And we're done! Did our last 40 minutes of rocking together in 2009 in Essen, where this mighty fine tour ended. No last date pranks on this tour (we were adviced to behave if we wanted to live to see home again), just solid, killer gigs from all three bands. We sure had a blast on stage during this last show, which ended way too fast. After the show I had this weird, empty feeling for a while. That's it? How could this tour go by so fast? Still, nothing but good times and memories, everyone got along great and things ran smoothly night after night.
Amorphis invited Ari on stage to join them for "House of Sleep", which was way cool. All three bands plus most of the crew stayed up all night celebrating the end of the tour together (the venue stayed open untill the wee hours, they had a "metal disco" going on), and after just a couple of hours of sleep it was time to head to the airport to catch our flight home.
So, dear readers, that's pretty much it! The tour was great and we had fun keeping you guys updated on our journey. Now it's time to write some songs for the fifth album. Keep checking amoralweb.com and our Myspace for updates!
-Ben
lauantai 21. marraskuuta 2009
Day 30 - Munich
Woke up with little bit hangover-feeling after drinking with Julf late last night, but good breakfast with exeptionally good latte from coffee machine solved out the weak condition so I was sharp as always. Venue was good. There was enough room to fool around the stage, which is good for us. Backstages were nicely furnished, no suprise according to the fact that venues name is ”Backstage”.
Second last gig on this tour and there was no sign of tiredness of anybody at least not looking from outside. Now it was just time to do the last boost of this tour and concentrate all energy to the show. Don't mean that I had played softly on this trip, but try to do everything just better and better.
When I got on stage to play I was pleased to see good amount of people watching for our show and seemed that they liked us. We played nothing special, just the basic setlist and rocked out like crazy horses, as usual.
-Pexi
Second last gig on this tour and there was no sign of tiredness of anybody at least not looking from outside. Now it was just time to do the last boost of this tour and concentrate all energy to the show. Don't mean that I had played softly on this trip, but try to do everything just better and better.
When I got on stage to play I was pleased to see good amount of people watching for our show and seemed that they liked us. We played nothing special, just the basic setlist and rocked out like crazy horses, as usual.
-Pexi
Day 29 - Karlsruhe
Today's venue is pretty cool: and old subway station underground turned into a rock club! The entry is on one side of the street while the backstage and loading doors are on the other. Funny stuff... Me and Joe wake up a bit too early (read: venue not open yet), but luckily there's a Media Markt ( a big German CD/DVD/Elecrtonics chain) next door, so we can spend our hard-earned cash money. I end up buying the new Beatles box set, which is 85 euros cheaper here than yesterday in Milan!
At the venue, one of the nicer breakfast caterings awaits us. Scrambled eggs, fresh muffins, cereals... you name it, we ate it! It's the little things in life that you tend to appreciate on the road, like a minibox of Honey Puffs. Threw a fresh pack of strings on my main geetar, sat online for a while, and what do I know, it's showtime!
Show was good and fun, we didn't let the small stage get to us. A typical German crowd, meaning not too enthusiastic at first but little by little we won people over. Man, I can't believe we only have two more to go!
-Ben
At the venue, one of the nicer breakfast caterings awaits us. Scrambled eggs, fresh muffins, cereals... you name it, we ate it! It's the little things in life that you tend to appreciate on the road, like a minibox of Honey Puffs. Threw a fresh pack of strings on my main geetar, sat online for a while, and what do I know, it's showtime!
Show was good and fun, we didn't let the small stage get to us. A typical German crowd, meaning not too enthusiastic at first but little by little we won people over. Man, I can't believe we only have two more to go!
-Ben
Day 28 - Milan
I woke up that morning, na naa na naa na, I saw the venue, na naa na naa na... So much for the blues, although this day was pretty much as close to blues as we got on this tour, cold everywhere, crappy catering, when we played there was about 40 headed “crowd” BUT there were some finnish friends so we rocked like we always do, not depending on how many people are watching. The gig was actually mighty fine and we had a good time on stage, after all we went on the whole tour to have a good time on stage and give every people in the crowd even better time with our rock n’ roll circus.
At the same time we were going to the stage we heard that we need to drop one song from our set and that is never good news. Well as I said, the gig went fine after all and back to the “backstage” (meaning catering area because the backstage rooms were so small that we just used the showers there) to struggle with our common enemy, the internet connection. After all we are all a bunch of nerds :D
After BTD show we packed our beloved home, that I’ve heard some people calling "van", and start rolling towards Germany. Lot of borders to cross so no one could go to sleep before we were at the venue. On the way we saw the longest tunnel in Europe and I must say that was probably the most exiting 14 minutes of my life. NOT! However now I’ve seen that too... Finally we parked our home right by the subway station that’s going to be our next venue. Good night, sleep tight and better luck for tomorrow!
