You have to kiss a lot of these babies to find your prince!!!
7/8 Nurmburg, Germany - aka the homecoming!
This has to be my hands down favorite show of the tour so far…something better might come up, but it’s gunna be hard to beat the intensity and the pit and the haunted SS barracks we played in! It was packed!!! We pretty much sold the place out which is a feat since it was our first time touring Europe! Motherfucking STREET DOGS better book some bigger venues for the upcoming October tour….oh and kick us down a bigger guarentee too (cough cough!)….We closed off the set again with a sweet encore of American Girl and Misfits “Horror Business”….highlights of the night were the guys from Shark Soup coming out to the show and us doing shots with real german girls!!! Or maybe my “is my husband in this room tonight?!” rant from stage….in reality all I can think about is someone I’m missing in Texas….but I get carried away sometimes, and I’m not gunna lie…I’m kinda like a boy in the way I oogle/objectify men….I think it’s from the amount of time I’ve spend on the road. I’m hard. I’m mean….etc…ok…maybe that’s too much…but now you know…thank you rock n’ roll turning me bad! And thank you Nurmburg for loving us!!!!!!
7/9 Roma- Italy!
I slept the whole day in the sprinter….everyone else did….we’re talking a fucking 12 hr drive and everyone was out….save for our crankasaurous driver Matayas (aka MDOG) from Prague….he gets scary when he’s not super funny and, gulp, rested! I’m afraid to meet other Prague people after him “Vhat the Hell!!!!?!” The venue was cool at this show! Too cool for the show itself…Our Italian myspace fan club showed up (hi ladies!!!) and I threw something at someone a la Courtney Love, could go without re-living this one…
7/10 Trento - Italy!!!!
This show was off the hook….we really got to know our promoters and hang out….they were a sweet couple and we can’t wait to come back and play for them again. The venue was outdoors….full on summer festival…it was free (but we still go paid of course!) there were a ton of people!!!! This had to be one of my favorite shows of the tour hands down…we played great AND I got to get super drunk and have an Italian dance party/discoteque…as jacq would sometimes say “I love us” ha ha….we headlined with a DJ after us closing out the night. The band before us was a psychedelic kinda jam band. I was in aww….definitely not my thing, but I’m sure if I was on acid (which I’ve never done and do not endorse) I would probably eat that shit right up! Soundcheck was a little flat feeling, but once all the people got in there the show got easy…That’s my fav, when I forget I’m even playing and it just flows really naturally…it’s a combination of crowd energy/ my energy/ the rock n’ roll gods smiling etc… If this is any indication of the calibur of the evening let’s just say we closed with “American Girl” by Tom Petty and I finally did it!!! I got down on my motherfucking knees and did the super rock on the floor move…not sure what came over me, but it felt right so I went for it! Gotta love those Italians….they ate that shit up….at the end of the party we walked down this big hill through the vineyards to our hotel (in the middle of NOWHERE) ….drunk…singing….being kinda scared by the lightning storm etc….at that point I’m sure I just could have died I felt so happy….in fact the night went soooo well we all didn’t go to sleep…like AT ALL…There was a lot of drunk Gallows skyping (not for me…can’t work my cam, nor do I want to work any Gallows) and drunk IM-ing (more MY speed) and just loud girly talk…..drinking…and more drinking….Italy, we think we’ll keep you!
