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9/22/2007 9:42:02 AM
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JEBO Tour Blog Day 3
Day 3 – Tuesday July 17th – Furtherhof, Neuss
JEBO Daily Blog for Kevin @ Bristol Rock www.bristolrock.co.uk
by Charlie Presburg (www.pollstar.com)
Morning, ouch, got a bit of a sore head today! I go down for a solitary breakfast, James has been up for a while as he managed to escape the previous evening's shenanigans and has had his breakfast already. Not a sign of the others at all this morning, I imagine they're all slumbering in their pits. A hotel member of staff tries to tell me breakfast is over but it falls on deaf ears, I'm a little worse for wear, what did we drink at the Pink Flamingo last night, blimey! A short while later we're all sat outside the hotel having checked out of our rooms, we're all rather hungover, someone mentions hair of the dog, we ignore the comment for fear of never leaving for the next show, grab our bags and take a slow short walk to the van.
A little later and after a brief fuel and food stop at a Belgian motorway service station, we're stuck in what appears to be a rather large traffic jam, this does pass however. Back to that service station briefly as I am rather amused by a cold coffee drink called Returnity, I ask you (wonder if this could take off in the UK, second thoughts, perhaps not). The band gets Lays, that's Lays the crisps, sorry, bad joke, they'll edit that out I'm sure, or will they? I notice that we're getting strange looks from cars that pass us by, wonder why, I mean we are after all a group of well adjusted chaps, aren't we (somebody help me out here)? It's a fairly quiet journey to Germany, the mood is buoyant if not a little tired and road weary. Spider's listening back to the previous night's show. There's a lot of giggling as we watch Alan Partridge on the van's DVD system. In the front of the van, there's a meeting of philosophical minds as Jeff and Lawrie discuss Pizza toppings, Nick and I fall about laughing in the back of the van and there's talk of Waitrose doing the best frozen Pizza in history of Pizza making, I think we need to get off this motorway!
We arrive in Neuss around 4pm in dire need of beers which are bought to us by the wonderful bar staff, this is the Furtherhof, our spiritual home. It's a bar, restaurant, live music venue and hotel all in one so it's got the lot. It's also where we played a couple of shows in December last year and is very familiar to us, we love it here. Peter's here to greet us in his rather lovely 1937 vintage Jaguar, which we all paw over (I'll send a photo of the Jag tomorrow folks). We drink a few beers in the sun, life is sweet. We check into our rooms and a little later are treated to what can only be described as Death By Schnitzel bought to us by the lovely Kirsten who owns this place. I imagine there's now a shortage of Schnitzel in the Düsseldorf area! Being a vegetarian, James chooses the veggie option, he wanted me to point that out here so there you go James, job's a good'un. So now we're fed, watered and totally knackered, time for bed? Not just yet, there's more socialising to be done and more inane conversations to be had. We adjourn to Jeff and Rob's room for more libations and chat and then it's downstairs for a couple more beers in the bar. Now it is time for bed, the boys have their second show tomorrow night across the river in Düsseldorf at Tom's On the Rocks and we're all really looking forward to it.
Today Düsseldorf, tomorrow the world, wanna know more? Be back later......
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