greetings from Japan!  We played our 5th show last night, and it just keeps getting better and better.  I am blown away by the quality of bands here-- especially the ladies.  Everynight there is a band with at least one girl, if not all girls, just going to town.  Loving it.  Although last night kudos to the bass player of one of the bands-- a pyscobilly band, who started their set with a bloody face,  and from there proceeded to get naked, cover himself in shampoo and water and slide across the club floor.  Whoa!

Hey All!
words​ canno​t descr​ibe the sweat​y greas​y rock n roll nirva​na that was our Europ​e tour.​.​.​ so that'​s what pictu​res are for.​.​.​ So check​ out our tour scrap​book we put toget​her.​.​.​.​.​ we were treat​ed so well,​ every​one was so gener​ous,​ (​speci​al thank​s to Jordy​ @ Anima​l Recor​ds,​ and Jeroe​n & Nikki​ of Wicke​d Natur​e)​ and the crowd​s so enthu​siast​ic,​ we canno​t wait to get back and do it again​.​
xoxo
Steph​anie,​ Allen​,​ Keven​ H. & Kevin​ R.
p.s.-- more blogs​ about​ the tour comin​g soon!​!​

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TOUR PIX HERE!

Hi all…time for a Keveland dispatch….

we are based in a little town called 'Enter" in a bungalow at a vacation community....very cute, very Disney like.....first show we had was actually a radio show in Enschede… before hand we got to practice at a really nice studio, although something was up with the wiring of the place, because we all were getting the stuffing shocked out of us on the mics. After a few songs standing about a foot away from the mic, Rankin went to the attendant to get help. He returned a bit confused, When Rankin told him of our dilemma, the attendant yelled ‘IMPOSSIBLE!’ “That’s it?”we said? “No,” said Rankin, “He then advised me to ‘use a sock’ to cover the mic” .. I believe we wasted a good half hour pondering if he meant for Rankin to take off the sock he was wearing and put it on the mic? Was the attendant offering his own sock to the cause? Perhaps he just meant ‘put a sock in it”….that night we went to downtown Enschede, which is closed off to cars, so we had to carry our gear a little ways for the radio show.. Rankin just brought a snare and we stumbled along the beautiful cobble stone streets… the folks at the station were sooo nice, and we squeezed in their studio and did our best to put on a show for the radio, despite all of us being really jet lagged. ‘ Jet lagged’ sounds really international and cool, but it is just a fancy way of saying ‘I feel like a Zombie’…. but we all laughed and played some songs, Rankin couldn't get his drums in so he played a snare & a chair.. what the hell, we were doing a radio show in Europe!!!....

The next day I woke up with what felt like a nasty cold..nooooOO!!!!!! We went to the first show in Hengelo, The Metropol, got there about 4pm for souncheck...when we first arrivied they offered us espresso, beer, water.....after soundcheck they called us for dinner, and we had a family style dinner with all the crew-- lamb curry w- brown rice, salad, rolls...wow! Quite a different reception than ANYWHERE in the U.S......and all this was for a FREE show on a Thursday night for an unknown band from the U.S....but this is the way they roll here in Holland...
At the radio station they warned us that Dutch audiences tend to be very reserved, arms folded....there was an opening band, we were headlining, and..We took the stage, and surprisingly there was a decent crowd....the show was going well-- until about 7 songs into it, my amp just died. CRAP!! We tried a few things, but it was apparent it was nothing was going to work, so I did the rest of the set without git, and just let Kevin Hahn play it…I was starting to dispair, this is not a great way to start, but we just rolled with it, and I got to run around the stage and be a freak and it was an AWESOME SHOW!!!! the crowd we were warned about, ended up headbanging and signing along, and even got a mini mosh pit going that I jumped into...it really was a fun show... afterwards I got descended upon by a small but eager crowd of kids wanting us to sign CD’s and postacrds and did I mention how foxy these Dutch folks are? No? Well let me tell you-- the boys are tall and the ladies are lovely…oh yea… . Maybe it is the accent, I dunno, but I like em.
Running out of time here--- we have to go to our show in Doetinchem (note: you try to pronounce that. The locals have been getting a kick out of me trying to pronounce their cities’ names from the stage….”Heellloooo Heerenveen!!) But our show last night in Heerenveen was a blast-- we played a little rock n roll bar, ‘7e Hemel’ and we had em headbanging again-- and the bar owner had the best jukebox, we stuck around and danced it up, while he bought Rankin round after round-- I think he is still asleep right now--
Having a blast-- much love to you guys--
Xoxo

greetings from across the pond ya'll,,,, we have landed safely in Amsterdam...picked up from the airport by our kick ass European booking guy, Jordy...he was even holding a sign 'Kleveland'....although I think we were pretty east to spot-- not a whole lot of dirtbags carrying guitar cases came off our flight...threw our stuff in what is to be our touring van for the next few weeks, the Animal records purple and black van-- with fury zebra fabric interiors-- yea! Tonight we kickoff the tour with a live radio show on Enschede FM, (radio performance)
http://www.tvenschedefm.nl/
http://www.enschedefm.nl/html/internet.html

hot diggity!
xo
Kleveland
stephanie, Allen, Kevin H, Kevin R