Austin, Tx (Usa) @ Red 7
It took us the whole night and a part of the morning to get to Austin. There, TJ and James from The Buzzkillers one of the band we're playing with tonight, give us a place to rest, so that we won't be too tired. The heat combined with the tiredness gets us all in a sort of lethargic/coma state of mind, nobody's doing anything till it's time to go to the venue.
The red 7 looks like every other bar we've seen so far in the US: it's huge, there are pools, some weird table football with 13 players, but most of all you're expecting to see a bunch of cow-boys going into the bar and ready to perfom a quadrille (some sort of old school dance) at any time. The show is gonna take place in the backyard, there again the place is huge, good PA, big stage... When we got there we unloaded the trailer meanwhile the last band from this afternoon show was playing, after unloading we went on sightseeing. The center city of Austin seemed to be dedicated to partying and music, there are bars, clubs and gigs everywhere!!
We ate some pizza there, we were sick of the burgers at the time, then we went back to the venue. The Shilling aren't going to play because the promoter didn't want more than 4 bands playing... the show starts with the band Al Shire a really good punk-rock band with horns, we are playing after Murder Majesty and before The Buzzkillers. It's fuckin' hot in the backyard and there's not so much audience there... We tried to give 100% in the show but we're all tired, so we just put 50% into the show tonight. The Buzzkillers were really full of energy and I don't know if that's the reason why Belzu skank his ass off or it if the reason is the 5% of alcohol beers he had, but anyway they rocked!!
After that we unloaded the van and went back to TJ & James's. Quite some guys followed us there and we 're having a party, I kinda feel like I'm not gonna sleep my regular 8 hours tonight!!!
The least we can say is that alcohol interacts differently on everyone, as an example here's just one: dirty Fredo totally passed out on the kitchen floor amongst the other guys partying after an hour... whereas we, whom alcohol gives a really wacky sense of humour, took advantage of Fredo's passing out to draw dirty things on his belly and put gherkin up his nose... French sense of humour !!
On an other hand, it seems alcohol is less fun for some other guys. At around 4am, Mike, decided to strangle Shane for some reasons that still aren't clear to me... The party then turned into a tragedy, Shane's face turned blue which got us scared and everybody tried to separate Mike and Shane the way they could. After a couple of minutes, and most of all after Shane begged for mercy several times, Mike eventually let him go.
The athmosphere got "better" after that, but I wasn't in the mood to party anymore, so I went to bed, it was 5:00am.
The red 7 looks like every other bar we've seen so far in the US: it's huge, there are pools, some weird table football with 13 players, but most of all you're expecting to see a bunch of cow-boys going into the bar and ready to perfom a quadrille (some sort of old school dance) at any time. The show is gonna take place in the backyard, there again the place is huge, good PA, big stage... When we got there we unloaded the trailer meanwhile the last band from this afternoon show was playing, after unloading we went on sightseeing. The center city of Austin seemed to be dedicated to partying and music, there are bars, clubs and gigs everywhere!!
We ate some pizza there, we were sick of the burgers at the time, then we went back to the venue. The Shilling aren't going to play because the promoter didn't want more than 4 bands playing... the show starts with the band Al Shire a really good punk-rock band with horns, we are playing after Murder Majesty and before The Buzzkillers. It's fuckin' hot in the backyard and there's not so much audience there... We tried to give 100% in the show but we're all tired, so we just put 50% into the show tonight. The Buzzkillers were really full of energy and I don't know if that's the reason why Belzu skank his ass off or it if the reason is the 5% of alcohol beers he had, but anyway they rocked!!
After that we unloaded the van and went back to TJ & James's. Quite some guys followed us there and we 're having a party, I kinda feel like I'm not gonna sleep my regular 8 hours tonight!!!
The least we can say is that alcohol interacts differently on everyone, as an example here's just one: dirty Fredo totally passed out on the kitchen floor amongst the other guys partying after an hour... whereas we, whom alcohol gives a really wacky sense of humour, took advantage of Fredo's passing out to draw dirty things on his belly and put gherkin up his nose... French sense of humour !!
On an other hand, it seems alcohol is less fun for some other guys. At around 4am, Mike, decided to strangle Shane for some reasons that still aren't clear to me... The party then turned into a tragedy, Shane's face turned blue which got us scared and everybody tried to separate Mike and Shane the way they could. After a couple of minutes, and most of all after Shane begged for mercy several times, Mike eventually let him go.
The athmosphere got "better" after that, but I wasn't in the mood to party anymore, so I went to bed, it was 5:00am.
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