We had had “rough seas” crossing the English Canal last night and the insane party went on even through France. I was still feeling dizzy when I woke up some time in the afternoon. We were already parked to the front of the venue in Amersfoort and people were loading into the venue. The venue was classy – good backstage and stage, good catering, hot showers and toilets. We set up the gear and did the usual checks in easy-going fashion. Then we spent just few hours of hanging out and killing the hangover. I did one interview with Markus for a local metal magazine and then we just went on with our recovery.
We hit the stage when we were supposed to. Niilo was having a bad flu, so the expectations were not that high. Somehow we still managed to pull off a good show, especially me, Markus and Aleksi enjoyed our time on stage. The sound was clear and audience seemed to accept us very well - we got the people to hail us with hands sin the air. Last time we played in Holland in 2006 with Satyricon, and then there was just a heavy stench of weed on the air. This show kicked some ass, so we will be back some day.
We had showers and some wine as StS played their set. Now was their turn to have technical problems. Apparently the audience was disobeying the indoor smoking prohibition. Fire alarm went off during the encore killing all the electricity from the stage. Well, they eventually got the hall aired and encores went on.
We loaded out in an undisciplined fashion and hanged out for a couple of hours. Hangover had turned to high spirits hence the 18 liters of red wine we had bought from the ferry last night. We hit the road for Paris and party went on in the bus as usual. After a couple of hours we had covered two thirds of the night’s mileage and the sun was already flaring the horizon. For the first time we reached a mutual decision to hit than bunks rather than pass out, and so the party was over. Hello Paris, here we come!
Quote of the day: “Jumalauta kun mie alan täyttämään sanaristikoita niin silloin pölisee! Mie keksin uusia kieliä! Ja jos joku kysyy miksi tähän tulee tämmöistä niin sanon, että se nyt vaan on niin!” –Nekro-Sukram aka Druid Sniffers
Ville Vänni/INSOMNIUM
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Your performance was really great! It was totally awesome to finally see you live! I'm glad you liked it, too ;).
It's impressive that Niilo was able to perform even while suffering from the flu. I hope he didn't infect us though - we were standing right in front of him :P.
And, thanks for the drumstick! I hope that Markus still has enough for the rest of the tour :P.
I wrote a (rather long) report/review on the concert, perhaps you'd like to read it.
Anyway, good luck on the remainder of the tour! I hope everyone is feeling better now...
Looking forward to seeing you perform again,
Yours,
ChingChuan
Pray tell, what are the origins of the nickname Druid Sniffers?
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