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.
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.
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