Ich Bin Ein Berliner

U2 are playing for free in Berlin today. At the same time as we are. They are here to celebrate the fall of the wall 20 years ago. Fucking U2. Always trying to mess things up for new up and comers. See you in the Bang Bang tonight. We're gonna be loud! Love / AA

Bono making our life difficult

Live blog from Munich

Thank you everybody for tonight. It was a blast I have to say. Hot stage(even I got sweat drops in my face), dancing, amplifiers on 11, screaming and shouting. This is what it's all about and I don't like it at all....I love it!!
//Oskar

59-1 Tonight!

First I really have to say that I´m sorry that we didn't had more time in Vienna, then we would have visited one of the occupied university, we support you students!

4 gigs to go and as you know we are now in Munich at 59-1, on the way here we watched Top Gun on the TV (once again) mean while Oskar was at the wheel trying to give him self the biggest sugar rush ever. I think tonight is gonna be good one, it´s a great sound in here and already some swedes turned to watch the show.

// Johnny

First snow

We are in Vienna right now. Had a great show at this place called Chelsea witch is situated under the railways tracks for the metro. After the show a couple of beers went down our throats with some Austrian dudes. Vienna really represented from her good side. Well almost anyway. We woke up an hour ago with snow outside our window! SNOW!? Let's hope there will be snowball showdown on the way to Munich today. The bus is departing in five minutes, see you at 59:1 tonight! //MJ

Sauna & Steam Bath In Regensburg

Oy!
2 weeks of carrying amps and drums, 5000km in the car, late nights, 15 shows... Yes it felt good with a day at the spa.
Yesterday i went to bed at 10 instead of 4, I slept like a baby after a hot sauna and steambath. Regensburg you make me relax and i like to visit you again.
Today we´re heading to Wienna wich we ofcourse look forward to, last time we played there it was a real blast. Oskar really wants to climb all the way up on Grossglockner but unfortunately we dont have the time.

See you tonight

// Johnny

what a thrill!!!

just came off the stage in Kaiserslautern. who would have thought this show was gonna be such a bomb! I am sweatier than I've ever been. and that's not little. jesus! thanks all of you.

I love this life.

Anton

Kaiserslautern and Halloween.

We are in Kaiserslautern right now. Soundcheck is done and we are soon our way to finaly have Mexican food. Me and Johnny have waited for Mexican food since day one on this tour. We took a little trip the central parts of Kaiserslautern earlier on. They had some kind of Halloween parade and the streets were full of Germans dressed up in all kinds of different Halloween costumes. Samba batteries played all over the streets and the mood was on top among the citizens of Kaiserslautern. We got a quite inspired of the festivities so we will see what will happen on stage tonight. Well, food is waiting so I'll have to go.
//Oskar


Anton says hi from our little dressing room.

I miss my Ipod

Since last time anyone of us wrote here we've been playing Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bremen. Today it's time for Köln and the Underground Club. We have now really got in to the loop and the days are flying by. Soon it's just a week left. After the show in Hamburg we had (as always) a big party that ended up with me spending two hours at the famous Polizei Station in Hamburg. Kind of a party killer if you ask me and especially for the other guys who spend two hours waiting outside the polizei station. But you don't have to worry, the reason why I had to be there was not because of me behaving bad no, it was because of a thief that stole my bag with my Ipod, passport and a lot more. It really sucks.
The day after the Police gave me a call and told me the they found my passport outside the employment service, so maybe the thief spend my money wisely by getting his hair cut and buy a new suit and then try to get a job. I like to think so...
/anders

Early Bird

Woke up this morning and thought that it was time to get up. So I flew up from bed and said to Johan that the breakfast at the hotel will be closed in 20 minutes. Then i realised that I hadn't turned back the clock to winter time last Sunday. But instead of going back to bed I washed my self really carefully, organised everything in my suitcase and went down and had the best breakfast on this tour so far. And now I'm sitting here and listening to Bon Iver and enjoying this tour to 100%. We are back in Germany also. After 4 days in Switzerland it felt like coming home again when we entered the stage in Konstanz. The crowd was really up for it and we had a great time on stage. After we had a couple of beers in the backstage and listened to Joncha and the promoter explaining the greatness in Weezer. Then Anders, Anton and me went back to our hotel room witch has got like 6 different levels. I will take some pictures and show you later today. Johan and Joncha came back 5 or 6 in the morning. I don't know what they did but I heard rumours of 60s and 70s garage rock music and a dance floor. Now the boys are back from the breakfast so we are going up on the roof to take some pictures for you all. I will post it asap. //Oskar

Sightseeing

We actually had some free time to do what we wanted today. So went to Schaffhausen and had a look at "Der Rheinfall". The widest waterfall in Europe. It felt good to see something else than a rock club for once. But don't worry, it's just for today. Tomorrow we're gonna hit the road and continue our tour. Sleep tight! //Oskar

As the singer gains an hour...

