Monday 30th December Aachen

We got up early dreading the drive from Paris to Aachen especially getting out of Paris fucking hell they drive like a bunch of sardines being devoured by dolphins, So we slept most of the way only stopping to have one last shit in france. The gig tonight will be fun We have TV Smith & Eddie & The Hot Rods on the bill with us.
After making good time we checked in to the hotel where we immediately hit the bar & kicked back. The soundcheck was quick & easy. It was a night to remember The Hot Rods were great Barry still has the voice & the band are awesome, They played a short set best of & it was nice just to have a decent support act for a change. I hope we do more gigs together. TV Smith did an acoustic set with Pescali on rhythm guitar & Monkeys drunken Twin on drum VOM from Die Toten Hosen. For an acoustic gig it was really loud.We played a reasonable set Pete was having a nightmare of an evening, I thought he was going to pass out after the fourth song, he stayed on his feet but had no idea where he was so as the band played a song Pete was playing something else it was quite Psycadelic at times. No one really noticed I don’t think. Once again the Adicts played songs that have never been heard making it interesting. The Crowd Loved it & the end of the show was a celebration. The venue we played in was an old war time bunker & it could house the whole population of Aachen at the time it was a maze of tunnels & weird rooms. At the end of the night Vom was blithered & he resembled Monkey in the same state it had to be seen to believe. Back at the Hotel we hit the bar with some members of the Rods & a good night was had by all.

Sun 29th November 2009 Paris

What a frikking shambles. Another sell out gig but the promoter needs to learn a bit about taking care of a band especially after the 9-hour drive. Asking for a bottle of water was like being in the foreign legion out in a desert full of frogs. So we didn’t sound check or line check we all fucked off to a restaurant where we were delighted to a feast of Mongolian Arab cuisine rounded of a Kebab on a plate. We had a choice of French wine or some other Shite we chose French of course. To Hoggy’s pleasure who is now a connoisseur of wine, so he should be he’s drunk enough.
It’s so fucking cold outside we are decked out in Russian garb all we need are some Klashnikov & we would fit in quite nicely around here.
This gig was a nightmare for the bastards as there was no access to the stage, so when the last support finished we had 20mins to setup and all the gear had to go through the crowd, fun! We got it done but the band went on late as a result, just a 1 hour set.
We only had one bottle of water each on the stage and it was bloody hot, we ran out quite quickly. Kid complained and so Pete changed the words to Chinese takeaway to “I want a bottle of water”, they then bought us some half drunk bottles they had found somewhere, not acceptable! The show was stopped till they finally brought some pint glasses of water with ice.
Later Kid stood on his drum stool (as he does) but fell of it straight into the drum kit, the snare went flying, the hihat went over (he was lucky it didn’t stab him) and the drum mics went all over the place. It was funny as fuck, Hog and I scrambled to get it all back together.
Inspite of all this I really enjoyed the show, great to be back with the guys.

28th Novenber 2009 Bern

This post by Hoggy

Taxi picked kid scruff and me up at 06:00ish and we got to heathrow at bout 08:00 and hit the bar. Glad Dave wasn’t here as the London pride was off! he'd have whinged like fuck!
Flew out at 11:15 uneventful.
Arrived Zurich and two Russians approached us, one with a Geordie accent, it was Monk and Peter dressed for the weather.
1.5 hours to bern and we were greeted by a dome venue. Usual hanging around and sound check I had to do everything as Dave wasn’t here, it was simple dunno what he does really!
After dinner I assumed my position on the merch, as soon as the door opened I was innundated with people keen to part with their not so hard earned swiss francs.
After a 2 hour stint I proceeded to the plush dressing room area.
Showtime was at 00:15 and a sweaty capacity crowd created a great atmosphere.
As it was the first gig of the tour I thought it would be dodgy but ended up being a great show.
The folks in Switzerland were very nice & there was a great atmosphere as the place filled up very quickly, The Gig was sold out as usual but always nice to start on a positive.
An old woman (about Daves age) made an appearance on the stage and scruff got bullied into singing youth and did a fantastic job of it!
By the way it’s rumoured that Scruffs other band (lovejunk) are set for a comeback gig on 14th March 2017 (at the steamboat)
So after an excellent first show we headed back to the hotel at 03:45, we couldn’t open our hotel room door but the manager appeared and did it for us and said keep the noise down.
Quick beer and sleep, 7 hour drive tomorrow to Paris, Bastard dave’s coming in on a train from Narwich (Bacon county) so full strength squad tomorrow and the first training session.