7/11 Dresden, Germany
When we got this tour I think I didn’t realize how many shows in Germany we were actually doing…this makes me sooo excited, even if no one has heard of the air force base I was born on L….my guess is it’s probably closed and an 80’s memory…Still! BORN IN GERMANY…This venue was a bitch to find….we illegally drove through this beautiful park in order to get to Junge Garden and reunite with our Dropkick family. Soundcheck went well….Dropkick has the best crew ever and I’m not gunna lie, sometimes I’m actually more excited to see Andy, Evan, Judd, Grizz... etc than the band…these guys are down in the trenches with us at every show….Don’t get me wrong I love Ken to death….but he’s kinda like the punk rock god father….Ken calls on YOU to talk…ha ha…kidding, but seriously, talk about taking a band and making an empire out of it!! Go look at the early Dropkick stuff…that was just a punk band…with a bunch of punk kids…Ken rules with an iron fist…instills fear in people. That’s how I want to be…an even more smart and savvy business person in the smoothest running (and damn if it isn’t) super punk as fuck good time that Dropkick is….the precision with which they run their shows you’d think you were watching fucking U2!!! The beauty is they are still punk as fuck! AND they release everything themselves…how amazing is that?! To be that size and that smart that you don’t need a label….pure profit yet a purely good time….I’ve never met a Dropkick fan that didn’t have the best time ever at one of their shows….it’s show business for sure…I’ve seen it a million times and that shit just doesn’t get old!
I got to go up and do Dirty Glass which is always a mixed blessing…I’m stoked…it’s sometimes hard to go from that to playing in my band, no matter how good the show….its amazing to be in dropkick even for like the 5 minute song duration. It makes me want that fan/band connnection so much more…that thing you really cant put a name on….amazing!!! The best part of dropkicks set ?(besides the wild turkey letting loose on an undeserving rag) would be when AL Barr just starts busting out the german….like legit german….omg al barr speaks german…who would have thought? I mean, it makes sense really, I just didn’t see it coming….amazing!!! Really great night we topped off with a little bit of rain, Ken casey showing us Liam/Noel Gallager fight youtube videos. Oh and the best part! Sleeping in the fucking van cause our hotel we booked online had no reception hours from 12am-6am…er, NOT civet girl hours….Coldest scariest germanest night of my life…..Poland (according to Mdog our driver, it’s 3rd world?) here we come!!!!
This has to be my hands down favorite show of the tour so far…something better might come up, but it’s gunna be hard to beat the intensity and the pit and the haunted SS barracks we played in! It was packed!!! We pretty much sold the place out which is a feat since it was our first time touring Europe! Motherfucking STREET DOGS better book some bigger venues for the upcoming October tour….oh and kick us down a bigger guarentee too (cough cough!)….We closed off the set again with a sweet encore of American Girl and Misfits “Horror Business”….highlights of the night were the guys from Shark Soup coming out to the show and us doing shots with real german girls!!! Or maybe my “is my husband in this room tonight?!” rant from stage….in reality all I can think about is someone I’m missing in Texas….but I get carried away sometimes, and I’m not gunna lie…I’m kinda like a boy in the way I oogle/objectify men….I think it’s from the amount of time I’ve spend on the road. I’m hard. I’m mean….etc…ok…maybe that’s too much…but now you know…thank you rock n’ roll turning me bad! And thank you Nurmburg for loving us!!!!!!
7/9 Roma- Italy!
I slept the whole day in the sprinter….everyone else did….we’re talking a fucking 12 hr drive and everyone was out….save for our crankasaurous driver Matayas (aka MDOG) from Prague….he gets scary when he’s not super funny and, gulp, rested! I’m afraid to meet other Prague people after him “Vhat the Hell!!!!?!” The venue was cool at this show! Too cool for the show itself…Our Italian myspace fan club showed up (hi ladies!!!) and I threw something at someone a la Courtney Love, could go without re-living this one…
7/10 Trento - Italy!!!!
