6.14.08

Day 8,

first of all, check out this video from last night in Gent. (just in case you were wondering if we actually were over in Europe ACTUALLY playing shows or if we just told all of our friends back home we were to look somewhat cool).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVlwCTUl1mw

...yeah, who the fuck is cool now jerkz?

aaaaaaanyways, heh, so we woke up and went to Manuel's new place where Aussitot Mort slept and where breakfast was going down. Manuel and Anastasia made the BEST tofu-scramble!!!


...trust me, i had WAY more on my plate before this picture was taken.

we said our goodbyes, jumped back into our van with Thomas (oh ps, after the Gent show, our buddies Thomas and Valentine [Valley] from Gent joined us for the next few shows to hang out and chill [not sure if i mentioned that before or not]). so yeah, today we were driving back to the beautiful Netherlands. we were playing in this city called Groningen at this venue called Vera (aka, the best venue ever). this place is ridiculous. we played here last year with Graf too. amazing place staffed with amazing people. check out these pics...


...this is the "downstairs stage" area where we played.



...this is the "main stage" area where the disco/after party was at. this day ruled...the venue set it up so that our show (3 bands) played in the downstairs stage till like around 1 or 2am, and then right after our sets, they had a few DJs and shit continuing the party in this room till 4am. (and yes, as you will see later, we definitely danced the night away).

and one of the coolest parts of this venue is that behind the main stage, they built a hotel-type thing where all the bands that play can stay at (actually, now that i think about it, most of the spaces we played on this tour have this same setup, but this one is like, ridiculous. like CRAZY nice and crap. we were very much spoiled hard). anyways, here's picz of our private, 2-shower, 2-toilet b-room...


and the rooms...


...even had cable TV and shit. and a fuckin balcony and shit...pfffff, crazy...here's the room i stayed at...


...it's where i stayed last year too. just a siq green room.

anyways, after we all settled in and all that jazz, we all went walking around downtown Groningen for a while. the city was super nice (as seen in the pics below)...


...yet another awesome city with a waterfront/waterway. love it!


...just soooo Euro. a little after this picture was taken, we passed by this placed called "The Clown". we were in the Netherlands, needless to say, there was a LOT of weed-smoke oozing out of "The Clown". Wes and Juan were suppose to go back and visit "The Clown" with the Aussitot Mort dudes. not sure if they did or not.

we got back to Vera after an hour or so of walking around and dinner was almost ready. in the meantime, i went into the main stage area to see how the disco was setting up...


...hah! looked siq as hell.

dinner ruled too...


...way good.

i dont have any pictures from the show, but it went VERY well. the first band, Captain Your Ship is Sinking was rad and Aussitot Mort killed it as usual (this sadly, was our last day with them). and yeah, we had a fun set too. somehow, we got forced into playing a Botch cover that went remarkably well even though we hadn't played it in maybe a year. anyways, here is the flyer/poster for the show...


and after that (as planned), it was off to the disco!!!


...that dude next to Wes is Thomas. way siq dude.

i remember when we got to the dance floor, our French hommies were all like "the fog is VERY thick here". and i was like "uhhh, heh...heh...yeah, totally!" (i had no fuckin clue what they were talking about. i just thought it was like some cool French-saying or some shit). anyways, a few minutes later...



...yeah dude, they had this fuckin smog machine that was seriously the THICKEST shit EVER...way fuckin party.

there was also a large amount of people making out like all kinds all over the place. and not like the "lets do it kinda quick so no one sees us and gets weirded out" type of kiss, but i mean the "fuck it, it's 4am, we're both trashed as hell, and there is no ounce of 'give-a-fuck' left in either of us" type of kiss. anyways, here's Juan and a happy couple...


the night soon after ended pretty fast once the disco was over. people emptied out pretty fast and we went back to the hotel rooms to end the night. siq.

"siq shit" list of 5:
1. still being light out at almost 11pm!!!
2. the words "goodnight man...don't let ANYONE tell you that you can't wear a leather jacket in public" come out of my mouth.
3. the party dudes from Aussitot Mort...

4. this ridiculously-too-serious M-Threat-esq picture of us in front of Vera...

5. this pigeon with a mohawk...