nottingham, leeds, etc.

Listening to: Elivis Costello, Double Negative, The Figgs, Seaweed, Libyans, Feist

New English phrases: proper, pogger (dirty punk), Clean Shirt (someone who is NOT a crusty), bangers and mash, blowy, handy, shite, doggle (internet router)

CONT…Especially Bonestorm who had the drummer of the Voorhees and the horror. People went off when we played. Right after we played we jetted to Nottingham.

2^nd Show in Nottingham, England @ Upstairs at the Central with Curb Crawl and Sick Fuckin-O.

When we arrived there were all these grim looking metal guys downstairs. I guess they were playing the other portion of the pub. Later on we found out it was Avulsed. Weird. Anywho the bands that played were cool Curb Crawl and Sick Fuckin-O. Sick Fn-O had the singer from Voorhees. They were especially good. While I was playing the bass drum kept falling off the stage. At one point these guys taped drumsticks to the stage to block the bass drum from falling off but I blasted that into shit. This equipment is next level shitty. One of the cymbal stands kept falling over too. I was getting progressively more and more angry as the the drumset started disintegrating. All in all the set was awesome. People went off and it was a lot of fun. Oliver from Leeds and his cronies came out. He got me an Iron Bru (sick Scottish soda). I also got a pancake flavored snack bar called a hobknob. Pretty damn good. After the show we went to the promoter’s house. Alex and Caroline had a cool little apartment. They made us some delicious curry. The Brits love that curry. Also drank some “proper” Yorkshire tea. Jubert since loosing all his clothes was given a legit fred perry and some other shirts. He actually looks presentable now.

10/11/10…Glasgow, Scotland @ the Glasgow School of Art-U Bar…w/ Curb Crawl, Lobotomies

Alex and Caroline made us a “proper” English breakfast with beans and toast, crumpets, and Yorkshire tea. On the way to Glasgow we stopped at this road café called the Llama Karma Café/Deli-Llama. It was this super peaceful farm café with llamas, monkeys, doves, parrots, guinea pigs, rabbits, and ferrets. It ruled. The curb craw dudes ended up stopping in there too. When we showed in Glasgow it was really cold. The venue was literally inside this art school. The school has its own venue/bar. A lot of people came out for a weeknight. There was also like 5 opening bands before we played. People went crazy when we played. We got asked to do an interview after we played by this kid for his zine. The kid who put us up made us some good food and we watched freddy got fingered. I forgot how stupid that movie was. Good waste of time though.

10/12/10…Leeds, England @ The Packehorse w/ Rot in Hell, Valhalla Pascifists, Bonestorm

In the morning the kid took us to this vegan café/bar called Mono that was also a record store. They brewed their own beer there too. We all got traditional Scottish food but vegan. It was awesome . Jeff and I got a “big breakfast” which had haggis, bacon, some kind of porage/scrapple thing, mushrooms and potatoes. Nico got a cheesecake because French people only eat sweet things for breakfast. We hurried back to the van because we were running late. Got to Leeds a lot faster than we thought even with hitting traffic. Ollie and his crew were there to great us. Nick, Jeremy, and Jeff got fish and chips next door and I got some falafel. All were pretty bangin. The room was probably enough to hold 30 people comfortably but there was easily around 75 people people there. Rot in Hell had the guitarist from the Voorhees/the horror in it. They were awesome. Bonestorm had some technical difficulties but were still quite qood. Valhalla Pascifists killed it. So fast, maybe played a 10 minute set. What a breath of fresh air to come to Europe and se a band play a short set. My attention span can’t handle these 45 minute sets that the euros keep cranking out. Our set went over pretty well. At this show our guitar head officially kicked the bucket. We ended up borrowing a bass head too because it started getting progressively quieter during the set. I borrowed all the drum hardware. This is starting to get ridiculous.

After the gig we headed to Ollie’s place which was in this swanky student housing. When we were walking up there was 3 sneaky foxes scouring the yard. Apparently these foxes hang out with this old lady’s cats who also lives there. Crazy. Ollie and his buddy made us some good vegan spaghetti and meatballs. We spent te majority of the night making fun of each others cultures. Good times.