Day 8:  Montaigu, Ainu Festival

This was the day with the longest drive on paper, 6.5 hours. It turned out to feel not as long as some former drives we had on this tour so that was nice. Somehow the drive didn’t feel that long and we arrived at the venue an hour in advance of schedule.

This show was added to the tour only 2 days before we left and it showed. We were not on the posters or flyers so I guess nobody even knew we were playing this fest. It was a 2 days festival in a nice venue but the crowd wasn’t into our kind of hardcore. Other bands that were on the bill played all kinds of music like stoner rock, heavy stoner jazz core, instrumental groove core whatever…. Not our cup of tea sort to speak.  But at least we got some nice food and some drinks and even a small amount of change.

We had to leave early to get to our sleeping place, this meant that we had to miss This Routine Is Hell which kind of sucked. But we had a nice hangout together and we will play together on 23rd of may.  So we drove off to our stay for the night in Nantes. We slept in the apartment of a friend from the band, Hervé. We got in our sleeping bags early to get some nice rest before our last show tomorrow in Le Havre.

Day 9:  Le Havre

So last day of the tour!  Everyone is getting a little bit tired but we are all siked to play the last show! Our friends of New Pokerface told us that Le Havre was going to be a big party! So it was! The promoter Bertrand told us that after the show we had to come to a birthday party otherwise we would be the only Dutch band that didn't do so!  So after the first two bands played their set which both rocked it was our turn! We probably played better shows during this tour but we had a lot of fun on stage! After loading all our stuff in the van it was time to go to the afterparty! We drove in a small car through the city of Le Havre thinking this is going to be our last car ride ever! Somehow we got to the party in one piece. The party was at the house of Bouboul, a nice veteran punkrocker, and it was also his birthday!  We had a great time and saw some weird shit at the party!  Goodtimes… The car ride back to Bertrand was even more scary then the ride to the party, but again we arrived in one piece!

Day 10: Home

After a really short night and with kind of a hangover we drove back home! This tour has been more than great and beyond our expectations! We would like to thank everyone that came to the shows, checked us out, sang along, piled on and stage dived! Also thanks to all the other bands that played with us this tour! A special thanks to every person that helped us out with promoting the shows, giving us food and drinks and giving us a place to sleep! We love u all!

Thanks a lot and see you all soon!

1000 Miles Ahead