Geneva (CH) @ Le Piment Rouge

We had a very short night, and the wake up was tough. we eat the breakfast fast and leave, we have to be in Geneva rather early. Our hosts lent us a road tax disc, so we spare a lot a time by driving on a the freeway. That's a little less picturesque but noone's really got their mind on that today.
Here we are at the Piment Rouge ( the venue) in the beginning of the afternoon. the neighbourhood is quite special, a kinda huge industrial estate in the center city that was put into a squat. Appretly this place is ran by different local associations... It's a great place and you just wonder what is that there's no place like this in every city. We meet the lovely Jennifer there and she tells us how the evening is scheduled... Then the classic loading-installing-soundchecking goes on...It's starting to rain outside, We stay in the venue or in the van, so the afternoon lasts forever. A drama 's taking place backstage, the VACHE LAITIERES, the headliners, don't wanna headline any more, it seems like the drummer has got a headache. If that's the problem, I got plenty of aspirins in my backpack !! The wonderful Jenny eventually manages to get to an agreement and we get up on stage. We were forced to play less songs so that the VACHES LAITIERES members can go to bed earlier, thus the show is really straight forward. We put up an average show tonight.
Paradoxically, we're having fun once our show is over. We let the local heroes wearing cows outfits "rock" the stage... We go outside to drink some beers with the TODOS . At the end of the show a DJ put some old ska songs, we didn't need more to set the dancefloor on fire ... And just because we felt like dancing, the charming Jen took us to an electro-music party.
We ended up the evening in the sleeping rooms of the USINE, (another well known venue in Geneva). Everyone is exhausted, we fell asleep early in the morning.