Muddy Madness!!

So it begins again, after what felt like 15 seconds off. We're back on the bus for the first time in over a month. Feels nice for a change from the planes and hotels i've spent the last month in.

Just 3 festival shows this weekend. First up was the Frequency festival in Austria. Which saw us playing alongside the likes of Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy,Kaiser Chiefs and a great show from The Editors, a band whose album ive loved for a while but was the first time ive seen them live. If havent heard "The Back Room" , do it NOW!!!

Great setting for a show. Right in the middle of the Slazburgring, which is a racing circuit high in the Austrian Alps.

Here is The view from Pole Position!!!

Next up was Pukkelpop in Belgium. I like doing gigs in Belgium, they are always extremely well organised and they look after you really well. Good Bill today featuring

Mondo Generator

HIM

And Of Course This Lot...Otherwise, why would i be here!

Also got to see and experience the awesome Daft Punk, who were absolutely fantastic.
So, on we go Holland. This was a fun day despite the Torrential downpour of rain that hit a few times during the day.

But to save us from boredom there was a theme park called Walibi World right next door.

It had a rollercoaster called Goliath in it which i have to say was pretty damn good.


Unfort it was stiil raining which made the long line seem even longer, but the band were well protected thanks to theyre new outfits!!

Of course there is only so long in a day that you can ride rollercoasters in the rain. So you need to find other ways to interest and motivate yourself. Such as....

Why, Building a tower of chairs...

.........And then destoying them of course!!
Also today i got to use the new ESP pre visualisation suite. Basically you sit in the front of a computer screen with your lighting desk and program virtually then walk into the venue and pop the disc into the dek and away you go with your show.
Heres a comparison between a screen shot

And the same look from the show

Pretty damn close i reckon!!

And app some bands played today as well

Amongst the better ones were one of the bands helping to redeem Canada from the musical horrors theyve thrown at us in the past.

Broken Social Scene


And my vote for band of the year....

MUSE!!

How that amount of noise can be generated by 3 people is beyond me. See them now or miss out!!!