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9/22/2007 9:45:23 AM
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JEBO Tour Blog Day 5
Day 5 – Thursday July 19th – Furtherhof – Neuss – Day Off
JEBO Daily Blog for Kevin @ Bristol Rock www.bristolrock.co.uk
by Charlie Presburg (www.pollstar.com)
You'll forgive me if this is a shorter blog today, it's a day off and the next two days will be pretty full on so we're taking it easy. We wake up inside the giant Lego block that's also our Ratingen hotel and have a quick breakfast. Much as we are very appreciative of Tom's organisation and excellent hospitality, we need to leave here, it's a bit weird and the nice hotel lady is casting us strange looks. We throw our luggage in the van and drive back to Neuss, we long for the Furtherhof. The boys are due to play here Friday night and as I mentioned earlier, today's a day off: nice. We check into our rooms, again (ever get that feeling of deja vu?) and spend much of the day chilling out at our hotel and venue. This generally involves sipping high quality German beer, eating pizza (Nick finds an another enormously large cake from the across the street) and re-jigging the set-list for what is unquestionably the biggest gig scheduled so far, the Loreley Festival on Saturday. We recall tales from the previous night's shenanigans, somehow it feel like we've been here for months rather than just five days but all is good and we're loving it. There's a Barbeque planned for tonight at Peter Iserloh's so we're pacing ourselves somewhat this afternoon.
Around 6pm, we take a short walk up to Peter's, he's made us various types of potato salad and shoves several steaks and large sausages on the Barby, fantastic. An hour or so later, none of us can move through overeating.
Can I just say at this point that even though it does sound like all we're doing is putting on weight and drinking, granted, we are doing that but there is a fair amount of work involved too. It's just that in-between the shows, there's little else to do and we are growing lads after all, sadly, right now we seem to be growing outwards rather than upwards!
We sit on Peter's roof terrace and the beer starts flowing again, Peter's friends Kiki and Use join us, lovely people and Peter presents James with a handmade Spanish guitar, very nice it is too. The Germans are without doubt the friendliest people you could possibly hope to meet. Lawrie's not drinking and Spider assures me that he's had a responsible sleep. Peter has a lovely place here and there's much laughing and joking around the table (Nick reduces everyone to a quivering mess with his impersonation of Stephen Hawking in a garden chair), not wishing to offend anyone out there but my god it was funny! We chat until the wee small hours and retire back to the hotel around 1.30am. A fairly early one, tomorrow, we've a gig at the Furtherhof and we're expecting a good crowd.
More tales from the men of JEBO tomorrow, I know, this isn't a shorter blog after all, oh well.
Schnitzelsperger und Tortenwenschen!
Charlie
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