Saturday, April 14, 2007

Terrassa (E) @ Egara 66


Waking up at noon, not feeling so good. Nonetheless the hotel we spent the night in is located in Terrassa, the city we're playing tonight, so we're gonna have plenty of time to recover our strength.
We're killing time looking for snacks, debriefing last night show, and having a nap... and after that it's time to go to the venue. The god GPS being out of order, we go back to the old -following the Mappy directions- method ... well, we got lost. Manu, the one who's booking the show, came to pick us up and we arrive to the Egara 66 club. I've never learnt spanish whatsoever and I could be wrong but seeing the decoration I'm starting to wonder if "Egara 66" wouldn't mean "Road 66" ... It seems like a biker's club down there !! The bar owner welcomes us cheerfully, he's all smiling, speaks french and is offering drinks to us right when we arrive. We don't need more to crown him king of the night !!
A few drinks later we souncheck and start to realize that the PA problem the youngsters from XOKOHOLIKS told us earlier is a really great issue... to make a long story short you can't hear the voices. Some tricks to set up the PA were done but in the end it is not that good.
The show starts and contrary to what the staff foresaw, the venue is pretty crowded. The first two bands play and then it's our turn.
This show might have been a great one considering the enthusiasm of the audience for it, that was without counting on the PA, which wasn't really good from the start, and that basically self-destruct before the middle of the show...
There's nothing more to say, just that this ruined the show and that it's a shame the price of the entrance was 8 euros for such sound system conditions.
We ended up the show the best we could, we loaded the van again and went to the hotel to knock back a few beers before hitting the road again tomorrow morning.

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