Mon 30th November 2009

Got to the hotel at about 14:00 no prob's
Rooming with Monk who's knackered so I sat in the bar and partook some lovely Bitburger!

Just off to setup for tonights gig, great line up tonight.

Stagetime Support #1: 20.25 – 21.05 Eddie & the Hotrods
Stagetime Support #2: 21.15 – 21.55 TV Smith
Stagetime The Adicts: 22.15 - Curfew: 11.50

Zurich Flights 27th Nov 2009

The following info has been fed to me in my absence

Monk, Pete & Shahen Monk flew LA to heathrow on seperate flights., Pete's plane ended up side ways after nearly crashing on landing at Heathrow, he was a nervous wreck and had a breakfast in the airport before catching his next flight to Zurich.
Mutti arrives the folowing morning to pick the three of them up at the airport, the night before Shahen, Monkey & Pete had a night on the town in Zurich, Shahen getting debouched & passing out, He wanted to puke in the taxi but couldn’t get the window down in time. Pete got into trouble in the pub telling the DJ he was a twat because his music selection was for pedophiles. Monkey however enjoyed the sing along. Shahen just had about 12 drinks too many.& passed out in the street A famous Adicts Landmark.
The gathering at the airport was swift but brutal to Scruff as Hoggy bastard & Kid left Scruff at the carousel to pick up all the luggage by himself. Scruff is a soft fuck at the moment he is in love with his new sausage dog which resembles a sausage that’s why they call them that, He named the fuckng thing Hendrix, the boy has issues.We waited forever for Scruff maybe he ran into that DJ!. Anyway off we went to Bern for the First Gig on our Never Ending life Goes On Tour.

on my way

Enjoyed the blueberry last night, spent the afternoon
drinking in the marquee then the 4 of us went 4
a nice meal
Now sat on the Eurostar headed 4 gay Paris
Tired gonna be a late one tonite too
Looking forward to seeing all the band again

The continuing adventures of the Adicts

Ok so were off into Europe for some more shannigans no doubt, 9 gigs in all so quite a short tour, i'm gonna miss the BERN show as i'm gigging in Norwich and hoteling with Teresa & Rob hah were in for a crack, drinking all day in Norwich then gig at the Blueberry, god knows how much sleep i'm gonna get then catching a train early on Sun morning Norwich to Paris.

Heres the dates
28 Nov 2009 19:00 BERN ~ GASKESSEL ~ CH BERN
29 Nov 2009 19:00 PARIS ~ PENA FESTAYRE ~ F PARIS
30 Nov 2009 19:00 AACHEN ~ MUSIKBUNKER ~ DE AACHEN
1 Dec 2009 20:00 DORTMUND ~ FZW ~ DE DORTMUND
2 Dec 2009 19:00 TILBURG ~ O13 ~ NL TILBURG
3 Dec 2009 19:00 BERLIN ~ KESSELHAUS ~ DE BERLIN
4 Dec 2009 19:00 STUTTGART ~ ZAPATA ~ DE STUTTGART
5 Dec 2009 19:00 LEIPZIG ~ CONNE ISLAND ~ DE LEIPZIG
6 Dec 2009 19:00 FRANKFURT ~ BATSCHKAPP ~ DE FRANKFURT

Sid the manager is picking Hoggy, Scruff and Kid up in the morning for their flight to Bern. Pete, Monk and Shahen are flying LA to Bern, where Bastard Mutti is picking them all up in the bus.

Gotta pack tonight then train to Norwich in the morning.
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