Ladies and gentlemen, the new In-Sane album, entitled "Trust these hands... are worthless.", is now officially out.

On their second album and debut on Moonlee Records, No Reason Records, Fond Of Life Records, Shield Recordings and Bad Mood Records, the guys stick to their formula of catchy energetic punk rock, enriched with hardcore/emo elements and rhythmical twists that add a special touch to their music.

If you want a comparison, think of Against me!, Propagandhi or Hot Water Music, and you can also get a taste of the album by listening to the song Blackout on their myspace or Check the E-Card here.

If you decide to buy the album, and hopefully you will check here:

www.moonleerecords.com

Well, that's it. Get your copy of "Trust these hands... are worthless.", listen to it, raise your fist and sing along!

See you all on the shows!!!!

So, so, so... We haven't written anything on here for quite a while now. Well, lazy as hell, that's what we are. But only lazy to write things here... otherwise we've been really busy the past couple of months. We've been on two tours so far, one took us to the ex-Yugoslavian countries and we've been to Benelux in March. we were writing new songs and believe it or not, we've actually recorded them. we are finishing the album as we speak, Dario and Shaggie are stuck with Mr. Aco Razbornik in Studio Tivoli mixing the tracks. The album is gonna be out in late autumn. We are really glad to say we've got 5(!!!) european labels releasing it: Our mother label Moonlee Records italian friends No Reason Records, our new german friend Joe from Fond Of Life Records, the glorious boys and girls from Benelux at Shield Recordings and last but not least our new swiss label Bad Mood ecords. So stoked. The cover art and design is done by mister Chritophe (KarmaOrange.com). Looks nice!

Also, our dear frinds, you will be able to see us on tour again, starting this friday. We will be visiting good frinds and making new ones across Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. This is gonna be a blast. We don't have the new cd with us yet, but we will have the new t-shirt designs as well as the older ones with us along with "keeping ourselves close to our hearts" CD and a bunch of distro. Yep, yep... we are burning flags on the way, drinking all your beer and crashing on your floors, so watch out!!!

later this year we are planing a tour which will take us all the way to Portugal (we still have to make up for not coming last year) and some weekend shows with Analena (our Moonlee labelmates) to promote the new album... Release party will be announced soon enough.

Take care and see you soon, we'll be hitting your town in the near future! ;-)

Máteja & IN-SANE

The second tour this year... We were very glad to get going
again. Eyes on the road, here we go.

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05.03.2009, Cafe Denkmal, Salzburg, Austria

Our first show took place in the small cafe Denkmal in
Salzburg, one of my favorite cities in Europe. The beautiful birthplace of
Mozart surrounded by the Alps and friendliest people and friends. We were
supposed to play our first acoustic show ever... how will it turn out? I didn't
have a clue. Dario and me practised some songs in the tourbus while driving up
from Ljubljana to Salzburg. We get to play 8 songs, plus maybe some extra, we
will see. We arrive at Salzburg at about 19.30, we meet up with Puddel who's
promoting the show. We see the Denkmal and we are stoked, a nice cosy place,
with space for maximum 60 people. We meet up with Zock from Astpai & The
Plague Mass who is gonna play an acoustic set as well this night. We take our
stuff and bring it over to Puddels place which is just an 5 minute walk from
the venue. We get an awsome vegan curry with rice and practice our songs some
more. We returned at the cafe Denkmal and the show starts. Puddel and Giorgio
from 7YearsBadLuck start playing acoustic covers... a funny set with the songs
you just have to sing along. Great. Next up is Zock, he does an awsome job, I was
starting to wonder why we get to play as last, we suck compared to those guys.
We've never played an acoustic show before, so we don't know how to start using
our voices... after the second song of the set me and Dario get in the feeling
and it's all good. People seemed to like it. We finish the set and the crowd
wants an encore... We give them stickin in my eye together with Giorgio and
Puddel. One more? I start playing »Fűr immer Punk« from Hladno Pivo. It's in
german and people just couldn't believe the words they've heard coming out of
my mouth, was pretty cool anding the set with that song. I liked the acoustic
set, it's strange but it's good, we should do it more often i suppose. We start
talking to friends, Lazy Alex, Giorgio, Zock and his girlfriend and Puddel. My
head started hurting so I asked to go to sleep. I heard later that the guys
killed off a bottle or two of tequillas, what can you do.