-Ari
At the same time we were going to the stage we heard that we need to drop one song from our set and that is never good news. Well as I said, the gig went fine after all and back to the “backstage” (meaning catering area because the backstage rooms were so small that we just used the showers there) to struggle with our common enemy, the internet connection. After all we are all a bunch of nerds :D
After BTD show we packed our beloved home, that I’ve heard some people calling "van", and start rolling towards Germany. Lot of borders to cross so no one could go to sleep before we were at the venue. On the way we saw the longest tunnel in Europe and I must say that was probably the most exiting 14 minutes of my life. NOT! However now I’ve seen that too... Finally we parked our home right by the subway station that’s going to be our next venue. Good night, sleep tight and better luck for tomorrow!
-Ari
maanantai 9. marraskuuta 2009
Day 27 - Rome
After the ferry-trip to Italy we still had a 6-hour drive to Rome. The atmosphere in the van was pretty serene – everyone was just chilling out and looking at the cool landscapes.
When we arrived to the venue we saw Lemmy. Or at least a very similar looking guy who was working there. The venue was the same where we played with Finntroll in 2005. Nothing special happened in the afternoon… we were just hanging around the venue and getting little frustrated because we were running late of the schedule. So, we had just a couple of minutes to do our soundcheck (nothing new to us, though).
The gig wasn’t our best, but it went ok. The audience was kinda tough though, so we had some difficulties to get the rock n’ roll –vibe going. Well, I guess every night can’t be BANGIN’ (like Joey would say).
-Juffi
When we arrived to the venue we saw Lemmy. Or at least a very similar looking guy who was working there. The venue was the same where we played with Finntroll in 2005. Nothing special happened in the afternoon… we were just hanging around the venue and getting little frustrated because we were running late of the schedule. So, we had just a couple of minutes to do our soundcheck (nothing new to us, though).
The gig wasn’t our best, but it went ok. The audience was kinda tough though, so we had some difficulties to get the rock n’ roll –vibe going. Well, I guess every night can’t be BANGIN’ (like Joey would say).
-Juffi
Day 25 - Athens
Ahh, another great day! Even though I'm a bit bummed out that we get to see pretty much nothing of Greece (both shows were located in the middle of nowhere and most of our free time was spent travelling), the shows themselves have been really cool, with Anthens maybe winning over Thessaloniki by just a bit. The venue was packed, with a great mix of enthusiastic metal dudes and super hot Greek chicks. Nothing like having insane rockers screaming in your face AND cute girls smiling at you at the same time while rocking out...
Juffi taking over the WHOLE backstage of ours...
The fun would not end with the gig tonight though, oh no. Me, Walley and Joey had one of Joey's friends hook us up with tickets to a late night screening of "This is It", which was fucking killer! As a huge MJ fan there was no way I'd miss this on the big screen, and since it's only running for two weeks and won't be playing in Finland once we get back, we had to see it in on tour. Man, the production that they had planned for those shows was CRAZY! The band was tight as hell and Michael seemed to be in great shape... Ok, enough with the movie review. Afterwards we went to have a beer with Joey's friends, just easy hanging and talking about the movie. Good times.
Stage
Tomorrow's yet another day off, which I'm not looking forward to in the least: a couple of hours driving, then 15 hours in a boring-ass ferry and then another four hours of driving in the morning. Oh well, I'm taking my guitar to the cabin, gonna try to work out some new riffs.
-Ben
Juffi taking over the WHOLE backstage of ours...
The fun would not end with the gig tonight though, oh no. Me, Walley and Joey had one of Joey's friends hook us up with tickets to a late night screening of "This is It", which was fucking killer! As a huge MJ fan there was no way I'd miss this on the big screen, and since it's only running for two weeks and won't be playing in Finland once we get back, we had to see it in on tour. Man, the production that they had planned for those shows was CRAZY! The band was tight as hell and Michael seemed to be in great shape... Ok, enough with the movie review. Afterwards we went to have a beer with Joey's friends, just easy hanging and talking about the movie. Good times.
Stage
Tomorrow's yet another day off, which I'm not looking forward to in the least: a couple of hours driving, then 15 hours in a boring-ass ferry and then another four hours of driving in the morning. Oh well, I'm taking my guitar to the cabin, gonna try to work out some new riffs.
-Ben
lauantai 7. marraskuuta 2009
Day 24 - Thessaloniki
You can see it's wintertime because it was cold in Greece too! Actually it was so cold that some worms decided to warm up at backstage. And I'm not talking about these bandmembers now, I mean actual WORMS!
We were in a middle of nowhere but venue was big and we had much space on the stage so we made a plan: there's nothing else to do that rock this town tonight! And we did. Gig was fun and crowd was diggin' more and more after every song. That's how it should be.
After the show we went to hotel and every one of us headed to bed straight away. Well, I took a bath before that. Good times.
-Valtteri
We were in a middle of nowhere but venue was big and we had much space on the stage so we made a plan: there's nothing else to do that rock this town tonight! And we did. Gig was fun and crowd was diggin' more and more after every song. That's how it should be.
After the show we went to hotel and every one of us headed to bed straight away. Well, I took a bath before that. Good times.
-Valtteri
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