Sunday, October 23, 2011

French connection

Woohoo, three show without a line up change. Actually, that's a new record for us. Besides that, that was also our first show abroad. I tell you, we're going to be huuuuuuuuuuuge! But seriously our France trip was great. David and Alex had made the way to Freiburg the day before to attend the Weekend Nachos/Deathrite/Cancer Clan show at the Schattenparker place. This was a fun night as well, but that story won't be  told here. We'll just leave it with saying it all had to do with pizza ingredients and a lot of a drink called "Mexican".
So Dan met with his band mates and the Hellborn Messiah guys at the latter's rehearsal space. After we put all neeeded gear into two cars we somehow managed to put all band members into those vehicles as well and left for the border.
By the time we arrived in the Vosges mountains it was past nightfall so weren't able to enjoy the beautiful landscape yet. When we arrived at Le Thillot, Deathrite had already come as well as the young French band Mazettegrindfack who opened the night playing their first show. They were quite young boys and seemed to have brought all their schoold buddies. Those French kids were about to party - when we set up for playing as the second band of the night, everyone in the audience seemed to be quite drunk.
Our show, however, wasn't really our best. Some songs went pretty chaotic, let's blame it on the sub-optimal sound at that venue (and, granted, on us being a bit short on rehearsals lately). However we made it through our set quite okay and the kids seemed to enjoy it as well. Deathrite and Hellborn Messiah absolutely nailed it that night. Both did really impressing shows.
Afterwards we had another twenty minute drive to our booker's place where three German bands and our French hosts hung out for a couple of hours. Alex was lucky enough to get a nice present by one of the house cats (a dead mouse of course). And meeting some really young kittens the next morning was the absolute highlight beforel leaving homewards. And this was a nice drive! A sunny fall day finally let us enjoy the amazing landscape. Thanks everybody!

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