central & eastern europe 4

The show on monday was absolutely fabulous.
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us and thanks to all the
helpers and organisers in Ústí nad Labem for making this the best
tour start ever.

In the afternoon we weren´t so sure if people would come to our
concert. The venue: Amarturka is in the industrial area of the town -
it belongs to the local design school but we had no idea how much
advertising was going on and if the people would go out on a monday
night - it turns out they do.
Before the show a lot of preparation had to be done - installing a
huge canvas for video projections, cleaning out the room, set up a
PA, a stage and some stage light.
By the time soundcheck started we were all super nervous.
Marek had to do some more interviews with a TV station from Prague,
Hagen (our film guy) and me argued about the light situation, Oli and
Nic had trouble with their stomachs (too many knydliky for lunch).
Around 8 PM the first act started - Victor - an experimental musician
from Bilbao who we invited spontaneously. Slowly the room started to
fill up and by the time we went on stage over a hundred people had
showed up.
We played for about an hour and then left. We had to ignore the
"encore" screams because we hadn´t prepared more pieces.
After us there was a DJ set + visuals by prof. Neutrino (the musician
we worked with the days before) and after that we had 2 local drum´n
´bass DJ´s + visuals to turn this night into one big party.
We all danced like crazy until the police came and then went home
exhausted and wasted.

We have a few off days now which we have to use for more rehearsals
and recordings.

This blog will take a short break and then continue with part 2 of
our journey around april 15th.