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.
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.
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