Life goes on tour summary

Thanks so much to all the fans that supported this tour, you are what it's all about!





This post and others and still being updated, check back as updates will continually be added.

Personally I enjoyed every minute of this tour, although the band are used to playing big venues these were the largest I have worked, the scale was new to me, I loved it, bigger the better! gimme O2 and Wembly... sorry getting carried away.
These are special days i'm never gonna forget, what a band, everywhere we go people are just knocked out by the bands energy and quality of the songs! good times!
Unfortunatley we are all in need of doctors now!

Next Gig is Blackpool on 7th August 2009, c u there I hope.

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We're all sick!

Shahen. Bass: Rock god and all round super star in Armenia wherever the bloody hell that is. Did a great job filling in for Mel. Ate everything that came any where near him.
Shahen get yourself to the doc’s for some help with your diet!



Dan: Keys & fiddle.: Thinks he’s a musician and is often found taking photo’s of himself and fiddling with himself in his room.
Dan get yourself to the docs for some sexual therapy mate!



Mutti: Tour manager, Wanker bossed us around, made us get up in the morning, boring bugger! He’s got the reddist arse I have ever seen! Get your arse checked out at the doc’s Mutti! Love you really Mutti! x

Kid Dee: Muppet show drummer! Don't play him at Fifa 08, spends weeks at home practicing before a tour and won't tell us the key presses... he pretends to help by shouting thigs like L1, triangle, cross, just when your about to score just to put you off. Devious bastard!.The key presses he tells us are wrong, I googled them and it confirmed what a cheat Kid truly is! he deliberatly tells us wrong! also Don’t drink with this guy I guarantee you will regret it, Kid get your drinkin’ checked out at the doc’s and stop frikkin' cheatin'




Scruff: Keef Richards impersonator, pure rock and roll, looks like a puppet on strings when on stage. Not well for the last few days of the tour. Scruff get yourself to the doc’s mate!

Monkey: Vocalist: His performances were brilliant every night unfortunately has a vitamin deficiency caused by never getting up in time for breakfast due to the fact he was always amongst the last to go to bed at night. Monk get yourself to the doc’s for a course of vitamins! Alternatively try getting up in the morning!





Pete: Lead guitar: Struggled through the tour, he really ain’t well! Don’t play him at footy, he’s the dirtiest bastard you’ll ever meet! Already has his appointment at the doc’s. Get well Pete.

Hoggy: Bastard Roady: Looks like and thinks he is George Cluney, Toured 3 pairs of underpants but was really chuffed as he only needed one of them. Has been known to use the same bastards t’shirt for 37 gigs without washing it!
Hoggy mate, get your self to the doc’s for a bed bath!




Dave: Bastard Roady well what can I say, sleep deprived, alcoholically poisoned, aching from shifting gear in and out of venues, my right ear has been damaged from sitting on stage in front of Pete’s guitar cab and my left by sitting next to Pete on the tour bus with him screaming with excitement every time he got a red card!
I not gonna bother with the doc, I’m going straight to a psychiatrist.

Mon 25th Travel Home

Got up and had breakfast in the hotel, Scruff doesn't look well again, seems to have had a relapse, After Breakfast we all hit the bus for the last time and headed off for Schiphol airport, the atmosphere was a little subdued, mixture of tiredness, sadness and relief I would say!
Got to schiphol unloaded the bus, not too much stuff as we are couriering most stuff back including the guitars! it was hugs all round and then Monk and Dan did a runner to catch their flight to LA, Shahen stayed on the bus and headed off with Mutti, the rest of us had 7 hours to waste before our flight, what on earth could we do.
We hound a bar outside and settled down, got some Heinekens and just chilled everyone is looking tired, Pete and I went in and had something to eat. the others went off and got a murder king! We finally got on the plane at 18:15 and it landed at Stansted at 18:20. 5 minute flight, love it.
We said our goodbyes and headed off in different directions from Stansted. I settled back in the cab, just Scruff, Hoggy and me remaining and we headed for Ipswich, home sweet home!

Sun 24th Antwerp Hofter Lo

Got to bed at 03:00 woke at 10:00 went down for breakfast
Left and drove to Antwerp about 2 hours and hit the hotel
At 13:00
Support bands included Special Duties who my band played with in Colchester a few years back so I new exactly what to expect from them Ha!
Good stage, good venue, good show. Oh and great monitor engineer!
Went back to hotel and had beers in kids room, little celebration.
Successful tour.

