The following info has been fed to me in my absence
Monk, Pete & Shahen Monk flew LA to heathrow on seperate flights., Pete's plane ended up side ways after nearly crashing on landing at Heathrow, he was a nervous wreck and had a breakfast in the airport before catching his next flight to Zurich.
Mutti arrives the folowing morning to pick the three of them up at the airport, the night before Shahen, Monkey & Pete had a night on the town in Zurich, Shahen getting debouched & passing out, He wanted to puke in the taxi but couldn’t get the window down in time. Pete got into trouble in the pub telling the DJ he was a twat because his music selection was for pedophiles. Monkey however enjoyed the sing along. Shahen just had about 12 drinks too many.& passed out in the street A famous Adicts Landmark.
The gathering at the airport was swift but brutal to Scruff as Hoggy bastard & Kid left Scruff at the carousel to pick up all the luggage by himself. Scruff is a soft fuck at the moment he is in love with his new sausage dog which resembles a sausage that’s why they call them that, He named the fuckng thing Hendrix, the boy has
issues.We waited forever for Scruff maybe he ran into that DJ!. Anyway off we went to Bern for the First Gig on our Never Ending life Goes On Tour.
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Taxi picked kid scruff and me up at 06:00ish and we got to heathrow at bout 08:00 and hit the bar. Glad Dave wasn’t here as the London pride was off! he'd have whinged like fuck!
Flew out at 11:15 uneventful.
Arrived Zurich and two Russians approached us, one with a Geordie accent, it was Monk and Peter dressed for the weather.
1.5 hours to bern and we were greeted by a dome venue. Usual hanging around and sound check I had to do everything as Dave wasn’t here, it was simple dunno what he does really!
After dinner I assumed my position on the merch, as soon as the door opened I was innundated with people keen to part with their not so hard earned swiss francs.
After a 2 hour stint I proceeded to the plush dressing room area.
Showtime was at 00:15 and a sweaty capacity crowd created a great atmosphere.
As it was the first gig of the tour I thought it would be dodgy but ended up being a great show.
The folks in Switzerland were very nice & there was a great atmosphere as the place filled up very quickly, The Gig was sold out as usual but always nice to start on a positive.
An old woman (about Daves age) made an appearance on the stage and scruff got bullied into singing youth and did a fantastic job of it!
By the way it’s rumoured that Scruffs other band (lovejunk) are set for a comeback gig on 14th March 2017 (at the steamboat)
So after an excellent first show we headed back to the hotel at 03:45, we couldn’t open our hotel room door but the manager appeared and did it for us and said keep the noise down.
Quick beer and sleep, 7 hour drive tomorrow to Paris, Bastard dave’s coming in on a train from Narwich (Bacon county) so full strength squad tomorrow and the first training session.
Got to the hotel at about 14:00 no prob's
Rooming with Monk who's knackered so I sat in the bar and partook some lovely Bitburger!
Just off to setup for tonights gig, great line up tonight.
Stagetime Support #1: 20.25 – 21.05 Eddie & the Hotrods
Stagetime Support #2: 21.15 – 21.55 TV Smith
Stagetime The Adicts: 22.15 - Curfew: 11.50
We got up early dreading the drive from Paris to Aachen especially getting out of Paris fucking hell they drive like a bunch of sardines being devoured by dolphins, So we slept most of the way only stopping to have one last shit in france. The gig tonight will be fun We have TV Smith & Eddie & The Hot Rods on the bill with us.
After making good time we checked in to the hotel where we immediately hit the bar & kicked back. The soundcheck was quick & easy. It was a night to remember The Hot Rods were great Barry still has the voice & the band are awesome, They played a short set best of & it was nice just to have a decent support act for a change. I hope we do more gigs together. TV Smith did an acoustic set with Pescali on rhythm guitar & Monkeys drunken Twin on drum VOM from Die Toten Hosen. For an acoustic gig it was really
loud.We played a reasonable set Pete was having a nightmare of an evening, I thought he was going to pass out after the fourth song, he stayed on his feet but had no idea where he was so as the band played a song Pete was playing something else it was quite Psycadelic at times. No one really noticed I don’t think. Once again the Adicts played songs that have never been heard making it interesting. The Crowd Loved it & the end of the show was a celebration. The venue we played in was an old war time bunker & it could house the whole population of Aachen at the time it was a maze of tunnels & weird rooms. At the end of the night Vom was blithered & he resembled Monkey in the same state it had to be seen to believe. Back at the Hotel we hit the bar with some members of the Rods & a good night was had by all.