Trying to make a jump picture, attempt 36
1. Friday 8th of july 2005 - TRASH YOUR FUCKING FACE TONIGHT.
At our departure things went a little chaotic, but nice. Everybody was anxious to do this little tour with the crazy powerviolence fucks from SL27. We arrived in Dover by noon and got on our way to Brighton. After exactly 7 minutes we were lost in Dover. So the guys from SL27 bought a map and went first. We drove 6 hours longer on our trip than expected so some people started to get impatient. VERY impatient. Kokkie revealed his alter-ego as the suicidal driver, threw away his lunch and gave almost everybody death threats. He detested the VTM-jugend that was polluted with bad television programs and wished all their children got cancer. But then again, don't we all?
We got in Brighton quite late but we were just in time for the show. We met the guys from "Abandon ship" very quickly and then started playing. The show was rather easy going. No real crazy moshpits. Myself and Phil got crazy when we heard a black flag coversong (nervous breakdown) but the shows weren't that great. Still, we had a blast and the guys from AS told us that Boston would be crazy. After a 2 hour drive, some more death threats and shoutouts from Kokkie and very pale people comming out of the van, we got to a place with this girl. Bedroom, sleep.
2. Saturday 9th of july 2005 - DO THE ZOMBIE MOSH
We were sleeping with 3 people in some living room when suddenly we had our wake up call by 2 gorgeous girls who happened to live there. They made us some toast with tea and peanut butter and all kinds of other British stuff. Xavier and his trashcore car picked us up and off we went to the supermarket. Kokkie and John Terror said "Breakfast Schmeakfast" and wen to buy definition of the word breakfast (cfr photo on your left) and off we went to Boston. Yup... some more shouting and agressive looks, but all seemed ok today. This day would be crazy. When we arrived in the Boston Venue, there were kids laughing at us for no reason at all. We still had 4 hours before the show and we had nothing to do than to wait for food. So we slacked a little bit when Kokkie suddenly started his already legendary spoken word performance about sextoys and tongue twisters. Check out one of his tonguetwisters.
After a couple of hours the show started. This was the most crazy show we ever played in our entire lives. These kids were mental! They showed us the zombie mosh, the piramid mosh, the rugby meeting mosh, the circus mosh and other crazy shit!
This show made us crazy as hell and we were happy to hear that Direct Control did arrive at the venue (rumours were going that they wouldn't come). My sweat from playing the show wasn't even dry when I was hooded up to go bezerk on the fast fucked up no nonsense core they played. At the merchtable I saw Mikey (offenders, MDC, DRI). I did an MDC show last year so we talked a little bit. He was about to play with DC the next day in Leeds. Guess were we were playing that night!
3. 10th of july 2005 - NOBODY'S MOVING!
Breakfast Schmeakfast part II
We woke up in a cottage in Boston. It was the rehearsal room of this doom band with 16-year olds. One of the kids just let us sleep in a room with fenders, 5 string basses and vintage drum gear. We didn't steal anything, we swear! We got into the house next door to shower and the owners (the kids' parents) made some breakfast for us. I started to believe that British people have this wonderful sense of hospitality. I mean, imagine having 13 punkrockers at your home for breakfast. Anyway, we gave our obeiances to these people, got back to Boston and went out to eat in this awesome "all you can eat" Chinese restaurant. I have been sporting and watching my diet the last few months but this time I ate like a motherfucker. The first decent meal in 3 days... Awesome! This is a hint for kids that are putting up shows... just give the band some extra money to eat in a restaurant.
We spent the rest of the day listening to dirty jokes, driving to leeds and slacking there. I also tried to do a little bit of reading because that was long ago. Slacking is cool, but reading is the bomb. I read in this book about a Buddhist monk and his cousin who is a philosopher. Quite interesting, but this is a tour report, not a book report.
The show in Leeds was even crazier than the one in Boston, although the kids were a little bit older and not able to move. So most of us got in a haze and fucked up the venue themselves. I saw Kokkie dancing like it was 1989, I saw the guys from SL27 doing their very first crucial mosh moves, I even saw some local kids getting all siked about it. When we played the dead kennedy's coversong (california über alles) people were not moving at all. Nobody, not even our friends from Abandon ship were moving. Ok, NOW I was pissed off. I stepped away from my drumset and started to mosh in the audience in the middle of the slow riff. Little did I know in my enthousiasm that I was moshing with nothing else on than my boxers. Luckily for me, nobody took pictures (I hope).
The Direct control show was fucked up, crazy, hard and core... like a real show should be. I liked this show most because all bands just supported eachother (you know, like in the "alone in a crowd" song). After the show we heard some awesome anecdotes from Mikey Offender, I distributed some books and we had a great bonding experience with all the bands. The unity thing, but in a sunpower state of mind.
4. 11th of july 2005
When I woke up at this kids' house (I had a sleeping room all by myself), a cockroach was walking on my face. I didn't kill the poor thing but I sure got mad as hell. I showered, had 2 slices of pizza for breakfast and showered in a bathroom filled with watter. Yeah... off to London we went! and YES, we took the metro uptill Camden town. Camden Town is like New wavers heaven. I bought a bunch of Joy Division, sonic youth and death in june stuff and drueled all over this awesome joy division jacket (which I didn't buy).
Back at the club I decided to stop slacking and I just sat down and socialized with some people, did some reading and prepared for the show. I was exhausted but promised myself to do this one last crazy show. Little people showed up, as it was a monday, but still we had some great time. We had a special relationship with sl27 and abandon ship and it was weird to leave these guys behind. We did a sunpower jukebox set, I played in boxers AND a cowboyhead with heartshaped lights. Mike Got crazy, Gerd got drunk and Kevin too.
"Je voudrais elargir un moustache"
After the show we took some pictures, said goodbye and drove as fast as a motherfucker to Dover. I sat in the van with Kokkie and for the first time I heard him cursing and screaming. Funny shit! Kokkie's awesome! We were 15 minutes late but managed to get on the boat. I tried to sleep for a while. Gerd tried to breakdance and got rid of his bag full of vomit. Once we arrived in Dendermonde I had slept for 2 hours. I got in the car, got home, took a shower and went off to my very first day at my brandnew job. "Hello, my name is Davy and I just slept 2 hours in the van, comming straight from England".
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