Sat 23rd Dusseldorf Zakk

The last of the long drives today 6.5 hours
Sound check was awful; we ran out of time in the end, the sound engineer didn’t seem to have a clue.
During the Gig the stage sound was screwed and Pete was not happy, I jumped off the stage and battled my way through the crowd and tried to help the sound guy but quickly realised he didn’t know what he was doing, I lost my temper with him, then gave up.
Pete was getting more and more agitated, I told him to chill and get on with it, there was no more we could do.
In spite of this the crowd seemed to really enjoy the gig.
Sound was the worst of the tour which was a shame as we loved the venue!
Vom had brought his wife and son to the gig and did the merch for us, He then joined us on stage for Walk on which was great. We love Vom!
Got back to hotel and we all hit the sack, knackered!


Sound problems from the start!

Fri 22nd Freiberg Ganter Braurerei

Munster Punk fest
Assembled at the bus 0900 and headed off to frieberg.
Stopped on the road for pizza, (This Italian Pizza was shite) and pressed on, fantastic views of the city of Como from the road, looks like a place worth visiting! Shahan took lot’s of pics
Lunchtime we crossed the border and entered Switzerland, amazing drive for ours as we cut our way through the Alps, indescribable! No probs at the border. And then through into Germany and on to Freiberg
Checked into hotel and then dropped band off at the restaurant, Mutti, hog and I went to the venue to get the Merch. sorted and suss it out.
Then we went and joined the band at the restaurant, the food we have had lately has been poor, Scruff is ill from a dodgy meal we given in Bologna and 1 or 2 others are shaky, I’m OK so far!
Pub was a excellent rock and roll band type place, didn’t look like somewhere to expect a good meal and I was starving. Anyway when the food came it wasn’t just good it was fantastic, we all tucked in we were very hungry (except scruff who was in bed back at the hotel).
Then we went to the venue and drove the bus up to the back of the stage, the venue was a large brewery, by the time we went on stage 00:15 the audience were well oiled to say the least, some guy at the front immediately in front of Pete kep’t putting his fingers in his mouth and whistling really loudly, I could hear it at the back of the stage, it was getting into the mics and sounded like guitar feedback! I told him to shut up but after a while he started up again, Pete got annoyed with him and between songs we dragged him up on stage and Pete introduced him as the freiberg whistler and made him do a whistling performance in Monks mike. It was well funny!
After the gig everyone went back to the hotel except Pete and I who went back over the road to the pub we lunched in, the promoter owned the pub and we were his guests. Pete took over behind the bar and served me some nice alt beer, also served a customer at the bar some of his ‘special’ cocktails, by the time we left the guy was unconscious laying slumped over the bar!
I sat at a table chatting to the chef and some other German guys, most had been at the gig, it was a really nice way to end the day.
At 03:15 we taxied back to the hotel.

Thur 21st Bologna Italy Estragon

Longest tunnel i've ever been through!


Pete 'found' a motorcyle.




My fan invention!



All day drive to Bologna, hotel for 15mins then sound check
At the venue. Very hot on the bus, 87 degrees outside!
When we got to the venue I got a chilled bottle of water and put some on my face it felt so good I poured it all down my front too, I was so hot. This seemed to amuse the others and one or two decided to pour their water over my head, I ended up soaked and a good bit cooler, Kid seemed to like the idea so I poured a bottle over his head too. Unfortunately I was dry within 10 mins. So hot here. Pete found a motorbike outside the venue and couldn’t keep off it!

It is so hot it is on the bus it killing us, crotch rot has truly set in! we have tonnes of bottles of water from last nights rider which helped. I finally got pissed of with the heat and decided to something about it! In the back of the van we got three stage fans, I got one and wedged it under the head restraints of the front seat, and connected it to the busses mains electricity, WOW, it was fantastic, now air was circulating round the van it became bearable almost pleasant, I gaffered it for security but it wasn’t needed, it stayed for the rest of the tour. The air con just wasn’t good enough.

On stage 23:05, band played well. Great reaction, Scruff got mobbed outside by a load of screaming girls, not sure why they didn’t go for me!
Back to hotel bed at 01:30, good hotel, we were taken to a restaurant where the food was close to being inedible, total shite
Wine good.
Shahen had some friends from Rome at the show so he was well chuffed, they loved the band!
Long drive tomorrow.

