reubens (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} reubens) wrote,@ 2005-10-23 17:30:00 |
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Ta ra and guten tag
Well, I'm home now (this is John) and the rest of the dudes are in Germany. I had to come home to work and I'm super sad to not be over there with them, especially because I'm sure they're having a hard time finding their way around the country without me to navigate, and I bet they're eating crap without me nagging them all into getting healthy and frequent food. They're so screwed.
So, the end of the UK trip went fine...nothing too special to report. We played in Sheffield, in the middle of England (where the movie The Full Monty was supposed to take place, if you care about that sort of thing). The town itself was kind of dull and the same goes for the club, but the show went fine and afterwards Sam drove us back to just outside London to sleep at his fiance's place. It was very nice and her mom cooked us a nice full English breakfast (yum). We loafed around her place most of the day and then went over to Islington, a neighborhood of London for the gig at Bar Academy. It was a nice club, in sort of a shopping mall (it felt like we were in California) and the show was fine. There actually was a pretty good turnout that night, and quite a few people were actually there to see us! It was nice to end the trip with a good number of people singing along with us. First Born and Dopamine both played exceptionally and we had a frenzied merch exchange and CD/shirt signing party at the end of the night. The gig ended at 10:30 and the club sort of pushed us out of there pretty quick. I was heading back to Dopamine's manager Jon's place in London that night and we were taking the "tube" (subway) back, which stops running at midnight (crazy, right?), so I was ushered out of there pretty quickly. It kind of sucked, because I felt like I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to the gang before I left. It was just quick hugs and promises to keep in touch and off I went, just like that. The Dopamine guys really are a great bunch of dudes and I actually was sad to say goodbye. Lets just hope that we get to do some shows together again soon.
The next day Jon and I went into London and checked out the Tate Britain museum's exhibition of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec...it was pretty good, but a bit of an overload of culture after riding around in a van with a rock band for three weeks. We then rode the Tate to Tate water taxi along the Thames, past Parliament (cool view from the river) and the ginormous London Eye to the Tate Modern. It was a pretty nice, but doesn't hold a candle to New York's MOMA. Dude, London is so lame. Let's motor... Jon and his wife Cai (I think that's how you spell it) drove me to the airport and away I went. 7 hours back to New York and here I am.
So, Jeff, Chris, Ryan and Mark are over in Germany right now. I haven't heard anything from them other than that their rental car was booked at the wrong airport in Dusselforf (courtesy of Ryan's www.ironlemon.com...check it out). Who knows what they're up to...
So, overall impressions of the UK:
Rubish:
Marmite
bathroom sinks with separate spouts for hot and cold water
belly buster breakfasts
new metal/"post hardcore" local bands
Carling beer
Southampton the town
shows over by 11pm
security cameras EVERYWHERE
drunken chavs
woodhenge
Brilliant:
Beans on toast
Southhampton the show at Joiners
tea
Dopamine
real ale
Edinburgh
shows over by 11pm
stuff that's older that anything we have over here
Half Light
chips with cheese and beans at 2am
brohenge
Well, that's about it for now. Hopefully those other dudes will have something to say about Germany soon. Keep posted...
Well, I'm home now (this is John) and the rest of the dudes are in Germany. I had to come home to work and I'm super sad to not be over there with them, especially because I'm sure they're having a hard time finding their way around the country without me to navigate, and I bet they're eating crap without me nagging them all into getting healthy and frequent food. They're so screwed.
So, the end of the UK trip went fine...nothing too special to report. We played in Sheffield, in the middle of England (where the movie The Full Monty was supposed to take place, if you care about that sort of thing). The town itself was kind of dull and the same goes for the club, but the show went fine and afterwards Sam drove us back to just outside London to sleep at his fiance's place. It was very nice and her mom cooked us a nice full English breakfast (yum). We loafed around her place most of the day and then went over to Islington, a neighborhood of London for the gig at Bar Academy. It was a nice club, in sort of a shopping mall (it felt like we were in California) and the show was fine. There actually was a pretty good turnout that night, and quite a few people were actually there to see us! It was nice to end the trip with a good number of people singing along with us. First Born and Dopamine both played exceptionally and we had a frenzied merch exchange and CD/shirt signing party at the end of the night. The gig ended at 10:30 and the club sort of pushed us out of there pretty quick. I was heading back to Dopamine's manager Jon's place in London that night and we were taking the "tube" (subway) back, which stops running at midnight (crazy, right?), so I was ushered out of there pretty quickly. It kind of sucked, because I felt like I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to the gang before I left. It was just quick hugs and promises to keep in touch and off I went, just like that. The Dopamine guys really are a great bunch of dudes and I actually was sad to say goodbye. Lets just hope that we get to do some shows together again soon.
The next day Jon and I went into London and checked out the Tate Britain museum's exhibition of Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec...it was pretty good, but a bit of an overload of culture after riding around in a van with a rock band for three weeks. We then rode the Tate to Tate water taxi along the Thames, past Parliament (cool view from the river) and the ginormous London Eye to the Tate Modern. It was a pretty nice, but doesn't hold a candle to New York's MOMA. Dude, London is so lame. Let's motor... Jon and his wife Cai (I think that's how you spell it) drove me to the airport and away I went. 7 hours back to New York and here I am.
So, Jeff, Chris, Ryan and Mark are over in Germany right now. I haven't heard anything from them other than that their rental car was booked at the wrong airport in Dusselforf (courtesy of Ryan's www.ironlemon.com...check it out). Who knows what they're up to...
So, overall impressions of the UK:
Rubish:
Marmite
bathroom sinks with separate spouts for hot and cold water
belly buster breakfasts
new metal/"post hardcore" local bands
Carling beer
Southampton the town
shows over by 11pm
security cameras EVERYWHERE
drunken chavs
woodhenge
Brilliant:
Beans on toast
Southhampton the show at Joiners
tea
Dopamine
real ale
Edinburgh
shows over by 11pm
stuff that's older that anything we have over here
Half Light
chips with cheese and beans at 2am
brohenge
Well, that's about it for now. Hopefully those other dudes will have something to say about Germany soon. Keep posted...
