Thursday, March 19, 2009
Alex: “This place is too swanky. I’m going to trash our room.”
Hey, Vienna, what are you looking at?
Holy crap! Where are we?
Bremen!!!! And this is the lobby of our hotel, the Park Hotel. What a dump, right? I mean look at this place:
How am I supposed to operate under these conditions??!! I guess I’m just going to have to rise above it. At least let me do something about the bed:
(are you enjoying the bed warm ups as much as I am?)
We played a lovely hall in Bremen, called The Glocke:
Beautiful hall, right? And we’re staying at a 5 star hotel, and they fed us and gave us cookies and cheese and candy and….
Ladies and Gents, the show was a big steaming bowl of clam chowder. I’m sure it wasn’t as bad as we thought, but let’s just say we felt a little rough around the edges. So rather than sit around and cry about it, we caught up on Lost, thanks to iTunes and my poor slow-ass computer:
“Oh my god, I can’t believe it!! Kate finally got totally naked!”
Friday, March 20, 2009
Halle:
Now this is more like it! Still a lovely town, but not as ritzy-glitzy as Bremen. A little more character, if you know what I mean.
We played here:
Objekt 5
More of a rock club, see? And instead of a robe and slippies, our hotel had this:
Watch out where you pokus your jokus!
Saturday, March 21, 2009, Koln
Between Halle and Koln, we picked up Gert’s lovely wife, Ingeborg. She was mucho fun, a perfect yin to Gert’s yang. See how happy they are?
We loaded in here:
Der Altes Pfandhaus, which means old pawn shop. Lots of venues in Germany are named for the buildings they once were. For instance, Fabrik in Hamburg used to be a factory, and Zakk in Dusseldorf was made from the entrails of the guy on Saved by the Bell, as I’ve already mentioned.
This is what the inside looked like:
Kind of like a mini version of the Colosseum in Rome. Like a Minisseum. Gert was concerned that the sound would be a “catastrophe”, but of course he solved all our sonic problems, lickity split!
After soundcheck, we strolled around town for a bit:
Hey, look! They have Chuck Norris jokes in Germany, too!
Hmmm, ferrari logo on my pumas and this mini truck. Why don’t either of these seem like a real ferrari?
Our show was bangin’! Especially when they let the lion out and we had to fight for our lives! It was cool, because it was just a mini lion, and once we put a bowl of milk down, he just lapped it right up, and forgot all about eating us.
The next morning, I took a stroll and saw some beautiful sights:
Here’s the big ass cathedral:
Here’s the inside. Be quiet: they’re saying mass!
Ooo! Check this out:
What’s going on in there?
Wow!! He looks just like Rob Halford with hair!!
Isn’t Koln nice?