This show was off the hook….we really got to know our promoters and hang out….they were a sweet couple and we can’t wait to come back and play for them again. The venue was outdoors….full on summer festival…it was free (but we still go paid of course!) there were a ton of people!!!! This had to be one of my favorite shows of the tour hands down…we played great AND I got to get super drunk and have an Italian dance party/discoteque…as jacq would sometimes say “I love us” ha ha….we headlined with a DJ after us closing out the night. The band before us was a psychedelic kinda jam band. I was in aww….definitely not my thing, but I’m sure if I was on acid (which I’ve never done and do not endorse) I would probably eat that shit right up! Soundcheck was a little flat feeling, but once all the people got in there the show got easy…That’s my fav, when I forget I’m even playing and it just flows really naturally…it’s a combination of crowd energy/ my energy/ the rock n’ roll gods smiling etc… If this is any indication of the calibur of the evening let’s just say we closed with “American Girl” by Tom Petty and I finally did it!!! I got down on my motherfucking knees and did the super rock on the floor move…not sure what came over me, but it felt right so I went for it! Gotta love those Italians….they ate that shit up….at the end of the party we walked down this big hill through the vineyards to our hotel (in the middle of NOWHERE) ….drunk…singing….being kinda scared by the lightning storm etc….at that point I’m sure I just could have died I felt so happy….in fact the night went soooo well we all didn’t go to sleep…like AT ALL…There was a lot of drunk Gallows skyping (not for me…can’t work my cam, nor do I want to work any Gallows) and drunk IM-ing (more MY speed) and just loud girly talk…..drinking…and more drinking….Italy, we think we’ll keep you!
7/11 Dresden, Germany
When we got this tour I think I didn’t realize how many shows in Germany we were actually doing…this makes me sooo excited, even if no one has heard of the air force base I was born on L….my guess is it’s probably closed and an 80’s memory…Still! BORN IN GERMANY…This venue was a bitch to find….we illegally drove through this beautiful park in order to get to Junge Garden and reunite with our Dropkick family. Soundcheck went well….Dropkick has the best crew ever and I’m not gunna lie, sometimes I’m actually more excited to see Andy, Evan, Judd, Grizz... etc than the band…these guys are down in the trenches with us at every show….Don’t get me wrong I love Ken to death….but he’s kinda like the punk rock god father….Ken calls on YOU to talk…ha ha…kidding, but seriously, talk about taking a band and making an empire out of it!! Go look at the early Dropkick stuff…that was just a punk band…with a bunch of punk kids…Ken rules with an iron fist…instills fear in people. That’s how I want to be…an even more smart and savvy business person in the smoothest running (and damn if it isn’t) super punk as fuck good time that Dropkick is….the precision with which they run their shows you’d think you were watching fucking U2!!! The beauty is they are still punk as fuck! AND they release everything themselves…how amazing is that?! To be that size and that smart that you don’t need a label….pure profit yet a purely good time….I’ve never met a Dropkick fan that didn’t have the best time ever at one of their shows….it’s show business for sure…I’ve seen it a million times and that shit just doesn’t get old!
I got to go up and do Dirty Glass which is always a mixed blessing…I’m stoked…it’s sometimes hard to go from that to playing in my band, no matter how good the show….its amazing to be in dropkick even for like the 5 minute song duration. It makes me want that fan/band connnection so much more…that thing you really cant put a name on….amazing!!! The best part of dropkicks set ?(besides the wild turkey letting loose on an undeserving rag) would be when AL Barr just starts busting out the german….like legit german….omg al barr speaks german…who would have thought? I mean, it makes sense really, I just didn’t see it coming….amazing!!! Really great night we topped off with a little bit of rain, Ken casey showing us Liam/Noel Gallager fight youtube videos. Oh and the best part! Sleeping in the fucking van cause our hotel we booked online had no reception hours from 12am-6am…er, NOT civet girl hours….Coldest scariest germanest night of my life…..Poland (according to Mdog our driver, it’s 3rd world?) here we come!!!!
Thanks for blogging all your adventures, Liza. I feel like I'm living life on the road in Europe through you. Sounds like all your shows have been a blast or at least an experience!
ReplyDeleteSign of exactly how awesome your blogs are: last night after reading them I dreamed I was on tour with Civet. It was pretty sweet. Rock on!
ReplyDeletehii Liza!! I love your blog and the way you write of your adventures,that night in Rome I had very fun!
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