3 weeks in. we had to wake up kinda early in Dornbirn, Austria today cause we had a longer-than-usual drive today and had to be at the venue early. we were driving to Lyon, France today (i think it took about 6-7 hours to get there). anyways, we had breakfast with the T-wrecks and people of the space in Dornbirn, then headed off soon after. after sneaking through Switzerland (cause me and Juan didn't have the right visa to technically be in their country), we got to France faster than we thought. on the way, we listened to some Dane Cook, Adam Sandler, and Against Me (kinda weird combo huh?).
anyways, when we got to the venue it got preeeeeeeeetty fuckin ridiculous FAST. we were greeted by Damien and all the other people who worked at the venue in Lyon (who were ALL really reaaaally nice by the way). they showed us all around the place...which was fuckin HUGE by the way. (the story is, we originally had a show booked in Lyon on this same day at some other space, but it got canceled for some reason, and then we found out that Envy were actually playing Lyon on the same day that we were suppose to be there. so our good friends from Lyon, Gautier and Seb, somehow worked some crazy magic and got us on the Envy show. which was just fuckin RIDICULOUS cause i, personally have been an Envy super-fan for like 6 or so years but have never seen them live...so yeah, it was insane to be finally seeing them AND getting to play with them). so aaaaaanyways, they took us to our "dressing rooms" (hahahahah!!!)...
...hahah, look at those guys! pffffff, no big deal, just like a "usual day on the Comadre tour" ya know. dressing rooms, working sinks, non-band-sticker-covered mirrors, whatevz. hah, then they showed us the "backstage" area where there was a ton of snack foods and junk...
...needless to say, the 5 of us spent a LOT of time here just killing all that food and free drinks there was. hah. then they showed us the show space/stage area. here is Envy's set up...
...after we saw that, we were hesitant to ask (but had to give it a try anyways), and asked if there was anyway we could play on the floor, and the dudes were just like "yeah!". fuuuuuck yeah! so we set up on the floor next to the stage...
...siq.
after we finished setting up and all that jazz, they took us upstairs to have a ridiculous dinner (even though we kinda all destroyed our appetites from all the snack food we ate)...
...but FUCK IT, i can always eat, i had this...
we also met the Envy guys and their driver and tour manager and they were all pretty fucking awesome dudes. the Envy guys were damn nice (i felt like a straight NERD-super-fan while talking to them by the way). anyways, after that, people started showing up. and it was crazy cause i randomly ran into my friend Ben (who plays in Mohoram Atta). apparently he was in Lyon visiting his g-parents and wanted to see Envy, so he bought a ticket and had no idea we were playing. RULED. i gave him a bunch of free beers. i also ran into Seb (who is the COOLEST fuckin dude ever by the way) and chatted it up with him for a while.
soon after that, we had to play. and it fuckin ruled. we had people circle all the way around us on the floor and it got packed pretty fuckin quick. it went very well and was quite fun. (the venue video taped it and put it on a dvdr for me, so maybe i can upload some shit on youtube soon). theeeeeen, after that, Envy played. and it was probably (no joke) one of the most epic things i've ever seen. soooooooo AMAZING and intense. (and they played shit off their "footprints" album too!!!!!!)...
after that was all over, we all hung out and chilled. talked to the Envy guys, they mentioned that they were gonna try real hard to make it to the West Coast next year and talked about their upcoming split with Thursday (hah, kinda ridiculous). and i got a shirt for Anthony, cause i told him i would get him one :) we also hung out with Seb some more. he gave me a Sinaloa record that he recently put out, so that totally ruled of him.
theeeeen, to make things MORE ridiculous...we found out that the venue (i guess as part of their "thing to do for bands that play there") had booked us and Envy rooms at this nearby hotel for the night. what?!?!?! AND, just for us, they gave us THREE fuckin rooms. what?!?!? yeah, ridiculous.
so we said our goodbyes, packed out shit, went to the hotel, and all of us hung out in me and Juan's room. that looked like this...
"siq shit", west coast is the best coast, top 5:
1. walking "backstage" randomly and catching Juan, Steven, Wes, and Jack just fuckin RAT-raiding all the snack food in that back room. hah. it was like turning on a light in a room full of cockroaches.
2. "borrowing" a bunch of beers and a bottle of wine from the venue for our siq telly ("hotel party" for all you lsr squares).
3. all 5 of us NOT staying up till way-the-fuck late in one room watching local French porn and laughing a lot.
4. seeing Envy.
5. the Envy guys...
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