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9/22/2007 9:37:10 AM
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JEBO Tour Blog Day 1
Day 1 - Sunday July 15th – Ghent
JEBO Daily Blog for Kevin @ Bristol Rock www.bristolrock.co.uk
by Charlie Presburg (www.pollstar.com)
Not too much to report just yet with our first show tomorrow evening in Belgium so I'll keep this fairly brief. So we meet in Dover Sunday afternoon, there's talk from Spider, our illustrious and now legendary soundman, of the Ashton Court festival being cancelled that day due to bad weather and PA's sinking into mud. Hard to believe on this very pleasant Kent evening with sunshine and blue skies (unlike the last time we played in Europe when we sailed through hurricanes and force 9 gales to get to the continent). We've a rather lovely and very comfortable (if ever so slightly cramped) splitter bus, it even has a table and DVD player, very nice. Luckily, the JEBO boys have managed to get this van-packing malarky down to a fine art form, good job really with Jeff's fabulous new drum flight-case, large enough for a small family to live in comfortably for a month. After a very smooth crossing we arrive in Calais and drive straight to Ghent where merry hell seems to have broken loose. It's 10pm and there's thousands of people out in the streets, loads of stages with music and lights everywhere and on the stage nearest to us, some kind if Flemish blues band with a Yodeling keyboard player, how peculiar. At one point, the singer decides to throw a flurry of white polystyrene balls into the audience, just for kicks. After much van turning (sterling job Jeff, you navigating genius, you!) and a little driving around the town to find our hotel (our original hotel's been booked-out sadly), we reach our home for the next 48 hours, Ghent's Novotel. Then a quick wander around the festival for a bite to eat, a couple of quick beers in a local hostelry and then bed.
By the way, why does Jeff have all the Camembert? More tomorrow.......
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