Wed 20th Munich Backstage Werk

Long drive to Munich from Lux, loadsa footy on the play station, arrived at the hotel at 16:30, Mutti, Hoggi and I went straight to the venue to get it sorted and left everyone else at the hotel to get some rest. 5 bands, Born to lose, Creepshow, Demented are Go, Broilers and finally us with a stage time of 23:15.
No sound checks so not much for me to do till about 22:00.
Creep show were great, nice mix of songs, Broilers were great too!
Hotel and bed.

Tue 19th May Luxembourg Rockhal

This sign at the hotel was met with lots of suggestions which unfortunatley have been censored. No we ain't gonna grow up!




Had a long lay in this morning, no one surfaced till after midday. Whilst waiting for Mutti to bring the bus around Kid was smoking outside the front of the hotel and some American tourist said to him “oh I can’t stand out here where you are smoking” What is a matter with people? Kid was offended and told him to go away in slow jerky movements!
We went to the venue at 15:30 but we couldn’t find it and drove around for ages, every one we stopped and asked couldn’t be bothered with us and gave us vague or incorrect info. We were not impressed!
We sound checked with no problem; the DTH shows are pretty sussed, all the settings are stored in the digital mixing desks.
Back at the hotel everyone went for a drink in Kids room, Scruff went to use the lift and found a quality bottle of champagne in an ice bucket, it had obviously come up for room service and been forgotten. Scruff took it to Hoggy for advice on what to do with it, 5 seconds later Hoggy was filling glasses for everyone. It was a nice drop. When it was finished Pete wrote an note and put it in the top of the bottle, it said “thank you for the champagne Sarah (The name of the reception girl) can we please have another one” he then nestled the bottle back in the ice bucket, took it to the lift and sent it back down to reception! Funny as F*!K

Mon 18th May, Luxembourg

Monk wearing a DTH shirt



Pete & Campino



On Sunday night Campino invited the Adicts to join them on stage for the last song of the night the classic Walk on! The same is going to happen again tonight in Luxembourg

Mon 18th May, day off (Kinda)

Arrival at the hotel


We entertained ourselves for a while by trying to pronounce this, you have a go!


Vom would sit at the side of the stage every night and watch the Adicts set, he's great!


There ya go, 4 red cards in 1 game is gonna take some beating. Pete was sufficiently proud of his achievement to take a pic of the playsation screen!


My becks accident caused much merriment!




Drive to luxenbourg today no gig tonight, be great to have a night off , we are all tired.
Left the hotel at 0930 and went into town, we needed a new clutch for kids hat and one or to other bit’s n bobs.
Then long drive to luxenbourg, we had some beer on the drive and some one got so desperate for a wee and they did it in a Jack Daniels bottle, classy we are! A plastic water bottle just wouldn’t have been good enough!
Played fifa footy most of the journey, Pete holds the record for most red cards during a game!
I wet myself today!
While I was playin footy with pete Kid passed me a bottle of becks, I grabbed it and put it between my legs as both hands were needed for my game controller, anyways I suddenly had a wet feeling between my legs, the bottle had immiediately fizzed up and emptied some of its contents over my crotch, every one got out of seats and laughed like hell at my predicament. Pete grabbed a camera and took a pic but doesn't really show how soaked I was!. Bastards.
Oh and were staying in the Luxenbourg Hilton, flash? Yep!

in the evening went out for Chinese meal in the local village, was pretty crap but it filled a hole! Kid and Pete were in a big hurry to get back to the hotel to watch the Sunderland game but the useless buggers lost 3:1. We left Pete smashing his room up and went to a local bar, it was dire, full of drunk strange people, we had one drink and then went back to the hotel, DTH crew were in the bar so we settled down for a drink with them, was very difficult keeping off the war subject, especially when Nopper (The German DTH tech. and part time burglar) suggested we have some tanks on the stage! It was a very funny evening and we all got on great! Pete came along quite late and seemed quite wobbly, he’d been drinking in his room and had obviously been thirsty. The waitress was French and ended up serving us at the table all evening, she had a moustache a German fishmonger would be proud of!
Dunno what time we went to bed, but we didn’t have to get up in the morning.

Big hi to my good mate Rob!

Several people have asked who is Rob, the guy who keeps leaving witty comments on the blog, well here he is folks indulging in his favorite pass time!

