Ok so I’m sitting here in Angouleme(where?!), France with Ben and our tour manager Chris Holland and we have Metallica’s Blitzkrieg DIMED on this little Ipod boombox thing we have, and everyone else is either super stoked or really bummed. I’ll leave it to you to decide which group the fucking nerds fall into. On one hand you have people sitting around trying to have private talk with their girlfriends and mommies on their little laptops with Skype headphones or IChat or whatever, and on the other team you have me and Holland and Weinman and anyone else who enjoys basking in awesomeness just wallowing in the early 80’s Hetfield right hand fury. When will this 80’s Metallica kick end you ask? Definitely not tonight apparently. Don’t worry this isn’t all we listen to. Hall and Oates’ Private Eyes has been stuck in everyones head for about three months now. They’re watching you!!! They see your every move!!!!
We have this guy on tour with us named Mick who we refer to as "Tips" because he showed up on tour with bleach blonde frosting on his mop. He’s also 40 and has taken about 4000000 hits of acid in his life and RULES HARD. He dyed his hair red to try to shake the nickname but once you show this camp that something bothers you it just gets worse Tips. Anyhow, Tips is pretty much the tour mascot. We look at him in simultaneous amazement and bewilderment pretty much 24/7. If you want a glimpse into this guy’s insanity/genius and you’ve seen the internet video
Chocolate Rain, you definitely wanna check out the Tips version
HERE.
Tour has been great, blah blah blah, thanks to everyone for coming. No seriously though, it really has been the best European tour we’ve ever done. Madrid, you guys know how to party, so does Austria and Hungary!. If anyone wants to check out shows, just do a youtube search for Dillinger Escape Plan, then arrange by date. Videos of all different kinds of qualities go up every day.
The limited shirt for Milk Lizard is on the main page now. We’re only pressing 100 of these in which may be the most limited design we do, so check it out.
As for the other shirts, THEY’RE COMING. BE PATIENT. This takes longer than normal merch because we don’t keep them in stock. Horse Hunter shipped already, Fix Your Face is shipping now, the Particle design will ship in the next two weeks, then so on.
Asian Steve is drunk from about 3pm on ’til about 3am. Before we scooped him up and took him to Cali over last summer to do assistant engineering on Ire Works he was just a shy kid from New Jersey with a pretty mint rock n roll mom. Now he goes off HARD. We love him. You can see him running across stage trying to fix things that are going wrong the whole time we’re playing. He doesn’t have the easiest job in the world and we love him.
We’ve come a long way as a band without really talking much about our soundguy Mike. Mike makes our half broken gear sound good every night and even though I know he harbors a lot of hate for us inside from years and years of having to deal with us he still keeps on rolling. He is probably the most bitter cynical person on the tour so tread with caution if you’re in his general area.
Ben Weinman recently did a remix of the Thrice song "Digital Sea" which they released on an Itunes EP. Go over to his page and listen to it and see what he has to say about it
HERE. He is rapidly becoming an electronics/glitch/programming wizard. Half the time I walk by him his aircraft carrier sized laptop has some sort of beep bleep boop bloop stuff he’s working on coming out of it and he looks like he hasn’t blinked in hours.
In related news, NEW Dillinger song ideas are starting to take form in the very very earliest stages. Don’t get too excited, cause it doesn’t mean you’ll hear them any time soon, but....ah fuck it go ahead and get excited.
We’ve been jamming on Horse Hunter and 82588 recently in soundcheck, two Ire Works songs we’ve never played live, and they’ll debut soon.
Chris Holland the tour manager pretty much only listens to mosh beatdown hardcore and rap when he isn’t listening to Blitzkrieg. He just decided to take a shower and felt that it was necessary to remove the boombox from the dressing room and take it with him because he feels the need to mosh even while getting clean. He recently admitted to "practicing his mosh moves" when he was younger. Killer, bro.
Gil is a master of some weird kung fu Shun Jun Wun Fun mumbo jumbo I’ve never even heard of before and obliterated some guy in the streets of Barcelona the other day who started shit with him.
Any other gossip? Lets see. I’m sure there is but I can’t give away every story. That’s for the Dillinger book hahaha.
Oh yeah, our merch guy Angel is about a half a Chino too heavy and wants to shed some pounds, so he keeps pestering me to ask for a jump rope. So bring him a jump rope and he’ll pay you for it. Handsomely, because that’s the only way he knows how.
Somebody has made a Dillinger news webpage, and they seem pretty intent on updating it regularly. This is pretty appreciated because we can’t update this page as much as we would like, and this kid seems to know more than we do. If you wanna check it out and see up to date info on us including interviews and so forth, check it out at
Spreading Like Wings.
Getting your toothpaste stolen? Sucks. Who does that? I know who and don’t think I won’t take something of yours one day that you need on a daily basis.
With love,
The Dillinger Escape Plan