16.12.2009 Wednesday

Ugh! Örgh! Grey buildings, grey people and grey weather, yep, I guess we are in Prague. I think the clock was somewhere noon and in a while we were in front of the gig place. I gathered my daily belongings to pack bag and hit the venue. By the way, this is the time when you can just take the morning catering anymore. White bread, cheese slices and ham slices, potato chips, soda, maybe few bananas and that’s it. No thank you, not anymore. Today is the birthday of Aleksi Munter (StS keyboard player), who has played also with Insomnium on many tours. Aleksi got message that Finland’s biggest music magazine, Soundi, had chosen all three of his bands in top three on the category of best metal album of the year (1. Ghost Brigade, 2. Swallow the Sun and 3. Insomnium). Just to celebrate this fine day we decided that it’s already time for good whiskey. Some Dalwhinnie and Glennfiddich from bus and we were ready to go. Nice. Otherwise this day was nothing special: load in, setting up the gear and building of the merch stand by Jukka. No one cared to go anywhere, we just sit there until we got probably the worst pizza ever for dinner. Then some more whiskey, beer and wine and we were ready to go. The crowd was really good again and we returned to the stage with one encore. Let the drinking begin! I don’t know how we managed to pack our stuff during the night. I think I was the Tetris master (guy fitting all the stuff to their own places) that night. I remember we were drinking in a bus after we ventured to the near by sports bar and drunk till morning. Hooray for us! We also invented new term: bussimossaus (freely translated as bus moshing). The definition follows: drunken (passed) bald man whose head stumbles on the table of the bus along the bumps on the road.











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