Love ya Robbie!

Sun 17th May Bielefeld Germany Seidensticker

We send lots of balls out during bad boy, this is going down really well!

Filmed again and took loadsa photos
At sound check I noticed Vom at the side of the stage and just then hog came up to me and requested a tune as he often does during sound check, So brickfield nights it was, I looked over at Vom and we had a laugh! Vom is a really, really friendly, guy, I immediately took to him and haven’t held the fact he was the drummer of dr and the medics against him!
Hog’s had to give up on the clash/stranglers debate, it’s no contest, clash everywhere and no stranglers to be seen, Die Toten Hosen are covering guns of Brixton and the pre band music has should I stay and Armmagideon time in it so 3-0 every night!

Sat 16th May Bielefeld Germany Seidensticker

At the end of the gig a team of 40 riggers outside waiting to move in and rip it all apart!

we are here for two nights so a good layin on Sunday morning, doubt anyone will surface till after midday.
The record company have a film crew here with 5 cameras filming the Adicts at both the Bielefeld gigs, I think the idea is a live video to go with the life goes on single.

After the gig we ate in catering at the venue, when we’d finished Pete piled up loads of empty plates and dishes on scruff, as he walked away Pete said “I bet you drop them”, Scruff replied “no I wont” Scruff then took two steps forward and dropped the lot!
Everybody involved in this tour are lovely people from canteen staff to riggers to engineers and managers. The food is better than I have had a some very nice restaurants, it's top class!
After the gig we went back to the hotel but the bar was shut, we all adjourned to room 207 and had a beer there.
I left and went to my room, had a nice bath and got into bed, then the phone went it was Mutti, “ all the Toten people have arrived and they have opened the bar, everyone is down here so come on down, I was torn but just out of the bath and tired and decided to be sensible and get some sleep. What’s wrong with me!
I heard they had a great time in the bar, there were 1 or 2 thick heads in the morning!

Fri 15th May Rostock Germany Stadthalle

Campino the Toten front man introduces the band and the crowd get straight into it!


2 minutes into this clip the band play ode to joy and the camera pans the audience giving a feel for just how large this venue is, huge applause as the band leave the stage, it was deafening!


Go Genie Go. Brilliant!


Tango

Thur 14th May Prague Futurum

Support bands were Texas Terri Bomb and Tight Finks

Wed 13th May Passau Germany Breillanderhalle

The new back drop

Tue 12 May Bamberg, Germany

Two of the culprits caught on camera!


setting up the stage, this is incredible!


Mick, why haven't we got this much gear!


WOW!



