Haarlem & "Frankfurt"

10:15 in the bus at the venue. Get in time is at noon so I have to figure out how to use the next couple of hours before breakfast. The tour book says that the venue is Batschkapp, Frankfurt. Bollocks. This place hasn't even seen Frankfurt. Or perhaps it has seen it once in the TV at the 70's. This is a small village whose name I can't right now remember and can't get online to check.

We've been here before. The first European Paganfest finished here. I remember it was a good crowd and the show itself was good, but the venue isn't really my favourite. And the backstage is way too small for a crew of 40. Way too small. If only all the venues were like yesterday in Haarlem.

The show wasn't the best yesterday though. The same thing happened as has happened a couple of times before as well. The local promotor makes the show start too late so that during the third last bands performance people start to leave since they have to catch the last trains home. That's not really nice for the last bands. We had a decent crowd anyway and once we got them warmed up we had a few good group dances as well. My bass sound on the stage was strange. And for some reason it seemed to keep changing the whole time as well. Suddenly the low end was gone and then a minute later it was all just low end mumble with no higher frequencies. I have to remember to check my preamp today.

And today I go to a bank. I have an appointment set and I will hopefully be able to finally open an account. We'll see.