Friday 25/1
First gig with Entombed at Dynamo/Eindhoven.
The day starts by checking out from the „nice“ Formula1 hotel and with the mission to find a gasstation so Per can stock up on cigarettes which is „mucho importante“..:-) and for us to have some highclass gasstation breakfast….!!
We arrived a bit early to Eindhoven so we decided to check out the city since we had quite nice weather as well. We located the Dynamo first of all and then we tried out the city kebab which we really can recomend, 1st class and remember this is from guys who really know how a kebab should taste..;-)
After that we still had some time to kill so what else than to find a nice pub to hang out in.
When we had gone through a couple of rounds of beer and coffee and some game questions from Trivial Pursuite (In dutch:-),,,nobody won that game…!!
At 15.00 hours we headed for Dynamo to load in the gear, a really cool place with nice people taking care of us We rigged our gear and made the soundcheck for the evening, Frans got a really nice spot for the merchendice as well together with Entombed merchguy Mogge..
We then headed for the hotel to check in, a great fu**ing hotel with more stars than we could count and compared with the F1 hotel yesterday this is heaven and that´s hell…
After a nice and needed shower at the hotel we went back to the Dynamo and said hi to the Entombed guys and crew wich had arrived and shared the same backstageroom with us, we then got served chineese food and moore to drink than we needed.
It was a really cool evening with lots of bullshit and fun backstage, just hanging with Entombed drinking beer and whisky. Mike from the Belgian band Inquest came by with his girlfriend to visit and to check out the show, he´s an old schoolbuddy of Me and Stefan from way back in Enköping/Sweden so it was cool to meet up with him, he´s also LG´s old neighbour from Stockholm.
The first band Carnal Leftovers started the evening with growling noise to be followed by The Lucifer Principle wich was really cool. At 21.10 we got to start our show and as the only rockband of the night we had to gain the interest of all metalheads in the audience by giving them our best. The gig went really good except that my monitor was set at 2000 decibel wich made my guitar scream like a pig out of hell…..cool…
After about 45 minutes of hard rocking we left the stage for Entombed to enter, they did an awesome show in front of the crazy moshing metal audience of Eindhoven. Hats off to our Swedish legends of metal..;-)
After Entombed we packed all the gear into our buses and hit the hotel for freshening up, then it was time to hit the city bars. Roman (the booker of the shows/TMR-Bookings) took us to the Dynamo cellarclub with a couple of beers which you could only buy with plastic coins that you had to buy from the „plastic coin machine“ outside the club…..cool…??
We saw 3 guys stripping on stage showing their asses and that was enough for us to decide to change club.;-) We ended up a bit down the street in the same area as we started the day out checking out the clubs and their beer. Around 4.00 in the morning we decided to get back to the hotel for our beautysleep,,,but first…..Kebab..;-) yeaah..goodnight..
Over and out…..John and MOTHER MISERY.
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