17.07.07

FESTIVAL WEEKEND 22ND & 24TH 07, KOPRIVINICA & BUCCHAREST

What better time to hit the road and play some festivals, we (plus our technical guru and friend Philip Staufer), thought and once again got on the bus, first to Croatia, then to Romania – excited to play next to bands such as Incubus or the Cult – and on the first day – as the planned headliner ZZ Top unfortunately cancelled, the Scorpions… Buccharest was cool, though there weren’t that many people when we entered the stage at about 6 pm… We played a 40 minute set, opening with “The Falls” and closing with “Off They Roared Into The Night” (we had shelved that for a while) in front of a crowd that hadn’t heard us before, and I think things went quite well.

As some of the boys in the band are big fans of Incubus it’s needless to say it was quite cool for them to see those guys live and later on meet some of them in the hotel lobby – for me it was a great pleasure to meet Nick Oliveri again, who I got to know earlier this year in Vienna and who played right after us… so we celebrated a bit together with our mutual friend Jack Daniel’s and Nick’s band… also ran into Ian Astbury but didn’t talk more than “hello” unfortunately, this man’s friggin’ cool, wish I would’ve had a beer with him… and so a great night ended and a day with a bad hangover and 20 hours of driving in a bus began. Big thanks to our favorite two drivers!

Koprivinica though… well, at that festival things weren’t too cool… you know, we don’t exactly enjoy being treated like morons by the staff – plus a few Crisps & chocolate as catering is a bloody joke especially when you’ve been in the bus for hours and it’s got 35 degrees Celsius outside… it was the opposite to Buccharest, where everything worked great and the festival staff was brilliant to us (big thanks also everyone there too plus to Rock & More!)... Nevertheless, we love playing in Croatia, Zagreb’s been great to us last time and we hope to play there again really soon!