Paris (F) @ La Maroquinerie

We've been waiting for the " Kill Your Elite Fest" for a while now. Besides this gig tolls the bell of the "Time to drop the gun" tour, it allows us to meet quite a bunch of friends. Soundcheck at 2p.m. We are here almost simultaneously as the Japanese guys of COQUETTISH. After all this time we spent sending mails and emails, it's cool to meet for real at last. We get into the "Maroquinerie" and meet the GXP ( Guerilla Poubelle a famous French band) that tells us how everything is going to be troughout the Fest. The fest is going to be upstairs and downstairs, we'll play downstairs. The venue is great, 500 guys sould be able to be there between the pit and a 1meter height stair. The stage is great too, neither too big nor too small, just big enough so that the 6 of us can feel at ease.
The 1st show starts early at 6:15 p.m, 8 bands are going to play tonight, unfortunately I won't see any bands playing upstairs, the venue is too busy. I'll spend the evening watching the bands playing downstairs, falling in love with RANDY'S RIPCORD female bass player, and talking with all our friends here tonight. We get on stage at 8:oo p.m on the dot, the show is well put-together by Guerilla asso!! The venue gets busier and busier, and the crowd gives us a warm welcome straight from the first chords we play. It's one of our best live performance. The guys of COQUETTISH got on stage and rocked with us for our last song: "the crowd", an OPERATION IVY cover. We've been waiting so long to share the stage with them, we couldn't expect a greater end !!!!
The evening ended just as well as it started. After us, the japanese guys and then GUERILLA POUBELLE rocked the place. Meanwhile, we sold our last "Time to drop the gun" cds. We'll try to get some others for the next tour. The Fest is over at like 11:30 p.m, we got a 10 hour drive journey to go back home so we don't hang around that much. We leave, destination Nissa!!

Metz (F) @ Le Jeanne D'Arc

After everyone has spent the night scattered around Paris ( we used our day off of yesterday to master our new cd in Paris), we met around 11a.m in front of the Formula 1 ( cheap hotels) in St Denis La Plaine in the Parisian suburbs. The travel between here and Metz is not going to be long and that's not a bad thing, we're all obvisously shaken.
We arrived at like 4:30 p.m. Our local promotor is already here, the " Fendu", I did not really get why "Fendu" was his nickname but one thing for sure, it had something to do with alcohol!! We took a look at the venue. Tonight we'll play in a basement as well, but contrary to Lille, this place looks damn fine. It's not that big, 100 kids max should be able to be there, but the place is well designed; moreover the bar owner looks a bit grumpy but not too stupid. Then, we went with our kinda daily routine: we unloaded the van, we carefully installed our gear trying to avoid to block the emergency exit located right behind the stage, we struggled with the only plug courantly working, we did not soundcheck... etc.
We ate at about 7 p.m. Tonight we'll have: pastas and ... space pancakes!!! I don't know if it's a local food speciality, but it's the first time we're given such food to eat while on tour. I believe we lost Totof from this point. This was the pancake that broke the camel's back. Have the touring conditions of Freygolo eventually managed to piss off the manager ??!!?? Here comes the shows, the venue is overcrowded I just couldn't go downstairs to see the 1st band play. Thus, I waited upstairs installing the merch with Nico till it's our turn to play. Finally here we are. From a "stage point of view", it won't be our best gig ever, we are litteraly packed together like sardines. I broke a string of my guitar, my microphone didn't work, they were feedbacks buzzing around ...
On the other hand the welcome is absolutely great, the venue is crowded as fuck and the audience is really enthusiastic. It was a good show.
Saïd, the bar owner, celebrated this by offering us a round. While repacking our stuff, we noticed that some dumbass broke a table of the bar, for no reason at all... This show was the last "rock" show of the Jeanne d'Arc... Thank you dumbass!! We already got so many places to play some rock music in France we really needed that!!! It's getting late, we're leaving, tonight we'll sleep at Nico's, a old friend that lives around Metz.