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06.03.2009, Day Off Driving

We woke up at Puddels and me and Dario grabbed some coffee
in the city center, it was a beautiful walk throught the town, lovely place,
Salzburg.  We come back to Puddels place
and wake up Shaggie, get some showers and off we are, we have a show tommorrow
in Belgium, driving across Germany at least, would be a great deal of the journey.
We get to sleep at about 2 am somewhere in Germany.

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07.03.2009, Rockcafe, Leuven, Belgium

We arrive in Leuven at around 14.00, and we take a walk
through the nice city. We caught the carneval, was really funny. People threw
out so much candy. I still got some in my pockets. We had a nice coffee in the
pub near the Rockcafe when we get a messagge from Daan the bassist of Face The
Fax, that he is at the place. We pick him up and go to his place, where we get
some nice vegan thai food, some beers and aslo meet up with Dennis, the
guitarist of Face The Fax and his girlfriend Tine.We get back to the Rockcafe
and start loading in which seems to be pretty hard, cause the venue is upstairs
and the stairway is tiny and really steep, we've got heavy and huge boxes to
get up there. First band is Another Effort from Leuven, Daans brother plays in
the band, nice rock music. After them it's time for Face The Fax, really nice
show, nice tunes, I forgot how good they sound, the last time I saw them was in
out old rehearsal place in Gornja Radgona last summer. They finish up and it's
our turn. We play our first real set on the tour and it's quite alright, we had
fun with it. As last it's the dutchies For Japan, really tight band, nice songs
which remind me of Bigwig. Great show. We get in a conversation with a drummer
who turns out to be a nuisance being a smart ass about how we should play our
music. Well we couldn't listen to it anymore so we started taking away our
stuff. When we finished we sat in a bar across the Rockcafe together with Elke
and start talking and drinking beer, when this guys comes out from the bar next
to the one we are sitting at and starts throwing chairs into it, screaming some
shit in flemish and throwing more chairs. He almost incites a mass fight, but
to my suprise everyone leaves him alone, and he does his shit for the next 20
minutes. If that happened in Slovenia, he'd be already laying all bloody on the
floor, especially cause he hit one guy in the head for trying to stop him.
Things get calm for two minutes and he starts over again. Then the police shows
up, asking him a few questions and they leave him alone. What the fuck? In our
country he'd be taken away instantly, first cuffed and probably a bit bruised
from the police beating him up. Belgians seem pretty civilized. While Elke was
trying to explain that belgian people are usually not that stupid we get to
drink a couple of Duvels. We decide it's time to go home, we have to be pretty
early in Ieper the day after. We get to Daans place, I called dibbs at the
matress, hell yeah.

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08.03.2009, Vortn Vis, Ieper, Belgium

We get up early and massively start emptying Daans food
supplies together with For Japan boys, Dennis and Tine. We get a shower and off
we are to Ieper. It's supposed to be a great show at the Vortn Vis together
with Venerea. The Vortn Vis is  a small
place that can fit up to 100 people probably. We arrive as requested at around
14.30, meet up with a great friend of ours Bert from The Ignored, load in and
start chilling. Soon after the guys from For Japan ariive as well. Soon the Vis
started getting full, a nice Sundays matinee... interesting. For Japan start
the show, they had a great set, even better than the day before, to bad not to
many people took the time to give them a listen. After this it's time for The
Ignored, Ralphie (the singer and brother from Bert) is still hurt from a
snowboarding accident in december so he is a little bit restricted to his space
because of his knee. They play a good set, they have a new drummer, the last
itme I saw them though they seemed to be better with Junior from face The Fax
drumming at tour place in Gornja Radgona. They cover »What Happened« from H2O.
After them it's time for Drunktank. Honestly I didn't get to see them i was
watching the Zen Of Screaming in the car with Dario warming up our voices.
Darios voice is pretty sore, so he needs it badly. Later I found out we have
actually already played with Drunktank in the Anarres in Dordrecht; NL. We
start playing our set. Since Darios voice is a bit fucked we have to leave out
a couple of songs he is singing, I sing Found My Place. We have good set and
first pogo and stage dives start to happen. We finish our set with an acoustic
song.