OK so it's a long post, not much else to do on the bus so I started typing and couldn't stop!
7 hour drive from Vienna, through Hungary and onto Bamberg, Germany.
Mutti woke me up early and got me to watch the tour bus outside while he went to hire another vehicle to help with our overload problem. He came back with a car, it’s all he could get, oh well, better than nothing. Luckily the Vienna hire company had a German car so it was no problem for us to drop it off in Germany.
Everyone else surfaced and after some rearrangement of luggage (we were still concerned with the weight of the van) we set off on our 7 hour drive to Bamberg, Germany, I was driving the bus and had Dan, Scruff and Monk on board, Mutti was driving the car with the others in it. We followed them for a good 4 hours, we had one quick stop for soup and then carried on,
Later a green and white van appeared along side us with Zoll written on it, it then pulled in front of us, I then tried to overtake it and it pulled in front of us again. Then a red sign lit up in the back and after lots of German words we didn’t understand it switched to English and said FOLLOW ME!
We followed the van off the autobahn and along small roads for about 10 mins, it then pulled up at a building and told us to drive in which I did, once we were in the doors were shut and we were told to stay in the Bus. It was weird one minute driving happily up the road, the next minute in an industrial unit surrounded by pistol carrying customs officers.
The chief took our passports and disappeared, we were a little concerned; the van was still very heavily loaded. After a few minutes he reappeared and asked questions where have we been/going all the usual stuff, got any drugs, booze or cigarettes on board?
We hadn’t got a thing, not even a bottle of beer, they looked disappointed, I joked that we were a good band we didn’t smoke, drink or do drugs!
Another officer said nicely oh what do you do then do you like girls? Yeh, I said we all do except him (pointing at Dan), he likes boys, they all cracked up laughing! Sorry Danny boy!
Then they drug tested each of us and as each of us passed they would hand back the passport for that person.
We set off glad to be out of that place, we were now half an hour behind the others and had no one to follow, we switched on the sat nav but it spoke German, help!
Dan was a great help, he taught the sat nav to speak English by pressing loads of buttons on it, then he read the map and we got sorted, Phew!
We arrived at the venue, it was a bloody great 8000 capacity stadium, wow!
Tonight is a first for me with the Adicts, they are not headlining but supporting a huge German band called Die Toten Hosen, one of the biggest band in Germany, apparently the singer is Germanys equivalent of Bono, oh no!
We only have to do a short set tonight so should be quite easy for me which is good as I have driven the bus for 7 hours and am tired, I didn’t help unload, went for a walk and had a drink. They had a huge crew at the venue that soon got all the gear in. We set up and sound checked.
I had to adjust my thinking, when you are supporting there are advantages and disadvantages ref. Setting up the stage, either way there is a critical time period which is the 20mins between bands, If your supporting you have to get all your guitars, drums and amps etc. off the stage as fast as is humanly possible, when your headlining you wait for the support band to get off and then have to get your guitars etc. setup, It is a manic time that requires forward planning and organisation, the Die Toten Hosen crew are highly pro and have been friendly and really helpful, we are working well together. The guys in the band are nice and friendly too, the drummer Vom is English and is also the drummer of the English band ‘The Boys’ and TV Smith. I had a long chat with him but didn’t mention the fact that Suspect Device have recently been covering their song Brickfield nights.
The gig was sold out, so many people, I walked out on the stage for a final check before the band went on, so many people in the audience it was an amazing sight!
The band played well and I like the shortened set, the audience really enjoyed it but it was different to a normal Adicts audience, naturally most were here to see Die Toten Hosen, and I guess a lot were not familiar with the Adicts music.
Inspite of this the band went down well.
At the back of the venue where we load in was a German man with a key of beer and some plastic glasses, he was drinking a beer from a glass, the colour of the beer got my attention, it was not lager! I went and chatted to him but he didn’t speak English but his friend walked up and translated for me, “that beer looks nice, can I have a glass please”
The interpreter explained that this guy brewed the beer himself and was very proud of it, he had brought a keg to share with his friends, they gave me a little to taste, it was fantastic! He poured me a full pint and I thanked him and went inside to watch Die Toten Hosen, soon the beer was empty but he kindly gave me another one, lovely man! We watched most of Die Toten Hosen set and they are really good, more rock than punk rock I would say. After the show we went back to the hotel which was incredibly posh and beautiful. I had a shower and then the phone went, Monk, Pete, Kid and Hoggy were off to the bar, I was too tired and decided to call it a night.
Went for breakfast in the morning and one of the Die Toten Hosen guitarists said to me “is it true the Adicts were in the bar last night wearing nothing except the white dressing gowns from the rooms”
I laughed, that sounds about right, that’ll be them!

Hoggy bastard Roadie at the age of 20 Months

He is without doubt to blame for the current outbreak of swine fever.

Mon 11th May Vienna gig

A hot Scruff, there were no stage fans!





Would you buy a T'shirt from this man?


Monkeys stuff arrives so he sorts it into piles for each gig





Woke with a slight Hangover
We all had a lay in and went to the venue at 13:00 nothing was ready, they had changed to a larger venue at the last minute as advance sales were too much for the original venue.
The new backdrop arrived and it looks brilliant, Pete told me the last time the band toured with a backdrop was 1994, I think they should always have one, looks really good!
Sound check was excellent and long as the band pissed around for a while.
Full house for the gig, was a good show. Some guys kept getting on the stage so Hoggy and I were busy till in the end they got security. There was a lot of stage diving, The band say they don’t like all this diving as it reminds them of Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, cheating bastard!
When we went to leave we hit a major problem, our gear wouldn’t fit in the tour bus, In Serbia the back line had been locally supplied whereas the rest of the tour we are using our own hired in back line, this had been delivered to the venue along with loads of stuff for Monk.
Now we realise it won’t all fit in the bus. We are bloody good we are.
We did get everything in the end but it would be impossible to travel any distance, also the van was seriously overweight.
We managed to get to the hotel and everyone went straight to bed, we were all wiped out.

