We have just finished the soundcheck at the venue in Strasbourg, called the Molodoi. This venue is SICK!!! massive stage, lovely soundsystem, friendly staff, HUGE comfy Green Room area with loads of munchies and free booze!
The journey from Cambridge took round about 23 hours from Cambridge to Strasbourg, due to some exceptionally scary driving conditions. It was snowing pretty damn heavy all the way, we had lost the left hand side's wing mirror, and the heating in the minibus decided to completely not work for the entire journey!!!! However, despite these adverse conditions, spirits were kept high with the regular application of cheese, red wine, cheap French beer, and a continuous rousing round of sing-songs, ranging from 80's pop tunes to television theme tunes, with a repetitive appearance of variously styled renditions of "Lord of the Dance" from Pocket Pete!
We were all feeling waaaay less than human by the time we finally arrived, but were soon sorted out after crashing out at our contacts house, followed by a roasty hot shower.
Our contact was a geezer called Simon, who plays bass with a band from round about these parts.....i think his band is called "Electric Suicide Club", and they are well heavy and tight !!!! Check his band out on Myspace!
So we just waiting for our turn to hit the stage now, chilling in the lovely (and warm) VIP lounge!
So ends part one of this epic for the time being....
Cast and Crew are as follows;
FOV crew;
Pete Pocket--Helmsman
Steve Steed--Navigator
Dougie the Doug--Wing(mirror)man
ROV Crew;
Fred--Tour Mechanic
Haidee--honorary lad and ROV diktat
Mike--Pocketlips pet alcoholic
Dave--"just Dave the Drummer"
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