The headliners are Venerea, all hell breaks lose and there
are actually two layers of people in the Vis. The ones below and the
stagediving people. A look at the ceiling reveals a mass of footprints, people
were actually walking on the ceiling. The show ends early for us so we stay at
the Vis hanging out with the guys from Venerea, getting drunk and laughing our
asses of. We take the van to Berts place and have a night food fest at his
place, his girlfriend Tina prepaired some awsome vegan stuff again. We get to
listen to the human jukebox, the bassist of Venerea plays an acoustic set of 1
and ½ hours. In the meantime Dario disappears. We get to sleep, Dario emerges
all cold, he was asleep in the van and outside was freezing.

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09.03.2009 Day Off, Ieper, Belgium

We sleep in, nice. We wake up and make ourselves coffee,
start talking to Bert, Dennis and the Tinas. We get a really nice breakfast and
start watching the Propagandhi DVD, what a show... We take a look at the
documentaries on ti as well. Tine and Dennis leave for their home in Antwerp.
Bert and Tina prepare pizza for us. Great stuff, we start watching »Punk's Not
Dead« documentary. Bert and Tina took us to see the last post in Ieper, amazing
experience. We get back home to their place and start watching a brilliant
belgian series called Matroejka's which is about trafficking young eastern
european girls to Belgium and Netherlands and forcing them into sex slavery. We
watched seven 40 minutes long series in a row. Then we went to bed, Bert and
Tina had to work the next day...

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10.03.2009, De Rots, Antwerp, Belgium

We sleep in again, we decide to watch the last three parts
of the Matroejkas series, have a nice breakfast. We wait for Bert to return
from his work and we head to Antwerp. Ralphie is coming with us as well but he
takes his own car. We stop in Ghent on the way to pick up Tina and in no time
we are in Antwerp.We arrive at the De Rots a nice little rock bar in the center
of Antwerp. We meet Roeal a really nice guy, he is promoting the show, he gave
us great vegan  food. We also for the
first time on the tour meet up with the nice guys from The Living Daylights.The
show starts with The Octopussys, they were ok. Then Face The Fax play and have
a great set, every time i see them they are better and better, really cool.
After them The Living Daylights. Really nice sound, cool band and nice music.
We play as last and we do a fairly good job, Dario's voice is still broken. We
get an offer that we can sleep over at Dennis and Tines place which is good,
cause we don't want to sleep at De Rots. We load in and drive through a jewish
neighboorhood and finally get to their place. We smoke some nice weed and sleep
in a warm and comfy place. Ideal.

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11.03.2009 L'Alhambra, Nancy, France

We wake up at Dennis and Tines place, have some coffee and a
shower and off we are to France. It's the only show in France we play on this
tour, but we've never been to Nancy before, so we're really stoked about it. We
drive 5 or 6 hours and arrive at Nancy at about 16.00, we take a walk thorugh
the center and grab a coffee. When we come back to the pub the guys from the
Nunchacks are already outside smoking spliffs. We load in and start waiting for
the food. Djool the singer of the Nunchacks took a shot at a vegan chilli. We
decide to take another round through the city center and return just in time to
se the Ekoline set. They played rock music. After them it was time for the
Nunchacks, they played a really cool set, reminds me of New Bomb Turks mixed
with the crazy voice of The Hives. We finally get to play to 30 or 40 rock
enthusiasts. They don't know what hit them. We finally play a whole set and
Dario is all better. We play the show and get a good feedback from the mostly
rocknroll audience. We load back in and go to the hotel Djool booked for us,
the boys gave us some weed for good night sleep. We get to the hotel and start
relaxing.

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12.03.2009 Kafe Aloys, Eindhoven, Netherlands

