They have statues dedicated to high-fiving over here. Awesome.
This is Jacky - he's from the streets. He's a true playa.
Shirts are for WORKIN'!!!
Later that night, Jenna and Pat both gave this dude some WICKED hand tattoos. Yup - it's crossed the ocean.
Cool and tough and tough and cool.
The second day of playing shows is behind us now, and things are starting to get rolling. Last night we took our longest distance trip to a town called Hengelo to play Innocent, the home of hardcore. Well, i won’t say it was the most hardcore place we have ever been, but it was very fun. everyone was really nice and we all met a loud humongous rockabilly dutch guy who spit peanuts on us when he talked. But he did give us cigars, so he is ok. We are finally starting to get settled in to our place here, and as i type this paul, our landlord, is pouring us a few glasses of Duvel beer. Don’t know exactly what that is, but he says its strong, and he is belgian, so I’ll have to let you know how it holds up. Here is the first pic from the trip so far, this is from Innocent in Hengelo. But don’t we all look tall and thin in this pic? More is sure to come…probably. But for now I’m off to drink a Duvel. Word.
Pat
Hey all, it’s your good friend Patthew writing you from far across the Atlantic Ocean in a country called Belgium. You can look it up on your map if you like. So let me give you a brief account of what’s occurred so far. So we get to the airport wednesday morning, all of our stuff in hand, having done a walkthrough and getting the ok on everything, and they wont take the bass and the enormous case we had for it. So we had to leave ole blue back in the states. Traveling a little lighter, we get to the gate only to find that our first flight, the connection in Newark, has been delayed an hour. originally we thought we had an hour and a half window, suddenly we didnt. so after a cramped couple of hours to Newark, we make a frantic rush through the Newark airport to make the flight to belgium. To get an image of what it may have looked like, watch the scene in Home Alone when the family is trying to make their plane, not realizing poor kevin has been left at home…alone, much like the title of the movie. After a long and dark trip to Brussels, we get on a train to meet our surfing airlines peeps, but our first train was also delayed, so after some serious loading of stuff on the train, we proceed to miss our next 2 connections, getting a little lost and carrying our crap load of luggage what seemed like all over Belgium, we get to our destination city, Herentals. This is where all we needed to do what call the guy and he would come get us, but no. we couldn’t figure out the phone, as the message telling us what we did wrong was in Dutch. So jason and I went for a little walk around Herentals, trying to find some internet to figure out if we had the wrong number. After a good 30 minutes of walking and having no success, we returned to the train station, only to be told that we needed to dial a simple 0 to get the call going. so after feeling a little dumb we dialed the 0 and called our dudes. We got settled into our little house, which you may get to see some pics of soon, and a couple of hours later, headed off to Amsterdam for our first show, at Paradiso. We had our own green room! they gave us fruit and candy and soda, and they only drink Heineken. I already miss Stag and pbr. The show went well, some folks were dancing funny and buying stuff. We came back to the house and jason and I watched a show about making tanks. Awesome. By the time we crashed the night, we had all been up for almost 36 hours and were a little sleepy. Come back tomorrow and get some more info on the trip, and maybe even a few pics/vids. we are still getting technologically settled in. So stay tuned to this Monad channel for all your Euro-venture tour 2009 updates.
pat
P.S. i just yawned, did you?
Hey there – there are some changes to venues and dates of our Belgium/Holland tour. The dates on the tour poster (below) are not accurate, so if you’re making plans, check the ‘Shows’ tab for accurate info.
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