Freshly back from our European Tour, Damon and the Heathens are nominated best band of the month in Deli Mag SF. Please take an oppourtunity to vote, it's really simple, not like a stupid Best of the Bay thingy that takes an hour to get through. Just go to

http://www.thedelimagazine.com/sf/

and click on the link and then our name.

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What an incredible city!

The moment has come. After about a 30 minute delay to our scheduled 10am flight, we boarded a 737 from Vienna. Once we landed, we had to scrape up American money ($20 each) for visas into Turkey. Spent about two hours at the airport waiting in lines and waiting for a taxi large enough for the six of us and all our gear. 

Late night set at Dogzstar in Taksim. Starts after midnight tonight.

We scattered around Brno, each doing his own thing on this rest day. A little sightseeing, a few beers, and a bit of excitement.

Our route to Istanbul involves taking a bus from Brno to Vienna, from where we fly to Istanbul, so on Sunday we caught the train back to Brno.
We spent the early evening pounding the streets in the hope of picking up another gig.

Eventually, we settled down to enjoy some pizza and three bottles of wine.

We spent the night at The Travellers Hostel, a converted school building with some very interesting architecture.

Peter, the father of Marks girlfriend, Dita celebrated his 58th birthday with The Trunk Show and The Heathens.

He invited us all to his beautiful place in Kromeriz, somehow pronounced
chrome-air-zheesh, where he barbecued for us, sang with us, and made us feel right at home. Peter is a dentist with a preference for American Rock and Country music.
In the spectacular setting of the Czech countryside, Andrew, Kenny, Mark, and our pal Wing Nut kept the music going until after midnight.

Caught the train from Prague to Brno, where we had no trouble locating
Club Stara Pekarna. They had us set up with two apartments where we had an hour or so to get ready for sound check.

This club serves the best goulash weve ever tasted. Not a big club, but warm and full of enthusiastic partiers.

Our two nights there with The Trunk Show were memorable.
At the end of our second show, both bands were on stage, collaborating and sounding like we had played together for years.

Scheduled to meet Feinspeiserei club owner at at 11am to pick up our equipment and catch a 12:30 train to Prague. He finally showed up around noon and we had to scurry to stay on schedule.

The Heathens agree unanimously - something we dont often do - that Prague is one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.

Our three days there were spent walking all over town and seeing some of the most magnificent architecture one could imagine.

Our three nights there were spent playing for wildly appreciative audiences at the Bricks Bar within the A and O Hotel and Hostel. Our hosts Nina, Spencer and Casey are great folks who made sure we had a good time there.

The Trunk Show - Aileen, Andrew, Mark and Jez - deserve some mention here.
They are incredibly talented multi-instrumentalists and vocalists with whom we have traveled and performed for about a week now.
In collaboration with them, we blew the roof off the joint.

Up at 5am and on the road for about a seven hour drive from Berlin to Munich.
Got to Feinspeiserei, our venue for the night, dropped our gear and returned the van we had rented in Hamburg.

Slow night at the club, uneventful gig.
Munich wasnt bad to us, but compared to the other German cities we visited....