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23/8 The New rock music festival: If the yesterday gig had been great, with the response from the audience and our performance it was nothing compared to what was going to happen here. When we had loaded off our gear at the festival stage our tour arranger asked us to do our sound-check in fifteen minutes, well when did a band put up a backline and make a sound check in that amount of time? It didn’t happened this time either. When everything was in order we had to wait for seven hours before we could play as we were the second to last band to perform. As the clock was close to 02:00 AM and it was almost our turn to play we heard that the beer was out of stock at the festival so our bass player and the tour manager took a cab and went to nearest gas station to buy a shitload of beer. They just got back in time before the show started and the tour arranger wasn’t too pleased with this little mischief.  As the intro came on we took our positions on the stage and waited to strike the first chords of our set and as we began playing and our singer entered the stage the audience seemed to get really excited. After finishing the second song of the set we started to hand out some beers to the audience to cool them down but it hardly helped tonight they wanted more! The bass player almost got dragged off the stage by some crazy girls and by the time we reached the fourth song “Once again” there where some serious moshing below the scene. Without doubt this was our best performance ever and audience seemed really pleased with what they heard especially as they never had seen us perform before. When we later on handed out some free copies of our debut-CD “Sulphur Tears” at the end of the set the audience got really wild. When we had finished our live-set and were about to get off the stage a part of the audience stormed the backstage area as it wasn’t sealed off (just a tent in the back off the stage) there was a giant ex-KGB man keeping everyone out of the way. That’s something we aren’t used to at home. This night was quite extraordinary for us as a band. Continue to day six. |