So, here we are in the tourbus again. We just packed ourselves in the bus at the Düsseldorf airport and started our journey to Fürth. That's about 400km I believe. At the same time I am ripping to the hard drive the 9 album ABBA box set that I bought a few hours ago at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. I've been thinking about byuing that and for 35,95€ it was a bargain. All the studio albums they ever released and a bonus disc full of B-sides etc. Now if I only could find the "Live" album. Seems to be out of print and since it was the poorest selling ABBA album ever I doubt that there's ever going to be a re-release.
Anyway, back to the bus. This is a 4-day mini tour where we are supporting In Extremo on some of their German dates. Venues are supposed to be big and good at least. I just hope that our music works for their audience as well, because I think that even though we're both quite of often labeled under the same genre we're still really different bands and the audiences are not really that much same. We did one show with them in the summer which I believe was some sort of a show case thing so that they could decide whether we're suitable for the support slot or not. I guess we were since we're now here.
This thing goes on now for 26.12.-29.12. We fly back to Finland on 30th and play at Nosturi's new years happening on the 31st, the new years eve with Kiuas and then Moonsorrow headlining. That should be a nice show. And now we have an extra day reserved for Finnair so we hopefully have all the stuff back in Finland by the show time!
Whoa! The soundcheck is finally done at 19. We are 45 minutes late and it was not entirely our fault. We were late though, but then in the end we spend lots of time figuring out the problems with our monitor desk because bass was coming to ALL monitor on full blast and we couldn't turn it down. We thought at first that our desk is broken but it turned out after all that the problem was in InEx's desk that our signal goes through. Oh well. We're done now and the show time is in 40 minutes or so. Maybe some more vodka-Red Bull to cure the head ache.
Ok, the first show is over. I guess it was good. We haven't played a note together after the last tour but all went well. The set was only 45 minutes and I think we also finished a bit too early but we'll fix that tomorrow. We'll change the set list a bit as well. Drop the slow ones and add a couple of faster ones. Full speed ahead from the beginning to the end. But that's tomorrow.
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