Sitting on the back stage in Zagreb, bit tired but otherwise just fine. At the moment it's raining, but we had a chance to walk in the old town earlier on this day. I have to say this is one amazingly beautiful town! We've done quite a trip again. Just one week ago we were in Turkey, great food, great people, great shows, maybe not always the greatest working conditions, but thanks to our magnificent crew we pulled it thru. What we learned there was if somebody says "It'll be only ten minutes", then you can go for a coffee. Sometimes ten minutes is so long that you can go for a coffee to a different town, or even to a different country. Anyway I enjoyed it a lot, not the coffee but the gigs. Got to see towns that I'd never visited before, to meet people I'd never met before. Mageeta.
So far we've had one off day. We spent it in northern part of Greek on the way from Turkey to Macedonia. That was a holiday!!! Swimming, sun bathing, great food again (we're so FAT) maybe even a couple drinks, and maybe a couple more later in the evening. Even some elephants were found on our way. Partyparty...
In Macedonia it was amazingly hot. 42°celsius is quite a lot for a drummer from Kerava. Venue was an open air place so we got our share of the heat. There were closer to 3000 people in the audience, we were quite thrilled. We drove over night through Bulgaria to Romania. James who is our production manager and takes care of tons of things when we're touring could write a book about borders and customs. It wouldn't be exactly a block buster I'd say, but it'd be anyway a sad story of a lonely and tired young man spending every night couple hours just watching officers drinking tea, waiting for a single stamp for ages which they refuse to give you in the end after they've finished their teas. Those guys... well, they're different. We love James.
Shows in Romania and Bulgaria were tremendous, except for a huge technical problem in Sofia, which caused major delay for the show start. We're truly sorry we couldn't start at the right time and that we had to keep the fans waiting, but that was due to problems which weren't in any way our fault. And again our superb crew saved the day. Without them the show would have been cancelled. And thanks to the patience of the fans the show ended up being perfect.
Yesterday we were in Belgrade. Whole day was so funny. We had great local people working there, promoter, catering, everybody...
James, our hero (yeah, the block buster guy) sang songs for catering people because he was so happy, of course I played spoons to support him. Though there wasn't a dog back stage which was promised to us (next time Janaa, we need Neptune), everything was perfect. And the show itself was fantastic. About 1500 people screaming their voices hoarse and cheering so loud that our sound engineer had difficulties to hear us playing. Thank you all !!!
We've laughed our asses off during this tour. Such a great time, such a great shows!! So many crazy things has happened. Thanks to all people we've met and worked with. All the support bands, nice party we had in Kavarna. We have still a couple more to go and I'd guess it'll be as fun as it has been all the way.