We wake up at 10 minutes to 9 to catch the breakfast but to
our suprise there was no more breakfast. We start looking for the food in the
cafeteria and when we find it this guy (probably the hotel manager) comes
running down the stairs screaming at us in french, when we say we payed for the
breakfast which is from 6.30 – 9.30 he starts yelling: »No, no!!! Finish!« I
show him the time and he says the breakfast is from 6-8, good that somebody
told us that. The guy takes the food away in fury and we apologise for not
knowing, we go back to bed, we can sleep in to half past eleven cause we have
to leave the hotel by 12. Or so we thought. The manager comes knocking at our
doors at 11 saying that we should leave the hotel by 10. I was really pissed,
he makes up things along the day or what. It's written on the doors that we
have to depart by 12. We pack up our stuff and leave Nancy, stopping in a
supermarket on the way to get some food. We start smelling gas shortly after we
got on the highway and find out that our engine is leaking fuel. Dario fixes
the problem in no time and we're off to the Netherlands. We arrive in Eindhoven
at about 18.00, it's our third time at the Aloys. We love it. The nice guys
from The Living Daylights are already at the bar chilling, hungover from the
night before. Pinkel cooks up some great food and we get our bellies full. Soon
after Pieter arrives, he and Pinkel organised the show for us, it's really nice
to see friends on tour. We set up the stage and the merchandise and wait for
the first band to start. PFU start playing, I didn't like it that much... was
not my cup of tea. I was sitting at the merchandise when I saw more familiar
faces, it was the guys from Smash The Statues and Willem from Antillectual,
really nice of them to drop by and chat a little. Always a pleasure to see
those guys. Also Noam fromThis Routine Is Hell is on the show, we play with
them the following day. After PFU it was time for Grey Days, they sound like a
younger Bad Religion version, really good, but nothing special. After them it
was time for TLD, again an amazing set, really love the guitar melodies and the
music. They also had a better sound than the last time in Antwerp. Really,
really good. We played as last, everytime we come to the Aloys there is more
people on the show, this is a good sign. We played the worst set on the tour in
my opinion. Wasn't  good, for me at least.
The feedback was mixed... We stayed at the Aloys, drinking outr drinking coins
away and hanging out. The UK boys gathered around the bar and salivated all
over the waitress at he bar. We got some spliffs from Pinkel and they were up
in smoke in no time. At two the Aloys closes so we packed our stuff and we were
off to Pieters place in Tilburg. We got some food and some beers a good night
spliff and the snoring party began.

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13.03.2009 Piratenbar, Scheveningen, Netherlands

We woke up at Pieters placeand the sun wasshining outside,
we had a nice breakfast and we decided to leave for Scheveningen, a town on the
coast of the North Sea. We arrived at Scheveningen at 15.30 and found out where
the Piratenbar is. We then drove to the beach and had a nice walk on it, the
weather was so fine. Afteran hour or so, we went back to the Piratenbar where
they just opened the kitchen. The Piratenbar is a squatted harbor warehouse in
the port of Scheveningen, has a nice little beacjh of it's own, a concert hall,
places for people to do art, people are living there, a bar with food. We
arrived just in time and loaded in, sat down in the bar got some coffee and
ordered the food. There was quite a lot of people coming in and everybody was
ordering food, also older people the ones that you are not used to seeing at the
squats usually, which is pretty cool. We got a nice carrot soup a great vegan
main dish with salad and a dessert, awsome. Soon the guys from TLD arrived and
after them also the boys from This Routine Is Hell together with Tom from Smash
The Statues. We chilled out a little bit at the bar had some tea and bio
organic beer (which is actually really cheap). The show started at about 21.30
with This Routine Is Hell, they played old school hardcore with some newer
influences, sounded like Minor Threat meets old Raised Fist, pretty cool. I
asked the guys from TLD if we could play as the second band and we could go on
next. We had the best show on our tour in my opinion that night, it was all
good, I had a lot of fun on the stage and I could see the people enjoyed it as
well. As last it was TLD. Another amazing set, everytime I saw them in the last
couple of days I enjoyed it so much, I am really glad we got to play some shows
with them, it was a pleasure. My ear started to hurt and soon a headache
followd so I went to the van and had some sleep. The Next thing I know we were
alreayd on the road, I didn't get to say goodbye to anyone, I am really sorry
about that. We have a long drive ahead of us all the way to the south of
Germany at the Czech/German border.

