Praha, Zagreb

Parking lot in Prague around noon. First things first: We kicked some serious ass yesterday in Glauchau. Really, it was the best show in a really long time. We were tight as a virgin pussy. The audience was singing along with us and everyone in the building enjoyed it. Great. We did Northern Fall for the first time ever and Crows Bring The Spring for the first time in a few years. There were two women in front singing that song so that you could really see that they were hard core fans. That really felt good.

Now we are in Prague at a hotel parking lot. We can't drive to venue with the bus so we'll have a shuttle service to take us and the gear there. I guess it's because there's no parking space for buses. I expect quite a lot from tonight's show. Presale has been quite remarkable and we're once again working with Pragokonzert which means that everything will be perfect and beyond. Hmm. What's going on. I can smell the Sweet Leaf...

Gas station in Austria, morning of November 16th. We are on our way to Zagreb, Croatia. Yesterday was a great day. The venue was quite close to the city centre so about ten of us went for a walk. There was almost the entire Battlelore, three of us and even a Falchion guitarist Miikka. The idea was to just see the beautiful city and maybe grab a beer or two. And we were stupid. Some of us didn't have the local money so we stopped at the exchange office and just changed some cash not realizing that the exchange office was taking almost 5 euros for every action. So when four of us exchanged 10 or 20 euros all separately we ended up paying them 20 euros! Idiot tourists!

The old city centre was great though. Really beautiful. Although it still didn't get my "Favourite European City Award", Paris is just so hard to beat. Maybe with more time Prague could win... Anyway, a funny thing was that people were dropping off from our group and in the end it was only me and the two Battlelore singers. We stayed in the city till about 17 or so when it was already getting dark and all the city lights were starting to go on and city became even more beautiful if possible. When we were finally walking back towards the venue Kaisa received an SMS saying that they're doing a soundcheck right now. I guess they just did an instrumental soundcheck. We on the other hand didn't do a soundcheck and probably won't in the future either.

In the end the attendance was around 800 and the place was packed and hot and steamy as a Finnish sauna. Every band got a really good response from the crowd and were having a really good time. And Kaisa was also able to sing again which was really good news. Our show was really good. We weren't as tight as the day before but the audience was perfect. Last night two new songs got their live debut: Ali jäisten vetten and Nuolet nomalan. They went rather well except that Nuolet nomalan sounded a bit off-key. After the show we came to the conclusion that it was a violin that was really out of tune.

That's about it for now. It's becoming more difficult to type since the bus is moving again.

Boogaloo, Zagreb at 20.00: Just posting this, no time to write more.