August 8, 2008- Masterpiece, AYS, Golden District, Get Lost

We drove for like 13 hours and got to Nantes, France but they were having trouble finding the venue. We pretty much drove through every street. I was sitting by the sliding door and kept opening it up and yelling at french people. At one point we threw water and nuts at the other van. Gummi (AYS) spit at me at one point so when we got to the venue I chased him with potatoe salad. The venue was pretty cool, it was a bar that could hold about 300 people. Another show with a solid crowd. We went to the backstage room and ate some pizza and shit then shot the fire extinguisher down the stairs. The first band was ok, I was mostly trying to get some food so I missed part of their set. I saw them cover Stop and Think though. Golden District was next and they were really awesome live. My friend Vince sings for them and I know him from back in the USA. AYS played another awesome set and there was some moshing. We played last and had another awesome reaction. Notable moshers were a 47 year old guy who ruled, and some guy who looked like Todd Jones from the future. At the end of our set kids were going nuts for us to play more. We didn't know any more so they were booing us. We sold a bunch of merch so that ruled. I can't believe the reaction we have been getting and it has only been for 2 shows.

August- 7, 2008- AYS, Masterpiece, Reaching Hand, Sink or Swim

The venue was tiny as shit. We got there really early and just chilled. We met the Sink or Swim kids and the rest of AYS. They brought awesome vegan gyros to us and I ate two of them. The show was nuts. 150 paid and they were only expecting 80. It was Sink or Swim's demo release show. They had a chick singer and sounded better live than on their myspace. Reaching Hand from Portugal was next and were really good, another band with a chick singer. We have 2 more shows with them on tour later on so that rules. We played next and got a unexpected huge reaction. Stage dives, moshing, singing along, who knew? This shit was crazy and actually made me feel like I have accomplished something. I don't think I have ever sweat so much during a show. AYS was last and were solid. Kids loved them. We laughed at EuroMosh but it was all good. Its like going back in time to the 90s. The stage dives were funny but at least the kids caught the divers and then crowd surfed them. I climbed some rigging shit and swung across into the mosh. Awesome show though.

Europe so far

This shit has been crazy. Kids in most of the cities know our songs already, we've been selling merch each night, and overall have been having a great time. I have been keeping a written tour journal and I will be copying all that down and putting it in zine form when I get home. I have also been keeping a record of each show how I normally do on here and when I get home I will copy all of that to this site. I just don't have the time or patience to do that now so I will give a brief re-cap of how things have gone down.

-first show was insane- stage dives, sing alongs, bigger reaction than some hometown shows.

-most drives turn from 3-4 hours into 7-8.

-we have had a few drives over 12 hours long.

-a lot of girls don't wear tops to the beaches in Nice, France.

-Mike got pissed on by a cat in his sleep.

-I sleep in the van almost every night.

-Pat will probably kill mike and wade before we get home.

-In Broye Les Pesmes, France we played the most ignorant set ever and 15 year olds were drinking.

-We walked in a castle this morning.

-Food out here sucks.

-People like soulfly here.

-We talk all sorts of shit in either french, english or german to people.

-The shit we talk usually revolves around saying blowjob in different languages.

-We have covered Leeway a few times.

-AYS rules.

So yeah, I'll update this more when we get home. The Keyboards here are whack.



No Rules. No Peace. No Hope. No Rest.

First show of tour

We are sitting around at the singer of AYS's house waiting to play. It should be interesting to see what goes down.I'll try to update this shit as much as I can. Regardless I am keeping a written journal and will update about the shows whenever I can get on here.

Germany

This place rules and we have been hooked up by Pietz and his family with some awesome food and a place to stay. We are driving to the Netherlands today to go to some outlet mall. We saw a German Version of Spongebob on TV and also some channel to buy ringtones and shit that had titties all over it. Our first show is tomorrow but tonight we are supposed to be going to some Disco club or some stupid shit. We have all been up since 530 am.

Euro Tripping

We are currently waiting at the departure gate at LAX waiting to
board. The flight is a little delayed so we are crammed into this
small ass area with a ton of people. So far this trip has been crazy
funny and we haven't even left CA yet.

Clark Griswald Style

July 28, 2008- kids like us, bitter end, the mongoloids, rotting out, masterpiece

We pretty much showed up to this show 5 minutes before we were
supposed to play so we had to get all our shit up the 2 flights of
stairs really quick. We set up as fast as we could but this still
resulted in us starting later than we were scheduled. Not only were we
late, but wade broke a string during the kingtro. After he fixed that
we pretty much were left with like 10 minutes to play. The rest of the
set was decent but short. Kids mashed.

Rotting out played next and opened with We Gotta Know. Their set was
awesome. Mongoloids played and their set was definitely fun. Luke got
smashed in the face because he got caught in the mosh. Bitter end
ruled and they played shit off the new 7". I didnt watch kids like us
because it felt like 160 degrees in the room.

Overall the show had an awesome turn out considering sound and fury
ended the day before. There was something like 130 kids that paid,
awesome.

Daniel treffry cancelled on going to this show because he is too weak
for the mosh.

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