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14.03.2009 Jugendcafe, Zwiesel, Germany

I woke up in the van somewhere in Germany, driving on the
highways. Shaggie was doing his shift. Dario was sleeping in the back seats. I
joined Shaggie upfront. We got into a traffic jam and moved only slowly. It
took us 2 hours to pass 20 km. We finally stopped at a gas staion and went to
sleep. Me and Dario woke up after a couple of hours and had some food. Shaggie
was dead asleep on the bad in the back. When Dario went to the toilet I was
lucky enough to be saerched by the police, they always seem to pick me for no
reason. They asked a couple of questions took a quick look around the car and
into my bag and left. Little did they know we still have some leftovers from
Netherlands. Well, lucky us. So we get back on the road and we are in Zwiesel
and arrive a little late. All the other bands arealready there. It's nice to
seethe boys from Soey after a long long while, we meet the guys from The Fine
Print, we will organize a show for them in april in Ljubljana. We get to the food,
a vegan chilli, mnammnam. Soey start the night, they play an awsome set, It's
been too long since I've seen them the last time, they are amazing. Next on is
The Fine Print... really enjoyed the show,can't wait for more in Ljubljana. We
play on next, we have fun, it's our last day, so we are stinky, tired, hungover
and partially dumb from the trip... After us it's time for the oldfellas from
Rusticate, my earache starts again so I go lay down a bit. After the show has
finished we load in the van and off we go, back to home sweet home....

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Thanks again folks for having us over,thank you for the
food, beds, roofs, shows, drugs, good times, conversations and the friendship.
We hope we can repay it somehow... Thanks to: Puddel, Giorgio, Lazy Alex, Zock,
Daan, Dennis, Junior at Face The Fax, Tine, Ralphie, Bert and Tina (you cook so
amazing), rest of the Ignored, the nice boys from For Japan, Another
Effort,  Elke, Drunktank, Venerea, the
only good cop there is, Roel, The Octopussys, the  amazing The Living Daylights, PFU, Grey Days,
Pieter, Pinkel and the Aloys fro having us over every time we pass by, Boris
and This Routine Is Hell, Tom and the rest of the tallest band on earth Smash
The Statues, Willem, Piratenbar crew, Markus, Jugendcag+fe crew, Soey, The fine
Print, Rusticate and thank you friends for coming out to see the shows, we
really apreciatte it , this keeps us going on.

Balkan Tour 2009 Tourreport

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30.01.2009 Prostor, Čakovec, Croatia

We are running late as always. We were supposed to leave
Ljubljana at around 3 pm, unfortunately, we got late an left Ljubljana at 5 pm.
But it's all good. There's a highway all the way to the border in Petišovci
near Lendava and it took us only a couple of hours. We arrived at the club
Prostor (the room) in Čakovec, met Igor from the Farewell Reason, who was the
promoter that night. A promosing Friday, with the croatioan national handball team
playing in the semi finals turned out to be quite good. Around 50 people showed
up. The opener Aksimoron from Zagreb played a short set, the guys are young and
they still need to work on their stuff, but soon it'll come. We had an ok set,
we played some new songs and people seem to like them, so it's ok. Igor made
some nice Pasulj (Bean stew) and we were ready to partee!!! This time we
brought along two of our best friends as roadies, Mato and Gezi. We went to
this disco bar in the center of Čakovec and were surpised at the state of
croatian patriotism, not a single one of the visitors in the disco had dressed
in anything else but the red white croatian chess table. Songs blasting from
the boxes were all about homeland love and the national handball team... little
didi they know at that time that they were gonna lose the finals on their own
turf. After the redwhite night we went back to the club and grabbed some sleep.

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31.01.2009 Osijek United, Osijek, Croatia

After waking up we had some more of Igor's bean stew and
that was pretty evident in the tourbus I guess. We stopped at some parking
space on the way to Osijek and found an abandoned puppy, all cold, hungry and
dirty. We picked him up and took him with us to Osijek. We decided to call him
Seo (short for Sead), causeelievers ; we watched the movie Outsider in the car.
We knew that Osijek is gonna be special. The guys from TDWB and FP promised us
a crazy party and the Brkday (mustache day – when people for no particular
reason leave their mustaches to grow and look silly, just for one day). We were
going to play at Osijek United, to make up for two times that we didn't get to
play in Osijek because of various reasons. We had a nice dinner at Buda's
house, where his mother prepaired the best vegan lasagna, and off courde the
meat version as well for the nonbelivers ;-). We then took of to see FP
practice in their space, crazy new songs, can't wait to see them perform them
live. After the short stop we went over to the club to soundcheck and found out
that the people from Osijek already got our little puppy a new home, hopefully
Seo is alright now.  The show started
pretty late, cause: The Brkday. There was around 150 people in the club when
TDWB started playing. Great set, super songs, a lot of enrgy and passion in the
music, which is some kind of hc punk with screamo influences (but the good kind
of screamo influences). We headlined that night and people were liking it...
the new songs sounded kinda lame this time, both of our voices cracked at the
show, so it was not a lot of energy behind the lyrics, too bad, the atmosphere
was really good. The afterparty was a blast... topless male bodies, slippery
floor and singalongs. We didn't go to sleep until 4.30 am....

