Day 29,
today was the big day. our last show here in Europe, our last day here in Europe, and the day we were playing the Cry Me A River Fest (note: CMaRF is put on every year in Germany by Lars from React With Protest Records. it's a weekend full of friends to celebrate his label and diy punk/hardcore/screamo bands from all over Europe. shit rules). so anyways, we woke up early in Wiesbaden and headed over to the Bielefeld, Germany area (not really sure what city it was in..but it was close to Bielefeld).
so yeah, woke up, jumped in our van (accompanied by our buddy Sven [who loves to drink beer all the time]), and us and the Kontrapunkt guys headed off.
it wasnt a far drive at all (i think like 3 hours). it was nice. when we got to the area, we were pretty surprised to find a total farm-land, boonie-ass area...which we got very much lost in...that looked like this...
...after running into some helpful punks, we were pointed in the right direction and got to the area where the fest was at. it was like in this huge part of land...it looked like a country club or something. that looked like this...
...that was the parking area.
...that was the outdoors/kick-it-spot (and in that building was where the show was).
...that's where people could set up tents for the weekend.
...the mass amounts of band merch/distros inside.
...and that's where the bands played.
so yeah, apparently before the weekend even came, the whole fest sold out from pre-sale tickets...so i think there was like 300-400 people there (including all the bands and junk). so yeah, we knew shit was gonna be fuuuuuuuuuckin crazy.
oh! so check this out. on this tour, we ran out of the "Burn Your Bones" LPs. but Robert (dude who put it out) had like 6 copies left of the vinyl, without covers. soooo, we got those from them and decided to make special "Cry Me A River Fest" covers for them and sell them at this show. soooooo, we thought it would be a rad idea for all 5 of us to each make our own cover (cept Juan made 2). so yeah, throughout the whole day, we all spent a while thinking of ideas and putting shit together and making our covers...here is what they looked like in the end...
...those were Juan's.
...Jack's drawing.
...Steven's polaroid cover (much thanks to Hilke for the polaroids).
...Wes made a pretty siq-looking mask out of his cover. (you can't really tell, but that "comadre" thing tied to that America-ass ribbon is totally a real necklace).
...and mine. (a siq-ass stencil). i think it did well summing up this tour...
anyways, so we put them out and sold them to these people...
...i actually think each one of those covers fit that person who bought them very well. hah. oh, and oh yeah, the cover i made, we used in a little game we thought would be very fit for it...
....that's right. if you wanted it. you had to write your name down on the list, and then at the end of our set, everyone signed up would roll the fuckin dice to see who wins the official, Comadre, 1 out of 1, "roll the fuckin dice" LP.
so anyways, in the meantime, a bunch of reaaaaally amazing bands played. (i took a few pictures of them, but didnt come out that good. plus, there were like 2348293 other people who were taking way better pictures i'm sure of all the bands...i will post links when i find links on the next blog or something). so yeah, my faves of the day were Grinding Halt (who Mark, their singer, rules, and set up our show in Holland earlier on the tour), June Paik (who were reaaaallly reaaaaaally good), and Trainwreck (who just destroyed hard).
and oh yeah, during T-wreck, you KNOW they had a little special surprise guest...
...those first 3 pictures, i dunno where i was during that time...and the last 2 pics, for some reason i couldn't find Wes.
after Trainwreck was Titan (who were from Canada...and also way rad and way nice guys), and then were Zann who were as heavy and siq as usual. then we played last and dude, i dont even wanna talk about it. shit was SO fuckin nuts and SOOOOOO much fun. kids were going crazy, singing along, dancing, major crowdsurfs and stage dives. i cant say enough how amazing it was and how it was just the best way to end this SIQ tour. i'll just let these 2 pictures speak for themselves...
so anyways, the party did not end there. like promised, after our set, we called in all the people who had signed up for the dice roll and had the BIGGEST fuckin gambling storm eeeeeever. just straight street style n' shit on the stage. hah. that looked like this...
...and in the end, after 30 people rolled, then 5 people in the simi-finals, and 2 people in final-final...this man came out triumphant as the official "Comadre, roll the fuckin dice, champion"...
fuck.
what a good day. after all of that, we packed up our shit, took off a bunch of super wet and sweaty clothes, said some of the saddest goodbyes and gave some of the longest hugs ever, and jumped into our van to head to the airport.
fuck.
thanks everyone.
"siq shit" today (although there's prob too many):
1. kids from ALL over Europe traveling out.
2. kids from ALL over Europe being the most funnest kids ever.
3. the girls-only-stage-dive song that we played. i believe the words "destroy these dudes in the front" came out of my mouth.
4. the official dice-roll-list
5. this whole tour.
