Charleroi (B) @ Le Coliseum K-fé
We wake up early this morning. We slept in Grenoble, at Antonin's house, our new sound engineer. This dude is digging porn movies and booze, seems like we're gonna have some fun!!! a couple hiccups later, we finally leave with just one hour of delay. We have quite a long way to go to Charleroi.
The road to Charleroi is going pretty well between us having naps, eating sandwiches and getting lost on "touristic tour" thanks to the GPS. We eventually get to the venue. The Coliseum which is in the middle of a street dedicated to sex shops, cine sex, and hookers ( let's say that Antonin is pretty at ease there ). From the oustide it looks like it was a former cinema; on the inside the place is divided in 2, one huge venue downstairs and a club upstairs. This club is a bit small but looks cool, there's no stage we play directly on the floor but the place is well equipped. We meet Phillipe and the " Strikes Again" crew there whom already put up a few shows for us in Belgium for the "Time To Drop The Gun" tour.
The show starts with the band BLACK SHEEP which is replacing at the last moment HAPPENING LEEK which was originally supposed to play tonight. They play a nice sorta punk/ska music the likes of Guerilla Poubelle and PO Box. Then it's our turn to play. The café is crowded with 50 people... not so much people there tonight but from the first chords we can tell that its gonna be a good evening. The fact that we are on the same level as the crowd avoid the separation between the crowd and us, the dudes in the front take Nico's mic to sing the back ups, Remi sings in the middle of the crowd... what a shambles ... I like it !!
We end up the evening drinking rounds with friends and band members we met on previous gigs, then we load the van back again. See ya tomorrow...
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