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01.02.2009 Danguba, Beograd, Serbia

We woke up with hangovers, headaches and sore voices. Went
to the club to pick up our stuff, said goodbye to the friends from TDWB and off
we were to Beograd, Serbia.The drive is not that long, but counting in that we
have to pass the border between CRO and SRB and all the paperwork we always
have to add another 1 ½ hours. We announced ourselves for dinner at my
(Mátejas) grandmothers and grandfathers apartment in Novi Beograd. Those guys
are still living the dream, in love like the first time they met. Grandpa prepared
an perfect dinner with 3 courses... crazy. Smoked another cigarette together
and off we were to the club Danguba in the center of the city. Although it was
a Sunday in Belgrade that doesn't matter, cause there are 2 million people
living in the capital of Serbia and the capital of our former joint country
Yugoslavia. We arrived at the place and it was really a nice place with two
bars and a nice small stage. Petar from Blankfile and the crew greeted us, load
in and soundcheck for the first band. Slowly ther were people gathering at the
Danguba and soon it was pretty full, i'd say about 200-250 people. The first
band played kinda fast old school hardcore and were quite alright. Then it was
time for Blankfile to play, they played a really nice set, songs that will
remind you of Strung Out and bands like that. We played as the next band and
did a good job although our sore voices didn't quite help the whole picture.
Nothing Left from Beograd played as the last band of the evening, a generic
metalcore band complete with breakdowns and mosh parts, nothing special. After
the show we got some food Petar made for us (first time vegan cooking) which
was really good. We packed the stuff, crew shots and off we were to Skopje,
Macedonia.

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02.02.2009 Castro, Skopje, Macedonia

After a whole nights drive we arrived at the SRB/MAC border.
We are lucky enough to get harassed by a serbian border patrol dude searching
for drugs. It's because of the way we look. So it was to the policemans oval
office, clothes of and guess what he didn't find a thing but he did get a view
of our pckers.... sucker. We passed the border laughing at the fortune we have
to get asked at every border: »Well boys, do you carry any drugs?«  As if i told you even if i had some...
shitheads. We arrived at Skopje at about 12 am and soon afterwards Grga our
long time friend picked us up at the hotel Kontinental. He took us for a
perfect brunch in a restaurant with great food and rakija. After we've had
brunch he took us to the hostel he booked for us to get some rest, where i
found out i lost the wallet with all my and band money. Never found it again.
First signs of bad luck on this tour. We had a rest until 6pm and then we went
to the club Castro in the center of Skopje. A nice place which can fit up to 400
people. We soon met Grgas brother Pasha, Filip and Zoki came shortly after. We
did the soundcheck and it was waiting time. Fonija strted the show, nice band,
young boys they have a bright future ahead of them. Next it was Noviot
Pochetok, with whom we played thefirst time we were in Macedonia in
2006.They've gotten a lot better since then. This Monday night turned out to be
really great. We started playing and there was like 250 people again in the
place. We really enjoyed our set, although our voices were still sore. After
the show, we loaded the stuff in and went to the Skopje central footbal stadium
where we went to the club Marakana, a tradition that we never gave up. Every
time in Macedonia, we have to visit. Dancing, drinking our heads off until 5 am.
We barely found our way back to the hostel.

