we were late already. The crew started to get our stuff in immediately and the driver parked the bus and went to sleep in the hotel. We started to get ready for show which meant basically a few drinks. At one point during the band before us it sounded like the audience was singing "Kooooorpiklaaaani." I heard it again a bit later and went closer to listen. Indeed the audience was singing our name. Kind of cool but not so nice for the other band.

The show was like the others before it. No big changes in anything. The audience was small but at least all of them were really into the show so it was still really nice. Once again I had a wireless problem but this time I realized the reason behind all the problems I've had lately. For some reason my wireless transmitter has lost it's range. It should work well for 100 metres but nowadays the bigger festival stages are too much for it. When I realized that I just moved closer to the receiver and stayed there for the rest of the show. I should get a new transmitter before next weekend's shows. I hope that solves it. If not it's back to square one.

After the show we had a photo shoot for Italian Metal Hammer and we also did a couple interviews with the local media. One of the interviewers was quite annoying though. He seemed to demand that we should BE everything that the bands has ever sung ABOUT. Whatever it was that we had done was wrong according to him. If a metal band sings about rape, torture and murder, does he also demand that they should go and kill someone before they are allowed to do that? What a wanker.

The bus driver had said that we will leave at 2 in the morning so we had plenty of time. We did the usual. Met friends and got drunk. Sonata Arctica was there and so was already familiar Evergrey so we had plenty of people to drink with. I tried to watch some bands as well but as usual I was not so interested in any of them. Probably the funniest thing of the evening happened during the headliner's set. Whenever they, Cavalera Conspiracy, had a break between the songs I could still hear the audience singing. "Kooooorpiklaaaani! Kooooorpiklaaaani!"

After midnight the festival was basically already over for the day and the organizers were trying to get us out from the area. I think we were the last ones to leave. We really had nowhere to go yet, so we were just hanging around the festival area and meeting old and new friends. At 2 we started our journey to Northeim, Germany. I had been counting earlier that it was too late but the driver had to sleep, so there was nothing that we could do. The tour continues. 920km to go.