Novi Sad, Serbia Press

Novi Sad, Serbia gig.

Flares in the crowd looked well smart!



This was the biggest gig I have worked with the band.









Great crowd, note the two girls at the front crying.




Red carpet treatment from the mayorr of Novi Sad, not very punk rock!

Found some video on you tube, toward the end there is some film of the square which was quite beautiful!




10,000 people out there waiting for us and the mayor and dignitaries wanted to meet us and have a photo shoot, apparently the major is a bit of an Adicts fan and punk rocker!
Adicts hit the stage and rocked their socks off, it was brilliant, as far as you could see arms up in the air and voices singing along.
Shahen was a star, Dan was having a great time looking at himself on the big screen, Monkey tried his hand at talking Serbian and made himself look a right pratt. Pete seems to be struggling a bit but there's no way were accepting that as an excuse for his bum chords, Scruff looked like Keef. Scruff is great! Kid played and looked like a muppet!
As we all know Pete doesn’t normally drink but he and Monkey were shit faced.

After the gig Scruff, Shahen and I bought Pizza slices from a shop on the square, we noticed that the locals would have ketchup completley covering the top of their pizza, 'orrible!
Scruff and I then called it a night and went to the hotel for much needed sleep!

Hoggy's Blog Entry ref Spain Friday 8th May

I missed the first gig (Barcelona) so Hoggy has made the entry below, which covers the period prior to ua all metting up in Serbia.

Hoggy Bastard Roadie report on first gig (Spain, Terrazza)

Taxi picked us up in Ipswich at 06:00 and me, Kid and Scruff headed off to Stansted. Good flight.
No problems at Barcelona airport, met Monkey & Dan who flew in from LA and Shahen who came in from Italy. But worryingly no sign of Pete!
David the promoter picked us up and we headed off to the gig about 1 hour drive from Barcelona.
Our left winger (Pete) decided to show up looking like shit.
Great venue, gig went good, it was hard not having bastard Dave and bastard Mutti there, I was sole roadie.
Lucky for me we got a guitar tech. (George) who did a great job with Pete as Pete wasn’t too good.
The band rocked hard, was hotter than hell on stage, crowd loved it.
Brian Clough would have been proud of the lads! As we kep’t the ball on the floor and Shahen’s dribbling was superb. Kid kep’t a clean sheet in goal and the crowd enjoyed themselves when Pete mentioned the Chelsea/Barcelona result. They all sang Barca favorite (Alcohol) together. It was special moment as the band stood there whilst the audience sang to them.

The hotel was top notch, best shower ever. Was a real shame there was no time to sleep, we had to leave for the aiport at 03:45 AM so had no sympathy for bastard Dave who whined about being up at 04:00.
We left Barcelona as Zombies, we were walking dead.
Arrived in Rome 2 hours later and got our connection to Belgrade, got off plane and going through customs I got asked to take my hat off so naturally I obliged, Unfortunately I then stuck my tongue out at the immigration officer and the humourless bastard started shouting at me in foreign, the only words I recognised was police and jail. What a jobsworth twat.
Got all luggage except for my fuckin’ case, it was lost!
No sleep, no clothes, I didn’t smell too good.
Met Bastard Dave when he turned up a little later.
Bastard Mutti turned up with the highway tiger and we all headed off to the hotel.


Our fantastic Spanish fans can really sing


Barcelona fans seemed pleased with the chelsea result and sang us a song!

19:30 chilling outside!

There is a area in the bus that can sleep 3 people, when everyone's tired it becomes very popular.






All smooth at the airport, I thought I would be the knackered one but Monk hasn't slep since LA and everyone is looking tired, they didn't sleep last night due to early flight after last nights gig in Spain. About 1.25 hour drive to the hotel.
We arrived at the hotel at 14:00 ish and then went out to eat, food was good. Weather was beautiful as is Novi Sad, people were very freindly and helpful and seemed genuinley excited about this evenings gig.
we then went for soundcheck in the town centre, the gig is in a large square in the city centre, big stage very pro. We sound checked at 17:00 no probs. Sat outside the hotel woth Hog, Monk and Mutti,(Mutti is the German agent) sipping ice cold local beers

Gig is at 22:00, we have now been told in excess of 10,000 people tonight in Novi Sad.

Tommorow we have no gig but we drive to Vienna (about 6 hours)

At Heathrow

sat in the departure lounge waiting to board.

Had a great night last night at the Bull, Andy, Jules, Pol & I hit nando's in Colchester then went to the venue, was great to see so many of the usual suspects at the gig. was a good night, they have asked us back November.
Happy Birthday Andy Eley and Johnny!

Jules got us home at exactly 01:00, great drive Jules! quich shower coffee and bed.
Set the alarm and it said "TIME TILL ALARM 2 HOURS! Shit!

Slept really badly in the taxi, So tired, gonna board now will sleep on the plane!
Later!

Colchester, Sleep, Airport, Gig.

Checked in online for tomorrows flight and got a great seat (window emergency exit) so chuffed with that. Off to Colchester in a minute for the gig, gonna be pretty much non stop the next 24 hours but looking forward to it (except getting up at 4)

I nicked this off Adicts myspace, Go Genie Go and your all fools are current favorites of mine.
THE ADICTS LIVE GO GENIE GO



How good is that!

This is where the tour go's after Spain

First gig is spain and (which I forgot to put on here) then it goes in alphabetical order.

If you wanna explore then http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=belgrade&daddr=vienna+to:bamberg+to:passau+to:prague+to:rostock+to:bielefeld+to:esch+alzette+to:munich+to:bologna+to:freiburg+to:dusseldorf+to:antwerp+to:52.776186,15.46875&geocode=&hl=en&mra=mi&mrcr=12&mrsp=13&sz=5&sll=49.781264,15.996094&sspn=10.018737,28.125&ie=UTF8&z=5

Be patient if you click the link above, if you wait a little while it will draw the route in google maps.