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03.02.2009 Tunel, Kumanovo, Macedonia

We woke up just in time to get the breakfast, guess what we
did next. Went back to sleep, the party last night was just to heavy on us all.
We slept until 2pm then Pasha picked us up to take us to his parents house for
dinner. There we met their parents after 2 years, still as happy as they were
the last time we saw them. We met Pashas wife and his son David, who was born
shortly after we were on tour in mAcedonia the first time. We started eating
what mom Mira prepared for us. I guess we ate like 1 and a half hours. Just
exaggarating, but was really soooooo gooooood.... We were off from Skopje at
6pm, it's only a half an hour drive to Kumanovo. We arrived at Kumanovo with
some complications cause we followed the boys from Noviot Pochetok who
obviously were a little bit stoned, hehehehe. We met Marko form Boiling Point
Association who sets up shows there. We were supposed to play a show in the
place called Tunel. Fonija started the show and we asked the guys from NP if we
could play as second, too much food has taken it's toll. We were barely
playing, plus the technical difficulties made this show the worst show on tour
so far. Nonetheless people seemed to enjoy it. We stayed and saw NP and their
set. We returned back to Skopje where we booked ourselves the hostel from the
day before. Tripe the soundguy from the day before invited ud to celebrate his
birthday with him in the Castro and we accepted. Dancing the night away, drinking
long island tea and just having fun. We were the last people to leave... at
almost 6 am.

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04.02.2009 Dom Na Mladi, Shtip, Macedonia

Guess how we woke up? Just in time not to miss the breakfast
and back to sleep until Pasha threw us out of the beds again.And I am glad he
did. He showed us around the city center of Skopje, which is really a beautiful
city. We sat down in an english pub in the center and started drinking again...
Marko from Kumanovo joined us shortly after, and a fter a while also Vanja, a
friend of Pashas... We met up with the rest of the crew – Grga, Zoki, Filip, NP
and started our journey towards Shtip. Shtip is only a 100 km away from Skopje.
A nice little town,with the speciality called Pastermajlija – don't ask. Meat
to the fullest. We played the town on the lat tour and there was 20 people.
This time it was at least 3 or 4 times more people showing up. NP had a really
nice set and we headlined. We played the best set of the tour and even did the
NOFX cover together with Fitz the singer of NP on the microphone. We packed our
stuff after the show and it was back to Skopje, for another night at the Castro
with Bob Marleys songs... we weren't gonna sleep tonight cause we had a really
long drive ahead of us and the most complications we've ever had on any tour so
far.

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05.02.2009 Caffe Switch, Podgorica, Montenegro

We started driving at 5.30am, we tgought we will pass the
new republic of Kosovo on the way to Montenegro – this would actually be the
closest way. So we went to the Kosovian/Macedonian border and the first
complications emerged. We have these papers called ATA CARNET to have as less
complications on the borders as only possible... This time the complications
just started to pile up. First we couldn't pass the normal border between
Macedonia and Kosovo but had to go for the Cargo terminal. Off course the
macedonians ripped us off for »staying« at the terminal for 20 euros. That was
ok with us at first, but wait and see. We then passed the Macedonian border and
slowly were entering, or so we thought, Kosovo. First we had to pay for
»desinfection« of the vehicle, whic looks like you are driving your car through
a small pond of water – and that costs 5 euros. We arrive at the Kosovian
border and the border patrol informs us that there is a shift change at 7.30
and we arrived at 7 am, so there is no way we can pass unless we leave him a
small bribe in the passport. The border control then figured that we have no
insurance for the car... we show them the green card, our insurance and off
course because Kosovo is a new »country« nothing is actually valid there. I got
informed over the slovenian embassy in Prishtina that the insurance for out
type of the car costs around 50 euros, but the assholes demanded 250 euros for
insurance from us to pass Kosovo, which is unacceptable. We turned around and
arrived at he macedonian border again where we had to pay another stay on the
terminal believe it or not, 20 euros go to waste again, although we still have
a paper from the time before on which it's written that it's valid for 72 (!!!)
hours. We pay it with a sour taste in our mouths and leave the
kosovian/macedonia border to take the longer (much longer) route over Serbia.
We arrive at the MAC/SRB border and get sent to the cargo terminal once again,
probably we have stupid written all over our foreheads. We get weighed, they
don't give a fuck that we have all the papers sorted out, they demand another
60 euros, when we say that's just to much they quickly arrange something with
the papers so we get to pay »only« 45 euros. On the bill was written 30 euros.
We start drivnig in Serbia which has the most expensive road tolls after
France, no shit... we get ripped of time after time, again and again. We get
stopped by the police first time that day. We are already on the road for 12
hours at the time we arrive at the SRB/MNE border, which I was informed is
pretty good. You wish. Two barracks extremely annoying border patrol and
corrupt customs. I informed myself about the eco toll for Montenegro and for
our type of bus it is 10 euros or so it's written. We were demanded to pay 80
euros. After this we said we can't afford that much and the next offer was 50,
take it or leave it. We payed 50 euro and got a little bit pissed at the guy
and he fuckin started slamming the doors and the windows. Another four hour
drive with the eco tax which isn't evident at all if you look around the place,
cause everything is dirty as hell. We get stopped by the police for the second
time that day, we are given the attitude of : you're wothless assholes, stupid
kids. We finally arrive in Podgorica where there is a sold out bar waiting for
us to play the show, we set up the gear as we find out we are missing the hi
hat stand, we seem to have left it in Shtip the day before. Dragan and Mladen
are really nice guys so they get everything fixed in no time. We start playing
the show after a 16 hour drive. We play 2 songs and after the second song
Darios Marshall overheats and won't start working again. We try to play another
2 songs over the main mixer bur it sounds terrible, we have to quit playing,
the show goes to hell due to all the frustration and tiredness from the whole
day. We apologise to the crowd, who are pretty pissed. So is the owner of the
bar and won't pay up, we get in even more financial trouble. After losing the
wallet, being ripped of by serbian road tolls, corruption, burned down Marshall
amp, lost hi hat stand this is officially the worst day on tour we ever had. At
least we have a bed and some food that night cause Dragan and Mladen took good
care of us, but not without another police check. We stop at Dragans place and
get checked by the police officers one more time, a nice end to the day.

