BULEMICS EURO TOUR REPORT PART ONE...
Note:
While writing this I'm getting drunk on Pilsner Urquell (best beer in
the world!) and listening to some fuckin' crank metal (fuckin'
BOULDER!! ) , so i don't give a flying fuck if there are language
mistakes in this brief report...if you mind about that ....screw
yourself !
Note II : I've forgotten a
lot of important things for sure and some of the crazy shit we did
can't be written down here ...so don't expect the most detailed report
ever, it just wants to be a way to me to say thanks to some people and
fuck off to some others.
BULEMICS - EUROPEAN INVASION 2009
This
tour was fuckin AWESOME !!! Lots of beer, free drugs, teenage women and
great food everywhere we went, I couldn't ask for anything better, but
as you'll read soon it wasn't all candies and flowers, we went thru
lots of bullshit...but again this tour ruled ...possibly the best tour
i've ever done!
Some people were afraid of these guys because of their reputation of troublemakers...
i
know some clubs didn't book them because of that (especially in
Germany).... well, i've been touring since almost 10 years now and the
Bulemics were the coolest fellas I've ever toured with (together with
my brothers from Chicago BIBLE OF THE DEVIL )...not only all of us got
along great (a rare thing especially from bands oversea, some of them
like to fight and moan like pussies all the time) but everywhere
we went people fuckin loved them beyond imagination... and you know why
? because they were cool & funny as hell with everyone and more
important these guys PARTY! Everynight was big fuckin party with the
Bulemics, even if there few shows with few people we made our own
fuckin party!
ZURICH (SWITZERLAND) : First
show of the tour! We were all excited as hell, the drive from Torino to
Zurich was awesome, traveling all across the Swiss Alps...Josh was out
of his mind....there's no shit like that in Texas! We were still all
hungover from the night before in Torino, especially Gerry (i gave him
some pills 2 hours after he landed and he was fucked up for almost 2
days), but we just couldn't stop having a good time in the van !
The
show in this cool squat called Kalkbreite was really really good, and
really packed (especially being a Wednesday night) ! Thanks a lot Tom
you did a fantastic job!
DARMSTADT (GERMANY) :
This is my favourite city in Germany for playing... Today was also
Gerry's birthday, so that was a good reason to get more wasted than the
night before, in fact that's what we did!!! We got a great BBQ dinner,
and they played with the mighty Gasoliners! Great fuckin band! If you
don't know them check these guys, its Sikko's (from Nothing But Puke)
new band. They played a bunch of originals and covers of Antiseen,
Wretched Ones and Poison Idea! Bulemics kicked ass! After the show
Chris from Incognito Records played some great punk records all night,
then we all went to sleep in this sort of punk squat castle ...
unbelievable!
VERVIERS (BELGIUM) : This
show was a lot of fun, met lots of cool people (among all Captain
Catastrophy and Alex that traveled from Uk for this show)....BUT
unfortunately my memory of this cool drunk friday night has been ruined
by the fact that :
WE DIDN'T GET PAID! WE HAD A GOOD
GUARANTEE, THE BIGGEST OF THE WHOLE TOUR...SO THIS REALLY SUCKED! ALL
DETAILS WITH NAMES WILL BE REVEALED IF I DON'T GET THE FUCKIN MONEY
SOON(THAT I PAID OUT OF MY POCKET TO THE BULEMICS CAUSE BEING THE
PROMOTER/TOUR MANAGER I TOOK MY RESPONSIBILITY...TAKE YOURS !) ...DON'T
FUCK US MAN, CAUSE WE WILL FUCK YOU BACK !
GRONINGEN (NETHERLANDS) : As
we are reaching Groningen a lovely and very relaxing city in the north
of The Netherlands (fuck Amsterdam Groningen is THE SHIT!)our van is
acting and sounding weird...Its getting really noisy and I'm getting
paranoid that we will never finish the tour with this old piece of junk
(which was so old and fucked up that was a lot of fun to drive by the
way), but somehow we made it to Groningen...The bar where they played
on this first Saturday night of the tour is called CROWBAR, and its a
fuckin great place run by two awesome ladies! This show was a drunken
party all night and also the first night we met The Capaces from Spain!
This band fronted by a wild girl named Martha is FUCKIN INCREDIBLE,
buy all their shit, possibly the best PUNK band in Europe at the
moment!(and we had a second show with them the day after!)During the
Bulemics set people was getting so wild that beer was spilled
everywhere and fucked the mixer! What a great night...
KOLN (GERMANY) : Its
a long way back to Germany....if you travel on a fucked up van! Now i
was getting seriously worried about the whole van situation...it was
now official that it will not last much longer. I could only drive on
4th gear which is pretty crazy! Arrived at the club the soundman from
The Capaces that knew a lot about cars tried to fix our van for a
couple of hours...Thanks hermano! Unfortunately the van was way more
fucked that we could even imagine...The club tonight was the Sonic
Ballroom one of Europe's leading clubs for real Rock'n'Roll!! Great
place with room upstairs (my favourites so I don't have to drive after
the shows and i can get F.U.B.A.R.), and the bartenders are cool as
hell! Again another great show by The Capaces, that drove back to Spain
at the end of the night! Bulemics did a good show, but people seemed
scared of Gerry. Was also cool to see my buddy Manuel from Cargo
Records, and we got really drunk together!
EDE (NETHERLANDS) : We arrived in Ede a small village in the south of Holland driving
below 80 km/h, the van is totally fucked up, but today is national
holyday so there's nothing we can do about it ... better getting high
in a coffee shop !!! The show tonight was really funny, Bulemics played
in front of a weird audiance made of local barflies and farmers more
than punk rockers....and they scared the shit out f them! People was
seriously frightened of them and everyone stayed in the
back....haha...the aftershow was another drunken mess!
ARNHEM (NETHERLANDS) : Today
we took the van to a mechanic, we still hoped it could be fixed....Our
next show was supposed to be in Arnhem, only 20 minutes drive from Ede,
but we still had to figure out how to get there since we were without
van....our new friends from Ede J-P, Joke and Debora arranged 2 cars
and a horse-trailer (!!!!!) to take all of us and the gear to Arnhem,
it was a pain in the ass, but we didn't wanna miss the show...and right
when we were ready to leave we got a phone call from the club in Arnhem
telling us that the show was cancelled for BULLSHIT reasons....I don't
wanna go into details cause I don't really care anymore but this really
sucked, especially cause the promoter never contacted me to explain or
apologize.....so we decided to stay in Ede, we had a BBQ and we went to
see horses fucking which was one of the highlights of the tour....
Arnhem kiss my ass!
ANTWERP (BELGIUM) : We woke up late
in the morning and we got the news from the mechanic that the van is
really fucked up and it could take weeks to be fixed , so we decided to
leave it in Ede and rent a new one...We spent like 2 hours on the phone
trying to get a new one the same day and finally we found a company
that had one avaible.....TO BE CONTINUED..... MAYBE ...
- Carlo AKA The Motha Fucking Man