Lille (F) @ La Rumeur

We leave Strasbourg at about 10 a.m. It's fucking freezing. we join the freeway and head towards Lille. We go through Luxembourg to put some cheap gasoline in the van, and through Belgium to eat the worst sandwiches I've ever eaten in my punk-rocker's life!! We arrive in Lille at about 5p.m. We're a bit early so we kill the time playing Starwars on the van's PS2. It's 6p.m when Charlotte (Chacha) from my Homerun Records, the girl who organized the show, eventually showed up. From the very beginning, she tells us that we'll be the only band playing tonight, because the drummer from OVER THE STARS broke his arm in a car accident this afternoon ... I don't know why but it seems tonight's gonna be the most quiet gig in FREYGOLO's history!!!
The bar is part of a 2 stairs building; upstairs: the bar, restaurant, bog, and boozers; downstairs: the "venue". We set up our gear "on the wet wooden and agglomarate stage" and quickly realized we won't get enough room on "stage". Just like yesterday Remi, Nico and I will play on the floor. Despite the tiny size of the place, a sound engineer reigns over a prehistorical 4 tracks tape recorder ... We' re told that the bar is equipped with a sonometer and that we must keep the volume under 105 Db... We soundcheck playing Loaded Dice and we reach 115 Db !!! Alarmed by such a row, the owner of the bar rushed downstairs and after an especially agressive argument, I see Belzu put some pillows in the sound holes of the bass drum... This surrealistic vision of 2 giant cotton buds trying to stop the sound to bleed from the drumkit pissed me off... Soundcheck, we won't make anymore tonight. We'll figure something out before playing. For now we're getting hungry, so it's time for some pizzas near the bar in a nice little restaurant.
We come back at 10 p.m. Meanwhile, "La Rumeur" got crowded with 50 guys. The venue downstairs is weirdly designed, everyone is standing on the left of the stage... As a matter of fact, I sing for the wall in front of me, or let's put it that way, for an awesome TRUST (an old French band) poster on the wall. These are nights like these when the only thing you want is to go to sleep... After the show we fuck around a bit, drinking a couple of beers talking with Pierro a former member of BOULBALA, Wize, Romain OTS, and the youngsters of the band FAKE OFF, and then we go to Chacha's house to take a shower and sleep a little.

Strasbourg (F) @ Le Molodoï

It’s 6 o’ clock in the morning, I’m shivering....anyway today we’re going to Strasbourg ( F ). We got a long way to go, today we’re gonna have a long day. We are using the van Versus ( the tour booking agency) rent for the Feverish tour, during the whole week. The van is like 8 meters long, has got a cd player, a T.V, and a playstation... what class!! Well almost, it’s just that the T.V doesn’t work, playing video games thus becomes a bit tricky !!!
Nevermind, we make a detour to St Etienne ( where the headquarter of the renting agency is ), to get the T.V fixed... We wasted 2 hours for that, if you add those 2 to the hour we wasted driving around in Strasbourg, we reach a sweet total amount of 13 hour drive. One thing I forgot to say is that we were supposed to souncheck at 4p.m, let’s say we’re not going to do it ...
The Molodoï is a large venue, but today “Les Défrockès” ( the guys who put up the show for us), set up a stage in the middle of the venue reducing the size of the venue by 2/3. That’s not a bad thing, the bar stands right aside the stage, it looks like we’re in a small club.
We quickly eat, then we play some texas hold ’em poker backstage to pass the time before we get on stage. I go and watch KURU play and talk a bit with Vava who plays in the REBEL ASSHOLES that came to say hi.
It’s our turn to play now, as we haven’t got enough room on stage, Remi, Nico and I will play on the floor. After a quick linecheck we start with the intro... it sounds like shit, the audience treats us coldly ...It’s not gonna to be easy tonight. Eventually we played an average set, without any outrageous mistakes or moments of glory. We ended up the evening at Jaloul’s from the band KURU who is our kind host for tonight. As far as I’m concerned I went to bed almost immediately, exhausted after the day we spent driving.