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06.02.2009 Split, Croatia

We wake up at 9 am, we have a long ride ahead of us. We have
breakfast at Dragans place have a chat with his super nice mom and finally say
goodbye. We are really sorry that things turned out that way the night before,
but we'll make it up to them that's a promise, We keep our promises. We left
for Budva, a seaside place at the Adriatic sea in Montenegro, on the way to
Split. We get a cup of coffee and off we go. We stop in Herceg Novi and get
some food for the road from what we have left of the money. We get stopped at
the MNE/Cro border, get searched for drugs again and looky looky they didn't
find anything, again. I ask the border patrol if we really look that stupid...
It would be stupid to risk another visit to the countries for carrying some
spliffs with us. Well we get to Split at around 6pm, meet Oki and the crew.
Club Kocka is one of the best clubs I've ever been to. It's a legalised squat
in Split and has a concert hall that can fit up to 600 people. We played with a
young band Immanuel Cunt. The guys at Split cook up a great mushroom stew and take
good care of us. We play a good show and start enjoying the weirdest afterparty
ever... Split is home of FC Hajduk and the notorious Torcida, one of the most
crazy hooligans you get on the Balkans... You can imagine the noise that was in
the backstage – AJDU, AJDU!!! Mi smo Torcida iz Spilta, bit cemo prvak svita!!!

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07.02.2009 Postojna, Slovenija

The last day of the tour. We start driving from Split along
the coastline to Rijeka and from Rijeka via the highway to Postojna. Home at
last. We are playing a show with the italian skapunk band Carry All. We get
good food and a nice last show with quite a lot of people, given that there is
at least 3 other local shows, UK Subs playing in Ljubljana and a lazy february
Saturday. I can't keep my eyes open so I miss the show of Carry All... We pack
the stuff and we're heading home. My bed, my wife and the things I hold dear...

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Well this was one of the best tours we had, and all in all we had a
really good time seeing all our friends again, making some new ones and just
having a party balkan style. We are still lucky enough to live in Slovenia,
where policeman and customs act civilized most of the time. We have to thank
allthe people involved in this tour, we love you so much and appreciate what
you are doing for us.A thank you goes out to (in no particular order): Igor and
The Farewell Reason, Aksimoron, Buda, Antun, Igich, Chule, Koca, Bubi, Žvaljson
Mandela, Osijek United Topless Male Crew, Baka Cica i Deda Vlada, Petar &
BlankFile, MTA Promotion, Grga, Pasha, Filip, Zoki, Vanja, Marko & Boiling
Point, Tripe, Noviot Pochetok, Fonija, Boško & Dom Na Mladi, Dragan &
Mladen at Open Sound (we are truly sorry, but we'll make it up to you guys
asap), Oki & Kocka crew and the crazy Torcidas, Rok Pancake and MCP. We
thank you for coming out to the shows and supporting us, we'll be back soon.