Hallo everybody,

It's been a while since we posted anything in English, and I think it's about time we write a few lines for all of you that don't understand Italian. Well, here we go. Let me try to make a recap of these first 10 days of touring.

Bochum 16/09

First concert on tour, and first day in tourbus. We met up with the tourbus at 11 in the morning aprox an hour of driving away from Bochum. Evergrey were still asleep in the bus, and we didn't meet them until getting the backstage room in Bochum several hours later. We have since then realized that Evergrey are very cool guys, and the only reason for not greeting us immediately the first day, was the big party they had in the tour bus the night before.

The gig preparations were chaotic to say the least. A shitload of things to prepare made time very short, and all of a sudden we heard our 1 min intro sounding from the venue room. Some of us were on stage, some running with a guitar in his hand from the backstage room, and even a singer or two were in the bathroom at that moment. I think we all had the same simple thought: "FUUUUUUUUCCCK!!!!". We all made it on stage in time though, and the gig was great fun. An amazing audience of 400-500 people clapping and shouting to everything, and even a few friends of our in the audience that travelled all the way from our hometown to see the tour start (THANKS).

Prague 17/09

Second concert day, and I woke up late with my first tour hangover. Patrick, the keyboard player of Evergrey, and I had been partying until 6 in the morning. Sounds late, but I tell you, it's nothing compared to what has happened since (the day before yesterday, Patrick and our merchandiser, were going on until 2 o'clock… in the afternoon day after…).

The audience in Prague was a bit smaller, maybe only 200 people, but once again we had a great response, and found ourselves talking with many new fans and doing many autographs afterwards.

Budapest 18/09

We were all looking forward to see Budapest, but as happened many times already on this tour, sightseeing was only something to dream of. We normally arrive at the venue, and start unloading gear right away. We get ourselves a small snack backstage, or have a needed bathroom visit (only peeing allowed in the tour bus). And then it's time for setting up merchandise and doing the soundcheck. But this day the timeplan had some hours extra before the show, but as Murphy said it "What can go wrong, will go wrong". And so it went. The bus had a problem with the cooler, and needed to be fixed. The drum tech needed a new passport at the Swedish embassy in Budapest… goodbye to both sightseeing and soundcheck…

The venue was nice and big, and we got some new friends from the cool catering of the venue (hope to meet you guys again). Unfortunately it was another night of small attendance, probably 200 people, but once again we did a good job on stage. As always we managed to convince the audience song by song, so at the end of the show, there was a good deal of headbanging going on, and a fantastic applause after the last song. Raphael and I threw a few sticks and picks to the audience, and off we went to backstage showers, and afterparty in the bus.

Sofia 19/09

Wauw… Bulgaria was a blast! We had to short down our set and soundcheck due to delays (this tour has been one long story of bad luck and delays, but more about that later). Still, the audience was really really amazing. Around 1.000 people, and many of them shouting "Chaoswave, Chaoswave, Chaoswave…" before we went on stage. Every song was so well received and we didn’t want that concert to end. Thank you, Sofia. One of the most memorable gigs of our career until now.

…we left shortly after the Evergrey gig finished, and started another afterparty in the tourbus. The downstairs lounge in the tour bus is the party place at night, and we have some good speaker to blast out any kind of metal or hard rock imaginable. Most of the guys in the bus have an ipod or something with them, and we change turns to choose the next song. The later it gets, the louder the volume. Only interrupted every now and then by a very angry bus driver, asking people to turn down the volume. We respect that of course, but it takes 1-2 songs for a drunk brain to forget everything, and volume is back even louder than before…

Bucharest 20/09

First of 2 concerts in Romania. And finally some of us found the time to do a very quick sightseeing around town. Giorgia, Fabio and myself had a walk down the river to breathe some of the atmosphere. A beautiful city, that we hope to get some more time to check out when we come back.

We had a good show for around 200-300 people. In the beginning the audience was a bit cold, but after a few songs we had them in the palm of our hands. The venue had a cool light board behind stage, on which we had our logo. You can find some pictures and videos here or on our myspace.

Larissa 21/09

First gig in Greece, and what a great place. A very small venue, and we had to share gear with Evergrey to make everything work. But the audience was really incredible. The place was packed and we had hands in the air from first row until the exit door in the back.

Once again there was a lot of stress and almost no soundcheck, but the feedback we get every night makes us forget everything.

Athens 22/09

SIGHTSEEING… finally we found some time to do some sightseeing. Fabio, Giorgia, Michele and I took the metro from the venue to Akropolis, and had a quick walk around this fantastic place. We uploaded a lot of pics on our myspace, if you feel like checking them out.

The gig was another crazy and amazing experience. Greece really impressed us with their support. The place was totally packed with aprox 400 people, and the audience gave us everything they had from the beginning to the end.

Day off and chaos 23/09

This day was spent on the road. We had a 1500 km drive back to Romania, and with bad traffic and shitty roads, we ran into the unavoidable delay. We had planned to park and barbecue at the river of Danube, but instead we did the barbecue in the dark in some truck parking lot near the Bulgarian/Romanian border. It the end it was very funny actually and we had a great night with Evergrey and the crew… just until we had to turn of all electricity in the bus to save gas. Total darkness and no music is really a party killer, so we went to bed early (early on tour means before 4 o'clock at night).

Cluj Napoka 24/09

Back to Romania, with another huuuge delay. Really bad roads, a tour manager forgotten on a gas station in the morning, and other stupid probems… and it all ended up with a soundcheck worthy for the guiness book of records. Evergrey had no soundcheck at all. And both bands had to cut 25 mins of the set. So we played a blast of a set of 4 songs, and went to the backstage very disappointed. But as always, there is nothing better than having an afterparty with new fans to forget everything. We had some cool hours in the venue afterwards, hanging out with many new fans and friends.

Day off and chaos again 25/09

Another long drive expected us, as we were supposed to drive 1100 km to Split in Croatia. No gig this day, but we wanted to do the whole travel to Split this day, so we could hang out and maybe go to the beach the day after… well, if it wasn't for our good old friend Murphy. There was a good afterparty the night before. I remember going to bed only after the sun had got up. So I woke up around 14 o'clock, noticing the bus was holding still. GREAT, I thought, we are probably at a gas station. Time for a shit and a snack (pardon my French). I quickly realized that we were holding still on the freeway… then I notice a spare wheel standing besides the trailer with our gear… and I though "oh shit". Peter, the tour manager, or tourminator as we call him, told me what happened. The trailer all of sudden lost a wheel, while going 100 km/hour in the middle of the freeway. Luckily no one was hit by the wheel, which would have been a real tragedy. And luckily nothing happened to the gear. But once again, the day off was fucked up by Mr Murphy, and we spent our night at a bus repair station in Budapest. We ordered some pizzas, drank some breezers, had a FIFA tournament… which Tom from Evergrey won… again… my goal for this tour is slowly changing from doing great with Chaoswave into only one purpose: winning against Tom in FIFA.

Split 26/09

And here we are. Today we are playing Split, and I just figured out that my wireless system got lost somewhere in one of the last gigs. Split started with shit, but a beer later and I feel better now. We heard there has been very good presales for the show tonight, and Evergrey gave us some extra showtime so we will be playing 1 hour of show today. I am sure we will have good fun!!!

I will write again soon,