Behind the scenes @ beatkitchen.de: December 2005

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

End of tour

That's it... yet another tour is over and done with. David and I caught the train back into Germany from Paris Nord whilst the rest of the Psapplings drove on back to London... now it's time to relax and try to get into the christmas mood...

Andy & La Cigale promoter

Paris Nord train station

David & Eshan on their way back to Germany

Monday, December 12, 2005

La Cigale - Paris, France

I think we were all very happy to get out of that creepy hotel this morning... none of us slept well! But that made the contrast of going to Paris to support Nils Peter Molvaer all the greater. La Cigale has to be one of the coolest venues I have ever played in. This was our final show for this tour and it was probably the best so far too... the crowd were great and we just gave it our all. After the show we enjoyed the party that was put on and then proceeded to go back and party at the hotel - all of us minus Galia that is... I guess she was there in spirit though lol!

Breakfast at the Formula One

Crash on the way to Paris

La Cigale, Paris

Nils Petter Molvaer

Reserved seats

Showtimes

David mixing

Queue to get into show

Galia and Gwen selling merchandise after show

Fan who just bought cat bag

Eshan with stage manager, La Cigale

Nils Petter Molvaer show

Andy pimping Gal & Gwen

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Paradiso - Amsterdam, Holland

After a good nights sleep in my own bed, I made breakfast. As of yesterday a mean flu-bug has been making the rounds and people aren't looking too good! But, as the show must go on, we got back in our bus, said goodbye to Roetgen and made our way to Amsterdam to play at the Paradiso to support Annie. Amsterdam looked beautiful - just a shame we never had any time to check it out... I will have to come back at a later date I guess. Anyhow the show went very well for us - unfortunately we found out that the FOH sound was terrible during our show - due to technical reasons. Oh well, I guess you win some & you lose some! As soon as Annie was done with her show we packed up our gear and made our way down the motorway to get some of the travel to Paris over and done with... only to end up at the Holy Grail of all horrible motels: The Formula One... need I say more?!?!

Galia checking out my drums in the basement

Saying good bye to Judy and Tony

A quick thank you to Gero and the rest of ULAX for letting us use their rehearsal room

Andy and Eshan navigating down the motorway to Amsterdam

Gwen making cats

Cat litter

Jim & Eshan in Amsterdam

Galia & Andy hanging out backstage, Paradiso

Grabbing a quick bite to eat at Wagamamas

Galia

Andy playing with new spider toy

Wagamama next to The Paradiso

Poster of Paradiso show

Paradiso

Current collection of Hot Rods - or what is left of them!

Annie during soundcheck

My snare

Gwen

My kit getting miked up

Galia discussing mic's with Paradiso soundchick

Eshan hanging with official 'Coolest Monitor Soundchick' of this tour

Paradiso merchandise stand

Just before show

Jim hanging out with friend after show

Gwen and Galia after show

Galia and Eshan after show

All packed up and ready to GOOooooo......

Formula Vibe

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Hometown show - Rollesbroich, Germany

Through a weird string of incidents our show in Dortmund that was planned for today was cancelled and I organized a show a few villages away from where I live in Rollesbroich. This place is way out in the middle of nowhere and we played a show in my friend Geros dads wood factory... not the typical place for a gig - but very Psapp! After setting up the gear we went to eat at my favorite Trattoria Pizzeria "La Rustica" with Judith, who had helped organize everything. From there we stopped back at my place for a short while before going back to Rollesbroich to do our shows for my friends and family. It was a great experience for all involved I think... I know I had a blast! We then preceded to have a little aftershow gathering back at our house.