Erfurt, Dortmund

12:40 at the backstage of FZW, Dortmund. The network isn't working. They are fixing it. "They" being Germans I believe it will not work today. The venue itself is really nice. Really luxorious compared to many others in Germany. Plenty of dressing rooms with their own showers and toilets. Of course there are not enough of them since today is the first of the few "extended Paganfests" with Moonsorrow and Einherjer included on the bill. I am really looking forward to meeting with Moonsorrow dudes again. There will be lots of shouting and bad behaviour later in the evening.

I slept late again. I've been up for about an hour. I got up at around 7 though and went to relieve myself and saw Jonne up. In fact, he's been up since that and was actually the first to enter the venue and the local crew thought that he was the bus driver. By the way, Kalle just went to get our speakers from the bus and now we're playing the entire Thin Lizzy discography on shuffle. Nice. City centre is supposed to be close as well. We may pop in there as well.

Yesterday was good show. I think we played our best show apart from Matson who always plays worse when his fiancee is present... It isn't easy to follow Die Reiter. They have an excellent stage show and they are just so big in Germany. I watched their show from the balcony for a while and was actually a bit scared after I heard the audience's reactions. During the change over there was no one inside the venue which really didn't make it any easier. However, Hittavainen told me that it's been like that during all the change overs. The 800 Germans just disappear in a bar or go out for a cigarette. So we ended up having a full house after all. Nice.

Oh yeah. Yesterday was the hottest show of the tour. Everyone was just so fucking sweaty. Terrible. And the bus starts to smell like a tour already...