Nine shows in nine days. I would lie if I didn't say I'm pretty beat. I need a free day. And guess what? We have one. And thanks to Anders I have one extra free hour since he forgot to change the clock and woke me up to earlier than anyone should have to wake upp. 9am :(

Roomservice in bed is my only faithful friend!
/ Anton

Tonights' Setlist

Fribourg

I am in Fribourg! Beautiful city in Switzerland. We have while in Fribourg; failed to check into our hotel for one hour, Walked on a hanging bridge over a a big river, petted donkeys, eaten swiss chocolate with hazelnuts, set the stage for tonights show. All this activity despite the fact that a few of us (including your humble writer) are majorly hung over from drinking a Absinthe (the real one) last night in Biel. It was fun then. Now it seems like a distant memory of another time and place. We have a french man with us and that has come handy since he can now easily communicate with the locals.

/ Anton

Ps: alla som kan svenska har väl inte missat att jag bloggar på svenska från turnén på Musicstage.se ?

Full House!

Yesterdays gig in Heidelberg was a real blast. The venue was totally packed and the Heidelbergers was trying their best to shout down Anton. When we ended the show with Friday I'm In Love I couldn't here Anton's voice at all because of the sing-along. Just like you want a concert to be. Big thanks to Santiago and the rest at Zum Teufel.
Today we have met up with our good friend Joncha at the airport. He will now come along and be support for us. If you haven't heard him you should check him out:
http://www.myspace.com/nowthethirdday.
//anders

American highschool partiy and german bunkers.

I'm sitting and listening to Anton and Johan singing and playing "Going Up The Country" in the backstage right now. Classic song that is. We have just had some chinese food. Yesterday we where playing in a, what we thought from the beginning, student flat. Instead it was a huge appartment with aquariums and a big terrace with a view all over Bochum. We sat up ur gear in the living room and played all our fast songs. The place was packed at in felt just like we where in an American high school movie. The only things that was missing was american dudes and the red paper cups witch you drink your beer from. The floor in the livingroom was torn down to sticks and splinters after our gig. Then we drank beer from glass bottles and played füssball(Yes there was i füssball table in the apartment!), danced and met great people all night long. We filmed it all with our new camera. There is so much material that we haven't had time to ensemble a film of it yet but you will see footage from it in a near future. The thing we are talking about at this moment is the venue we are at today, Musikbuner in Aachen. It's a really strange one. It's an old german bunker from second world war. Long corridors concrete everywhere, steel doors and old school elevators witch you didn't thing existed now days.
//Oskar


Musikbunker

Radio Interview

Johan and Anton is doing an interview at "CT Das Radio" in Bochum. Anders and me are sitting outside and watching some youtube clips and looking at pictures from last night in Münster. Tonight we will play at an apartment. That can be interesting... We will post some photos from that in the future. Auf wiedersehen! //Anders & Oskar

firts of the gang to wake

The others are still sleeping like babies after a late night yesterday. A late but fun night. The amp club was as it been to us before, very sweaty and very good. Like a german rock club should be.

I don't know the schedule for today but we will keep you updated. Now I'm gonna go down and have myself some breakfast.
/anders

Münster

We had a really good show i Hannover last night. Finaly we are up and running. 20 gigs to go and it feels great. After the show we listened to 80:s hits and drank different kinds of drinks. We felt a bit rough this morning but since it's so early on the tour we where back on track after a classic german breakfast. Tonight we gonna play at Amp Club in Münster. The stage is set and we had our dinner. Now it's just waiting and as allways it's worth every second. And for all of you in Münster I can tell that you are not gonna get dissapointed if you go down to Amp Club this evening. Stay tuned//Oskar

First dinner

We are eating ribs with potatoes and sallad of mozzarella and tomatoes. Johan and Anders says hi. //Oskar

Hannover hangover...

... has not yet occured. But like a check in the mail it's bound to catch up with us sometime. Probably in the morning. We just soundchecked here at Café Glocksee. We're also trying our best to get friendly with our first supportband, Enno Burger. Their singer told me they sound like Marilyn Manson but I think he might be lying to me. A little nervous. First gig of the tour. Playing my new acoustic and trying to get Johnny to sing along. Always on my mind didn't do the trick. Maybe American girl will...

// Anton