Sun 10 May, travel from serbia to Vienna

Yep, that's are picture of me smoking, I don't smoke for a year then have 10 in a night. This seemed to amuse the tour party, the non smoker finally smokes!


Ghost vindaloo went down well!


At the border Pete and i are still trying to get a straight red by kicking the hell out of each other!


Adicts Norwegian fan club
Igor was the promoter for the show and did a great job. After breakfast we sat on the patio balcony of the hotel sipping beers waiting for hoggies bag to be delivered by the airline, Hoggy was minging by now after 3 days with the same clothes, no one wanted to sit near him on the bus.
All of a sudden a group of elderly Norwegian ladies appeared and recognised us from last nights show. We were virtually mobbed by them, they were like teenage groupies. They had photo’s taken with us. They were disappointed that we had to leave as the bag arrived, we think they wanted to give Hoggy a good thrashing.
At the Serbian border we queued for an hour, the guards looked stern and had a good look round the bus, we went straight from there into a queue for the Hungarian border where we queued for another hour. Ironically we were all starving Hungry, When we finally got to the Hungarian border we were question by a nice Hungarian lady who looked like she could take any of us out with a single punch. She looked very stern so we decided to see if we could make her smile, we all sat with silly expressions on our faces. When she clocked us she pissed herself laughing. She asked Pete what he was doing here and he replied “I have no idea” oddly she seemed satisfied by that answer and let us through, no problem.
Incidently we have a playastation and fifa 08 on the bus, I hadn’t played before and was crap. Pete was also nearly as crap as me so we decided to brighten it up a bit.
New rules Fifa 08 Copyright The bastard road crew,
1) Each goal scored = minus 1 point, (we couldn’t score anyway)
2) Yellow card = 1 point
3) Second yellow 2 points
4) Straight red 3 points (hero worship was given to persons achieving this)
I am not prepared to say who won, all I will say is Mr Peter Dee is one of the dirtiest bastards I have ever come across. Kid and Dan could really play the game and took it seriously, we ridiculed them and then baffled them with our dirty tackles, they thought they had won till we explained we were scoring cards not goals.

We stopped in Hungary for fuel and kid discovered some strange alcohol drinks for sale in the garage one of which was called unicum and several others I can’t remember, the bottles weren’t huge but the percentage proof was. Kid got stuck into them and really enjoyed the rest of the journey.
At the hotel we were settled into our rooms and kid wandered into my room, he could hardly talk and kept staggering into the wall, Words can’t describe how smashed he was. He asked me to show him too his room as he had lost it somewhere. I took him to his room and within 5 minutes he was unconscious on his bed.
Everyone else got directions to an Indian restaurant and we set off on foot toward it. We were given a map by the hotel but it was so small only Scruff could read it and he’s dyslexic. Dan nearly got hit by a tram, Pete grabbed him and just about pulled him clear. Dan was so grateful but Pete was mortified, he said he couldn’t understand why he had done it, “I think I thought it was some one else”. He would much rather have seen Dan get squished. Pete seems to be very fragile and hurt his ribs in the process of grabbing Dan.
Miraculously we found the restaurant and all ordered some dishes loadsa vindaloos. The lamb wasn’t good but I enjoyed my chicken one. We ordered papadums which when they came were spicy ones, I asked for some plain which they gave me, strangley they were indistinguishable from the spicy ones.
The beer was great and I was thirsty, I hadn’t been boozing on the bus so was really thirsty; I demolished six pints during the meal, far more than anyone else! This was my first good drink of the tour. We all went back to the hotel but I was still thirsty as were Scruff and Monk. The guy on reception told us about a bar nearby which sold local beer and would not rip us off, another tiny map was produced and we headed off onto the streets of Vienna.
Unbelievably yet again we found the place that was called the Asylum!
This place was in like a huge undergroud cellar all dank, dark. The music being played was indescibable, the atmosphere I would call creepy, the whole thing reminded me of the film hostel!
Not many people in, barman was really freindly and we drank more beers and he kept giving us free shots! Soon we had got control of the PC playing the music and we wouldn't let him near it, scruff became DJ and all of a sudden the atmoshere changed completley, the other customers seemed a lot happier to and they all joined us at our table, Scruff is a brilliant DJ, occassionally the barman would try to put a track on but we wouldn't let him! No idea what time we left that bar but were all staggering!
Back at the hotel scruff went straight to bed but unbelievably Monk and I went in the bar for a night cap.